New Electronic Resources

This is the largest Chinese newspaper and periodical online index database.  It encompasses the period from 1857 till now with 15,000,000 items from 15,000 newspapers and periodicals published in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.  It is updated regularly with an average of 3,500,000 new entries every year.  Shanghai Library is both the publisher and vendor of the database.  Before it became the internet online database in 2003, it used to be a printed monthly journal for over 50 years.

It is a comprehensive umbrella database which has several sub-databases.  The two major sub-databases are organized by social science and humanities, and natural sciences and technology.  Although it is an index database, users can request the full-text article with a low fee (RMB 25/US$4 for each full-text article) by clicking the link on the side of the item.  It also indicates which library in China has the periodical or newspaper.  The full-text article can be delivered by email, fax or other means based on user’s needs.  It is internet browser based without the need of installation of any plug-in or any reader software.  Currently the interface is in Chinese only, and English interface is under development.

Text by  Liren Zheng and Xian Wu

Funding approved by DRC 4/10/07

The Readex Serial Set will be an authoritative digital edition that includes every publication from the 15th through the 96th Congresses (1817-1980), in addition to the American State Papers (1789-1838), totaling more than 12 million pages. It will be complete in 2009.  The State Papers includes every legislative and executive document of the first fourteen U.S. Congresses, a total of 6,300 publications. Both include high-resolution full-color digital images, fully searchable OCR-generated ASCII text and full bibliographic metadata for every publication. Also included will be full-color digital images and full bibliographic metadata for every map and major illustration.
Cornell owns the Serial Set in print with some portions in microfilm.  As are the other sets across the country, Cornell‚s is incomplete, brittle, fragile, filled with valuable illustrations, and partly published before 1850 (thus a candidate for off-site medium rare storage).  The Readex Serial Set would open up this historical trove to all levels of library users, and would enhance digital historical and narrative social sciences research and discovery on the wide range of topics included (geography, travel, culture, and more).

ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from several primary sources:
the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals
all working papers, preprints and other “grey literature” content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive.
ResearchNow includes a number of other benefits as well. ResearchNow includes an XML gateway (see below) to expose indexed content to federated search engines. Readers can browse ResearchNow by subject area, or set up tailored email notifications of newly posted content.

Music Online, a new service from Alexander Street Press, provides access to all of Alexander Street‚s online audio databases, including African American Song, American Song, Classical Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries®.  African American Song includes recordings from the Document label, as well as the Rounder label.  Artists represented include Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Jelly Roll Morton, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers.  American Song provides access to a wide range of pre-1960s songs, including Revolutionary and Civil War songs, and the songs of folk artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the New Lost City Ramblers.  Classical Music Library provides access to the entire range of western art music.  Labels represented in this database include EMI, CBC, Hyperion, and Sanctuary Classics.  Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® includes recordings issued on the Smithsonian Folkways label, Folkways, the International Library of African Music (ILAM) and the Archive Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE).  In addition, Smithsonian includes a variety of sounds and spoken word recordings.  Music Online is a streamed audio service; downloads are available at an additional cost to the user.  CUL‚s subscription provides for unlimited simultaneous users.

The catalog of New World Records, a label established in 1975 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, provides the core of the DRAM database.  New World provides recordings of a wide range of American music, including jazz, Native American, folk, popular, music theatre, classical, contemporary, and more.  Additional labels, primarily covering recently composed music include Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), Albany, Innova, Cedille, Pogus, Deep Listening, XI, and Mutable Music.  DRAM is a streamed, online audio database; downloading currently is not supported.  CUL‚s subscription provides for unlimited simultaneous users.

The e-Duke Scholarly collection provides online access to 29 Duke humanities and social sciences journals.

MEMSO is a full text online collection of the core primary sources for the study of medieval and early modern history and literature of the British Isles. It includes such classic series of sources as the Patent Rolls and the Calendar of State Papers which are cited in almost all scholarly work published on medieval and early modern British history and literature.