The New Microform: Electronic Collections

		HumaniTech and UCI Libraries The New Microform: Electronic Collections February 3, 2005 John Novak and Joan Ariel Humanities Research Librarians

Subject Guides
Research guides for all UCI disciplines created by UCI Research Librarians; highly recommended!

Historical Full-Text Books and Other "Monographs":

Early American Imprints, Series I. (1639-1800)
Based on the bibliography by Charles Evans, this digital collection, derived from the Early American Imprints microform collection, is an excellent resource for research involving every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America -- especially literature. Coverage: 1639-1800

Early American Imprints, Series II. (1801-1819)
Based on the bibliography by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, this database provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

Early English Books Online
Citations from early English texts presented as digital images. Includes treatise, musical exercises, novels, prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources. Coverage: 1475-1700

Historical Periodicals and Newspapers:

American Periodicals Series Online: 1740-1900
A useful database for research in early American literature, this collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals, including literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and other historically significant periodicals.

Early American Newspapers
Early American Newspapers features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. Coverage: 1690-1820

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Includes Freedom’s Journal; The Coloured American; The North Star; The National Era; Provincial Freeman; Frederick Douglass Paper; and The Christian Recorder.

Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Full text of major articles from 2,500+ issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, November 1, 1860 to April 15, 1865.

Los Angeles Times Historical
Provides full page and article images with searchable full-text. Coverage: 1881-1968+ (later years currently being loaded into the database)

New York Times Historical
Provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: 1857-1999

Wall Street Journal 1889-1985

Additional Single Titles:

Godey’s Lady’s Book 1830-1880
The first successful American journal for women, Godey’s began in 1830, circulated for nearly seventy years and included contributions from such celebrated writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allen Poe. It was also noted for its handsome illustrations, which included hand-colored fashion plates. Godey’s provides a significant source for the study of women’s history, social history, textile studies, and material culture and literature.

HarpWeek
(Harper’s Weekly). Full text, completely indexed electronic version of Harper’s Weekly, a major 19th century news and literary magazine. Database includes illustrations and advertisements in addition to news articles, novel serializations, and commentary on political, cultural and social life. Coverage: 1857-1912

The Nation Digital Archive
PDF page images and searchable OCR text for all issues of The Nation, America's oldest weekly magazine, published from 1865 through June 2002. Click on subscriber login.

Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800
"New York Times" of the period.

Selected Full-Text Resources from Alexander Street Press

Alexander Street Press produces full-text resources in the Humanities, digitized collections that are enhanced by broad and deep indexing and unique text analysis tools that allow scholars to ask new questions

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Detailed firsthand descriptions of the American Civil War. Coverage: 1861-1865.

Asian American Drama
When complete Asian American Drama will bring together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. Coverage begins in the late nineteenth century and ends with contemporary Asian American dramatists.

Black Drama
When complete, Black Drama will contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Coverage begins from the mid-1800s to the present.

Early Encounters in North America
With coverage beginning with documents produced in 1534, this database will contain over 1,000 documents of encounters within texts. The editors define encounter as an event that "took place between peoples, at a particular place, at a particular time." This database contains many journal entries of early explorers as well as North American Indian accounts of encounters. Coverage: 1534 -

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
Includes the immediate experiences of 442 women, as revealed in approximately 50,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Represents all age groups and life stages, diverse ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry from 47 poets, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
"52 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,250 documents, 450 images, and 500 links to other websites. They demonstrate that historical analysis is an interpretive process based on documents."