The Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS) creates and provides access to searchable online collections of image and full-text resources for the Stanford humanities community.
New Images: Stanford Historical Photograph Collection
We are proud to present the latest installment in our ongoing project to make available historical photos from the Stanford University Archives. There are now nearly 5,000 images available, which represent approximately 30 percent of the entire physical collection. The online collection is richly searchable by personal name, subject area, photograph date, and many other descriptive terms. Photographs are presented as high-resolution, dynamically resizable images.
In this new set you can see photographs from both the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes as they hit Stanford; various faculty groups from the founding of the University; the Engineering Department through the years; and many others. (As the astute reader may have guessed, we're putting these images up in roughly alphabetical order by broad topic: thus Athletics and the Band dominated in the first releases; the Cactus Garden and various other Campus lands appeared a bit later; and now we've begun the F's.) When complete, the Stanford Historical Photograph Collection will have over 16,000 photos.
This collection is available to the general public as one of Stanford's Luna Insight databases. The Insight viewing software is already installed on all public Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources' computers: just launch the program from the Start menu or desktop. But anyone can download and install a free and fully functional version. (There is also a basic, no-download-needed version of the collection available.) See the Stanford Historical Photograph Collection Web site for details of this exciting collection, download links, and instructions.
New Texts from Adam Matthew Digital and Alexander Street Press
Thanks to major recent purchases by Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), members of the Stanford community now have access to a greatly increased set of full-text humanities resources from Adam Matthew Digital and from Alexander Street Press.
Eighteenth-Century Journals: From Adam Matthew Digital, we have purchased the complete Eighteenth-Century Journals collection, consisting of rare journals printed between about 1685 and 1815, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years. Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion. Members of the Stanford community can access Eighteenth-Century Journals. See also Eighteenth Century Journals II: New Full-Text Searchable Database in the Spring 2007 issue of this newsletter.
Latino Literature: From Alexander Street Press we have recently acquired Latino Literature, representing in digital form more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Members of the Stanford community can access Latino Literature here.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: We've also bought Alexander Street Press's Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, an archive of the publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present. When complete this collection will contain 75,000 pages of publications from commissions in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The publications include reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials. See this greatly expanded edition of Women and Social Movements here.
Where to Find All Databases
All of these texts can be found in Socrates, the Stanford library catalog, and on the SULAIR databases list.
For More Information
For more information about the Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS), see our Web site.
