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Periodicals Archive Online

UHD Library — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:22:06 -0500

The library has added backfiles of 550 journals from the social sciences and the humanities in Periodicals Archive Online. The collection offers well-known journals in literature, history, philosophy, religion, and Spanish-language scholarship, as well as general-interest magazines. Noteworthy titles include Bentley's Miscellany (1837-1868), the original publisher of novels by Charles Dickens and stories by Edgar Allen Poe; Commentary (1945-2000); Harper's (1850-1995); Sight and Sound (1932-1995); and The Spectator (1828-2000).

New Journals in Social Sciences & Humanities

UHD Library — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:57:59 -0500

This month the library added more than 900 journals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities as part of an ongoing initiative to build strong journal collections in all subjects taught at UHD. We expect to purchase more new journals in the fall, so please send us your recommendations.

Here are some of the new journals purchased this month:

For more journals purchased as part of our journals initiative, please see the Taylor & Francis Humanities & Social Sciences Library, New Journals in Social Work, National Council of Teachers of English Journals, and ScienceDirect Journals & E-Books.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

UHD Library — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:50:17 -0600

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is now available at UHD. With its coverage of 2.4 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses, this database is an essential repository of scholarship in almost every field of study. For older documents, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses provides a short absract. For more than 930,000 documents from 1997 to present, it offers access to the full text in PDF format.

New Scholarly Books in English Available in the Library!

plensor — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:01:26 -0600

I wanted to highlight some recent scholarly monographs added to the Library's collection in the area of English. These are just a few of the new items. If UHD faculty and students look at this list and think "You shouldn't be buying that! You should be buying this!" -- Pat Ensor, your English librarian, wants to know about it! All these are in the New Books section, 5th floor, South Tower.

A history of feminist literary criticism / edited by Gill Plain and Susan Sellers. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
PN98.W64 H57 2007 (more information)

Gleaning modernity : earlier eighteenth-century literature and the modernizing process / Eric Rothstein. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2007.
PR448.S64 R68 2007 (more information)

Transatlantic voices : interpretations of Native North American literatures / edited by Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
PS153.I52 T73 2007 (more information)

Writing home : indigenous narratives of resistance / Michael D. Wilson. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2008.
PS153.I52 W53 2008 (more information)

American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 / Gavin Jones. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
PS217.P67 J66 2007 (more information)

Slave songs and the birth of African American poetry / Lauri Ramey. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
PS310.N4 R36 2008 (more information)

Visions and divisions : American immigration literature, 1870-1930 / edited and with an introduction by Tim Prchal and Tony Trigilio. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
PS508.I45 V57 2008 (more information)

Galactic suburbia : recovering women's science fiction / Lisa Yaszek. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
PS374.S35 Y36 2008 (more information)

In addition, I am also trying to fill in gaps in the Library's collection of works by important authors. Recent authors who we now have much better coverage of include Paul Auster, John Barth, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs. (Yes, I've basically been going through the alphabet!) If you know of authors whose important works you think we should have, contact me, Pat Ensor! I'll let you know what we have and see if there are things we've missed.

Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

UHD Library — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:40:44 -0600

The Gale Virtual Reference Library database now includes the 17-volume ebook collection Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. This set offers substantial biographies of more than 10,000 women from around 3100 BCE to the modern age. Biographies cover women from every walk of life and every corner of the world. Each biography has a list of related books, videos, and archival collections. Look for the Gale Virtual Reference Library in the Find Articles (Databases) section of the library website.