Cite & Byte Summer 1999 (Vol. 9, No. 3)

<CENTER> <STRONG><FONT SIZE=+4>Cite & Byte</FONT></STRONG><BR> <IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG> </CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100%> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1>A Newsletter of the Reference Services Division, Olin·Kroch·Uris Libraries, Cornell University</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=-1>Vol. 9, No. 3</FONT></TD> <TD ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE=-1>Summer 1999</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <CENTER> <A TARGET="text" HREF = "#finding">Finding the News, Part II</A><P> <A TARGET="text" HREF = "#authors">Major Authors on CD-ROM</A><P> <A TARGET="text" HREF = "#literat">Literature Resource Center</A><P> </CENTER> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <A HREF = "cb93only.htm" TARGET="_top">[text only version]</A><P> <A NAME = "finding"></A><STRONG><FONT SIZE=+2>Finding the News, Part II</FONT></STRONG><P> The large number of newspapers published around the world and through the last few hundred years makes the task of locating newspaper articles a real challenge for librarians and researchers. In Part I of this series we reviewed indexes for large-circulation, twentieth century, Anglo-American newspapers. This article highlights indexes and searchable full text newspaper databases for research in ethnic and foreign language titles, and for historical newspapers through the nineteenth century currently available in Olin and Uris Libraries <P> <B>Ethnic: </B><BR> <I>Ethnic NewsWatch</I> is a searchable full text database of over eighty newspapers published by and for ethnic, religious, and minority communities in the United States. Coverage in this unique resource begins in 1990. This database is currently available on CD-ROM in Uris Library. A Web version will be coming to the Library Gateway in the next year. The text is in English and Spanish. <P> <B>Foreign Language:</B><BR> The Foreign Language News section of <A HREF="http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe">LEXIS-NEXIS</A><I> Academic Universe</I> provides full text searching of recent newspaper articles in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. <I>Academic Universe</I> is in the <A HREF="http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu">Library Gateway</A>. <P> Printed indexes are available in Olin Reference for these newspapers: <I>Le Monde</I> (1944-51, 1958, 1965-68, 1985- ) and its predecessor<I> Le Temps</I> (1861-1900); <I>El Pais</I> (1976- ); <I>Pravada</I> (1975-77, 1986-87); and <I>Al Ahram</I> (1974-75, 1988- ). <I>Zeitungs-Index</I> (1974- ) is a print index to 21, mainly weekly, German-language newspapers published in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. <P> <B>Historical:</B><BR> The publisher Chadwyck-Healey is developing three major historical newspaper indexes in their networked database <A HREF="http://historynews.chadwy.com/"><I>Historical Newspapers Online</I></A>. All the indexes in this database are available through the Library Gateway. <I>Palmer's Index to the</I> (London) <I>Times</I> is now searchable from 1790 to 1905. This is the largest run of electronic indexing for any newspaper, historical or current. The <I>Official Index to the </I>(London) <I>Times</I> will build on <I>Palmer's</I>, eventually covering 1905 to 1980. It is currently searchable from 1906 through 1909. The <I>Historical Index to the <I>New York Times</I></I> is available for 1863 through 1879; it will eventually cover 1851 through 1923. We continue to have the printed index to The New York Times, 1851 to date, in Olin Reference near the card catalog. A printed index to the <I>London Times</I> is also available. <P> A database of Benjamin Franklin's newspaper, <I>The Pennsylvania Gazette</I>, is available on CD-ROM in the Electronic Text Center (ETC) from 1728 through 1783. The full text of the articles is searchable and available for reading or printing. This is a transcription of the article texts, not an image showing the original appearance of the paper, and is a fascinating window into public life in the middle colonies before the American Revolution. <P> Three similar CD-ROM databases in the Electronic Text Center are <I>The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective</I>, <I>African American Newspapers: The Nineteenth Century</I>, and <I>Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers</I>. In the Civil War collection, over 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of three newspapers (the <I>Charleston Mercury</I>, <I>The New York Herald</I>, and the <I>Richmond Enquirer</I>) published between November 1, 1860 and April 30, 1865, present a variety of perspectives on the war. <P> Both ethnic and historical, <I>African-American Newspapers</I> is an on-going database that currently covers seven black-published newspapers from 1827 through 1862. Annual updates will extend coverage of some titles through the Civil War era. Titles available to date are <I>Freedom's Journal</I>, <I>Colored American</I>, <I>The North Star</I>, <I>Frederick Douglass' Paper</I>, <I>The National Era</I>, <I>The Provincial Freeman</I>, and <I>The Christian Recorder</I>. <P> Articles on music, poetry, and dance selected from colonial American newspapers from 1690 through 1783 are collected on the <I>Performing Arts</I> CD-ROM. The database also contains a first-line index of over 12,000 song lyrics from the same time period. This CD includes newspaper articles in French and German as well as English. <P> As noted in the foreign news section above, <I>Tables du Journal le Temps</I> indexes the French newspaper, <I>Le Temps</I>, from 1861 through 1900. <P> <B>Unindexed newspaper collections:</B><BR> The task of providing access to newspaper collections is enormous. The library owns long runs of a large number of newspaper titles. Only a very small fraction of these titles is indexed. Nevertheless, the indexing available today in the ETC and the Library Gateway is a great improvement over the situation only a few years ago. Coverage will continue to expand for titles of research interest. For the latest information on what is available and for assistance in finding newspaper articles, stop by the reference desk in Olin Library or the <A HREF="http://etext.library.cornell.edu">Electronic Text Center</A>, Olin Library 106G. We are ready to help you find what you need. <P> <I>Michael Engle, Electronic Text Librarian</I><BR> <A HREF="mailto:moe1@cornell.edu">moe1@cornell.edu</A>.<P> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <A NAME = "authors"></A><STRONG><FONT SIZE=+2>New Research Tools for Literary Scholars and Students: The Primary Source Media CD-ROMs</FONT></STRONG><P> The Electronic Text Center (ETC) now owns CD-ROM-based research editions of the works of the following authors: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, and the Bronte siblings. These collections of primary literary resources typically include the scholarly critical edition of their writings and other editions and a variety of other primary materials such as letters, manuscript images, and audio recordings. The texts of the critical editions on each CD-ROM are searchable, and a comprehensive index is also available. Here is selected information on each title. <P> <B>Boswell and Johnson</B><BR> The complete Yale edition of <I>The Works of Samuel Johnson</I> and James Boswell's <I>The Life of Johnson</I> in the Powell edition, the 1755 edition of Samuel Johnson's <I>Dictionary of the English Language</I>, and additional rare Johnson editions from the British Library. <P> <B>Walt Whitman</B><BR> <I>The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman</I> in the New York University edition, manuscripts from the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library collections, facsimiles of the <I>Leaves of Grass</I> editions published during Whitman's lifetime, and an archival recording of Whitman's voice. <P> <B>The Brontes </B><BR> E-texts of the novels and poems by Anne, Emily, Charlotte, and Branwell Bronte, letters, and 3,000 manuscript images from the Bronte Parsonage Museum and the British Library. <P> <B>Virginia Woolf</B><BR> The complete works including variant and hard-to-find editions, 12,000 manuscript images from the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex, an archival recording of Woolf's BBC talk,"Craftsmanship," and the reference source <I>Virginia Woolf, A-Z</I>. <P> In short, these CD-ROMs have brought together a range of primary resources and critical editions for the prominent authors represented here. They are available in the Electronic Text Center, 106G Olin Library, Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. <P> For a complete list of the databases available in the Electronic Text Center, go to <A HREF="http:www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/cet/holdings">http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/cet/holdings. html</A>. <P> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <A NAME = "literat"></A><STRONG><FONT SIZE=+2>Literature Resource Center</FONT></STRONG><P> Whether you are beginning a paper on Orientalism in 19th century British fiction, looking for biographical information on Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, or compiling a list of Brazilian writers, the <A HREF="http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitRC><I>Literature Resource Center (LRC)</I></A> can provide a solid starting point for your research. An electronic compendium of literary information drawn from printed reference materials such as Gale’s <I>Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism</I> and other titles, the LRC contains full-text critical essays, biographies, bibliographies, explications, interviews, and visual images for nearly 90,000 authors worldwide. It is searchable by author name, title, genre, time period, and literary theme. A custom search feature also allows queries to be limited by the author’s nationality or ethnicity, year of birth, year of death, place of death, and occupation. Full text searching across the whole of <I>LRC</I> is also possible. Online help and searching tips provide information to help make searches more efficient. Though the <I>LRC</I> does not duplicate its printed counterparts <I>in toto</I>, it provides the added bonus of full text articles from 24 scholarly and literary journals dating back to 1995, essays from the <I>Twayne Authors Series</I> of books, entries from Merriam-Webster’s <I>Encyclopedia of Literature</I>, and hyperlinks to a variety of author sites from the Library of Congress, the Modern Language Association, and other scholarly institutions. <P> The Literature Resource Center can be accessed through the <A HREF="http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu">Library Gateway</A> by entering ‘LRC’ in the search box provided on the Networked Resources screen. You can also link directly to several of its components — Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography — as separate databases by entering their specific titles in the Networked Resources search box. <P> <EM U>Fred Muratori, Reference Librarian<BR> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" > <TR> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/" TARGET="_top">Reference Home Page</A></LI> </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/citebyte/citebyte.html" TARGET="_top">Cite and Byte home page</A></LI> </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN="2"><FONT SIZE=-2>URL:http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/citebyte/cb93.htm<BR> Martha Walker, editor, Cite & Byte [rev. 8/5/99]<BR> Lynn Thitchener and Kary Cockerill, editorial assistants<BR> Olin·Kroch·Uris Libraries Reference Services Division </FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/" TARGET="_top">Library Home Page</A></LI> </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="mailto:maw6@cornell.edu">E-mail the Editor</A></LI> </TD> </TR> </TABLE>