New in 2022: Notable Digital Acquisitions for the Social Sciences and Humanities

The following new and noteworthy large digital collections were acquired during this past year for study and research in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

 

Source | Platform  Title Publisher-Provided Description
ProQuest Artforum Archive Artforum Archive offers electronic access to the back file of Artforum magazine (later Artforum International), the premier magazine for international contemporary art, from its first issue in 1962 to 2020. Artforum has covered the full range of contemporary art in all media from painting, sculpture, and installation, through to body art, video/audio art, and performance art. It also covers adjacent cultural forms such as architecture, film, fashion, photography, and music. The content is digitized as full-page, color images, with searchable text.
Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Music and Sound  Bloomsbury Music and Sound is a digital hub for exclusive reference content, cutting edge scholarship and learning resources in music and sound studies. Researchers can browse content, discover collections, and explore a broad range of research and study tools
Proquest Border and Migration Studies Across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, the environmental, financial, political, and cultural impacts of migrant populations and borderland disputes dominate headlines. Border and Migration Studies Online helps students and researchers understand these impacts through collected primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera from the 19th to 21st centuries.
Adam Mathew Colonial Caribbean: Colonial Office Files from The National Archives, UK. Parts 1, 2 & 3  A  definitive collection of primary source documentation to explore life the Caribbean region under British colonial rule. This extensive digital resource covers three centuries of Caribbean history and is drawn from the vast archives of the British Colonial Office. Its unique primary sources cover British governance of 25 islands in the Caribbean from 1624-1872, meeting teaching and research needs across a wide variety of themes, from settlement and colonial rivalries in the region, to the economics of the plantation systems and the impact of slavery, to crime and punishment and the everyday lives of the people that called the islands home.
Proquest Contemporary World Drama Contemporary World Drama is a new project formed to examine the richness and diversity of contemporary theatre and drama from a global context, bringing together new work from established and up-and-coming contemporary playwrights from around the world, including recently produced world premieres and previously unpublished works from every continent. At completion, the collection will include 1,000 contemporary plays, from 2000 to present day.
Proquest Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection This collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive periodicals, reference materials, books, dance notation, and photographs that dissolve the distance between archive and scholar and draw dance students into the library. it includes exclusive online access to the complete run of Dance Magazine (1927–present) in full text.
Harvard University Press  Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) aims to represent the full panoply of American regional vocabulary and has  long been consulted by a wide range of scholars and lovers of language and regional nuance. This digital version transforms the dictionary into an interactive, multimedia tool. 
Bloomsbury Drama Online: 2022 update This is a content update to Drama Online collection which includes play texts, over audio and video play recordings, and books of criticism and performance practice from leading theatre publishers and companies. A Core Collection features theatre lists of Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints plus imprint from Faber & Faber. Also, included are collections of filmed live performances from leading theatres such as Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as a wealth of audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works.
Proquest Early European Books: Travel Writing and Literature This Early European Books Collection 19 gathers selections from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France focused on the themes of travel and literature. It features more than 1,000 digitized print items, most of them rare, and over 480,000 pages of content. In presenting travel and literature together, Early European Books marks two very different achievements of the early modern period: its prodigious literary output and its global ventures in the field of exploration. It also includes classical and medieval texts in contemporary editions. Many of the classical items selected are works in French translation. These include versions of Ovid, Propertius and Virgil.
JSTOR Hebrew Journals The Hebrew Journals collections includes 52 core journals and was developed in collaboration with the University of Haifa and the National Library of Israel. It includes Tarbiz, the only Hebrew academic journal devoted to the entire range of Jewish Studies, and Zion, continuously published since its founding in 1935-36.
JSTOR Jewish Studies The Jewish Studies collection includes 56 core journals with titles in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Hebrew; supports teaching and research at institutions with Jewish and Judaic studies programs.
Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched:  English Language & Literature English Language & Literature includes books from Boydell & Brewer, Brill, Edinburgh University Press and others.  Titles are curated by a KU Selection Committee consisting of librarians from all over the world.  They are acquired in a cooperative approach less expensive than the purchase of single copies by each library, and eventually they become available publically as Open Access content.
Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched: Communication, Cultural & Media Studies Communication, Cultural & Media Studies includes books from Bloomsbury, Taylor & Francis, Leuven University Press and others. Titles are curated by a KU Selection Committee consisting of librarians from all over the world.  They are acquired in a cooperative approach less expensive than the purchase of single copies by each library, and eventually they become available publically as Open Access content.
Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched: Modern Languages & Linguistics Modern Languages & Linguistics includes books from University of Hawaii Press, Verso Books, Duke University Press and others. Titles are curated by a KU Selection Committee consisting of librarians from all over the world.  They are acquired in a cooperative approach less expensive than the purchase of single copies by each library, and eventually they become available publically as Open Access content.
JSTOR Lives of Literature JSTOR Lives of Literature is a collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. The collection contains 107 journals with thematic topics that include: Medieval Authors & Texts, Modernist Authors, Victorian, Edwardian & Gothic Authors, and Literary Theorists. The collection supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on writers and texts critical to curricula in literature.
Proquest Music Online: Classical Music Library Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume II provides online access to 200,000 pages of scores. In addition to new works from contemporary composers, Volume II includes a range of important composers not represented in the first volume and alternative editions of many of music’s most studied compositions. Featured composers include Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini, Michael Haydn, and many others. This volume also includes the largest source of 18th century symphonies, comprising 550 symphonic works.
ProQuest NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files (NAACP 6) The NAACP branch files in this module chronicle the local heroes of the civil rights revolution via NAACP branches throughout the United States, from 1913-1972. The contributions of scores of local leaders—attorneys, community organizers, financial benefactors, students, mothers, school teachers, and other participants—are revealed in these records.  The branch files also indicate how effectively the NAACP national office used the branch network to advance the NAACP national program. The Youth Department Files document how the NAACP tapped the energy and talent of college students and other young people at the state and local levels.This purchase completes our acquisitions of the NAACP six-part set.
ProQuest NAACP Papers: Special Subjects (NAACP 5) The NAACP was involved in several subjects that did not rise to the level of major campaigns but were still vital to the organization. These files cover subjects and episodes that are crucial to the NAACP's history, such as civil rights complaints and legislation, the Klan, Birth of a Nation, the Walter White-W. E. B. Du Bois controversy of 1933-1934, communism and anticommunism during the years of the "red scare," the congressional prosecution of Hollywood personalities, the prosecution of conscientious objectors during World War II, NAACP's relations with African colonial liberation movements, NAACP fundraising and membership recruitment, urban riots, the War on Poverty, and the emergence of the Black Power Movement.
Oxford University Press Oxford Bibliographies Online : American Literature The scholarly examination of American literature is a popular field of study both in the United States and globally. From postmodern theory to debates about the canon, from slave narratives to comic books, American literature is one of the most active fields in academia today. With advances in online searching and database technologies, researchers and practitioners can easily access library catalogs, bibliographic indexes, and other lists that show thousands of resources that might also be useful to them.  This resources provides expert guidance.
Oxford University Press Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History Atlantic history is a fast developing field of historical inquiry that operates upon new assumptions about how to understand the remarkable nature of interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century. The series was launched in 2009 and now has over 100 entries available for use with many more in development. Articles are written by a range of scholars from numerous countries and summarize the best in scholarship now available.
Oxford University Press Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music Oxford Bibliographies in Music combines the best features of a high-level encyclopedia and a traditional bibliography in a style tailored to meet the needs of today’s online researchers. Each article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, is rich with citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways to the most important works for virtually all areas of music.
Oxford University Press Oxford Bibliographies Online: Urban Studies Urban Studies is a broad, interdisciplinary field of study that includes subfields not only in most of the major social sciences, but also in the humanities, and in more technical fields such as architecture, planning, engineering, environmental science, and legal studies. The bibliographic essays within Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies are written by known experts in the field, who can provide a guided selection of these pertinent materials, as well as the much needed content for understanding the referenced titles
Oxford University Press Oxford Handbooks Online  Oxford Handbooks Online is a comprehensive collection of this venerable publisher's handbook series covering 14 subject areas across the humanities  and social sciences disciplines. Through its Handbooks, Oxford University Press invites the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about its future direction.  Monthly updates introduce articles in advance of print publication and afterward. 
Proquest Periodical Archive Online (PAO) Collection 10 Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the back files of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages. Collection 10 include 65 important journals including Maclean’s, Queen’s Quarterly, Southern Review, and Arab Studies Quarterly.
Center for Research Libraries Policy Commons Launched in 2020, Policy Commons provides access to reports and documents from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), think tanks, government agencies, and educational institutions. It includes some 20 million pages of this content is and is updated daily with more than 21,000 organizations so far. The Commons is made available through a partnership with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), of which Tulane University Libraries is a member.
ProQuest ProQuest Congressional: Serial Set II, Collection Part L (2018) The U.S. Serial Set is a collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. Currently, the Serial Set includes House and Senate documents and reports, Senate executive reports, and Senate treaty documents. This annual U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection includes full indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for all Serial Set publications.
ProQuest Proquest Congressional: Serial Set II, Collection Part M (2019) The U.S. Serial Set is a collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. Currently, the Serial Set includes House and Senate documents and reports, Senate executive reports, and Senate treaty documents. This annual U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection includes full indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for all Serial Set publications. 
JSTOR Security Studies The JSTOR Security Studies collection gathers academic and open policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues from a global perspective. This interdisciplinary resource has been built in collaboration with librarians, scholars, and policy researchers, and with guidance from an advisory group of professionals in the community. Security Studies includes more than 70 scholarly, trade, and military journals–all new to JSTOR– in addition to 10 Open Access journals and up to 20,000 open reports from more than 100 institutes.
Proquest Women and Social Movements in the US: 2021 & 2022 updates Loosely organized topically around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding of U.S. history while making the insights of women’s history accessible to researchers and educators. It features teaching-centered document projects, as well as extensive collections of primary sources and an online journal, published twice a year, with new document projects and book reviews, essays, roundtables, and special features.

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Border and Migration Studies Online