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Welcome to WomenWriters

This database contains information on the production of women authors from the middle ages up to c. 1900, and on the reception of their works by contemporaries as well as early literary historians (both men and women). Are concerned: women active as authors in European countries and their (former) colonies. Thus the database allows the study of these women’s writing in their international context, and the place to be attributed to them in transnational historiography.

The database is one of the first products of the research project Women Writers and their audiences (1997-2004), financed by NWO (Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research). It was placed on the Internet in April 2001, was granted the “International Innovation Award 2005” on the occasion of the XVIth International Conference of the Association for History and Computing (Amsterdam), and has formed/forms the basis of a series of digitization, research and networking projects (www.womenwriters.nl). They were/are carried out, under the direction of Suzan van Dijk, at the University of Utrecht’s Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC) and the Huygens ING of the KNAW (Royal Academy of Sciences) in The Hague. [Read more]

Dada/Surrealism is an interdisciplinary journal publishing critical essays, bibliographies, book reviews, and primary documents on the Dada and Surrealist movements. Submissions are encouraged from scholars in Art History, Literature, Film Studies, Theater Arts, and a variety of other disciplines. We are especially receptive to contributions that use interdisciplinary techniques, reexamine basic concepts, or raise theoretical issues of contemporary interest.

The music collection of novelist Jane Austen and her family is being made freely available to access online as part of a University of Southampton digital library project.

The Austen Family Music Books is a collection of 18 albums of music containing around 600 pieces that belonged to the 19th century writer and her relations. The imaging of the books was carried out at the University’s Hartley Library Digitisation Unit.

Professor of Music at Southampton Jeanice Brooks, who led the project, says: “Jane Austen’s novels are full of musical scenes, and this collection will help literature scholars and Austen fans to better understand the real musical environment that fed the novelist’s imagination. Just as importantly, the collection provides music historians with a unique glimpse of the musical life of an extended gentry family in the years around 1800.” [read more]

Gale is the provider of the databases Contemporary Authors Online, Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Literature Criticism Online and Literature Resource Center. A trainer will be coming from the company to show us the new interface and give us suggestions for searching. Please contact Marta Deyrup or Anthony Lee if you plan to attend. Lunch afterwards at the UClub.

“What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?”

Here’s an informative blog post by Katie Fortney and Justin Gonder at the California Digital Library (CDL) on the differences between Academia.edu, ResearchGate and open access institutional repositories:

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/

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