The Library is currently running a short trial to Orlando: Women’s Writing, from Cambridge University Press.
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a highly dynamic and rich resource for researchers, students, and readers with an interest in literature, women’s writing, or cultural history more generally.
Orlando is not a text archive: it does not print the texts its subjects wrote. Instead, it provides new biographical and critical accounts of the lives and works of its subjects, together with contextual materials relevant to critical and historical readings. With about 8 million words of text and biographical and writing career profiles on over 1430 individuals, it is full of factual, critical, and interpreted material.
From the homepage, it is easy to keyword search for a specific person, author, work or event:
Orlando: Women’s Writing homepage showing example keyword search of “Virginia Woolf”
Search results can be refined by fields such as historic period, genre, author nationality to support more specific retrieval. The browse functions allow researchers to explore author profiles, people, organisations, timelines, and the full bibliography of sources cited in Orlando: Women’s Writing. The Get Started guide provides extensive information on making effective use of the database.
As the purpose of a trial is provide short term institutional access to establish whether the resource is of interest for future sustained access, unfortunately we are not able to extend or repeat trials. Please bear in mind that any links to material within the trial collections will no longer work after the trial ends, so access is temporary.
We’re keen to hear any feedback on this resource, either by posting your thoughts on this blog post below, or by getting in touch with your Liaison Librarian at libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk.
The Library is currently trialling additional modules within the Policy Commons platform.
We have already successfully acquired the Global Think Tanks module, however the present trial also unlocks access to the following additional modules:
Public Health and Social Care: Frontline health providers, hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioner communities, governments, think tanks, and other organizations produce research, pilot projects, real-world evaluations, newsletters, and collaborative projects.
North American City Reports: Cities are on the front lines addressing climate change, immigration, racial equity, and other pressing issues. North American City Reports is the best source of current, detailed information about what happened, what was tried, and what worked. Rich in statistics and hard evidence, the reports document attitudes, actions, and outcomes—through surveys, budgets, case studies, training manuals, plans, and other records.
World Cities and Local Governments: Cities are on the front lines of today’s most pressing challenges and their publications document the ground truth.
World Governments: Governmental organsations publish debates, proceedings, reports, budgets, commissions, inquiries, audits, scientific findings, and other content. They spend billions of dollars annually on research.
World Cities: Cities around the world are grappling with urgent issues that transcend national boundaries—rapid urbanization, escalating climate change, pervasive inequality, and other challenges. City reports show how municipalities are tackling problems. But lack of discoverability and impermanence make these the hardest policy documents to find and cite.
Oceania: A major new initiative to collect, preserve, and disseminate critical research from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, Policy Commons: Oceania provides the region’s perspective on topics including climate change, indigenous rights, the economy, housing, healthcare, and ageing.
As the purpose of a trial is provide short term institutional access to establish whether the resource is of interest for future sustained access, unfortunately we are not able to extend or repeat trials. Please bear in mind that any links to material within the trial collections will no longer work after the trial ends, so access is temporary.
We’re keen to hear any feedback on this resource, either by posting your thoughts on this blog post below, or by getting in touch with your Liaison Librarian at libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk.
The Library are hosting a short trial to The Subculture Archives.
The Subculture Archives is an educational & cultural research resource of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime. The resource is formed from the collections of the Museum of Youth Culture.
The resource is of interest to those exploring youth culture in the 20th century from a range of subjects, including Music, Fine Art, Sociology, and History.
The search function allows keyword searches across the collections on the platform, with the ability to narrow searches by item type:
Subculture Archives keyword search function
Advanced Search is also available, with options to search for specific date ranges and persons, as well as media specifications. The Global Search allows for retrieval of resources within a certain defined geographical location of your choosing.
Browsing by collection, subculture, decade, photographer, and topic are all easy to achieve by selecting “Subcultures, Scenes, Decades and Trend Analysis” from the menu at the top of the dash:
Subcultures, Scenes, Decades and Trend Analysis
The resource is available to trial until Friday 28th February. Access The Subculture Archives via Library Search, then select ‘Log in via your University or Institution’, scroll down to ‘Newcastle University’ and lastly click on ‘Select’.
As the purpose of a trial is provide short term institutional access to establish whether the resource is of interest for future sustained access, unfortunately we are not able to extend or repeat trials. Please bear in mind that any links to material within the trial collections will no longer work after the trial ends, so access is temporary. Content is downloadable and accessible for internal educational use only, and be aware that copyright considerations apply.
We’re keen to hear any feedback on this resource, either by posting your thoughts on this blog post below, or by getting in touch with your Liaison Librarian at libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk.
The Library has acquired access to Music Online: Classical Scores Library, a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works.
The resource provide access to works by 4,600 classic and contemporary composers, from traditionally studied composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky, to contemporary artists including Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell-Davies, and John Tavener.
With access to over 65,000 titles, the resource is essential for those looking to access a wide range of digital scores in one interface. Keyword search function is enable across all of the volumes, and users can browse by title, genre, instrument, people, publisher, time period, or composer. Users also benefit from Alexander Street database functionality, such as adding annotations to scores and the option to print.
The six volumes that are available are:
The first volume of Music Online:Classical Scores Library includes more than 400,000 pages from classical music’s most studied composers, including Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, plus thousands more. Additional material in Volume I includes 100 scores from the Barry S. Brook Center’s collection of French Opera in the 17th and 18th centuries, providing access to the music and libretti of the early operas during an important period in the development of the genre.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume II provides online access to 200,000 pages of scores. In addition to new works from contemporary composers, Volume II includes a range of important composers not represented in the first volume and alternative editions of many of music’s most studied compositions. Featured composers include Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini, Michael Haydn, and many others. This volume also includes The Symphony 1720-1840– the largest source of 18th century symphonies comprising 550 symphonic works.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume III brings together 400,000 pages of in-copyright editions from composers worldwide. The collection provides editions from major publishers like Chester Music, Novello & Company, Faber Music, Wilhelm Hansen, Donemus, and others. It provides expanded coverage of great choral works and instrumental scores for brass, woodwind, and other instrument groups. Volume III features modern editions of works by Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Byrd, Gibbons, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Purcell, as well as classic works by Elgar, De Falla, Franck, Holst, Joubert, Maxwell-Davies, Musgrave, Saariaho, Sallinen, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and many more.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume IV is a collection of 300,000 pages of scores that focuses on works of the 20th and 21st centuries, providing digital access to some of the most-studied works in classical repertoire and exposure to lesser-known composers from around the world including Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume V provides digital access to some of the most-studied works in classical repertoire and exposure to lesser-known composers. This collection builds on Classical Scores Library, Volume IV’s collection with an emphasis on contemporary composers and works from the 20th and 21st centuries alongside a selection of scores from medieval, baroque, classical and romantic time periods. Upon completion, the collection will include 400,000 pages of scores sourced from individual composers and from renowned publishers such as Donemus, Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH, Novello & Company, Chester Music, Faber Music, and Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, and University of York Music Press.
Volume VI of the Classical Scores Library presents masterpieces from one of the world’s most esteemed classical music publishers. This partnership with Boosey & Hawkes, renowned for their extensive industry influence, grants a rich catalogue featuring revered masterpieces by classical and contemporary maestros, providing music scholars with rich resources for performance and study. This collection celebrates influential classical composers alongside emerging voices, featuring ground-breaking works that have left a lasting impact on global music, valuable for both performance and study.
The Library is running a short trial to the database Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP).
PEP contains more than 139,000 articles covering over a million pages, full text of numerous journals and classic monographs, as well as full-text searchable videos, in the field of psychoanalysis. PEP has been designed to provide a powerful rapid search of the entire psychoanalytic literature in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish.
PEP provide a range of videos to help you access and make effective use of the database:
Quick Intro: This 8 minute introduction to the new PEP-Web platform covers the basics you need to explore the vast PEP-Web archive, including journals, books and videos, as well as how to efficiently find what you’re searching for.
Searching and Browsing: This 10 minute video will give you a detailed tutorial on searching and browsing on the new PEP-Web platform. This includes how to explore content, find something you already know, and browse like a physical library.
Browsing videos: This short video will show you how you can explore the video collection on PEP-Web.
Refining your Results: This 3 minute video will show you how to refine your search results. You can refine by decade, author, citation count, language, article type and more, making exploring content and finding what you want more efficient and effective.
Advanced Features: This 2 minute video takes you through some of the more advanced ways you can use PEP-Web, including keyboard shortcuts and advanced search methods. The tips covered in this video are documented here on the PEP Support website, so you can read through and refer to them at your own pace.
Our trial access is valid until 30th November 2024. As the purpose of a trial is provide short term institutional access to establish whether the resource is of interest for future sustained access, unfortunately we are not able to extend or repeat trials. Please bear in mind that any links to material within the trial will no longer work after the trial ends.
We’re keen to hear any feedback on the resource, either by posting your thoughts on this blog post below, or by getting in touch with your Liaison Librarian at libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk.
Our trial access is valid until 18th November 2024. As the purpose of a trial is provide short term institutional access to establish whether the resource is of interest for future sustained access, unfortunately we are not able to extend or repeat trials. Please bear in mind that any links to material within the trial collections will no longer work after the trial ends, so access is temporary.
We’re keen to hear any feedback on the specific collections, either by posting your thoughts on this blog post below, or by getting in touch with your Liaison Librarian at libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk.
The Library is currently running a short trial to MediaPlus, a digital media resource offered by Alexander Street Press (ProQuest).
MediaPlusconsists of more than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings. The resource is ideal for students and researchers interested in 20th century British social, political and cultural history from a range of disciplines (particularly History, Media, and Politics).
You can also browse by Title, Subject, and Sub-collection from the MediaPlus homepage, where you can then further refine results by date, publisher, or subject.
Content is drawn from a number of sources (Sub-collections):
Associated Press Archive (6,010 items)
Channel 4 News (6,508)
Gaumont British News (2,476)
Gaumont Graphic Newsreel (8,087)
Getty Moving images (8,163)
Getty Still images (11,732)
ITN (6,300)
ITV news (27,519)
Imperial War Museum – images (4,165)
Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive – PYMCA (6,421)
Reuters News (3,248)
Royal Geographical Society (6,448)
Royal Mail Film Classics (66)
The North Highland College – Johnston Collection (10,037)
The trial access to the resource is available until 15th November 2024. As the purpose of a trial is provide short term institutional access to establish whether the resource is of interest for future sustained access, unfortunately we are not able to extend or repeat trials.
Please note that MediaPlus content cannot be downloaded, and any embedded content or permalinks will not work after the trial ends.
We are keen to hear any feedback on this resource – please contact us by commenting below or by emailing your Liaison Librarian (libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk).
We are running a trial to this unique archive from Gale. It is a collection of first-hand narratives chronicling, socialist and far-left groups in terms of how figures saw themselves and the world around them during the major political and social events that occurred in the twentieth century.
The resource features primary sources from various different collections including:
Radical Left Political Movements and Social Issues: American Old Left Source at the University of California, Davis
Senate House Library, University of London Collections
Rose Pastor Stokes Papers at Yale University
Anna Strunsky Walling Papers at Yale University
Papers of Walter Lippmann at Yale University
Alger Hiss Defense Collection at Harvard Law School Library
Alger Hiss Collection at New York University
Anti-Socialist Organisations in Britain at the British Library
FBI American Legion Contact Program at the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Archives of the Independent Labour Party
Socialist and Labour Thought in Britain Since 1884
There are approximately 868,000 pages made up of correspondence, periodicals, manuscripts, books, personal papers, organisational records, letters and newsletters, pamphlets dating from 1766-2004 (however most are dated between 1880-1950)
You can access this resource via Library Search. The trial will run until 18th April 2024.
We are keen to hear any feedback on this resource – please contact us by commenting below or by emailing your Liaison Librarian (libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk)
The Social History Archive provides access to primary source material, from unique newspapers to census returns, crime reports and migration records. This platform is operated by FindMyPast and includes newspapers from the British Newspaper Archive.
The platform has a number of search and browse functions. You can “Search all Records” or create an advanced search from the homepage (called the dashboard), however the “Search” drop-down menu provides options to search by record type, including newspapers and publications. If you need any assistance using the platform then please do not hesitate to get in touch.
The trial runs until Tuesday 5th March 2024. We are keen to hear any feedback on this resource – please contact us by commenting below or by emailing your Liaison Librarian (libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk).
Gale Primary Sources Nineteenth Century Collections Online logo
The Library is pleased to confirm that we are currently hosting a trial to Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), a Gale Primary Sources resource.
NCCO is the result of partnerships between Gale and almost one hundred libraries to preserve and make digitally available content for academic research. NCCO unites multiple, distinct archives into a single resource of over one hundred types of primary source documents; it consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
The NCCO platform comprises 12 thematic collections, including:
Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
British Politics and Society
British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
Children’s Literature and Childhood
European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790–1840
Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
Maps and Travel Literature
Photography
Religion, Reform, and Society
Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Women and Transnational Networks
The following video provides more information on one of the collections, as an example: British Politics and Society.
The trial is live until Thursday 29th February 2024. If you need any support or assistance in using the platform them please do not hesitate to get in touch.
We are very keen to hear your feedback on this resource, so please do let us know by commenting below or by contacting us at libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk.
