Acquired primarily through the Jean Gates Reference Collection Fund, the following fifty-two online reference titles from Oxford University Press have been purchased and added to the collection of the USF Libraries.  Broad subject areas include history and the social sciences, religion, literature and language, the arts, and science.

 

History and Social Sciences:

Black Women in America

Dictionary of African Biography

Encyclopedia of Africa

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

Oxford Classical Dictionary

Oxford Companion to the Book

Oxford Companion to World Exploration

Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History

Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

Encyclopedia of Human Rights

Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace

Encyclopedia of Social Work

 

Religion:

Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World

 

Literature and Language:

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Encyclopedia of Semiotics

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

 

Arts:

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture

Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture

Grove Encyclopedia of Materials Art and Techniques in Art

Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art

International Encyclopedia of Dance

Oxford Companion to Architecture

Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

 

Science:

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather

Encyclopedia of Evolution

Encyclopedia of Global Change

 

For these and other resources consult http://www.lib.usf.edu.  Click on Databases by Title to begin or search in the USF Catalog.

In a first-ever development, the USF Department of English and the USF Libraries have jointly purchased two significant collections:  British Periodicals Collection II and Eighteenth Century Collections Online II. They are now available online and bring additional depth to our research collections. 

British Periodicals Collection II

British Periodicals Collection II from ProQuest consists of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts, amounting to almost 3 million pages published from 1681 through 1939. Topics covered include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. The British Periodicals series traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through the Victorian age of periodicals and beyond. The collection offers new ways of exploring the inaccessible, neglected or forgotten writings that formed their original contexts. A wide array of different types of periodical are represented, from magisterial quarterlies to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.  Major figures featured in British Periodicals II with either essays, serialized versions of texts, original stories/poems, or letters include:  Oscar Wilde, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker, John Stuart Mill, Samuel Johnson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Lewis Carroll, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and George Eliot.   Search for these great authors and many more now at British Periodicals II.

 British Periodicals II is also accessible via ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online, also held by the USF Libraries, where it is fully cross-searchable with other Periodicals Archive Online content.

 

Eighteenth Century Collections Online II

Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO II) from Gale adds approximately 50, 000 new titles totaling more than six million new pages of content to the ECCO collection.  Source materials are found in the British Library, Oxford University, Cambridge University, National Library of Scotland, Library of Congress, among others. Includes titles recently uncovered by the English Short Title Catalogue, including some that are extremely fragile. With content from an eclectic variety of materials, including books, directories, bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II offers full-text search capabilities supported by comprehensive metadata. ECCO II is searchable with ECCO on a new user interface with enhanced functionality. Includes the ability to save marked items, enter notes, and search across sessions. There is a Research Guide section with contextual essays and a chronology for undergraduates and an image gallery and key documents sections.  You can search this content now at ECCO II.

Users also have the option of performing cross-searches against ProQuest's Early English Books Online, another resource held by the USF Libraries. 

 

For these and other resources consult http://www.lib.usf.edu.  Click on Research Tools and then Databases by Title to begin.

 

 

At the request of the USF Departments of Africana Studies and Humanities & Cultural Studies, the USF Libraries have acquired the following online historical newspapers from ProQuest:

 

The Proquest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender is the online, cover-to-cover version of the Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975. Founded in 1905, the Chicago based African-American newspaper developed into a prominent publication that attracted a national audience with more than two-thirds of its readership outside of Chicago. The newspaper was a proponent of The Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African-Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919, and editorialized for anti-lynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military. This newspaper also supported the aviation career of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American female pilot, and promoted the writing of Langston Hughes and Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. Other online content includes: editorials, classified advertisements, legal notices, marriage, and obituary notices.

 

The ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News is the online, cover-to-cover version of the New York Amsterdam News from 1922 to 1993. Founded in Harlem, New York during 1909 the newspaper grew to be considered one of the more prominent African American newspapers in the United States. It captured the vibrancy and richness of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s, advocated for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and fought against discriminatory employment practices and other civil rights abuses in the 1960s. The article content is multidisciplinary and chronicles politics, society, and news events affecting the African-American community. The article content includes published columns by such African-American notables as W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Malcolm X. Other online content includes: editorials, classified advertisements, reviews, business and legal notices, marriage, and obituary notices.

 

For these and other online resources, consult http://www.lib.usf.edu/.  Click on Databases by Title.