Tag: electronic collections

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

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….Continue Reading New research database: Orlando Women’s Writing in the British Isles

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers {trial access}

Until February 15 the Middlebury College Libraries has trial access to Proquest’s House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP), a full-text searchable database with the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy from the … Continue reading →…Continue Reading House of Commons Parliamentary Papers {trial access}

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (trial access through April 30)

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a full-text, searchable research collection of 19th century monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, maps, ephemera, and statistical data. Currently, Middlebury College has access to two collections: British Politics and Society and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Curvey Collection. Both collections … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Nineteenth Century Collections Online (trial access through April 30)

Shun Bao Digital Archive (trial access extended through April 16)

Middlebury College is extending a trial to The Shen Bao Digital Archive (1872-1949), formerly transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao (申報), the Shanghai News. Learn more about Shen Bao, published from April 30, 1872 to May 27, 1949 in Shanghai, China. Search the archive here or on the New … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Shun Bao Digital Archive (trial access extended through April 16)

Trial access to South Asian historical archives (through April 30)

For the month of April, please visit the following East Asian historical archives databases. The Library is considering them through a collaboration with several Vermont colleges: India Raj and Empire Original manuscript material ranging from the foundation of the East India Company … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Trial access to South Asian historical archives (through April 30)

Chinese language databases (trial through May 15)

Along with over ten liberal arts colleges, Middlebury has arranged to trial several Chinese language research databases. Airiti Library for Chinese journals, dissertation, etc. (trial access through May 31) Airitibooks Chinese eBooks (trial access through May 31) CNKI Chinese Databases … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Chinese language databases (trial through May 15)