We have purchased the archives of two black American newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) and New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993). Both appear in the library catalogue and LibGuides (including our A-Z list of databases).
Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy, Sr. when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy's daughter) and female sportswriters, the papers contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Through the decades, the newspaper fought for equal employment rights, urged African-American participation in politics, and advocated state-funded higher education for blacks. In the 1930s, The Afro-American launched The Clean Block campaign, which is still in existence today, to clean up inner-city neighbourhoods and fight crime. It stationed correspondents in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, providing first-hand reports to readers. In the 1950s, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the newspapers efforts contributed to the outlawing of public school segregation.
From an initial $10 investment, the New York Amsterdam News grew to become one of the nations leading black newspapers and one of New Yorks most influential black-owned institutions. For nearly a century, it has helped influence and promote the causes and aspirations of African-Americans. The New York Amsterdam News captured the vibrancy and cultural richness of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, advocated for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and fought against discriminatory employment practices and other civil rights abuses in the 1960s.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Partnership with OUP for Oxford Bibliographies Online
The Library is delighted to announce it has entered into a one year partnership with Oxford University Press to help shape development of its exciting new resource Oxford Bibliographies Online.
The Library will offer staff and students at the University the opportunity to feed into the evolution of this resource through focus groups and questionnaires. In return for our help in developing the resource, Oxford University Press will grant us perpetual access to one of the subject bibliographies within the trial, regardless of whether we then choose to subscribe to the resource as a whole.
In the publisher’s words, “Oxford Bibliographies Online helps researchers and students find reliable sources of information to aid their research from within the enormous amount of print and online material available to them.
You can:
• Read a narrative guide to a subject area to get an overview of the subject before beginning detailed research
• Use the bibliography and supporting text provided to conduct more detailed research
• Get an overview of the best scholarship available whether it be a book, chapter, journal, website, or database from both subscription and free resources
• Use a resource that is editorially monitored by an Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board made up of leading academics in the field from around the world to aid your study
• Keep up-to-date with the latest scholarship in your field as the site expands to reflect newly available material”
Bibliographies in the following subjects are already available, with more to come through the year:
• Atlantic History
• Classics
• Criminology
• Islamic Studies
• Philosophy
• Renaissance and Reformation
• Social Work
You can access Oxford Bibliographies Online through the library catalogue or through LibGuides. Off-campus access is provided through EZproxy as usual.
If you wish to be involved, and/or want more information about Oxford Bibliographies Online, please contact Martin Wolf.
The Library will offer staff and students at the University the opportunity to feed into the evolution of this resource through focus groups and questionnaires. In return for our help in developing the resource, Oxford University Press will grant us perpetual access to one of the subject bibliographies within the trial, regardless of whether we then choose to subscribe to the resource as a whole.
In the publisher’s words, “Oxford Bibliographies Online helps researchers and students find reliable sources of information to aid their research from within the enormous amount of print and online material available to them.
You can:
• Read a narrative guide to a subject area to get an overview of the subject before beginning detailed research
• Use the bibliography and supporting text provided to conduct more detailed research
• Get an overview of the best scholarship available whether it be a book, chapter, journal, website, or database from both subscription and free resources
• Use a resource that is editorially monitored by an Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board made up of leading academics in the field from around the world to aid your study
• Keep up-to-date with the latest scholarship in your field as the site expands to reflect newly available material”
Bibliographies in the following subjects are already available, with more to come through the year:
• Atlantic History
• Classics
• Criminology
• Islamic Studies
• Philosophy
• Renaissance and Reformation
• Social Work
You can access Oxford Bibliographies Online through the library catalogue or through LibGuides. Off-campus access is provided through EZproxy as usual.
If you wish to be involved, and/or want more information about Oxford Bibliographies Online, please contact Martin Wolf.
Monday, November 01, 2010
TRIAL: Oxford Bibliographies Online
We have a trial of Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) until 30th November.
To access this trial go to http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. Off-campus users should use Apps Anywhere, but if we did subscribe to OBO we would of course set up off-campus access via EZproxy as normal.
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a tool designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. It is a springboard for new research that allows for fluid movement between texts and databases within a given institution’s collection and beyond. It is a starting point for organizing a research plan, or for preparing a writing assignment or syllabus. The style and approach is accessible to students, but the depth of coverage makes it of great use to faculty as well.
OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in an area of study they know best. The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has a unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more.
OBO brings quality assurance and authority to online research. All articles receive multiple peer reviews and editorial board vetting to provide reliable and balanced coverage. Articles are regularly updated by their authors so that information in this resource is always current and accurate. In addition to updating existing articles, new topic guides are added on a regular schedule to expand the scope and extent of each subject module in the library.
Our trial includes all of the currently available modules:
Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
Buddhism
Classics
Criminology
Islamic Studies
Philosophy
Renaissance and Reformation
Social Work
Several more modules will be released in the next year:
Winter 2010:
Medieval Studies
Hinduism
January 2011:
Communication
International Relations
Public Health
Victorian Literature
Coming in 2011:
Anthropology
Cinema and Media Studies
Education
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Music
Political Science
Sociology
After trying Oxford Bibliographies Online, please leave feedback through the comments section below, specifying which module(s) you are refrring to if possible. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
To access this trial go to http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. Off-campus users should use Apps Anywhere, but if we did subscribe to OBO we would of course set up off-campus access via EZproxy as normal.
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a tool designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. It is a springboard for new research that allows for fluid movement between texts and databases within a given institution’s collection and beyond. It is a starting point for organizing a research plan, or for preparing a writing assignment or syllabus. The style and approach is accessible to students, but the depth of coverage makes it of great use to faculty as well.
OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in an area of study they know best. The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has a unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more.
OBO brings quality assurance and authority to online research. All articles receive multiple peer reviews and editorial board vetting to provide reliable and balanced coverage. Articles are regularly updated by their authors so that information in this resource is always current and accurate. In addition to updating existing articles, new topic guides are added on a regular schedule to expand the scope and extent of each subject module in the library.
Our trial includes all of the currently available modules:
Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
Buddhism
Classics
Criminology
Islamic Studies
Philosophy
Renaissance and Reformation
Social Work
Several more modules will be released in the next year:
Winter 2010:
Medieval Studies
Hinduism
January 2011:
Communication
International Relations
Public Health
Victorian Literature
Coming in 2011:
Anthropology
Cinema and Media Studies
Education
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Music
Political Science
Sociology
After trying Oxford Bibliographies Online, please leave feedback through the comments section below, specifying which module(s) you are refrring to if possible. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Slavery and Anti-Slavery. Part I now available
Following the positive comments in response to our trial, we have now purchased Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition from Gale, Cengage Learning. Access is now available from http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/menu/start?prod=SAS&userGroupName=livuni or via the library catalogue or through SFX / find it @ liverpool, or though our Historical Collections online pages.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000 - free in March
March is Women’s History month and to celebrate, Alexander Street Press have made the popular online collection, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition, freely accessible for the entire month.
To access Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition, simply visit http://wass.alexanderstreet.com.
This extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question.
Some examples are:
How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves During and After the Civil War, 1863-1891?
How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?
The Scholar's Edition also includes more than 40,000 pages of full-text sources, including:
Proceedings of all women's rights conventions, 1848-1869
Proceedings of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898
Selected publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000
Also newly added to the Scholar's Edition are:
Notable American Women, the five-volume biographical dictionary
The Collected Publications of federal, state, and local Commissions on the Status of Women, a digital archive with 90,000 pages of publications, 1961-2005
New content is added semi-annually.
Please also be sure to check out the companion blog to Women and Social Movements, Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion, where faculty discuss how they’ve made use of the online collection in the classroom, share syllabi, and exchange ideas.
To access Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition, simply visit http://wass.alexanderstreet.com.
This extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question.
Some examples are:
How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves During and After the Civil War, 1863-1891?
How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?
The Scholar's Edition also includes more than 40,000 pages of full-text sources, including:
Proceedings of all women's rights conventions, 1848-1869
Proceedings of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898
Selected publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000
Also newly added to the Scholar's Edition are:
Notable American Women, the five-volume biographical dictionary
The Collected Publications of federal, state, and local Commissions on the Status of Women, a digital archive with 90,000 pages of publications, 1961-2005
New content is added semi-annually.
Please also be sure to check out the companion blog to Women and Social Movements, Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion, where faculty discuss how they’ve made use of the online collection in the classroom, share syllabi, and exchange ideas.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Open trial of Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part I
Cengage Gale are offering an open trial of Part I of their Slavery and Anti-Slavery archive until 1st March 2010. To access the trial go to http://www.galeuk.com/slaveryopen/ and submit your details.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a digital archive in four series devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America. Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition is a scholarly collection of approximately 1.5 million pages of primary source documents focussing on the abolitionist movement and the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonisation. The collection assembles a wide variety of materials - more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections. Varied sources — from well-known journals to private papers, monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts and periodicals - explore the economic, gender, legal, religious, and government issues surrounding the slavery debate.
Future series will be:
Part II Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Part III Institution of Slavery in the United States
Part IV Age of Emancipation
After using Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part I please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a digital archive in four series devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America. Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition is a scholarly collection of approximately 1.5 million pages of primary source documents focussing on the abolitionist movement and the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonisation. The collection assembles a wide variety of materials - more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections. Varied sources — from well-known journals to private papers, monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts and periodicals - explore the economic, gender, legal, religious, and government issues surrounding the slavery debate.
Future series will be:
Part II Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Part III Institution of Slavery in the United States
Part IV Age of Emancipation
After using Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part I please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
Monday, November 09, 2009
New York Times archive, 1851-2006, purchased
Following our recent trial, and the large amount of positive feedback received, we have now, purchased the New York Times archive, 1851-2006. Access is available at: http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?COPT=REJTPTZjNjAmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=52650 and you will find links:
- In the Library Catalogue
- In Metalib
- On our e-Newspapers page
- On our Historical Collections Online page
Thursday, September 24, 2009
TRIAL: African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
We have a trial of African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 until 31st October. To access this trial go to http://infoweb.newsbank.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/?db=EANX&d_collections=EANAAA. Off-campus users will be promted to login to EZproxy first.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.
After using this collection please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.
After using this collection please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
Monday, September 07, 2009
TRIAL: New York Times archive, 1851-2006
We have a trial of ProQuest Historical Newspapers' New York Times archive, 1851-2006, until 14th October. To access this trial go to ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Off-campus users will be promted to login to EZproxy first.
After using this collection please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
After using this collection please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
TRIAL: Black Newspapers (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
We have a trial of ProQuest Historical Newspapers' Black Newspapers collection until 14th October. To access this trial go to ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Off-campus users will be promted to login to EZproxy first.
The Black Newspapers collection comprises the following titles:
Atlanta Daily World: 1931-2003
Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
The Call and Post (1934-1991)
The Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975)
Los Angeles Sentinel: 1934-2005
New York Amsterdam News: 1922-1993
Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003)
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002
After using this collection please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
The Black Newspapers collection comprises the following titles:
Atlanta Daily World: 1931-2003
Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
The Call and Post (1934-1991)
The Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975)
Los Angeles Sentinel: 1934-2005
New York Amsterdam News: 1922-1993
Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003)
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002
After using this collection please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.
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