Alexander Street Press has announced that the free trial has been extended to June 30th, so try it out! The collection is available at http://cpho.alexanderstreet.com/
May 22, 2008
May 13, 2008
New Subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education Online
You may have seen this on the UNH Library web site, but we are happy to announce that we now have site-wide access to the Chronicle of Higher Education online!
As always, please let us know if this is a valuable resource for your research. Comments can be posted here or sent to the Electronic Resources Librarian.
Free Trial: Images of the American Civil War
Alexander Street Press has released a beta version of Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera. The collection is freely available without a password for one month at http://cpho.alexanderstreet.com/
This beta release includes nearly 1,400 images and is searchable by place, date, battle/campaign/event, photographer, setting, and more. Additionally, short contextual descriptions about the images are included. At completion, the collection will have more than 50,000 photographs, prints, and other visual materials that illustrate the experience of Americans in a time of national crisis. Types of images included are:
• Photographic portraits of Civil War officers and enlisted men • Recruitment posters from the North and South • Illustrated envelopes and cartes-de-visite • Etchings and engravings representing battle views and key historical events • Satiric cartoons from a wide range of periodicals • Hundreds of rare stereographs
Please let us know if you have any comments regarding this online collection.
New Database Trial: ARTstor
The UNH Library a new trial running for ARTstor! The trial will run until June 8th. If this database is useful for your research, please post comments here or contact the Electronic Resources Librarian.
What is ARTstore?
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
In ARTstor you can:
- Browse content by collection, classification, or geography
- Search content by keyword or advanced search terms (e.g., date and geographic origin)
- Sort search results by date, creator, or title
- View images and image data
- Zoom in on and pan images for greater detail
- Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive)
- Create groups of images for later retrieval and presentation
- Organize image groups into shared folders
- Direct other ARTstor users to images or image groups
- Upload personal images and sound files to the ARTstor platform
- Export images and image groups to ARTstor’s Offline Image Viewer (OIV) presentation tool
- Save citations for images or image groups, and email or print these, as well as export them directly into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, Reference Manager, or a text file
