American alternatives to Wellesley Index for 19th ce. periodicals
A graduate student with whom I've worked asked if there was an
American version of WELLESLEY INDEX (for 19th century periodicals).
My reply is below; I thought it might be useful for others Wilson
ref desk staff (and some others) as well so am copying my reply to the list.
-from an email sent by DLn to the Ref group list.
see continued for links and explanations:
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Not exactly an equivalent, but the (searchable) full text files of
major 19th ct American journals at MAKING OF AMERICA would be one of
my first places to go:
http://www.lib.umn.edu/faq/5681
What are the Making of America sites, and what full-text nineteenth
century American periodicals are available on the sites?
Answer:
The Making of America project produced The Nineteenth Century in
Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals. This is a
digitized collection, funded by the Library of Congress and hosted at
Cornell University and at the University of Michigan, which offers
free full text access (and searching capability) for over 1,500
pre-1900 books and some three dozen pre-1900 magazines and journals.
A home page, with links to both the Cornell and Michigan sites, is at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ncphome.html
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Quicklinks: see details below:
On-Line Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html
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Hennepin County Library system (including the former MPL) subscribes
to this full text service:
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1941
Digitized images from over 1100 magazines and journals spanning nearly
200 years. and those with HCL library cards can access it remotely
http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/SubjectGuides.cfm?Topic=Databases
Title: Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Access URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/2790
More Information: Periodicals Index Online
Access URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/12539
The Fictionmags Index
http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm
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Hathi Trust
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/
Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html#general
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Hope this helps,
Not exactly an equivalent, but the (searchable) full text files of
major 19th ct American journals at MAKING OF AMERICA would be one of
my first places to go:
http://www.lib.umn.edu/faq/5681
What are the Making of America sites, and what full-text nineteenth
century American periodicals are available on the sites?
in
* Articles, Indexes and Journals
* Collections
* Databases
* Electronic journals
* Full text
* Journals
Answer:
The Making of America project produced The Nineteenth Century in
Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals. This is a
digitized collection, funded by the Library of Congress and hosted at
Cornell University and at the University of Michigan, which offers
free full text access (and searching capability) for over 1,500
pre-1900 books and some three dozen pre-1900 magazines and journals.
A home page, with links to both the Cornell and Michigan sites, is at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ncphome.html
Journals available at the Cornell site are:
The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
The Century (1881 - 1899)
The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
Garden and Forest [ See note * ] (1888 - 1897)
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
The Living Age (1844 - 1900)
Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
New Englander (1843 - 1892)
The North American Review (1815 - 1900)
The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
Punchinello (1870)
Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
The United States Democratic Review (1837-1859)
Journals available at the Michigan site are:
American Jewess 1895-1899 (hosted on behalf of the Jewish Women's Archive)
Appleton's 1869-1881 (2 series)
Catholic World 1865-1901
DeBow's 1846-1869 + 1952 index (3 series)
Garden and Forest 1888-1897 (hosted on behalf of the Library of Congress)
Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers 1880-1891
Ladies Repository 1841-1876 (3 series)
The Old Guard 1864
Overland Monthly 1868-1900 (2 series)
Princeton Review 1831-1882 (3 series)
Southern Literary Messenger 1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index
Southern Quarterly Review 1842-1857 (3 series)
Vanity Fair 1860-1862
One can browse/read individual issues, or search across a given
journal or the range of all journals on a site for keywords etc.
occuring anywhere in the texts (as one might do in JSTOR, etc.).
Links to each of the individual journals above are also available at
the "Serials" list on the On-Line Books Page, among other places:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html
Most but not all of the electronic Making of America journals on these
sites are currently listed by title in MNCAT. (We do also have many of
them in paper format, and those holdings would of course also be
listed in MNCAT.)
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Hennepin County Library system (including the former MPL) subscribes
to this full text service:
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1941
Digitized images from over 1100 magazines and journals spanning nearly
200 years. Details
Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.
and those with HCL library cards can access it remotely
http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/SubjectGuides.cfm?Topic=Databases
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Unfortunately U of MN doesn't subscribe to the fulltext APSO, but we
do have a cdrom index (covering 1700-1850 only) to the database; the index is on the cdrom station next to the reference desk
Index to American periodicals of the 1700's and 1800's [computer file]
Indianapolis : Computer Indexed Systems, 1992-
computer optical disc ; 4 3/4 in.
Location TC Wilson Library Reference CD-ROM PN4877 .I53x
Summary Holdings Inquire at desk.
Library keeps latest release only.
Release 15 (1999)
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Many American (but not solely American) journals are indexed in 19TH
CENTURY MASTERFILE (electronic version of the print POOLE'S INDEX TO
PERIODICAL LITERATURE) and / or in PERIODICALS INDEX ONLINE (formerly
PERIODICAL CONTENTS INDEX):
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Title: Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Other Title(s): Poole's Plus
Description: Current Contents of 19th Century Masterfile:
Series I: Multi-Title Periodical Indexes
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Index to Legal Periodical
Literature (Jones and Chipman), Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the
Religion Index and more.
Series II: Indexes to Books
ALA Index to General Literature, 19th-century bibliographic database and more.
Series III: Indexes to Newspapers
New York Times Index, New York Daily Tribune Index, Palmer's Index and more.
Series IV: Indexes to Individual Periodicals
Harpers Weekly, Atlantic Monthly, North American Reviews (with free
links to full text)
Series V: US and UK Government Documents Indexes and US Patent Index
Congressional Record, Papers of the President, Hansard's Parliamentary
Indexes and more.
Location:
Author:
Check MNCAT Availability:
Sources Indexed:
Coverage: Varies, primarily 19th century
Access URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/2790
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More Information: Periodicals Index Online
Title: Periodicals Index Online
Other Title(s): PCI: Periodicals Contents Index
Description: Database to article citations published in 6000 journals
across more than 300 years. It covers 37 key subject areas in the
humanities and social sciences and indexes over 18 million articles
from 1665 to 1995.
Location:
Author:
Check MNCAT Availability:
Sources Indexed:
Coverage: 1665 - 1995
Access URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/12539
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The Fictionmags Index is worth a look where specific authors, titles,
or journal issues are known, but there's no real subject indexing (and
what is and is not included is unpredictable, since it's being built
as a wiki by many hands)
http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm
(again this is not solely American magazines, though it is solely
English-language ones; emphasis is on magazines printing fiction but
others are included; sometimes only the fiction is indexed)
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Many 19th century journals (American and others), being by definition
out of copyright, are online at Hathi Trust or archive.org or Google
books or other free archives. Sometimes complete sets, sometimes
fairly complete, sometimes just stray volumes. I'd probably start
with Hathi since the search function is fairly straightforward (and
Hathi is now linked on the Books tab on library homepage)
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/
Google books, Archive.org, Project Gutenberg and a lot of smaller
general archives, and speciality archives both large and small, are
linked from the Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html#general
Besides the general archives, some of the "speciality" archives under
"Historical" and/or under "Regional -- North America - United States"
may be useful.
(the OBP link was, alas, not carried over when our library homepage
was, er, "revised" -- but one can get to it by googling or binging
"online books page")
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Also, for book reviews in 19th ct periodicals, both of these should be checked
Title Combined retrospective index to book reviews in humanities
journals, 1802-1974 / executive editor, Evan Ira Farber ; managing
editor, Susan Hannah ; senior editor, Stanley Schindler.
Published Woodbridge , CT. : Research Publications, 1982-1984.
Description 10 v. ; 29 cm.
Availability TC Wilson Library Reference Quarto Z1035.A1 C63x 1982
Non-Circulating
and
Title Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly
journals, 1886-1974 / executive editor, Evan Ira Farber, senior
editors, Ruth Matteson Blackmore, William Scott Buchanan, Frank Wayne
Pilk.
Published Arlington, Va. : Carrollton Press, 1979-1982.
Description 15 v. ; 29 cm.
Availability TC Wilson Library Reference Quarto Z1035.A1 C64 Non-Circulating
and for 1880-1900 segement, this indexes a few journals
Author Marks, Patricia.
Title American literary and drama reviews : an index to late
nineteenth century periodicals / Patricia Marks.
Published Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, [1984]
Description xviii, 313 p. ; 24 cm.
Series ( Reference publication in literature)
Availability TC Wilson Library Reference PN2256 .M37 1984 Non-Circulating
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Some other sources for 19th ct (and later) book reviews, most of
limited scope or usefulness, can be found here:
Author Gray, Richard A.
Title A guide to book review citations; a bibliography of sources,
compiled by Richard A. Gray.
Published [Columbus] Ohio State University Press [c1968]
Description viii, 221 p. 22 cm.
Series Ohio State University Libraries publications no. 2.
Availability TC Wilson Library Z1035.A1 G7 Regular Loan
Availability TC Wilson Library Reference (Desk) Z1035.A1 G7 Non-Circulating
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Hope this helps,