Category Archives: Online resources

New Digital Collection Documents 45 Years of AUC History

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 The American University in Cairo is pleased to announce the first installment of the AUC Board of Trustees Meetings Minutes digital collection, available in the Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library.

 The American University in Cairo Board of Trustees Meetings Minutes digital collection primarily includes meeting agendas and minutes, as well as additional documentation such as budgets, correspondence, reports, and memoranda. The collection includes minutes ranging from the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of Cairo Christian University on November 30, 1914 to the American University at Cairo’s meeting on December 19, 1959.

 This collection will continue to grow as minutes are digitized.

Ottoman Turkish resources

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Hi friends! Last week saw the release of many Ottoman Turkish resources.

Duke University has recently digitized 250 books on Ottoman Literature via the Internet Archive.

More than this, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi: KÜTÜPHANE VE DOKÜMANTASYON MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ has released hundreds of Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts spanning a plethora of subjects.

Hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think, too.

 

 

New Open Access journal

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Hi friends! A new, open-access journal was recently launched called Mashriq and Mahjar.  “Mashriq & Mahjar is published by the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies and the Department of History at North Carolina State University.” The journal is particularly pertinent to those of you who study migration and diaspora studies. The first issue was recently released and has several great articles and book reviews.
Enjoy!

Iraqi academic scientific journals in open access

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Press release, Baghdad, Jun 20, 2012

The Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research of Iraq is pleased to announce the  launch of the new service “Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals” (IASJ).

IASJ is one platform where all scholarly journals published by the Iraqi universities and research institutions are indexed and discovered. All journals in IASJ are peer-reviewed and open access.

The main aim of IASJ is to improve the online discoverability and visibility of and access to the published scholarly research of iraqi academics. IASJ will help Iraqi authors to disseminate their research globally.

At the moment IASJ is launched in a Beta version with only 71 journals published by 18 institutions. The service will be further developed and will cover all journals, more than 200 journals publisher by 40 academic institutions in Iraq.

IASJ is developed and hosted by SemperTool, a company specialized in building digital library products. All content of IASJ will be included in the Iraqi Virtual Library System IVSL and it’s discovery system LibHub provided by SemperTool.

Trial with Western Travellers in the Islamic World (Brill)

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Hi friends! A gentle reminder that our trial with Western Travellers in the Islamic World (Brill), a new online database will expire in one week. This database maintains: “Accounts of travel are a popular and accessible source for research on historical relations between “East” and “West” and are attractive for specialists and non-specialists alike. In the pre-modern period a large number of such accounts were published all over Europe, and almost without exception these volumes are now scarce and priceless. Some were republished later in modern editions (like those in the Hakluyt series), but these are often out of print at present.”

Subscription details:
Site address: http://www.primarysourcesonline.nl/c19/
Product: Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online
Subscription id: 22284

Start date: 14 Jan 2013

End date: 12 Feb 2013

Any and all feedback is welcomed and appreciated!

MeD-MeM: Mediterranean Memory

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MeD-MeM: Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage
Initiated by Ina under the auspices of COPEAM (Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators) at the request of the holders of audiovisual archives in the Mediterranean region, “Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage (Med-Mem)” offers the general public some 4000 audiovisual documents from the countries in the Mediterranean area. The TV and radio archives, set into their historic and cultural context, are accompanied by a trilingual documentary note (in French, English and Arabic).
Co-funded by the European Union as part of the Euromed Heritage IV programme, Med-Mem strives to raise the profile of a common heritage, and underpins the drive to safeguard Mediterranean audiovisual archives.
The website is accessible to everyone free of charge. Enjoy!