Resource SPOTLIGHT

Keep up with the latest journal content in the social sciences through RSS feeds.  Your subject liaisons in several social science areas have created RSS feeds that automate links to new content (table of contents and/or abstracts) from top journals in your respective fields.  Bookmark and visit these guides for continual updates.  If you do n

Nature Climate Change is now here! Emory Libraries are among the first libraries to subscribe to the newest Nature journal.  The Emory Univeristy librarians have been busy this summer expanding our already impressive collection of online journals from Nature Publishing Group (NPG). We now have expanded access to many of the journals’ archives too.

Last year the BBC released a documentary series entitled The Beauty of Maps. Episode 2 explored William Morgan’s remarkable Map of London (1682) which was produced after the Great London Fire of 1666. This was the first time the whole city had ever been surveyed, drawn to scale, and depicted with such detail.

Here are a few new enhancements and options within EUCLID :

Display Item format (book, video, etc), Download to Endnote, Open in WorldCat, Citation display.

Display Format

Item Format now displays in the list of brief results

A new and upgraded version of discoverE will go into production this week. Most of the interface elements and search features should look familiar to users of the previous version.

Benefits of the new interface include:

Based on materials from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods, Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript.  The texts of word entries tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period covered by the Short-title and Wing catalogues.  Their lexical insights sh