History

Trials for 3 Resources on the Ukraine

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The Libraries have on trial from East View Information Services three databases covering the Ukraine:

All trials will continue through April 17th, 2014. If you have questions about using any of these resources, please ask us.

Accessible Archives Collections on Trial

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The Accessible Archives platform offers digitized American historical newspapers, county histories, books and a geneology catalog organized into collections by geography, theme (e.g. Civil War, Woman Suffrage) and personal narrative (e.g. Harriet Tubman, Twelve Years a Slave). You can browse by collection and search by keyword with limits by publication type, source and date.

The trial continues through March 25th, 2014. The collections are available for a subscription cost of $3,829/year. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us.

New Historical, Digital British Newspapers

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Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers are a new addition to the Libraries’ online resources. Coverage includes English newspapers, broadsides, addresses, proclamations and pamphlets published between 1620’s and 1790’s. You can browse publications by location or search by document or publication title, publication date, full-text keyword and add limits for publication section, images and more.

If you have questions about using this newspaper collection, contact our reference staff.

Trial for Cambridge Histories Online

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Cambridge Histories Online includes 326 volumes published since 1960 covering 15 academic areas from American and British History to Music, Philosophy, History of Science, Theatre Studies and Performing Arts and more. You can browse by subject or search by keyword, title, author and/or publication year.

The trial continues through October 2, 2013. Please send comments or questions to Jim Kelly, Humanities Research Services Librarian, at 413-545-3981.

Digital National Security Archive now Available

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Digital National Security Archive includes 40 collections of declassified government documents covering Afghanistan, Chile, Cuba, Iraq, Japan, and many other countries, as well as policy makers such as Henry Kissinger and U.S. Presidents Truman, Carter, Bush and Obama, and topics like nuclear non-proliferation and terrorism. You can browse through the collections, or search documents, chronologies, glossary or bibliographies.

For assistance using this new resource, contact a librarian.

Film & Television Literature Index, America: History & Live, and Historical Abstracts now with full text

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The Libraries has upgraded its subscriptions to include full-text with the following indexes:

  • Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text – includes indexing and abstracts for over 380 journals and magazines and full-text from 120 of them, film reviews from Variety going back to 1914, and broad subject coverage of film and television production and history.
  • America: History and Life with Full Text – covers history and culture of Canada and the United States back to 1955 with indexing of 1,700 journals and full-text of 200 journals and 100 books.
  • Historical Abstracts with Full Text – covers the history of the world with indexing of over 1,800 journals and full-text of 349 journals and 129 books since 1955.

If you have questions or comments about any of these resources, contact a librarian.

Trial for ProQuest History Vault

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The ProQuest History Vault is on trial through May 15th, 2013. It includes collections from University Publications of America covering the Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy 1960-1975, NAACP Papers, Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930, Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, and more. You can search across collections or within individual papers, and browse by event or collection. You can select predefined searches and narrow by subject, geography, person, organization and other facets.

Please send your questions and feedback to Peter Stern, Humanities and Fine Arts Research Services Librarian, at 413-545-3967.

New ProQuest and Chadwyck Databases

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The Libraries have activated the following reference databases under the ProQuest and Chadwyck Healey names. You may find each resources in the UMass Amherst library catalog or listed in the Libraries’ Research Databases listings:

If you would like assistance using any of these sources, contact a reference librarian.

New Online Reference E-Books

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The Libraries have activated the following new reference e-books in Gale Virtual Reference Library. You may find them in the UMass Amherst library catalog:

  • U.S. Immigration & Migration Reference Library
  • VideoHound’s golden movie retriever 2012 edition
  • World eras. Volume 1 : European Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600
  • World eras. Volume 2 : Rise and the spread of Islam, 622-1500
  • World eras. Volume 3: Roman Republic and Empire, 264 B.C.E.-476 C.E.
  • Gale encyclopedia of cancer 3rd ed.
  • Gale encyclopedia of genetic disorders 3rd ed.
  • Literature and its times: profiles of 300 notable literary works and the historical events that influenced them (5 volume set and 2 volume supplement)

If you would like assistance using any of these sources, contact a reference librarian.