NEW RESOURCE: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Online

University of Liverpool staff and students now have access to Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Online.

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is a research program at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972, the TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.

The Online TLG contains more than 110 million words from over 10,000 works associated with 4,000 authors and is constantly updated and improved with new features and texts.

Access this resource via the library catalogue at Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (University login required off campus)

TRIAL: Cambridge Histories Online

We have a trial of Cambridge Histories Online until 31st March 2013.

To access this trial go to:

http://universitypublishingonline.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/cambridge/histories/

Cambridge Histories Online includes over 300 volumes in the Cambridge Histories series published since 1975, in 15 subjects areas:

American History
British History
Economic History
General History
History of Science
History of the Book
Language and Linguistics
Literary Studies
Music
Philosophy
Political and Social Theory
Regional History
Religious Studies
Theatre Studies and Performing Arts
Warfare

After trying Cambridge Histories Online 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.

More Palgrave Connect e-book collections available

We have purchased the following e-book collections on the Palgrave Connect platform (1,059 books in all):

Business & Management Collection Extended Backlist (1992 -2009) (102 books)
Economics & Finance Collection Extended Backlist (1990 - 2009) (147 books)
Language & Linguistics 2011 & 2012 (48 books)
Media & Culture 2011 & 2012 (74 books)
Political & International Studies 2011 & 2012 (466 books)
Social Sciences 2011 & 2012 (222 books)

Access is available now from http://www.palgraveconnect.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/index.html.

The Library Catalogue, Discover, and the library web pages will be updated in due course.

Note that all Palgrave Connect e-books from 2011 are available in EPUB as well as PDF format and come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions.

OED Online relaunched

The Oxford English Dictionary has been relaunched. If you have bookmarked the OED Online, please update your bookmark to http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/. (The old site will continue to be available until the end of March 2011 at http://dictionary.oed.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/).

The site has been made easier to use, with many new features:

Search results have changed from simple lists to visualizations/timelines, and you can start with a broad search and use filters to narrow your results.

There are now pages about the OED's most cited authors and texts, with links to the DNB, and an 'Aspects of English' section with descriptive articles on language, past and present.

The entire text of the Historical Thesaurus to the OED has been integrated into the OED Online so that you can follow semantic links throughout the dictionary.

Palgrave Connect e-books purchased

We have purchased the following e-book collections from Palgrave Connect:

Business & Management Collection 2009 - 60 titles
Business & Management Collection 2010 - 95 titles so far
Economics & Finance Collection 2009 - 70 titles
Economics & Finance Collection 2010 - 78 titles so far
History Collection 2009 - 70 titles
History Collection 2010 - 100 titles so far
Language & Linguistics Collection 2009 - 22 titles
Language & Linguistics Collection 2010 - 26 titles so far
Literature & Performing Arts Collection 2009 - 100 titles
Literature Collection 2010 - 110 titles so far
Theatre & Performance 2010 - 22 titles so far
Political & International Studies Collection 2009 - 150 titles
Political & International Studies Collection 2010 - 136 titles so far
Religion & Philosophy Collection 2009 - 30 titles
Religion & Philosophy Collection 2010 - 41 titles so far
Social & Cultural Studies Collection 2009 - 100 titles
Social Sciences Collection 2010 - 83 titles so far
Media & Culture 2010 - 30 titles so far
Education 2010 - 39 titles so far

Each of the 2010 collections will have a futher release of titles in October, and this will bring our total number of purchased titles from 1,362 to 1,624.

Palgrave Connect employs 'permissive Digital Right Managament (DRM)', which means you can download e-book content without any physical restrictions. E-book content can be copied, pasted, saved and printed. All ebook pages are watermarked to show that the content is copyright material from palgraveconnect.com. When a Palgrave Connect e-book is downloaded a watermarked coversheet is added, including the name of the subscribing institution.

The links above above how been updated so that they are routed via EZproxy for off-campus access.