Electronic Enlightenment wins award

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) has awarded the Digital Prize for 2010 to Electronic Enlightenment.

JSTOR launches Arts & Sciences VIII Collection

JSTOR's Arts & Sciences VIII Collection will include a minimum of one hundred forty (140) titles when it is completed at the end of 2011. This collection extends JSTOR's coverage in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, with new and expanded focus on art & art history, classical studies, philosophy, language & literature, and music.

More than thirty rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals form part of this collection, including 291, created in 1915 by Alfred Stieglitz and Bradley, His Book from the private press founded by William H. Bradley. Eleven of these periodicals are immediately available in the collection, with the remaining titles available by the second quarter of 2010. JSTOR has prepared a short video (5 minutes) has to give institutions a glimpse into these periodicals.

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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports receives an excellent academic review

Dr Melodee Beals, Academic Coordinator for History at the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology reviews Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, which we have recently licenced and made available free to the UK academic sector. In her review she outlines the relevance of this resource for academics, students and researchers in modern history. She has also produced a handy tutorial for this resource.

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