E-Resource Bonanza!

The list of new e-resources was distributed in an OIS email last week. Among the ones that look especially promising for us (and worth having an early look at):

Primary Source collections:
19th Century United States Newspapers (Gale)

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, 1760-1900 (Readex)

Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920 (remember the marriage manual question?)

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (covers modern slavery, too: remember the senior thesis on camel jockeys? A UK-produced resource, so also try British spellings.)

Mass-Observation Archives Online (We have the full set on microfilm here in Lamont; the digitized "Topic Collections" are only a small portion of what's actually available to Harvard users.)

Biography:
World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online) (the Saur product returns, apparently with improved searching and now with digitized texts, so we don't have to send students to microfiche copies in Widener RR.)

Politics, Law and Government:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

HeinOnline World Trials (Lots of neat stuff here, from witchcraft to Crippen to Leopold and Loeb. The default is a browse by "resources"; there is an alternative tab for general "Search" functions, however.)

Some of the HeinOnline databases are clearly specialized legal resources, but others may become more valuable to us once we are immersed in a world of government documents. The U.S. Presidential Library will also have lots of immediate utility for us when that large core class gets taught again.

Academic Book Reviews
IBR - Internationale Bibliographie der Rezension (Also known as the International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences and published since 1971, this was previously available only at Widener and as a networked CD-ROM. IBR covers scholarly journals primarily from Europe and North America. The search screen is in German, but it's easy to figure out. I'll add it to a revised "Finding Book Reviews" guide in the fall.)

Reference
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Another addition to the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf collection.)