A Monthly Update
7/6/12
A Wealth of Primary Sources, 16th-18th Centuries
Students, faculty, and staff at Muhlenberg College can now access, in two databases via library subscription, several hundred thousand historical documents previously unavailable to them. One database, Early English Books Online(EEBO), includes, amazingly, virtually “every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.” Here is an example of the documents contained therein, this one published in 1656 in Cornhill, England, on the subject of witchcraft. Click on the icons above the record to view the document in full.
The second database, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), contains “over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) comprising books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more based on the English Short Title Catalogue Works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. Content covers critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. Primarily in English but also includes other languages.” Here is a sample document, this one regarding the French Revolution.
A Core Resource for Medical History
Trexler Library reference staff, along with students and faculty interested in the history of public health in the U.S., have long wished for more complete access to a core resource for medical history in the United States, JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association. Their wish has come true. Muhlenberg College students, faculty, and staff can now access without charge a full archive back to the journal’s inception in 1883. This new online access replaces any prior print subscription.
Along with full access to JAMA, we have archival access to other American Medical Association journals, also wonderful for primary-source medical history research.
- 1920-1997 Archives of Dermatology
- 1959-1997 Archives of General Psychiatry
- 1908-1997 Archives of Internal Medicine
- 1959-1997 Archives of Neurology
- 1919-1958 Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- 1911-1997 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine (formerly American Journal of Diseases of Children)
- 1929-1997 Archives of Ophthalmology
- 1925-1997 Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
- 1920-1997 Archives of Surgery
Infomaniac Tip
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Calendar
LIBRARY SUMMER HOURS through Friday, August 17:
Monday – Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Friday 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday 1:00 p.m – 6:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
INTERSESSION, August 18-26:
Saturday, August 18 – Sunday, August 19 Closed
Monday, August 20 – Friday, August 24 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 25 (Orientation) 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 26 (Orientation) 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
