Updates on EIO and EE

What are EIO and EE? EIO is Editoria Italiana Online, a searchable online Italian scholarly full text journal and e-book resource. EE is Electronic Enlightenment, a full text database containing the intellectual correspondence of the long 18th century. Stanford subscribes to both of these databases; you can gain access from the Databases page. Both of them just released newsletters letting users know how they are expanding in both content and features.

The Electronic Enlightenment newsletter, with information about their expanded biographical database is available here: http://academic-marketing.oup.com/q/14vJaFHxaviut1/wv

And here's the latest on EIO:
"EIO 2011

We are very pleased to bring you an update regarding the 2011 release of Editoria Italiana Online, Casalini libri's fulltext database of ebooks and ejournals in the Humanities and Social Sciences by some of Italy's most prominent academic publishers. Now with over 90 publishers contributing their content to EIO, again this coming year some 1500 new ebooks and 25 new ejournals will be added to the platform, bringing the total to 6700 ebooks and 195 ejournals available exclusively in EIO. Among the publishers new to EIO in 2011 we are pleased to cite Edizioni ETS, the Gregorian & Biblical Press, Mondadori Education and Alinea. Another new feature in 2011 regards user authorizations. Those now in place for journal articles will be extended to monograph parts of works (chapters), allowing users to download and save files to a local computer as well as copy/paste. More information on the EIO collection and subscription packages available for 2011 is available here."

New JSTOR platform

JSTOR, the full-text journal archive, has revamped its platform, offering more ways to improve your searches, browse, and save and export citations. You can also view abstracts and find links to articles that are not in JSTOR, but that you might be able to access through Stanford's subscriptions.

There is a short video tutorial on some of the new features here: 
http://about.jstor.org/support-training/help/highlights-platform-update

From this page you can also learn about JSTOR's new programs to provide current content of journals, and see the most up-to-date lists of journals included.

Update - there has been some criticism of some of the new features, particularly JSTOR's addition of citations whose availability from other subscription databases is ambiguous.

Grand Tour online - digital resource trial

We have just started a trial to a new digital resource - The Grand Tour - from Adam Matthew Digital Digital. It will be available from Stanford IP addresses until May 31st.

www.grandtour.amdigital.co.uk

The Grand Tour contains both primary and secondary resources, including correspondence, memoirs, maps, photographs and other images, documenting the travel experience on the European continent from 1550-1850.

Here is the publisher's description of its scope and contents:

"... This collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows scholars to compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections. We include letters; diaries and journals; account books; printed guidebooks; published travel writing; paintings and sketches; architectural drawings and maps.

The Grand Tour is a wonderful source of information about daily life in the eighteenth century, highlighting such everyday issues as transportation, money, communications, food and drink, health and sex.

The material also covers European political and religious life, British diplomacy; life at court, and social customs on the Continent, and is an invaluable resource for the study of Europe’s urban spaces.

There is a wealth of detail about cities such as Paris, Rome, Florence and Geneva, including written accounts and visual representations of street life, architecture and urban planning." http://www.grandtour.amdigital.co.uk/Introduction/Default.aspx

Note that because this is a trial, the "download document as PDF" function will not work.

Please check it out and send me feedback!

J-STOR - new journals

I know that many of you use the full-text journal database JSTOR extensively. JSTOR is constantly adding new journals to their lineup, and a new batch has just been announced. I've selected the titles of most interest to scholars in history and literary studies, listed below.

For more about JSTOR's archive, including statistics, titles, and a list of missing journal issues, see their Archive page. The "Moving Wall" for all of the titles below is 5 years, except for the History Workshop Journal, which is 7 years, and the Getty Museum Journal, which has no moving wall.

History Workshop Journal [1995- ] and History Workshop [1976-1994] (Oxford University Press)
Nos. 1 - 50 (Spring, 1976 – Autumn, 2000)

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal (The J. Paul Getty Trust)
Vols. 1 - 24 (1974 - 1996) (Publication of this title ceased in 1996.)

Jewish Social Studies (Indiana University Press)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1939) – Vol. 50, No. 3/4 (Summer/Autumn, 1988/1993)
New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1994) – New Series, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn, 2002)

Journal of Linguistics (Cambridge University Press)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1965) – Vol. 38, No. 3 (November, 2002)

Language in Society (Cambridge University Press)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1972) – Vol. 31, No. 5 (November, 2002)

Linguistic Inquiry (MIT Press)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1970) – Vol. 33, No. 4 (Autumn, 2002)

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome [1915- ]
Previous Title: Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome [1905-1908] (University of Michigan Press for the American Academy in Rome)
Vols. 1 - 2 (1905 - 1908)
Vols. 1 - 47 (1915/1916 – 2002)

Cambridge Histories Online - trial

Stanford University Libraries is currently trying out Cambridge Histories Online.

http://histories.cambridge.org
Stanford's access is via-IP address, so you must be using a computer on the campus network for it to work.
Please check it out and send comments back to me.

Of interest to this group are probably the following multi-volume titles from this series:

• The Cambridge Modern History
• The Cambridge Economic History of Europe
• The New Cambridge Medieval History
• The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
• The Cambridge History of Political Thought
• The Cambridge History of Italian Literature
• The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy;... of Later Greek and early Medieval Philosophy; ... of Renaissance Philosophy, ... of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

and many others - from the trial site you can browse by subject

Here's the info from the vendor:

"The Cambridge Histories have become an established and essential component
of the academic research library, and now, for the first time, over 250 of
these well-known, used and trusted volumes published since the 1960's are
available online, adding immense value to the texts and enhancing any
aspect of historical research. Cambridge Histories Online (CHO) will be an
indispensable research tool for undergraduates and academics alike. It
offers impressive functionality, enabling quick and easy access to content
and the tools to make the content usable in a time effective way, including
extensive bibliographic reference linking, personal archives, citation
export, remote access and user control display features. CHO covers 14
subject areas, including General History, Regional History, Literary
Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. And an average of 5 new titles
will be added each year!

Your trial is IP authenticated so please, if you haven't done so already,
log on to http://histories.cambridge.org. "

New Renaissance databases

I'm pleased to announce that we've added two new full-text databases to our lineup from Champion electronique. These are :

Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne / Société Internationale de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur la Renaissance européenne.

Textes de la Renaissance / edited by Claude Blum

The link to both is http://www.champion-electronique.net/bases/index.php

Click on "Access to databases" then on "Éditions Champion en ligne"

These databases are actually full text searchable versions of Éditions Champion's legacy collections of the series of the same names. The interface is the same as for their other databases that we already have: Dictionnaires des 16e et 17e siècles and Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Âge au 20e siècle.

You can access them from their Socrates records (search for Champion électronique), or from the Databases page on the SULAIR website (French and Italian, History, Languages sections). They are restricted to Stanford users, so if you aren't on campus be sure that you are logged on via a Stanford IP proxy address.