Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Part III of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) full-text corpus from Gale. This can be viewed and searched alongside Parts I-II, which were already held by the Bodleian Libraries.

ECCO Part III includes more than 30,000 new works, and approximately 1.7 million new pages. This update captures works that have been added to the English Short-title Catalogue since the release of ECCO Part II in 2009, as well as items that were previously excluded for technical reasons. This included more than 6,000 broadsides and other single-page works.

The total size of ECCO is now over 180,000 titles and over 34 million pages.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Sex & Sexuality. Module I, Research Collections from The Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections from AM (Adam Matthew).

This primary source collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender and sexual behaviours, in America and beyond. The first module is sourced solely from the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, and makes available correspondence, research papers and records spanning the tenures of the first three Institute directors: Dr Alfred C. Kinsey (1947-1956), Dr Paul H. Gebhard (1956-1982) and Dr June Reinisch (1982-1993). Users can trace key Institutional developments, the research agendas of leading specialists in diverse fields such as criminology, medicine, anthropology and sexology, and the evolving public interest in human sexuality and identity.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution from AM (Adam Matthew).

Mexico in History comprises primary sources covering a broad range of Mexican history circa 1500–1929, from Spanish contact with Indigenous communities, through colonial rule, Independence, and the National and Reforma periods, and the onset of the Revolution. Students and researchers can explore hundreds of years of Mexico’s history through social, religious, and political change. The archival materials are predominantly in Spanish as well as including Indigenous languages, with translated metadata. The collection is drawn from The Bancroft Library’s Latina Americana Collection and includes rare manuscripts and visual materials.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to African Newspapers, Series 1 and African Newspapers, Series 2 from Readex.

Series 1 collects more than 60 African newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Series 2 collects more than 35 additional African newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. It contains such notable publications as the Demain (Algeria), Africa’s Luminary (Liberia), France Orientale (Madagascar), Al-Moghreb Al-Aksa (Morocco); O Moçambique (Mozambique), Voortrekker (Namibia), Nigerian Times (Nigeria), Munno (Uganda) and many widely sought South African titles from Cape Town, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg. Among the South African titles are Black Man, British Settler, Cape Times, Johannesburg Times, South African Spectator and others.

Both series can be cross-searched as part of Readex’s World Newspaper Archive.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to the Classic Sermon Index from Classic Sermon Index, LLC.

This resource catalogues over 40,000 sermons, published or translated into English. It includes Augustine, John Calvin, Richard Baxter, John Donne, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Johnson, Martin Luther, John Henry Newman, John and Charles Wesley, Catherine Booth, Alexander Campbell, B. B. Warfield, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc. and sermons by the heads of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, etc.

Many sermons are from historically significant public executions, funerals, and coronations, such as spoken sermons from the funerals of George Washington and King George III. Many topical sermons about duelling, slavery, the Boston Tea Party, and other period specific issues are also indexed.

Each sermon is catalogued according to its principal text (e.g., John 3:16), author, book title, and page number within the book that contains it. It also indexes the sermons from Readex’s Early American Imprint series. Roughly 75% of the citations link to full-text.