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Archives Hub

http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/intwine/index.html
The Archives Hub “Collections of the Month” service has been enhanced with Intwine, “a subject guide to more than seventy 'Collections of the Month' features”. It was inspired by Intute, and also includes a link to chronological guide to all the Collections of the Month features.

British Library Theatre Archive: Final Alan Ayckbourn play found

http://www.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/homepage.html
Simon Murgatroyd of the Bob Watson Archive in Scarborough says, “During the past year, The Bob Watson Archive has made several exciting discoveries, but there was never an expectation of finding the final play, Love After All. Now thanks to the efforts of the Theatre Archive Project, the Ayckbourn play canon has been restored”. The Theatre Archive Project, a joint effort between the British Library, Sheffield University and the AHRC, found the play in the Lord Chamberlain archive at the British Library. Their brief is the re-investigation of British Theatre 1945-1968. The British Library have provided a digital copy of the play to the Bob Watson Archive, based in Scarborough, to complete their collection of Ayckbourn's plays. The Theatre Archive Project website includes an oral history of British Theatre and descriptions of British Library archives of key figures, including John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

Nineteenth-century Newspapers

http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html
The British Library have made available 1,000,000 pages from 46 nineteenth-century regional newspapers free online, on a website developed by Gale/Cengage. The service will be free to higher and further education institutions and to walk-in visitors at the British Library reading rooms in King's Cross. The online service is part of a JISC-funded project to “select and to digitise complete runs of UK newspaper titles that are published between 1800 and 1900”, estimated at three million further pages.

BUVFC

http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/learningonscreen/
The BUVFC have announced their Learning on Screen 2008 awards, “to celebrate and reward excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research”, as part of their 60th anniversary of work in this area. The ceremony will take place on the 18th of March 2008 at the National Science Learning Centre York, as part of the BUFVC's Learning on Screen conference (17-19 March 2008).

Emerald

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Emerald are releasing eight new journal titles for 2008 in the area of management and business. Titles include the International Journal of Housing Markets, Analysis and Education, Business and Society, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues .

Intute

http://www.intute.ac.uk/
New links for web resources in Social Sciences include:

United Kingdom Defence Association (UKNDA) a company campaigning for more spending on defence and the armed forces in the UK http://www.uknda.org/

Pakistan: Human Rights Commission (by the Asian Human Rights Commission AHRC) to publicise the political and human rights situation in Pakistan http://pakistan.ahrchk.net/

The Gertrude Bell Project (by the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Library) to develop an electronic archive of photographs, diaries and manuscripts of British archaeologist and political figure Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), including her efforts towards the establishment of the state of Iraq http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/

For more information on the latest Intute resources go to http://www.intute.ac.uk/latest.html , which includes an RSS feed. Intute also provide a blog http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/about/ , aimed at “staff in UK universities and colleges who are interested in the use of Internet resources in education and research”.

Ovid/Kluwer

http://www.ovid.com/
OVID have developed a new service for searching electronic information to replace Ovid Web Gateway, which is scheduled to be discontinued in February next year (and SilverPlatter WEBSPIRS in 2009). Among other features OvidSP offers natural-language searching, searching across different reference types and eTOCs by RSS feed.

ProQuest: The Annual Register

http://annualregister.chadwyck.com/info/about.htm
ProQuest have released an online version of The Annual Register, which catalogues 250 years of British and world events since 1758. The Annual Register was originally conceived as a miscellany, reproducing state papers, reviewing important books, and featuring historical sketches, poetry, observations on natural history, and other essays, reproduced from books and periodicals. Following the Napoleonic Wars the History section of the Register was enhanced at the expense of some of the lighter content, but it is still regarded as “entertaining, as well as enlightening," (Mary Sauer-Games, Chadwyck-Healey) and of interest to historians and those interested in current affairs.

ProQuest and Gale/Cengage

http://il.proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/07/20071107.shtml
In 2008 it will be possible for users at libraries with subscriptions to both ProQuest Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Gale Eighteenth-century Collections Online (ECCO) to search both products simultaneously from within either product. There will be no further charge, and libraries will be able to switch on the cross-searching function.