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ELECTRONIC LIBRARY NEWS

14th April 2010: Bibliography of the History of Art now a free database

Following the announcement that CSA Illumina will no longer host the Bibliography of the History of Art, the database has now been relaunched as a free resource by the Getty Institute. The database can be found at http://library.getty.edu/bha.

19th March 2010: Infotrac Newspaper database added

The Library has taken out a subscription to the Infotrac Newspaper database. Our subscription will cover full text access to the following titles:

	Financial Times	January 2nd 1996 - Current
	The Guardian	January 1st 1990 - Current
	New York Times	January 1st 1985 - Current
	The Sunday Times	July 7th 1985 - Current
	The Times	July 1st 1985 - Current

This will complete our full-text coverage of The Times; the Times Digital Archive covers the period 1785 to 1985. It will also replace The Times on CD-ROM for the period 1990 to 2009 which we previously offered.

1st March 2010: Online access to the Bibliography of the History of Art

We have been informed by CSA Illumina, the host for Bibliography of the History of Art, that online access to this title will cease from 1st April. We understand that this is due to the Getty Research Institute no longer being able to support the database; more information can be found at the Getty website.

14th January 2010: Dictionary of Irish Biography

The Library has taken a subscription to the Dictionary of Irish Biography. The Dictionary of Irish Biography, a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland. It contains 9,014 signed biographical articles which describe and assess the careers of subjects in all fields of endeavour, including politics, law, religion, literature, journalism, architecture, painting, music, the stage, science, medicine, engineering, entertainment and sport.

18th December 2009: Two new databases added

Two new subscription databases have been added to the Electronic Library. The first of these, the Bibliography of British and Irish History, provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55BC to the present. The other new database is Oxford Music Online, which is a full-text database and includes the contents of Grove Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. The Library has only a single concurrent user license to Oxford Music Online so if you are unable to access it please try again later.

24th October 2009: The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

British History Online, to which the library subscribes, has just added the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England to the site. The series describes every parliament held between 1275 and 1504; where the rolls survive they have been fully transcribed and translated. Ten monarchs are represented, from Edward I to Henry VII. The text and its translation are available together in a new tabular format, making it easier to consult either version. The Rolls are fully cross-searchable with all British History Online’s other resources for medieval and early modern history, which include the Calendar of Close Rolls, the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, many volumes of the Victoria County History and hundreds more primary and secondary sources.

17th September 2009: New login system introduced

The Library has introduced a new login system for members accessing online databases and ejournals from home. This system, called Shibboleth, needs NO additional addon software to be installed on your computer in order to access the Library's subscription databases and electronic journals. There are two ways of connecting to these databases. Firstly you can use the links that appear on these pages; or alternatively, for a few but growing number of titles, you can go directly to the database website and then follow the instructions on the website to login “via your institution” or use a “shibboleth login”. In some instances you will find the London Library on a list headed “UK Federation”.

24th August 2009: New database - English Poetry online

The Library has taken out a subscription to the Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry database. The Chadwyck-Healey website describes the database as:

"the original ground-breaking Chadwyck-Healey collection, English Poetry contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources."

This database replaces the CDROM edition of English Poetry that the Library formerly offered.