The digital provider Eduserv is in negotiation with The Corona Group for a number of their image collections to be made available to the academic community for the first time. The new service has a working title of Edupics.
To gauge interest in any potential agreement University and College staff are invited to view two collections: one specialising in cinema and TV and the other in fine art, history and ancient civilizations. At the moment what we can see is the existing commercial site, with over 200 000 captioned, high quality images. When the service for educational use is up and running the available images will be fully rights-cleared so all staff and students will be able to download images and use them in their academic presentations and dissertations.
The service is planned to grow to include new image channels for many key subject areas.
Edupics will be a subscription-based service, and is available now for a free 30 day trial and evaluation period. For log-in details (Nottingham University staff only please!) email the Arts Team. Please also let us have your comments.
Friday, 17 July 2009
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
New resource: British Periodicals Online
We have a new electronic resource that gives us access to a large collection of important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals. Go through the eLibrary Gateway to British Periodicals Online, where you will find good-quality digital images of the Cornhill, the Yellow Book, the Westminster Review and many more.
Friday, 10 July 2009
Library Book Suggestions form: new format / address
The Library Book Suggestions form has been amended. It now offers you the option to specify the number of copies required for Ordinary Loan and / or Short Loan (but please note that any Hallward Library DVD requests should always be entered as Short Loan). There is also a tick-box for those who want to have books delivered through the Books Direct service (NB: only those Departments / Schools that currently participate in this scheme are eligible to benefit from this option).
The form can be accessed via this Blog (see right-hand menu of web pages) or via the library website (choose the Using the Library link on the Services menu; the Book Suggestions link is located on the right-hand 'The Service' menu). For those who want to add it directly to their favourites, the URL is: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/uon/forms/book-suggestions.php
The form can be accessed via this Blog (see right-hand menu of web pages) or via the library website (choose the Using the Library link on the Services menu; the Book Suggestions link is located on the right-hand 'The Service' menu). For those who want to add it directly to their favourites, the URL is: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/uon/forms/book-suggestions.php
Monday, 6 July 2009
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is now available online at the British Library using Turning the Pages. You can see other sacred texts.
Codex is one of the two earliest Christian Bibles. (The other is the Codex Vaticanus in Rome.) Within its beautifully handwritten Greek text are the earliest surviving copy of the complete New Testament and the earliest and best copies of some of the Jewish scriptures, in the form that they were adopted by the Christian Church. As one of the earliest luxury codices to survive in large part, the Codex forms one of the most important landmarks in the history of the book.
Codex is one of the two earliest Christian Bibles. (The other is the Codex Vaticanus in Rome.) Within its beautifully handwritten Greek text are the earliest surviving copy of the complete New Testament and the earliest and best copies of some of the Jewish scriptures, in the form that they were adopted by the Christian Church. As one of the earliest luxury codices to survive in large part, the Codex forms one of the most important landmarks in the history of the book.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
ECCO Part 2
The world’s largest digital library of 18th century printed books grows even larger for UK academic community .
Following an agreement between JISC Collections and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, Part 2 of the ambitious digitisation project, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), is now available free of charge to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO.
With 45,000 new titles selected from the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO Part 2 adds close to seven million pages to the size of the collection - at no extra cost for subscribing institutions.
The new collection includes 96 new editions of Shakespeare, a unique edition of Allan Ramsay’s ‘Above Nine Hundred Scots Proverbs’ (Glasgow, 1781, from the Bodleian Library) and a new author (Joseph Fox) with his ‘Parish Clerk’s vade mecum’ arising from his work as parish clerk at St. Margaret’s, Westminster. As with Part 1, ECCO Part 2 includes almost 13,000 titles from British Library’s extensive holdings of eighteenth-century material – new additions include ‘A Catalogue of Vocal and Instrumental Music’ engraved, printed and sold by James Blundell in 1781 and a unique copy of ‘The Fairing: or, a Golden Toy’, a small illustrated book for children.
Joanna Innes, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Somerville College, Oxford University says, "ECCO is an amazingly rich resource. It puts a magnificent library of eighteenth-century printed material on the desktops of scholars and students. It vastly improves access; allows the scholar to discover new seams of material and gives students unprecedented access to masses of primary source material. And of course it supports new kinds of searching.
It is very well presented and in general easy to use."
First released in 2003 and originally acquired by JISC Collections in 2006, ECCO quickly established itself as the world’s largest digital library of the print book, with over 200,000 volumes of key 18th century works.
Since then, the English Short Title Catalogue has uncovered a wealth of valuable new material and new holdings of previously unavailable titles. The material in ECCO Part 2 includes both new titles that have been added to the ESTC as well as newly reported holdings information.
Scholars can delve into ancient and contemporary times, voyages and discoveries, biographies and memoirs in history and geography. They can also investigate how diseases were treated in medicine, look into science, technology and study other celebrated novelists, poets and playwrights in literature and language.
Those with a passion for social science and fine arts can look into international business, banking, taxation, music, painting, theatres and architecture. While those interested in law can follow its development throughout the British Empire. Institutions familiar with ECCO will find ECCO Part 2 has an increased emphasis on literature, social science and religion. Women’s writing is also well represented with more than 900 new works and editions by over 400 female authors including such influential writers as Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Inchbald. As with ECCO, most titles are in English, however scholars will also find material in French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian and Welsh. ECCO Part 2 offers the only copy in all ECCO of ‘Petit Code de la Raison Humaine’, given a London imprint, but probably printed in Paris, and dedicated to Benjamin Franklin (copy from the Library of Congress).
Institutions that already participate in the JISC Collections ECCO agreement will have access to ECCO Part 2 and the new interface on August 1st, 2009 with no further action required on their part.
Following an agreement between JISC Collections and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, Part 2 of the ambitious digitisation project, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), is now available free of charge to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO.
With 45,000 new titles selected from the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO Part 2 adds close to seven million pages to the size of the collection - at no extra cost for subscribing institutions.
The new collection includes 96 new editions of Shakespeare, a unique edition of Allan Ramsay’s ‘Above Nine Hundred Scots Proverbs’ (Glasgow, 1781, from the Bodleian Library) and a new author (Joseph Fox) with his ‘Parish Clerk’s vade mecum’ arising from his work as parish clerk at St. Margaret’s, Westminster. As with Part 1, ECCO Part 2 includes almost 13,000 titles from British Library’s extensive holdings of eighteenth-century material – new additions include ‘A Catalogue of Vocal and Instrumental Music’ engraved, printed and sold by James Blundell in 1781 and a unique copy of ‘The Fairing: or, a Golden Toy’, a small illustrated book for children.
Joanna Innes, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Somerville College, Oxford University says, "ECCO is an amazingly rich resource. It puts a magnificent library of eighteenth-century printed material on the desktops of scholars and students. It vastly improves access; allows the scholar to discover new seams of material and gives students unprecedented access to masses of primary source material. And of course it supports new kinds of searching.
It is very well presented and in general easy to use."
First released in 2003 and originally acquired by JISC Collections in 2006, ECCO quickly established itself as the world’s largest digital library of the print book, with over 200,000 volumes of key 18th century works.
Since then, the English Short Title Catalogue has uncovered a wealth of valuable new material and new holdings of previously unavailable titles. The material in ECCO Part 2 includes both new titles that have been added to the ESTC as well as newly reported holdings information.
Scholars can delve into ancient and contemporary times, voyages and discoveries, biographies and memoirs in history and geography. They can also investigate how diseases were treated in medicine, look into science, technology and study other celebrated novelists, poets and playwrights in literature and language.
Those with a passion for social science and fine arts can look into international business, banking, taxation, music, painting, theatres and architecture. While those interested in law can follow its development throughout the British Empire. Institutions familiar with ECCO will find ECCO Part 2 has an increased emphasis on literature, social science and religion. Women’s writing is also well represented with more than 900 new works and editions by over 400 female authors including such influential writers as Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Inchbald. As with ECCO, most titles are in English, however scholars will also find material in French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian and Welsh. ECCO Part 2 offers the only copy in all ECCO of ‘Petit Code de la Raison Humaine’, given a London imprint, but probably printed in Paris, and dedicated to Benjamin Franklin (copy from the Library of Congress).
Institutions that already participate in the JISC Collections ECCO agreement will have access to ECCO Part 2 and the new interface on August 1st, 2009 with no further action required on their part.
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