Research Matters

17th- and 18th-Century Burney Collection Newspapers from the British Library

Yale University Library now has electronic access to Gale-Cengage's 17th- and 18th-Century Burney Collection Newspapers from the British Library.

You can get to it from the Databases & Article Searching page on the library front door:

http://www.library.yale.edu/

To learn more about the Burney collection please see this webpage:

http://gale.cengage.co.uk/britishlibrarynewspapers/

British Periodicals II is live

Yale University Library now has access to ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey's British Periodicals II database.

This is a welcome addition to the earlier collection British Periodicals I.

You can get to both collections from the Databases and Article Searching link on the Library Front Door.

To read more about British Periodicals see http://britishperiodicals.chadwyck.com/info/about.do and http://britishperiodicals.chadwyck.com/info/whatsnew.do

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.

Praeger Security International

The Library now has a subscription to Praeger Security International, "a full text database focusing on international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, twentieth century military history, and terrorism".  PSI includes more than 500 proprietary titles, expert commentaries, primary documents, comprehensive chronology, and an annotated bibliography.  You can get to PSI from the Library's website; it's listed under Databases & Article Searching.

To see an example of the different types of material included in the database, try a search for "arms trafficking".

Yale's Paul Kennedy serves on PSI's Advisory Board.

Questions or comments to Susanne Roberts.