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It’s getting easier to download free ebooks and audiobooks

Rebekah Irwin — Tue, 28 May 2013 16:59:37 +0000

Overdrive, our provider of popular fiction and non-fiction titles, launched a new platform. It’s a little less clunky and less hampered by Digital Rights Management road blocks.

And we’ve added new titles too.

Visit the site at http://go.middlebury.edu/overdrive(Or, go/overdrive,go/audiobooks, go/bookstogo).

You canwatch a tutorial on the new platform here.

Zotero 4.0 Launches

Rebekah Irwin — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:24:43 +0000

Announced on The Chronicle of Higher Ed’s ProfHacker.

Available now for download.

British Documents from the past in China – trial through May 14

Arabella Holzapfel — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:34:55 +0000

Until May 14, we have access to three Chinese history collections:

China: Culture and Society
Spanning three centuries (1750-1929), this resource makes available rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
This digital collection offers English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, including: papers of key individuals involved in the Chinese Maritime Customs service; papers of missionaries active in all regions of China; fully searchable run of the Chinese Recorder, 1867-1941, and more.

Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
The complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan during these decades of 1919-1980. The documents cover politics, industry, trade and cultural affairs and include eyewitness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, and economic assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.

Email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or your liaison with comments please.

Deutsche Sammlung German ebooks (trial through May 3)

Rebekah Irwin — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:26:37 +0000

For one month starting today, we have access to over 4,500 German ebooks covering the humanities, arts, sciences, technology, engineering, and medicine from publishers such as De Gruyter, Aarhus University Press, International Monetary Fund, Ohne Verlag, and Frank & Timme GmbH.

Visit Deutsche Sammlung or our New & Trials website for other new library collections and current trials.

Email us at eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or contact your liaison if this would be a useful addition to our collection.

Trial: Oxford History of Western Music

Arabella Holzapfel — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:51:55 +0000

The Middlebury College community has 30 days to evaluate the usefulness of the Oxford History of Western Music . Fascinating text and images including scores,

archival illustrations,

and more! Browse through the Oxford History of Western Music and let us know what you think. Email us at eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or contact your liaison.

New research database: Orlando Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Rebekah Irwin — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:14:18 +0000

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present by Cambridge University Press includes entries on over a thousand authors’ lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, intertextual links, and bibliographies.

Find Orlando and other New & Trial Resources here.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

New Books for Spring

Lisa McLaughlin — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:49:09 +0000

Just in time for Spring recess, come see the recently updated New Books display at Davis Family Library. Choose from more than 70 newly published and highly recommended books. You’ll find nonfiction, fantasy, action, mystery, graphic novels, short stories and more.

You can also “check out” newly added eBooks and audiobooks at go/books2go (http://go.middlebury.edu/books2go).

Digital Theatre Plus – trial access through April 13

Arabella Holzapfel — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:37:19 +0000

“Experience the thrill of live theatre brought directly to your teaching space” through Digital Theatre Plus. We have trial access to this through April 13th. At this time, only username-password access is provided. (Campus-wide access should be available by the time we decide whether to purchase.) If you would like login credentials, please send an email from a middlebury.edu email account to eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu.

After you use Digital Theatre Plus, let us know what you think! Please send feedback to Rebekah Irwin or your liaison.

Gallup Brain – trial through April 8, 2013

Arabella Holzapfel — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:55:32 +0000

Dive into public polling with The Gallup Brain – a searchable, living record of more than 70 years of public opinion. Inside, you’ll find answers to hundreds of thousands of questions, and responses from millions of people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.

Middlebury College users have full access to the Gallup Brain through early April. Please let us know what you think: Send an email to Rebekah Irwin or your liaison.

New library collection: Illustrated London News, 1842-2003

Rebekah Irwin — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:59:25 +0000

Middlebury College now has full access to The Illustrated London News digital archive, 1842-2003. The archive incudes over 260,000 color pages and full-text searching. Find it on our Journals & Databases page (go/journals) or our Databases A-Z page (go/databases).