Oxford readers, esp. staff and students of the History Faculty, are invited to trial 40 History resources between now and mid-July. The aim is that your feedback will assist the History Librarian in constructing a prioritised list of purchases.

We will not be able to buy everything, but are confident that some purchases can be made in the near future.

In addition to these trials of largely one-off purchases, a number of journal subscriptions will be considered in due course. Any selection of resources for purchases will have to take into account the costs, affordability of annual fees, and possible discounts offered by providers.

Details of the trial databases and information how to rank your preferred databases are now available.

London mayoral elections 2012.
secretlondon120 (Flickr)

The survey will close on 31 July 5pm.

Resources being trialled until mid-July:

1. Mirabile (Digital Archives for Medieval Culture) [to start soon]
2. Medieval Family Life
3. The Cecil Papers (1540-1640)
4. State Papers Online, 1509-1714 (Parts 3 and 4) [Parts 1 and 2 are already available in Oxford]
5. Witchcraft in Europe and America
6. Actes royaux français
7. Early Modern Pamphlets
8. Anti-Calvin
9. Philipp Melanchthon
10. Huguenots
11. Reformation in Heidelberg
12. Conrad Gessner’s Private Library
13. French Revolutionary Opinions
14. British Online Archives: British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 [to start 22/6; limited access]
15. British Online Archives: Dissertations read to the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh [to start 22/6; limited access]
16. Making of the Modern World; Part 2, 1851-1900
17. London Low Life
18. Victorian Popular Culture
19. Journaux de la Révolution de 1848
20. L’Affaire Dreyfus et la Création de la France modern
21. Confidential Print Middle East, 1820-1969
22. Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910
23. The Dublin Castle Records 1798-1926
24. Northern Ireland 1921-1972: Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration
25. First World War: Personal Experiences
26. La Guerra Civil Española
27. The Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944
28. Testaments to the Holocaust
29. La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945 : journaux de la Résistance et de Vichy
30. Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945
31. East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963
32. Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation
33. Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest
34. Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957
35. The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
36. The Vogue Archive
37. UKPressOnline:  Daily Mirror 1903-present & Daily Express 1900-present
38. British Online Archives: The British Union of Fascists : newspapers and secret files [to start 22/6; limited access]
39. British Online Archives: Communist Party of Great Britain archive [to start 22/6; limited access]
40. British Online Archives: Parliamentary Labour Party papers, 1968/69-1993/94 [to start 22/6; limited access]

Interested in checking these out? Then carry on here.

Please note that  resources for certain regions (e.g. US, Eastern Europe & Russia, China) are selected by other subject librarians. Please contact them if you have particular recommendations.