New Database

We now have access to Colonial America: The American Revolution (Module 3) from Adam Matthew: “This module charts the upheavals of the 1770s and 1780s which saw the throwing off of British rule in the Thirteen Colonies. Contents include volumes of intercepted letters between colonists, the military correspondence of the British commanders […]

New Function for PrivCo

The PrivCo database, which provides business and financial information about private companies, now has a Google Chrome Extension available HERE. If you add this extension to your list of tabs, if you are on a company’s website, you can immediately click it and get taken directly to the company’s PrivCo profile.  

Elsevier Purchases bepress

Elsevier recently purchased bepress, a publisher of journals and the Digital Commons platform often used by universities for their institutional repositories. Roger C. Schonfeld writes in a recent post on The Scholarly Kitchen blog, “In a move entirely consistent with its strategy to pivot beyond content licensing to preprints, analytics, workflow, and decision-support, […]

New Collection

Adam Matthew’s Migration to New Worlds collection has added Module II, titled The Modern Era. The collection focuses on migration to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States from the 1840s through the twentieth century. Includes papers of the New Zealand Company, organisational papers, government correspondence and pamphlets, oral histories, objects, accounts, correspondence, […]