gale digital collections the future of historical research
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Gale Digital Collections Gale Digital Collections
The future of historical research The future of historical research
Gale Digital Collections
Publishing Strategy – Value Proposition
Gale Digital Collections
Publishing Strategy – Value Proposition
Ownership of content
• Serves preservation mandates for key primary sources
• Becomes a ‘title countable’ addition to their collections
• Provides means to tap into one-time acquisition funds
Benefits of digitization:
• Full-text searching of millions of pages of rare, archival content
• Enhanced metadata with MARC Records
• Unlimited usage with remote access ALLOWABLE
• Individual pages and works – fully linkable into reading lists
• Facilitates integration into curriculum and supports advanced faculty research – Integrate into Blackboard / WebCT, TWEN
World’s Largest Scholarly Digital ArchiveWorld’s Largest Scholarly Digital Archive
ECCO
138,000 Titles26M Pages
SupremeCourt
100,000 Cases11M Pages
MOMW
61,000 Titles12M Pages
Sabin
29,000 Titles6M Pages
MOML
22,000 Titles10M Pages
250,000 Titles – 100M Pages
NCNP
500+ Newspapers
28 MM Articles
TDA
1M Pages
…and in the process we have created one of the world’s largest digital research libraries.
• Bibliographically controlled• Editorially selected• Available today
8 MM Articles
… in the 18th Century….… in the 18th Century….
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
An eighteenth-century revolution
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
An eighteenth-century revolution
Covers the most significant events in recent world history: American and French revolutions and the industrial revolution
The single largest digital library – over 138,000 titles / 26,000,000 pages
Based on the ESTC – electronic union list from The British Library and over 1,500 libraries world-wide
Does not include periodicals and newspapers Avoids duplication with Early American Imprints
(ReadEx) Originally a microfilm collection – 15,225 reels
Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineEighteenth Century Collections Online
The content – a library unto itself• Comprehensive – no editorial board determining the content • Supports research in a full range of disciplines
History, literature, fine arts, religion, law, science, philosophy …
• Has rapidly become considered essential for 18th century studies• MARC records available for loading into your library’s OPAC
The interface and functionality• Full-text searching across every page of the collection• Searching on author, title, subject headings, place of publication and
more Allows researchers to find the specific works they need
• Hit-term highlighting of full-text search matches• Easy navigation to relevant pages with matches• Electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) with hyperlinks to chapters and
sub-chapters Navigation functions enhance the ability to analyze the data
ECCO’s ContentsECCO’s Contents
科學 , 自然科學 (8%) 11,398 種書歷史 , 地理 (8%) 11,298 種書法律 , 法令 (7%) 9,267 種書文學 , 語言 (26%) 35,473 種書宗教 , 哲學 (27%) 36,785 種書參考書 (3%) 3,602 種書藝術 , 社會科學 (22%) 30,259 種書
Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – English (Literature)Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – English (Literature)
ENGL 3214 - Reason and Sensibility in British Eighteenth Century Literature
ENGL 3220 - British Literature since 1750
Survey of major authors, themes, and movements from the Romantic period through the present.
ENGL 4321 - American Literature: Major Writers Before 1860
ENGL 3327 - American Literature to 1890
18th Century Short Story (Department of Foreign Language & Literature - National Cheng Kung University)
Your search (Title=robinson crusoe) returned the following results.Results limited to (Subject Areas=All).
Defoe, Daniel. An abridgement of the new Robinson Crusoe; an instructive and entertaining history, for the use of children of both sexes. Translated from the ... London, 1789. 184pp.
Defoe, Daniel. The exploits of Robinson Crusoe, mariner, of York. Exhibiting a concise and clear narrative of his living twenty-ight [sic] years in an ... [London?], [1790?]. 131pp.
Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – English (Literature)Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – English (Literature)
English Literature Since 170 ENGL 3210 - British Literature to 1750
Survey of major authors, themes, and movements from the medieval period through the 18th Century.
Your search ((Author=Swift, Jonathan) AND (Title=Gulliver's Travels)) returned the following results: 42.Results limited to (Subject Areas=All).
Swift, Jonathan. Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, ... London, 1726. 332pp. Vol. 1 of 2 (2 vols. available).Literature and Language
Swift, Jonathan. The adventures of Capt. Gulliver, in a voyage to the islands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Abridged from the works of the celebrated Dean Swift. Darlington, 1773. 27pp. Literature and Language
Swift, Jonathan. The works of J. S, D.D, D.S.P.D. in four volumes. Containing, I. The author's miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels ... Dublin, 1735. 490pp. Vol. 2 of 4 (4 vols. available).Literature and Language
Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – HistoryMapping ECCO to Curriculum – History
HIST 2010 - The United States to 1877
United States from discovery to end of political reconstruction.
HIST 3122 - England Since 1714
Development of England's democratic government, considering economic, social, intellectual, diplomatic, and imperial affairs.
HIST 3506 - Cultural and Intellectual History of Europe
Topics in history of European culture and thought from late Middle Ages to twentieth century.
HIST 3803 - American Diplomatic History
Though including the 18th and 19th centuries, course concentrates on 20th century; emphasizes relationship between foreign policy and domestic forces.
Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – HistoryMapping ECCO to Curriculum – History
Undergraduate programs (Department of History – National Chung Hsing UniversityCh’in and Han Dynasties, History of Sui, Tang And Five Dynasty, History of Ming and Ching, History of Contemporary China, Modern Chinese History, Modern World History, Medieval Western History, 16th-18th-Century Western History, Chinese Economic History, History of Chinese Diplomacy, History of Sino-Japanese Relations, The History of Chinese Arts, Modern Chinese Thought, History of Western Historiography, The Philosophy of History, 20th-Century American History, History of Taiwan, Modern History of Taiwan, Selected Readings in Chinese History, History of European Thought, Historical Documents and Books, Introduction to Archeology.
Your search (Full Text=Western History) returned the following results.Results limited to (Subject Areas=All).
Bell, John. Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia. ... By John Bell, ... In two volumes. ... London [i.e. Edinburgh], 1764.
Camden, William. Britannia: or, a chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, ... Written in Latin by William Camden, ... The third edition. Illustrated with maps .. London, 1753.
Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – PhilosophyMapping ECCO to Curriculum – Philosophy
PHIL 3002 - Foundations of Western Philosophy: Modern Period
History of philosophy from late Middle Ages through 19th century structured around major themes that shaped the modern period; attention to cultural and historical setting in which they arose and to which they contributed; readings from philosophical and nonphilosophical sources.
PHIL 3771 - Philosophy In Literature
Expression of philosophical ideas in literature; readings from philosophers, playwrights, novelists and poets.
PHIL 4311-6311 - Studies in Modern Philosophy
Readings from major philosophers of 17th to early 19th centuries, supplemented by commentaries from modern and contemporary sources.
Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – PhilosophyMapping ECCO to Curriculum – Philosophy
PhD. Program in Western Philosophy (Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)
Your search (Author=Kant, Immanuel) returned the following results.Results limited to (Subject Areas=All).
Kant, Immanuel. The principles of critical philosophy, selected from the works of Emmanuel Kant ... and expounded by James Sigismund Beck ... Translated from the ... London [i.e. Hamburg?], 1797. 533pp. Religion and Philosophy
Kant, Immanuel. Essays and treatises on moral, political, and various philosophical subjects. By Emanuel Kant, ... from the German by the translator of The ... London [i.e. Hamburg?], 1798-99. 439pp. Vol. 1 of 2 (2 vols. available).Religion and Philosophy
Mapping ECCO to Curriculum – Fine ArtsMapping ECCO to Curriculum – Fine Arts
M402 HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF MUSIC: 1750 TO PRESENT
In M402 we will explore the history of art music in Europe and the United States from the mid-eighteenth-century to the present. During the course you will become familiar with pieces from a variety of musical traditions over the past 250 years. We will study the pieces themselves as well as the historical circumstances in which they were created.
HA 265 Research Seminar in 18th Century Art: Comic and Satiric Art in 18th Century Britain. Will look at the development of comic art, particularly the satiric print, as a 'public' art form in Britain from 1700-1815. In the work of Hogarth, Gillray and others, we'll consider the theory and practice of caricature and the vexed relationship between 'high' and 'low' as artistic categories.
Fine Arts - Popular Song BooksFine Arts - Popular Song Books
The bull-finch. Being a choice collection of the newest and most favourite English songs which have been sett to music and sung at the public ... [London], [1769]. 424pp
Fine Arts - sheet MusicFine Arts - sheet Music
Scarlatti, Domenico. The beauties of Dominico Scarlatti. Selected from his suites de lecons, for the harpsichord or piano forte and revised with a variety of ... [London?], [1785?]. 32pp
Fine Arts - Comic and Satiric Art Fine Arts - Comic and Satiric Art
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard). Eccentric excursions or, literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country, in different parts of England & South Wales. ... London, 1796
A political and satirical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760, in a series of one hundred and four humourous and entertaining ... The fifth edition. London, [1763?]. 95pp
The Making of the Modern WorldGoldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic LiteratureThe Making of the Modern WorldGoldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature
Combines two of the worlds most acclaimed collections in economic history:• Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the
University of London• Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the
Harvard Business School Spans 400 years (1450-1850) 61,000 works (66K volumes) & nearly 12 million pages Primarily monographs, but also includes serials Rarity –contains the only known copy of many works
“…that this [collection] is, without qualification, the finest such collection in the world.”- Journal of Economic History
“…one of the most important sources for the economic history of the Western world.”- American Reference Book Annual
The Making of the Modern WorldGoldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic LiteratureThe Making of the Modern WorldGoldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature
Multi-disciplinary resource focused on the birth and expansion of the modern western world as seen through the lens of wealth and trade• History: exploration, colonization, war and the
effects on the economy Slavery (more than 1,100 works) Colonization Industrial revolution Financial underpinning of the French Revolution
• Economics: 18th and 19th century theory• Finance: world trade, taxation, banking systems• Political Science: elections, Corn Laws, corruption• Agriculture: practice, legal and economic
perspectives• Gender Studies: women in the workplace• Poverty: causes, impact on governments,
prevention
The Making of the Modern WorldGoldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic LiteratureThe Making of the Modern WorldGoldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature
Multi-national / multi-century resource• Nearly 1/3 of the collection in non-English languages
French – 10,968 works German – 2,867 works Italian – 1,324 works Dutch – 838 works Spanish – 742 works Swedish, Latin, Portuguese, and more
• 400 years of world history Pre-17th century – 747 works 17th century – 5,862 works 18th century – 26,310 works 19th century – 34,294 works
The Making of the Modern WorldArchival Content with Modern FunctionalityThe Making of the Modern WorldArchival Content with Modern Functionality
Similar interface and functionality to Eighteenth Century Collections Online and other Gale Digital Collections
Full-text searching across every page of the collection• Provide access to this content as never before possible
Subject terms available for searching
Advanced page navigation within specific works• By printed page number• Using an eTable of Contents or List of Illustrations
Links between different volumes of multi-volume sets
Allows quick identification of relevant works and then enhances analysis and research of the content through the navigation options provided
Mapping MOMW to CurriculumMapping MOMW to Curriculum
Historical Themes: Slave Rebellions in the Caribbean
The Haitian revolution began in August of 1791 and, unlike the other wars of independence of that period, it was a slave uprising - in this case against their French owners who had created some of the harshest and cruelest slave conditions in the Americas.
Slave Rebellions in the CaribbeanSlave Rebellions in the Caribbean
Do a subject search on Haiti and Revolution combined with a text search looking for slavery or slaves near uprising or rebellion or insurrection.
Slave Rebellions in the CaribbeanSlave Rebellions in the Caribbean
Nine results are found for our search. Choose one by clicking on the hyperlinked title.
Slave Rebellions in the CaribbeanSlave Rebellions in the Caribbean
The title page is displayed. As a full text search was performed, a list of pages with matches for the search term entered are listed.
By clicking on the hyperlinked pages, you are taken to the pages that have your search term highlighted on the page image.
From any work, use the Full Citation’s list of Subject Headings to link to other works with that specific heading
Your new list of results all share the more specific subject heading chosen from the previous full citation record.
MOMW – Historical coverageMOMW – Historical coverage
Topic/Term Subject Keyword Full Text
America discovery or exploration* 168 191 1,657
British Empire 2 251 4727
Colonies 1,142 2,737 18,457
Colonization 254 421 2,641
East India Company 635 1,207 5,360
French Empire 0 26 444
“French Revolution” 0 125 3,354
“Industrial Revolution” 0 1 14
Piracy 1 74 2,055
“Reign of Terror” 0 13 460
Slave Trade 453 685 3,167
South Sea Co* or South Sea bubble 128 377 1,927
Sugar 317 930 12,685
Sugar Trade 213 251 829
Tobacco 176 633 10,459
War 589 2,204 30,627
"West India Question" 0 24 97
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Publishing Plan OverviewPublishing Plan Overview
2007 Publishing Plan• MOML III: Historic Trials (Q3)
• 19th Century UK Periodicals: New Readerships (Q4)
• British Library Newspapers (Q4)
• Slavery & Anti-Slavery in America: Abolition (Q4)
• MicroArchive Program: Slavery in America (Q2) The Civil War (Q2) The American West (Q3) Immigration & Nativism (Q4)
Lincoln (Q3)
Gale’s Biggest Year Ever!400% More New Archives vs. 2006
4 Core Collections: Focuses marketing/sales efforts4 Core Collections: Focuses marketing/sales efforts
Sabin Americana
Supreme Court Records & Briefs
Slavery & Anti-Slavery (2007)
Times Digital Archive
19th Century US Newspapers
19th C UK Periodicals (2007+)
British Library Newspapers (2007-8)
The Economist (2007)
Making of the Western World
American History & Culture Online
History & Culture
through Media
20th C Political &
Cultural Change
ECCO
MOMW
MOML
Historic Trials (2007)
History of Science & Technology (2008-9)
The Middle East
Women, War and Society
Testaments
Northern Ireland
Conditions & Politics
DDRS
Questions?Questions?
Vincent CheahProduct Manager, Library Reference
Thomson Learning Asia
Vincent CheahProduct Manager, Library Reference
Thomson Learning Asia