Happy New Year

Happy New Year from all in ILS. And to start off the new term with good news, we are pleased to report that some of our newest collections are now accessible via the library catalogue.

We've had three collections of historical texts available via separate links for a little while, but these are now indexed and available in the library catalogue.

Early English Books Online, containing scanned images, and full text digital versions where available, of over 125000 books published 1473-1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online, with over 180000 titles published 1701-1800.

British Library 19th Century Collection, offering access to over 65000 digitised editions from the BL's collections 1789-1914.

We hope this move will make these valuable collections even more accessible to our researchers of historical material.

Newspaper archives - what is available here?

Increasingly researchers are able to use online archives of newspapers, recent and more historic, as part of their resource searches.  Having recently added some new services to our portfolio in ILS, we thought it was worth rounding up what is now available to you. All of these are accessible via the databases page on the ILS website.

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

The newspapers, pamphlets and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.

19th Century British Library Newspapers

19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers, representing different political and cultural segments.

British Newspapers 1600-1900

A combined search tool for the two collections above.

FT.com

FT.com interative provides access to the full text of the global editions of the Financial Times to search and browse the archives, including interactive features and extra reports on industry sectors and companies.

Historical Newspapers

Searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the archives of The Guardian, The Observer and The New York Times, 1791-2003.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

Full text, up to the present day, of UK newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent.

UK Press Online (ON CAMPUS ACCESS ONLY)

A British tabloid newspaper archive, covering the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and other major titles.

New collection available - Historical Texts

Does your research involve accessing texts from 15th-19th Centuries?  If so, our new collection may be just what you need.  ILS has purchased access to the Jisc Historical Texts platform.  This provides YSJ members with access to the following services.

Early English Books Online (EEBO), covering the time period 1473-1700 and over 125000 books.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), covering the time period 1701-1800 and over 180000 titles.

British Library 19th Century collection, covering the time period 1789-1914 and over 65000 digitised editions (more than 25 million pages).

Jisc has produced some introductory materials, if you would like to find out more.

Open Library of Humanities

A consortium of libraries and academics has banded together to create a platform (or what they're called a mega-journal) to support gold open access  in the Humanities. It's called the Open Library of Humanities and there are already an array of editors and referees in place, so anything published in the library will be subject to double-blind peer review and editorial scrutiny. They plan to launch and host 5 new open access journals in September 2015 and are currently welcoming any other OA journals in the humanities that might like to join up. More about the OLH plans and model can be found here.

What's interesting about this model is that there will be no Article Processing Charge (APC) for publishing in the journals. Because the economics of the Humanities are different from other disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the OLH recognises that coming up with the requisite £600-£2000 to publish in gold OA journals isn't going to be possible for most humanities researchers. There's a major funding agreement in place with JISC, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an institutional subscription model from universities (Leah's alma mater, Wesleyan, is one of the most recent universities to sign up).

The names and institutional affiliations of the librarians consulting on the project are impressive. Does it look like something that's going to be useful in your discipline?

OpenLibHums Twitter feed.

New Arts and Humanities Databases

Anyone doing research in the Arts and Humanities will be pleased to know that we have purchased access to ProQuest's Art, Design and Architecture database collection. ProQuest describes the collection as:

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"A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text."

New Journals for Film and Performativity

YSJ has purchased access to 2 new journals of interest to those working with concepts of adaptation.

Adaptation from Oxford University Press

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“…is an international, peer-reviewed journal, offering academic articles, film and book reviews, including both book to screen adaptation, screen to book adaptation, popular and ‘classic’ adaptations, theatre and novel screen adaptations, television, animation, soundtracks, production issues and genres in literature on screen. Adaptation provides an international forum to theorise and interrogate the phenomenon of literature on screen from both a literary and film studies perspective.”   More from the journal's website...

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Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance from Intellect offers

“…historical, theoretical, practice-based or pedagogy-orientated considerations and discussions of adaptation and translation processes and practices in/for performance in the context of one or more of the following areas: theatre; film; television; dance; music; opera; audio-culture; gaming; graphic narratives.” More from the journal's website...

These subscriptions (and many others) will be live from January 2014. To find out more about what ILS offers to Arts researchers and to make requests for new resources, contact your Academic Liaison Librarian, Lottie Alexander.

Jealous? You also have an Academic Liaison Librarian in charge of resource acquisition. Find out who she is here.