Research Matters

Institutional Access to Footnote.com

The Yale University Library now offers institutional access to Footnote.com. Earlier this year, Footnote.com entered into an agreement with the National Archives and Records Administration allowing them to scan and make digitally available parts of NARA's collections. As of today, Footnote.com already contains over twenty million scanned documents and it continues to grow at an impressive rate. It would be unwieldy to list all of of the collections available through Footnote.com - they range from papers from the Continental Congress to Confederate Amnesty Applications to FBI Case Files - but you can browse available collections here:

http://www.footnote.com/browse.php#All|172590

 

Additionally, here is a youtube video demonstrating the functionality of

Footnote.com:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCF0KRjWVAM

The John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera now on trial

The Yale Library now has a trial  for about a month for this resource: The John Johnson Collection:  An Archive of Printed Ephemera.

"This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

A longer description can be found at:

http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.com/info/about.do

Highlights include:

*This first release of the John Johnson Collection provides access to facsimile images of more than 6,300 items, including more than 4,000 pieces of theatrical ephemera from the Nineteenth-Century Entertainment category and more than 1,000 items from the Booktrade category. Over 700 Popular Prints are now available in facsimile form, along with more than 400 items from Advertising and over 100 from Crimes, Murders and Executions.

* On completion the John Johnson Collection will offer access to more than 65,000 documents (in excess of 150,000 high-resolution colour images) in the above five categories.

 
You can  access via the campus network at:

URL: http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.com/

 

Send comments to susanne.roberts@yale.edu

18th Century German Literature Online

The UK has EEBO, the US and the UK have ECCO, and now German speaking countries have DLO18!

Deutsche Literatur des 18. Jahnrhunderts Online or 18th Century German Literature Online offers full-text access (including full-text keyword searching) to first editions and first published complete editions by more than 600 German-speaking authors of the 18th century. The approximately 2,700 works wih almost 4,500 volumes reflect the broad spectrum of German literature and scholarship from the early stages of the age of Enlightenment to the later part of the period. You can access this collection through Orbis and through the Library's Databases & Articles list.

Freely accessible Online Dissertations from European Universities

DissOnline, a new search engine and database for German online dissertations is available at  http://www.dissonline.de/.

DissOnline is developed by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, which by now has archived more than 60,000 free scholarly e-publications. The database allows for full text keyword searching and for searching by author, title, institution and - best of all - subject. So far, the search interface is in German only.

The European extension is DART-Europe, http://www.dart-europe.eu/, with a total of over 80.000 documents that can be searched simultaneously. DART's search functionality so far only allows for keyword searching - if you try that, remember to use keywords in all languages you are comfortable reading.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available online to the Yale community.  Students, faculty and staff can search and read the full text of current issues of the journal (including its hundreds of academic job listings) as well as older issues going back to 1995.  Visit the Online Journals and Newspapers section of the Library's website, or go direct to http://chronicle.com (Yale users only; proxy server or VPN must be enabled for off-campus access).

Questions?  Contact smlref <at> yale <dot> edu.

E-Books from Yale University Press

More than 750 titles from Yale University Press are now available to the Yale community in digital form through the Library's subscription to NetLibrary.  Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950, Robert Dahl's Democracy and its Critics, and Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes are just a few of the books available online.

Records for each one of these titles will soon be available in Orbis, the Library's online catalog; in the meantime, Yale affiliates can see a complete list by visiting the Library's website, clicking on Databases & Article Searching and on the letter "N", then scrolling down to NetLibrary.  Once in the database, click on "Advanced Search" and look for Yale University Press.  The full text of the book is searchable.

YUP and The Library plan to make some 2,000 books available digitally over the next few years.

Questions and comments can go to smlref <at> yale.edu.

Images in Yale's collections

In the spring of 2007, the Yale University Library began a project to digitize the holdings of Yale's Visual Resources Collection (formerly known as "Slides & Photographs").  Just this week the library announced that over 200,000 images have now been added to the collection.  Check it out here.

All of these images are also being added to ARTstor.  ARTstor is a database of almost 500,000 images of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and many other forms of visual materials. 

Questions about the VRC, its website and collections can be sent to lso.wsg@yale.edu.

While you're away ...

If you're away from campus during the break, you can still connect to almost all of our databases as long as you have an internet connection. ITS has instructions for doing this here. The Library has more information about connecting to databases via VPN here.

Regular reference service in SML will resume on January 2nd, 2008.

Enjoy the holidays, and happy new year!

Cymru, Chili peppers and Colonialism

What do they have in common?  Not much, except that all are mentioned (in some detail) in new online reference works from Credo Reference (available to Yale affiliates on the library's website, under Databases & Article Searching).

This month's new titles include the Collins Spurrell Welsh Dictionary (where you'll find that Cymru is Welsh for Wales), the Cambridge World History of Food (where you can read about the history, biological origins and geographic distribution of chili peppers), and Routledge's Encyclopedia of African History (where you can read about the impact of colonialism on African societies).

Also new this month are the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development, Routledge's Encyclopedia of German Literature and Encyclopedia of Life Writing, Harrap's Polish Dictionary, and the Reader's Guide to British History.  The full list of titles available through Credo Reference is available here.

Questions?  Comments?  E-mail us.

Medical Library: Auteurs Wanted

Yale's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is sponsoring a contest for students.  Submit a short video describing what you like about Yale Links:

Then submit it to the Yale Links Group on Youtube.  The contest runs through December.  The winner will receive an iPod Touch.

What is Yale Links?  This page will tell you.  For more information about the contest, see this page.  Questions can be directed to Lynn Sette.