NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Covering a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences and providing highly selective annotated bibliographies. Potentially useful in building reading lists for courses.
http://www.moreheadstate.edu/library/db/obo
If this were available through the library please tell us whether and how you would use it.
Please leave comments. Especially let us know if you would use it for particular courses.
POLL RESULTS:
Total votes: 63
NO LONGER AVAILABLE
The library does not currently have any databases that index periodicals from the Nineteenth Century. Is there a need for that? If so how well do you like this one?
http://www.moreheadstate.edu/library/db/ncm
[This link will only work inside the campus network for the trial period.]
If this were available through the library please tell us whether and how you would use it.
Please leave comments. Especially let us know if you would use it for particular courses.
POLL RESULTS:
Total votes: 61
COMMENTS:
The Victorian Web www.victorianweb.org is currently a free website which includes links to the texts of Victorian periodicals which pertain to English literature; We have SEL Studies in English Literature in Project Muse database which has annual review of new materials in English literature in the summer issue. We also profit from reviews in journals as Victorian Studies, found in Project Muse. For Nineteenth Century American literature, we have the periodical American Literary Scholarship in Project Muse---to keep us abreast of scholarship which addresses each of the major authors in a different section. Project Muse has cut the most recent issues of this journal from our subscription much to our dismay--but we can use more general searches as MLA. I am unsure about the currency and quality of the Chadwyck Healy on-line Bibliography of American Literature, but it seems better related to our curriculum than these mastefiles.
It would give access to chemical literature before 1907 (when chem abstracts started). But most of that information would be available in reference works now anyway. It's not needed.
Do not buy databases that only work on campus. They are of no benefit to those of us who teach distance education classes...and ourselves live long distances from Morehead's campus. Also, buy only databases that have full-text access.