WISER: Humanities

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WISER Humanities What is new in full-text? A
demonstration of exciting new products New
York Times Historical Archive American
Periodicals Series (APS) Making of the Modern
Economy (MOME) World Biographical Information
System (WBIS) Declassified Documents Reference
System (DDRS)
Isabel Holowaty, History Librarian isabel.holowaty
_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk
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• New York Times Historical Archive
• Full-text of New York Times 1851-2003
• Useful for US national and international news
  views, biographical information, notices from
  organisations, etc.
• Access to full content (articles, editorials,
  letters, weather reports, stock quotes,
  classified ads, etc.)

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• American Periodicals Series (APS) 1740-1900
• Full-text journals magazines (literary,
  professional, trade, popular, childrens and
  womens, etc.)
• 1740-1900 (some content into 1940s)
• Useful for social economic history, American
  studies, cultural studies, literature, womens
  studies, biography
• 1,100 periodicals
• Document types included ad, article, comic,
  illustration, letter, obituary, photo, poem,
  recipe, review, statistics

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• Making of the Modern Economy 1450-1850 (MOME)
• Full-text of books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.
  published between 1450 and 1850
• Useful for economic social history in Europe
  and North America
• 61,000 books, 466 pre-1906 serials
• Some 1st editions some in foreign languages

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• World Biographical Information System (WBIS)
• Biographical information on people since 4th
  century B.C.
• Famous people, but also those regionally/locally
  known, for their profession, peculiarities, etc.
• Index to biographical data and biographies
  published in reference sources since 1559
• Useful for biographical information historical
  trends

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• WBIS cont.
• Brief entries for 4 million people 3.85 digital
  facsim. articles biographies of 2.38 million
  people
• Covers most European countries, Turkey, Latin
  America, North America
• Future countries to include biographical archives
  of Africa, China, Australasia, etc.

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• Declassified Documents Reference System US
  (DDRS)
• Full-text of 75,000 declassified US government
  documents
• Domestic and international scene 1945-1980s
• Useful for post-1945 international relations,
  domestic US history, US foreign policy
  information on people, places, events, dates,
  political trends etc.

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• DDRS cont.
• Documents in diverse formats memos, cables,
  correspondence, field reports, minutes of
  meetings, extensive background studies, etc.
• 60 govt. institutions Dept. of Defense, Federal
  Trade Commission, NASA, National Security
  Council, White House, CIA, etc. etc.
• Inclusion based on documents requested under
  Freedom of Information Act