from ResearchBuzz:
08/02/06
** Registry of US Government Publication Digitzation Projects
Did you know there was a Registry of US Government Publication Digtization Projects? Me neither. But there is, and you can both contribute your institutions projects and browse through the existing ones at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy/registry/. There's not a lot here, unfortunately, though I like what I do see.
You can do a simple keyword search with the site, or you can browse. I think I like the browsing page better; you can browse by project title, institution name, category of project, project status, and those projects which are searching for partners.
Denny here:
broad category list at
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy/registry/browse.html
Some of the material from the site above is in the On-Line Books Page, but a lot
(most?) is not. A few collections of possible special interest to clients we
get at the Wilson Reference desk (especially History Day students and other
primary source fans):
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http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/subcollections/GerReconAbout.shtml
About the Collection
Germany Under Reconstruction The Germany Under Reconstruction digital collection provides a varied selection of publications in both English and German from the period immediately following World War II. Many are publications of the U.S. occupying forces, including reports and descriptions of efforts to introduce U.S.-style democracy to Germany. Some of the other books and documents describe conditions in a country devastated by years of war, efforts at political, economic and cultural development, and the differing perspectives coming from the U.S. and British zones and the Russian zone of occupation. At the same time, the Germans themselves and the occupying forces look back at the National Socialist period and try to come to terms with what had happened.
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http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office.
FRUS begins with the administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861. There are two cumulative indexes covering 1861-1899 and 1900-1918. The organization of FRUS is generally chronological, but the dates of the volumes do not necessarily reflect the dates of documentary history. For example, the volumes for 1900-1918 do not include the records dealing with World War I or the Russian Revolution. Each volume has a subject and author index. There is also typically a table of sources and abbreviations at the beginning of each volume
Many volumes published since 1960 are available online on the State Department website that is maintained by the University of Illinois at Chicago. A full description of Foreign Relations of the United States, including a listing of the online FRUS volumes, is available from the
Foreign Relations of the United Statesis a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. This is an incomplete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed.
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http://ww2.smu.edu/
Historic Government Publications from World War II
311 books and pamphlets on war and home-front related subjects
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http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/
The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States contains material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. It includes volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. As subsequent volumes are published, they will be added online.
Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period.
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http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp
Historical Publications of the
United States Commission on Civil Rights
USCCR logoSince its inception in 1957, the United States Commission on Civil Rights has been at the forefront of efforts by the Federal Government and state governments to examine and resolve issues related to race, ethnicity, religion and, more recently, sexual orientation. Although the fortunes of the Commission have ebbed and flowed with changes in presidential administrations, the Commission has continued to be a vital part of the effort to build an America that is truly equal. By providing access to the historical record of this important federal agency, the Thurgood Marshall Law Library will offer scholars an opportunity to examine the efforts of the Commission more closely.
In conjunction with the Thurgood Marshall Law Library's strategic plan to enhance its civil rights collection in support of the School of Law's teaching and research mission, the Library has worked since 2001 to create a complete electronic record of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications held in the Library's collection and available on the USCCR Web site. The publications are made available over the Internet as page image presentations in PDF format. Each item is linked to the appropriate bibliographic record in the Catalog. Publications are also searchable by keyword and accessible by date and title.
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There are also dozens of collections relating to agriculture, law, regulatory
history, business/econ, science/tech, etc. Most or all can be keyword searched across
full text (6,192 matches on word Iraq the Public Papers of the US file,
for instance).
Denny Lien
This might be useful with some History Day projects etc., and it forms a nice
contrast to our own WWI and WWII war posters site at
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html
The National Library of Scotland has launched an
online collection of propaganda that was used
during World War II. The collection is divided
into "white propaganda" (they define as "mostly
practical information intended for the Home
Front") and "black propaganda," which targeted
enemy morale.
http://www.nls.uk/propaganda/index.html
>From http://www.nls.uk/propaganda/index.html , you
can read an overview of the collection and select
white or black propaganda. Each link selected will
give you a more general overview of the topic as
well as a thumbnails to propaganda images -- not
posters, but rather booklets and postcards in the
case of white propaganda and leaflets in the case
of black propaganda. Clicking on the images brings
larger images and detail pages about the item. The
content of the item itself is not available
online.
The collection is rather small but I found it
interesting as most online collections of this
type tend to focus on posters.
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above is from the 27 July 2006 ResearchBuzz / forwarded by Denny
The Winona Newspaper Project
There's now a searchable archive for three old newspapers of Winona, Minnesota. The newspapers, available at http://www.winona.edu/library/databases/winonanewspaperproject.htm , include the Winona Argus, the Winona Daily Republican and the Winona Republican Herald. The newspapers span 125,000 pages but it's hard to tell from the overview page if the archive is actually complete.
The papers may be browsed or searched. The software for reviewing the archive prefers Internet Explorer but seems to work fine with Firefox. I searched all publications for the word mining and got over 3900 results. Results include date, number of words in the article, and the location of the article in the paper.
Click on the headline and the article itself will pop up in a new window. Despite warnings about the paper quality, I found all the articles I looked at very easy to read.
The URL given for DiarySearch seems to have changed; the site can now be accessed at
http://www.diarysearch.co.uk/
Some other diary sites (including one for French diaries) are linked at
http://www.day-books.com/links.htm
Denny Lien
The students in Rick Fie's History of Sports class are looking for a site called DiarySearch. This used to be at http://www.diarysearch.com but it has a new url now to which it should link: http://www.diarysearch.co.uk.
http://www.diarysearch.co.uk
Here's a great site Rick Fie is having his class use for History of Sport - but this could work for any situation where someone needs a diary. The advantage is that it lists items published in other works - so the items listed are accessible via either MNCAT or WCAT. Nice site! --sg
April 2005 note from SG
The above URL replaces the earlier one which was:
http://www.diarysearch.com/