New USC Libraries eresources titles focus on the American West, early modern English government, 18th-century print culture, the history of engineering, medieval Latin paleography, and more. Read below for further details about our new online resources:
ABBREVIATIONES
Abbreviationes is designed for use in both learning and teaching medieval Latin paleography. Abbreviationes is also a highly useful reference and research tool. Students of medieval Latin paleography will find Abbreviationes a valuable learning tool. With Abbreviationes, it is easy to look up all the different abbreviations for a given word. In this way, students will quickly become familiar with the various techniques used in abbreviation. Abbreviationes currently comprises over 70,000 entries containing a total of 80,098 references to manuscripts. Abbreviationes is based on a large number of manuscripts from all fields, held at a wide variety of libraries throughout Europe – from Catania in the South, Uppsala in the North, Coimbra in the West to St. Petersburg in the East. It includes large collections such as the manuscripts held by the Vatican Library or the libraries at Oxford and Paris as well as many smaller collections. Major collections in the United States, such as the manuscripts held by the Morgan Library (New York City, New York) and the Huntington Library (San Marino, California), are also included. The entries in the database cover the period from the 8th century up to and including the 15th century. Thanks to annual updates and enhancements, the database will continue to grow steadily. The resource is hosted by the Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
THE AMERICAN WEST
The American West, produced by Adam Matthew Publications, is an extraordinary documentary compilation of original and unique source materials on the development of the American West. It is selected from the holdings of the Graff Collection on the American West from the Newberry Library in Chicago. The material is selected from a wide range of documents, ranging from manuscripts, rare books, pamphlets, periodicals, broadsides, ephemera to maps and illustrative material, for each of the following major themes: Native Americans; Pioneers, Hunters and Explorers; Mining and the Gold Rush; The Mormon Exodus; Homesteaders, Overland Travel and Early Settlements; Cattle Ranchers; The Railroads, Transportation and Urban History; Outlaws, Vigilantes and the Law; Agricultural Development and the Environment; The Imagined West: Wild West Shows and Fiction; Borderlands: Canada and the Pacific Northwest; and Borderlands: Texas, Mexico and the South.
CHINA ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Additional Sections (F: Literature/History/Philosophy) and (G: Education/Social Sciences) have been added to our existing holdings of China Academic Journals, a very rich resource of full-text academic journals from the People’s Republic of China.
COMPENDEX BACKFILE
The USC Libraries' coverage for Compendex Web, the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing references to over 5000 engineering journals and conferences, has been extended to include the entire publication back to its origination in 1884.
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY JOURNALS, A PORTAL TO NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS, ca. 1685-1815, III
The third and final installment of publisher Adam Matthews’ Eighteenth Century Journals has finally been released and is now available. The USC Libraries previously acquired the first and second installments. Materials for Eighteenth Century Journals III are drawn from two sources: the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and Cambridge University Library. This section focuses on journals published outside of London. The inclusion of Canadian, Caribbean and Indian journals allows users to explore the ways in which major world events were reported in different areas of the globe. There are also a large number of Irish journals and British provincial publications. The titles chosen for this project have been screened carefully against EEBO, Early English Newspapers and ECCO so that there is minimal overlap with these projects.
ESSAY AND GENERAL LITERATURE RETROSPECTIVE
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites essays, articles and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It covers 8 Centuries of essays, annuals and serial publications from the 20th Century. Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from Archaeology through Women’s Studies. Over 108 years of unparalleled coverage are combined when searching Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective along with Essay and General Literature Index, which the USC Libraries already own. Dates Covered: 1900 to 1984.
KIKUZO II VISUAL FOR LIBRARIES
Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries is a web-based news retrieval service from the publisher of Japan’s largest newspaper, Asahi Shimbun. Coverage includes over 7,650,000 articles from 1945 to present.
RCL WEB
Resources for College Libraries (RCL), the premier core list for academic libraries, is the result of a unique collaboration between Choice, a publishing division of ACRL, and Bowker, RCL is considered the long-awaited successor to the third edition of Books for College Libraries, published in 1988. This collection of recommended titles serves as the basis for a suite of resources for curriculum-development, student research, reference, and bibliographic instruction. The resource covers 58 curriculum-specific subject areas.
STATE PAPERS ONLINE, PART 1, THE TUDORS, 1509-1603
State Papers Online, 1509-1714 [parts 2 and 3, to be released in 2009 and 2010, will bring the coverage up to 1714] offers a completely novel working environment to researchers, teachers and students of Early Modern Britain. Whether they are used for original research, for teaching, or for student project work, State Papers Online offers original historical materials across the widest range of government concern, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people. The correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators, present a full picture of Tudor and Stuart Britain. This major resource overcomes the fragmented experience of much historical research by re-uniting the Domestic, Foreign, Borders, Scotland, and Ireland State Papers of Britain with the Registers of the Privy Council and other State Papers now housed in the Cotton, Harley and Lansdowne collections in the British Library.