Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period is now available online through Alexander Street Press.

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. Compiled and edited by Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska, the database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project. New content is added to the collection on a regular basis. It currently contains over 10,000 pages of poetry.

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period corrects a glaring omission in the literary history of the British Isles—and of Romanticism generally. Comprising more than eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842, the database enables researchers to delve more deeply than ever into this significant, but largely underappreciated, body of work.

Most of the texts in the database exist in print in fewer than five libraries in the world, often locked away within archives. For nearly two centuries, the distinctive voices of such poets as Henrietta Battier, I. S. Anna Liddiard, Adelaide O’Keeffe, Elizabeth Ryves, and Melesina Trench have remained practically unheard. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period allows these women to speak to a new generation of students and scholars.

Along with the poetic texts are biographical and critical essays contributed by the foremost scholars in the field. Specially commissioned by Alexander Street, the essays provide valuable historical context and insightful literary analysis for student and professor alike. For some of the poets, the essays will be the only substantial scholarly assessments available. This combination of primary source content and original scholarly commentary—fully indexed and searchable together—makes Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period an authoritative resource for anyone studying the history and literature of Ireland and Great Britain.

The collection is part of the Alexander Street Literature package, which enables researchers to explore the rich literary heritage of diverse cultures from across the globe.

BBC Archive

The BBC archive is now freely available to all. It contains themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs covering the past 70 years. The collections include: Witnessing the Holocaust, Cuba and the Cold War, Genesis of Doctor Who, Music from the Mersey. It is being updated and enhanced on a regular basis.

Cambridge Histories Online

From today our 30 day trial to Cambridge Histories Online is now active.

To access the site, please click on Cambridge Histories Online.

Username: neil.smyth@nottingham.ac.uk
Password: neil.smyth

A unique online historical reference compendium, Cambridge Histories Online brings the world renowned Cambridge Histories texts to life.

This vast collection of leading scholarly content covers a diverse range of topics, containing over 250 volumes and equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship.

This established and essential component of the academic research library is now easily accessible online for the first time.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974: online database trial

Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press [has] announced the release of The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974, the first online collection of primary sources to document the key events, trends, and movements—as well as the look and feel of everyday life—in 1960s America.
The collection includes a wide range of interviews—with the Beatles, the Weathermen, commune members, and women beat writers—as well as memoirs and diaries from Vietnam War veterans, civil rights workers, feminists, and regular people caught up in the times. Included are autobiographies of Abbie Hoffman, Medgar Evers, Bill Graham, and Roger Mudd; Civil Rights Commission hearing transcripts; and books documenting the Sixties, such as Like a Rolling Stone, by Greil Marcus.

To Access the Free Trial Go To:http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/sixt/
Then, run a search, you’ll be asked for a login and password when you’re ready to access the content.
Login: bringback
Password: thesixties
The free trial is available until March 31, 2009

JURN: search engine for Arts & Humanities e-journals

JURN is a free academic search-engine, enabling keyword searching of the contents of more than 2,000 ejournals in the arts and humanities. Indexed journals are all hand-picked, and are selected because they offer at least some full-text content for free. Journals offering only tables-of-contents and/or abstracts are not indexed. JURN also searches: a great many fine-arts and literary online magazines; a small number of selected full-text conference proceedings; and free book chapters from selected university presses. JURN runs via a Google Custom Search, and thus offers users all the standard Google search modifiers. The service is free of advertising.

The address for the service is: http://jurn.org

Eating, drinking and noise in libraries

There is now a Q card for Eating, drinking and noise in libraries.

The Q card is available in the Hallward Library and online.