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Art and Architecture in Video, via Alexander Street Press, is a collection of documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory and practice of art, design and architecture. Trial ends 3 August 2012

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Sten Christensen, Sydney eScholarship, University of Sydney Library

Oscar Wilde famously stated “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” This is quite poignant when one considers the open access institutional repository movement, for what is the point of archiving and making your research available on open access if nobody knows it’s there!

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‘Women and Social Movements, International’ is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. There will be regular additions to the database to bring it to its final complement of 150,000 pages of documents.
Link:  sydney.edu.au/library/databases/trial.html

HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF OUR PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTIONS

The Library has expanded access to primary source materials through the acquisition of the following digital collections. Access to the collections is available to currently enrolled University of Sydney students, staff, and walk-in users of the Library.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online  (1688–present)
Full text access to over 300 years of parliamentary debates, bills, command papers and reports and accounts, providing important historical record of the government of Britain and its colonies, as well as its impact on the wider world. It’s a valuable source of primary material encompassing all areas of social, political and economic policy. The 18^th Century collection will be of great interest to those studying the early colonial history of the Americas, India and Australia. The19^th Century collection provides access to the ideas and agendas of prominent 19^th century thinkers, campaigners and innovators such as Anthony Trollope, John Stuart Mill, Michael Faraday, Charles Babbage and the Brunels. The 20^th Century collection covers topics such as the World Wars, the formation of NATO and the United Nations, the end of Apartheid and the impact of September 11.

ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

The Grand Tour and Travel writing, spectacle and world history
We continue our exploration of travel with the addition of these collections. The Grand Tour explores the British response to travel on the Continent for pleasure, business and diplomacy between c1550 and c1850. The collection provides access to manuscript, visual and printed works including letters, diaries, guidebooks, paintings, sketches and architectural drawings drawn from private and public archives, including the British Library and the Paul Mellon Centre. Travel writing, spectacle and world history includes women’s travel diaries and correspondence of the 19^th and 20^thcenturies from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007 is a portal for slavery and abolition studies bringing together documents and collections relating to slavery and its impact in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. The collection provides access to original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and U.S. Court records relating to slavery.

Mass Observation online provides access to the original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, together with printed publications, photographs and interactive maps. The collection provides an important insight into the social history of Britain between 1937 and the mid 1950s.

To see all our databases and electronic resources head to: http://sydney.edu.au/library/databases/