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Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Arts & Humanities
18th Century Studies

This guide was developed at the request of UCD French Studies faculty member Julia Simon, on behalf of the many faculty, students, and staff affiliated with the UCD campus'Eighteenth-Century Studies Research Cluster. The cluster supports scholars working in a wide variety of fields, and has done so for several decades. It sponsors an extensive range of activities, from hosting lectures to organizing formal and informal colloquia, and staffs an informal advisory board to the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. This flagship journal has been and continues to be edited by UCD scholars,and produced with the assistance of both students and career staff. It is housed in the Davis Humanities Institute.

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General Databases

Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)

Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.

Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.

Full-Text Resources

Eighteenth Century Collections Online [via Gale] (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=ECCO) [Restricted] VPN
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) provides full-text searchable access to the digital images of 150,000 books and other materials published during the 18th Century. Based on the English Short Title Catalog bibliography, it includes English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Coverage: 1701-1800
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American Periodicals Series Online [via Proquest] (http://uclibs.org/pid/16610) [Restricted] VPN
Searchable database of citations and digitized images of the pages of more than 1100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Coverage: 1741-1940s
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker im WWW (http://klassiker.chadwyck.com/) [Restricted] VPN
Access to a canonical collection of literature in German spanning eleven centuries. Covers the work of more than thirty authors, including early texts such as Lancelot and Ginover and Wolfram von Eschenbach, editions of important authors such as Herder, Kleist, and Büchner, and the works of philosophers such as Kant, Schleiermacher, and Fichte. Collections of historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts add context and background material.
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  • Help (http://klassiker.chadwyck.com/english/help/hlp_index.htm)
Early American Newspapers [via NewsBank] (http://uclibs.org/PID/42513) [Restricted] VPN
Historic American newspapers from 1690-1876: images and full-text content, complementing the America's Historical Imprints (Early American Imprints) series. The core of the Readex collection is formed by Isaiah Thomas' own collection of colonial and early national period newspapers and supplemented by nearly two million issues added by Thomas' successors at the American Antiquarian Society, and from the collections of other institutions and societies.
Coverage: 1690-1876
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  • This site now also includes the California's Historical Newspapers consisting of 13 titles published between 1850 and 1900.
Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800). Evans (http://uclibs.org/PID/23074) [Restricted] VPN
This is a full-text collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals published in the United States 1639- 1800. It is a terrific collection of primary source material (more than 36,000 titles when complete) on all aspects of 17th and 18th century life in America and Europe (especially England). It is based on Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, which listed all known publications in this period and is developed from the microform set of those titles, Evans Early American Imprints Series I. For material on the early 19th century (1801-1819), see Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker.
Coverage: 1639-1800
Early Encounters in North America (EENA): Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (http://uclibs.org/PID/31414) [Restricted] VPN
EENA contains full text letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters, centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. Includes information on the peoples, places, environment, flora and fauna encountered. Of note are more than 9,000 Audubon prints from "The Birds of America" as well as the complete contents of the three-volume "The Quadrupeds of North America".
Coverage: 1534-1959
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Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum (http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/index.htm)
Open access site with fulltext of 45 German language periodicals from the Enlightenment.
Coverage: 18th and 19th century

Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Website) (http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/)
Sponsors the influential journal Eighteenth Century Studies (in paper in Shields Library PN2 .E54; for access to various electronic versions see http://harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu/), and the annual series, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (Shields Library CB411 .S780).
Centre international d'etude du XVIIIe siecle, Ferney-Voltaire (Website) (http://c18.net/)
Sponsors research and supports publication (electronic and hardcopy) on all aspects of the history and culture of the period.
Eighteenth-Century Resources (Website). (http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/)
Aimed especially at scholars and students. Coverage includes literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, but the main focus is on British literature and history in “the (very long) eighteenth century — let's say Milton to Keats.” Site owner is open to geographical and topical expansion.
Eighteenth-Century Studies (Website) (http://eserver.org/18th/)
Archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism
International Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (Website) (http://c18.net/)
Links to a multilingual worldwide directory of periodicals.
Société Française d'Étude du Dix Huitième siècle (http://sfeds.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/)
Important site funded by the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Sponsors publications, publishes brief notices of new books, announcements of conferences and colloquia, and lists recently defended theses from francophone universities.
Voice of the Shuttle: The Restoration and the 18th Century (Gateway/Website) (http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2738.)
English language and literature site.
18th Century Studies Subject Guide. Reference Works: Print Collections (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/18thcentury.php)
Print resources in Shields Library.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Digital Version] (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html)
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas(DHI),in five volumes and edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74 (Shields Library CB5 .D52) This e-version is made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.

Other Resources

Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography [via CSA Illumina]. (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1) [Restricted] VPN
The standardized historical period descriptor/heading (1700-1799)has been attached to almost 65,000 document records (for periodical articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and other types), making this data base a rather significant source for 18th century specialists focusing on literature and culture.
FRANCIS [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) [Restricted] VPN
Over 862,000 records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics
Coverage: 1984-present
Historical Newspapers Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/1453) [Restricted] VPN
Search the following Chadwyck-Healey databases: Palmer's Index to The Times, 1790-1905 (with full text from 1800-1870) the Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980, and the Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (http://uclibs.org/PID/6848) [Restricted] VPN
Periodicals Index Online is a retrospective database (1665-1995); over 300 philosophy titles are included. It also provides access to a smaller set of titles in fulltext electronic form.
Coverage: 1665-1995
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