June 2014 E-Resources Summary

New Databases

Here are the latest additions to our collection of online databases:

Digital Temple

Digital Temple

ACO Music Data Analysis ACO Music Data Analysis is a growing repository of historical and current data from Billboard, Official Chart Company, Media Control and many more reporting agencies around the world.

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs from the Civil War. Includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor.

Digital Temple: A Documentary Edition of George Herbert’s English Verse The Digital Temple offers diplomatic and modern-spelling transcriptions of Williams MS. Jones B62, Bodleian MS. Tanner 307, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, first edition (STC 13183, Folger Shakespeare Library copy). These may be viewed, alongside digital images of the sources, either as discrete witnesses in their entirety, or as individual poems in parallel display, the latter with a full set of critical annotations and textual notes.

Literature Online (LION) A collection of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 399 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Oxford Handbooks Online Our collection has grown–we now have 457 Oxford University Press handbooks in all available subjects. Available titles may also be found in the CUNY Catalog.

Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle This resource is a searchable collection of works focusing in the period between 1800 and 1830. Includes canonical and previously unrecognized writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America.

New Encyclopedia

The following is a new ebook that can also be found on the A-Z list and will soon be added to the CUNY Catalog as well:

Encyclopaedia of Islam from Brill. The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) Online sets out the present state of knowledge of the Islamic World.

New Journal Subscriptions

The following are new electronic journal subscriptions. These titles can be found using the Journal search on our main website, or by searching for them in the CUNY Catalog:

Auto/Biography Studies

Auto/Biography Studies
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
N+1 (new online access)
Nature (now with access from 1869 to the present)
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Genetics
Nature Geoscience
Nature Medicine
Science Magazine (now with access from 1880 to the present)

This post is the latest in a series designed to keep the Graduate Center community updated about electronic resources available through the Graduate Center Library. 

About the Author

Alycia Sellie is the Associate Librarian for Collections at the Graduate Center Library.