First Folios Compared – For the first time, Shakespeare open for scrutiny like never before

We are delighted to share the news of this online resource from off the press from the publisher Adam Matthew Digital.

First Folios Compared is an Open Access website created and hosted by AM. The site brings together digitised copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio, sourced from a wide range of institutions around the world, who kindly agreed to contribute their digital version to this project.

“As well as providing the digital images, each institution kindly shared any existing metadata connected to the document, which we have amalgamated to maximise the efficacy of the search and filtering functions in the site.”-About the project

First Folios Compared was built in 2023 in order to celebrate the 400^th anniversary of the famous book’s publication and to create a unique research opportunity for all – the chance to compare over 50 First Folios together in the same place for the first time in history.

Professor Emma Smith, Hertford College, Oxford writes: “Although (or perhaps because) Shakespeare’s First Folio is probably the world’s most famous – and studied – secular book, there is still a real opportunity to make discoveries about individual copies. Take the Craven copy, for example: only recently identified as a First, rather than a later, Folio, it has hardly been studied at all. More people have looked in awe at these copies as high-value objects kept for senior researchers or behind glass for museum-style viewing, than have actually turned each page looking for details. First Folios Compared allows you to do this, at scale, for the first time.  “

Mirron Wills as Henry IV https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2015/June/HenryIV_MirronWillis.jpg

You may also be interested in King’s College Cambridge’s First Folio online on Cambridge University Digital Library

Check out as well the Shakespeare resources available to you thanks to Cambridge University Libraries, including critical editions and videos of current theatre productions.

Trial access – Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University members now have trial access to the Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 from Adam Matthew Digital.

This trial ends on 9th June 2023.

Please tell us about your use of this resource via this feedback form.

From the publisher website:

“This collection is an essential resource for understanding the events in the Middle East during the 1970s.

“It addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution are examined in detail, as are the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia.

“Commercial interests are also scrutinised, with in-depth analyses of Middle East nations’ economic stability and reviews of international arm sales policies. The activities of oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia are closely monitored, with particular reference to the Gulf States and members of OPEC.

“Utilising the significant collection of diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles, students and researchers can explore a decade characterised by conflict.”

Photo by Lara Jameson: https://www.pexels.com/photo/middle-eastern-countries-in-a-world-map-8828624/

New e-resources : Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) and Late Qing Full-text Database (1833~1911)

Cambridge University members now have online access to Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) 民国时期期刊全文数据库 and Late Qing Full-text Database (1833~1911) 晚清期刊全文数据库 from CNBKSY (Shanghai Library) 全国报刊索引.

HOW TO ACCESS

Access is available now via this link

Also available via the Cambridge E-Resources A-Z

Access is restricted to 5 simultaneous users, so please remember to log out at the end of your session.

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) 民国时期期刊全文数据库

This database covers around 10,000,000 pieces of literature in about 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published between 1911 and 1949. As an important part of the historical archive, this database has significant academic and historical values. It not only helps reproduce the unique historical features of the period from 1911 to 1949 and restore the historical memory, but also enriches the digital resources of periodicals so as to facilitate users to conduct academic research on the history of this period.

Late Qing Full-text Database (1833~1911) 晚清期刊全文数据库

This database covers over 600,000 pieces of historical documents from 600 periodicals published during 1816~1911. The extensive collection has covered almost all the periodicals published during such critical periods later known as the Opium Wars, Westernization Movement, Reform Movement of 1898 and Revolution of 1911. It contains the Women’s Periodicals that advocated women’s liberation and mental enlightenment, the Four Major Late Qing Dynasty Novel Journals as emerged during the great flourishing period of novels of the late Qing Dynasty, the Vernacular Chinese Periodicals founded to explore the people’s mind and spread new knowledge, and the Science and Technology Periodicals which introduced new technologies and spread scientific knowledge. 

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Title:  图画日报 ; Publishing Period:  刊期不详 ;  Publication Year:  1909 ;  Place of publication:  上海

图画日报 – 故事画报。该刊旨在“开通社会风气，增长国民知识”，刊内图文并茂，载有引人警醒、动人感官的社会小说和侦探小说，有裨社会、有益人心世道的小说等内容。该刊存在缺期、期数倒置、期数不连续等情况，另抽取单行本中各种体裁的小说连载、画图连载作品汇集而成专册。

RELATED RESOURCES

You may also be interested in these online collections and more resources in the Cambridge Chinese Studies AZ subject guide:

Diaolong Full-Text Database of Chinese and Japanese Ancient Books

Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)

THIS RESOURCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU WITH FUNDING FROM UKRI             

This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities. 

In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.

 

New e-resources : National Palace Museum Journals Archive

Cambridge University members now have online access to National Palace Museum Journals Archive  故宮期刊知識庫  on the East View platform.

HOW TO ACCESS

Access is available now via this link

Also available via the Cambridge E-Resources A-Z

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

The National Palace Museum Journals Archive  故宮期刊知識庫  is a full-image full-text  searchable database of the four art journals published by the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei. The NPM is regarded as the preeminent source of cultural artefacts of the entirety of greater China, as it encompasses materials originally held in the Forbidden City. All told, it accommodates nearly 700,000 artworks that cover the 5,000-year long history of China. As an essential landmark of Chinese history, NPM has been studied for the last few decades in diverse fields including art, history, classic literature, social education, creative economy, information science, technology, museology, communication, management, tourism, international trade, law, politics and more.

This archive is a premium research tool to broaden scholars’ horizons in the research of Chinese arts and cultural history, leveraging the tremendous collections of the National Palace Museum. Offered on the Taiwan Academic Classics (TAC) platform, the archive is the only database of its kind that supports full-text searching, and features exclusive functions to provide an optimized search experience for scholars and art enthusiasts.

The National Palace Museum Journals Archive features four periodicals published by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, including a total of 923 issues, 7,850 articles, 75 million characters and 60 thousand color photos spanning 1966-present:

• National Palace Museum Bulletin 故宮英文年刊 (1966-present)
• National Palace Museum Quarterly 故宮季刊 (1966-1983)
• National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 故宮學術季刊 (1983-present)
• National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art 故宮文物月刊 (1983-present)

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4 千年南國─院藏越南主題文物特展概介 林容伊 本院自二〇一七年以來，每年皆以一個亞洲國家為題，在南部院區舉辦亞洲藝術節，今年的主題國家為越南，除了活動以外，也同步規劃了展覽。本院過去已於二〇〇九年舉辦相關專題展「芙蓉出水—越南青花瓷展」，而二〇一九年的「泥土的座標—院藏陶瓷展」將院藏越南陶瓷做過全面性的梳理，同年「占婆的微笑：越南林迦罩」則針對院藏林迦罩進行深入導賞。 National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art 故宮文物月刊 2022-10

RELATED RESOURCES

You may also be interested in these online collections and more resources in the Cambridge Chinese Studies AZ subject guide:

Diaolong Full-Text Database of Chinese and Japanese Ancient Books

Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)

THIS RESOURCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU WITH FUNDING FROM UKRI             

This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities. 

In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.

 

Trial access – 19th and 20th Century Philosophy in Perspective (British Online Archives)

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University members now have trial access to the collection ‘19th and 20th Century Philosophy in Perspective’ from the British Online Archives (BOA).

This trial ends on 2 June 2023.

Please tell us about your use of this resource via this feedback form.

From the publisher website:

“Lady Victoria Welby-Gregory (1837-1912) was an English noblewoman and self-taught musician, artist, and philosopher of language. Welby-Gregory is most well-known for developing the theory of significs, which she defined in a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article as “the science of meaning or the study of significance.” Significs was closely related to other theoretical trends of the time, such as semantics, semiotics, and semiology. 

Curated in association with Senate House Library, 19th and 20th Century Philosophy in Perspective contains 54 original monographs from Welby-Gregory’s personal library. It includes works by the likes of William James, Mary Everest Boole, Sir Henry Jones, and Henri Bergson on subjects as diverse as philosophy, theology, and philology. Many of the books feature substantive annotations made by Welby-Gregory herself.

The collection therefore provides students and researchers with an overview of several key debates in 19th and early 20th century Western philosophy, as well as an insight into the inner life of a pioneering female intellectual.“

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

New resources for economics & business : new datasets via WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

New datasets are now available to all members of the University via the WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) platform:

Capital IQ Capital Structure
Capital IQ Key Developments
Capital IQ People Intelligence
Capital IQ Transactions
Capital IQ Transcripts
S&P Compustat Executive Compensation
S&P Compustat Global
Compustat Global – daily updates

Cambridge economists and business students can now access Capital IQ data so that it can now be cross searched on WRDS with other datasets such as Compustat.

WRDS provides the user with one location to access over 250 terabytes of data across mulitiple disciplines including accounting, banking, economics, finance and statistics. It provides access to Capital IQ Capital Structure, Capital IQ Key Developments, Capital IQ People Intelligence, Capital IQ Transactions, Capital IQ Transcripts, S&P Compustat Executive Compensation, S&P Compustat Global and Compustat Global daily updates.

Using a standard query structure – for example company name, dates of interest, financial parameters – students can create customised reports. These can then be stored, revisited and exported.

For access to these data please simply complete the WRDS Registration Form.

We are delighted to announce this major upgrade for data for economics and business studies for Cambridge, achieved by the joint efforts of the Marshall Library for Economics, the Judge Business School, and Cambridge University Library.

JASPER, Marshall Library mascot, the #EconomicsCat with our Bloomberg Terminal

New editions of Homer’s Works now available – Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

16 Scholarly editions of the works of Greek Poet, Homer, are now available online. This includes: 

Translations in verse and prose from the Oxford World’s Classics series

Volumes from the Oxford Classical Text series, for example, D. B. Monro and T.W. Allen’s edition of the Iliad and Odyssey 

Texts with translations, and commentary notes, including A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey, Volumes 1, 2 and 3

You can visit Homer’s author page to browse all the works which are now available.  

The update also includes an addition to the Greek Comedy module: 

Aristophanes: Aharnians, Knights, Wasps and Peace by Stephen Halliwell. 

This brings the total number of editions available online to over 1,700, which is the equivalent to more than 850,000 print pages. 

Visit the Classics Faculty LibGuide for access to more resources in Classics.

 

New eresource : Mass Observation Project 1981-2009

We are very pleased to announce that access to the Mass Observation Project is now available to Cambridge University members.

The Mass Observation Project (MOP) is a unique national life writing project about everyday life in Britain, capturing the experiences, thoughts and opinions of everyday people.

This collection consists of the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation between 1980 and 2010 and the thousands of responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers. 

For help navigating the Mass Observation Project site please see their helpful user guides.

Mass Observation Project consists of all the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation and the responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers.

Addressing topics such as the Falklands War, clothing, attitudes to the USA, reading and television habits, morality and religion, and Britain’s relations with Europe, the directives and responses are an essential resource for anyone interested in late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century British social history.

Broad themes covered include current events, friends and family, the home, leisure, politics, society, culture and the media, work, finance and the economy and new technology.

The Adam Matthew Digital Accessibility Statement covers all their available resources, including the Mass observation Project.

Public Information Online: trial access extended to 31 December

Access is provided to Public Information Online until 31 December 2022 via this link.

Please tell us what use you have made of this resource, and if you would have a use for it in the future, please complete the evaluation form here

Public Information Online is a web-based archive of searchable Parliamentary and Official documents and is the only resource which will allow you to view so many Parliamentary publications in one place as PDFs.

It contains publications from the Westminster Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Parliament (Senedd), Scottish Government and also Non-Parliamentary material

PIO combines and formats information from a wide variety of sources to produce simple, coherent documents, saving you time and effort.

By UK Parliament – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztSL08SgVY, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73062276

Kikuzo II Visual : Changes to “Asahi Shimbun Cross-search” from 30 November 2022

Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries is a news retrieval service from the publisher of Japan’s second largest circulation newspaper, Asahi shimbun. Coverage includes many thousands of full text articles from 1945 to the present. It includes image data of the pages of the Asahi Shimbun Reduced-size Facsimile Edition from 1879 to 1989, as well as articles from AERA and Shukan Asahi, two leading weekly magazines.

From 30 November 2022 Kikuzo II Visual will be available from a new URL for its successor platform now called Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search

An introduction video of “Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search” is now available on YouTube.

Flag of the Asahi Shimbun Company

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.