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Cambridge University Press Evidence-Based Acquisitions – Sciences and Social Sciences (access until 30 May 2021)

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Over 15,000 ebooks in the Sciences and Social Sciences published by Cambridge University Press are available until 30 May 2021 via their EBA (evidence-based acquisitions) programme. These are in addition to over 21,000 ebooks in Humanities as previously announced, also available until the same date. All these books can be found on the Cambridge Core website and in SOLO.

All books on the list, together with new publications as they come out during the year, are available online to University members via SOLO during this period. At the end of the period, we will make a selection of books based on appearance on reading lists and heavy use during the period. These selections will be added permanently to the ebook collection of the Bodleian Libraries.

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900) (access until 31 August 2020)

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until 31 August 2020, courtesy of Gale.

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900) is the first full-text searchable digital library of early printed books in Arabic script. Covering religious literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature, and including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books, it exemplifies the long exchange of ideas and learning between Europe and the Arabic-speaking world.

Rotunda (access to all content until 30 June 2020)

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We have access to all content on Rotunda until 30 June 2020, courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.

Rotunda was created for the publication of original digital scholarship along with newly digitized critical and documentary editions in the humanities and social sciences. We have access temporarily to the following resources, in addition to those previously available to Oxford users:

  • The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America
  • The Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
  • The Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition
  • The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris Digital Edition
  • The Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen of South Carolina: A Digital Documentary Edition
  • The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition
  • The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Digital Edition
  • The Papers of Andrew Jackson Digital Edition
  • The Papers of Daniel Webster Digital Edition
  • The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Digital Edition
  • Clotel, or The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
  • Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry
  • Herman Melville’s “Typee”: A Fluid-Text Edition
  • Journal of Emily Shore
  • The Letters of Christina Rossetti
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold

Cambridge University Press Evidence-Based Acquisitions – Humanities (access until 31 May 2021)

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Over 21,000 ebooks in Humanities published by Cambridge University Press are available from 12 May 2020 to 31 May 2021 via their EBA (evidence-based acquisitions) programme. All books on the list, together with new publications as they come out during the year, are available online to University members via SOLO during this period. At the end of the period, we will make a selection of about 500 books based on appearance on reading lists and heavy use during the period. These selections will be added permanently to the ebook collection of the Bodleian Libraries

Trial – Late Qing and Republican Era Chinese Periodicals and Newspapers database (trial until 28 July 2020)

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A trial of the Late Qing and Republican Era Chinese Periodicals and Newspapers database is active until 28 July 2020, with thanks to Shanghai Library.

The database offers full-text access to Chinese periodical publications (academic, popular, literary, professional) from 1832-1949 covering a whole range of subjects including politics, history, law, language and literature, humanities and social sciences.

In addition to Chinese periodicals, the database offers access to archives of several major newspaper titles published in English in China before 1949, including North China Herald and the China Press, among many others.

Please send feedback to Mamtimyn Sunuodula (mamtimyn.sunuodula@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).