New Year; New Databases for EUL

Benezit Dictionary of Artists via Oxford Art Online platform  (http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=zvda)

Benezit’s Dictionary of Artists (Woodruff Library Reference N40 .B46 2006), a great resource for finding obscure artists, has been transformed into an online database.   In addition to biographical information, entries include images of artists' signatures, monograms, and stamps, as well as bibliographies, gallery/museum holdings and auction records with prices.  Cross-search with other Oxford Art Online resources, such as Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

First World War: Personal Experiences  (http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=amww1

Dates of Coverage: 1914-1918

A collection of primary source documents focusing on personal experience during the Great War. The collection includes diaries, journals, letters, trench literature, postcards, scrapbooks, albums, photographs, art, ephemera, sheet music, cartoons, propaganda and maps. 

Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest (http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=amrnr)

Dates of Coverage: 1950-1975

This database, focusing on the people and events of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, includes archival material – manuscript, typescript and ephemera – from key libraries in Britain and America, such as Bowling Green State, Berkeley, Sussex, National Archives at Kew, and the Rock Source Archive.  Other features are video clips, visual sources, and chronologies.  Topics covered include: popular culture (TV, music & movies), the Vietnam War, and movements from Civil Rights to Women’s Liberation.

Romanticism:  Life, Literature & Landscape (http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=amrmn)

Dates of Coverage: 18th - 19th century

Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape provides unique access to rare and priceless literary sources in the form of original documents for the Romantic period. Romanticism includes verse and prose manuscripts, printed verse, correspondence, diaries, travel journals, autograph albums, legal and financial records, and guide books.  The collection offers an insight into the working methods of William Wordsworth and the wider social, political, and natural environment that shaped much of his work and that of his contemporaries. In addition, this collection makes available the writings of Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Robert Southey, Mary Wordsworth, Dora Wordsworth, and Sara Hutchinson, as well as masses of personal correspondence between key literary and political figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Also included are over 2,500 fine art pieces from the Wordsworth Trust’s fine art collection that serve to contextualize the work of the poets and writers represented. They also provide a vivid and evocative representation of the rich, natural landscape that surrounded the Lake poets and served to inspire so much of their creativity.

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Hinduism (http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=oxfbib-hin)

Guide to scholarly literature in the field, subdivided into articles by established scholars covering major categories of research with corresponding bibliographies of recommended resources.  Users can search across other OBO bibliographies, either through articles and citations or just through citations.

Oxford Bibliographies Online – Buddhism (http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=oxfbib-bud)

Guide to scholarly literature in the field, subdivided into articles by established scholars covering major categories of research with corresponding bibliographies of recommended resources.  Users can search across other OBO bibliographies, either through articles and citations or just through citations.