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ASECS Trial for Gale Digital Collections

Gale Digital Collections is providing a free trial to many of its collections, from now until June 15, 2013. This trial does not require a username or password. Feel free to share this trial with your colleagues. If you find value in any of these collections, please contact your library liaison. Often times, faculty feedback and comments influence library collection development decisions. Here are the digital collections for review in alphabetical order:

British Literary Manuscripts – This extensive digital archive includes hundreds of thousands of pages of poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence and other manuscripts from the Restoration through the Victorian era.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) – Consisting of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, Eighteenth Century Collections Online was the most ambitious single scholarly digitization project ever undertaken. Bearing witness to what many scholars consider the three most significant events in world history — The American Revolution, The French Revolution and The Industrial Revolution.

Gale NewsVault – The definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale’s range of historical newspaper and periodical collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2006, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, and many more.

The Making of the Modern World, Parts I&II – This unrivaled online library fully documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. Part II adds approximately 5,000 newly scanned titles extends this impressive series into the beginning of the 20th century.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) – The most ambitious scholarly digitization and publication program ever undertaken, this collection is invaluable to research and teaching in one of the most studied historical periods. Rare primary sources, curated by an international team of experts, provide never-before-possible access to important works sourced from leading libraries worldwide.

Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 – This is an online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive – The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is a thematically organized, four-part historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.

State Papers Online–This collection is the gold standard for anyone conducting research on early modern English politics and culture. Organized in four parts, each cross-searchable and available separately, this online archive of original manuscript documents of British State Papers chronicles domestic and foreign history, from 1509-1714, the period of Henry VIII to Queen Anne.