TRIALS : Alexander Street Press and Ebsco Databases

Atkins Library is currently trialing the following resources!

ASP LGBT Thought & Culture: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/gltc

“LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection includes materials ranging from seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights to memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community.”(source)

ASP Dance in Video vol. 2: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/dav2

“The second volume expands upon the foundation built in Volume I, providing 400 hours of video that showcase a new catalogue of dancers and partners including the Joffrey Ballet, John Jasperse Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Bavarian State Ballet, Royal Ballet of Cambodia, Kirov Ballet, and Compañía Nacional de Danza.”(source)

Ebsco Gender Studies Database:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=fmh

“This database combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Internet are available.  Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.” (source)

Per trial policy, these resources cannot be accessed from off campus.

If you have any feedback on these trials, please feel free to post a comment.  

Gale News Vault

Gale News Vault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale’s range of historical newspaper and periodical collections.  Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution.  UNCC Atkins Library owns several collections, particularly related to British publications, that can be searched and accessed through Gales News Vault, including:

·       19^th Century British Library Newspapers: Part 1 and 2 - As compelling as it is comprehensive, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

·       19^th Century UK Periodicals - An online collection of British magazines, journals and specialty newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals provides an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.

·       British Newspapers, Part 3; 1780-1950 - The most comprehensive range of national, regional and local newspapers in Victorian Britain ever made available in a digital collection, British Newspapers, 1780-1950 offers these publications to reflect the social, political and cultural events of the times.

·       Times Digital Archive - As the “world’s newspaper of record,” The Times of London has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 makes 221 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th-, and early 21st-century history and culture.

·       Times Literary Supplement Digital Archive - First published in 1902, the Times Literary Supplement is the only literary weekly — in fact the only journal — to offer comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important publications, in every subject, in several languages as well as reviewing current, theatre, cinema, music and exhibitions.

·       Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 - From 1841 to 1992 Punch was the world’s most celebrated magazine of humour and satire. From its early years as a campaigner for social justice to its transformation into national icon, Punch played a central role in the formation of British identity – and how the rest of the world saw the British. (source)

The Gale News Vault not only provides access to these resources but also has special features including full-text searching capabilities, browse functions, and bookmarking.

Check it out today!  Gales News Vault

Related Disciplines:  History, British History, Communications

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