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- About The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
- About the U.S. Congressional Serial Set
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What's New
We are constantly searching for new content for C19 Index. If you have suggestions, or are involved with a relevant digitization project or special library collection that is rich in nineteenth century materials and you would like to promote your collection via C19 Index, please contact the Webmaster.
November 2009 release
The November 2009 release of C19 sees the addition of two new content sets. Produced as a collaboration between the Open University, the Universities of Hertfordshire and Sheffield, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey from 1770-1913 details trials that were held at London's central criminal court. Both the metadata and full text for the Proceedings since 1770 are searchable in C19 Index from a dedicated search screen. The records are displayed as summary data and a few lines of text, with a link to the full transcript in the open access Old Bailey Online site: www.oldbaileyonline.org. More information about the Old Bailey in C19 is available here.
This release also contains over 600,000 records from American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL) - a brand new full-text collection containing full-color scans of original print documents archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The collection spans the nineteenth century through the dawn of the twentieth century and is particularly strong in titles that illustrate the growth of America's influence on business and industry, trade, and culture. These include labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles, many of which have not been indexed before. Upon completion the project will feature a total of 3 million pages across hundreds of periodical titles and new records from APCRL will be added to C19 in future releases. APCRL records can be searched from the American Periodicals Series search screen in C19.
Additional enhancements include thousands of new records for the British Periodicals, Periodicals Index Online data sets, improvements to images in the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, as well as roll over and linked information on the logos which brand each collection’s results.
February 2009 release
As well as the addition of around one million records from British Periodicals, Periodicals Index Online and the Nineteenth Century microfiche project, the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism was added to C19 Index in this release.
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism is a one-volume reference work with over 1600 entries detailing British and Irish newspaper and periodical publishing in the nineteenth century. It is an ideal complement to periodical indexes such as Wellesley and British Periodicals and has been made available with its own search and browse screens in a new Reference section.
July 2008 release
This release sees the addition of over a million article records from British Periodicals and Periodicals Index Online.
December 2007 release
In addition to thousands of new records from sources like British Periodicals and Archive Finder, this release saw the addition of two important new sources to C19 Index.
The Congressional Serial Set and its predecessor, the American State Papers, from LexisNexis are now available, including almost 131k records from 1789-1901. Containing bibliographic records for reports, documents, messages, communications, motions, resolutions and more, the American State Papers and Serial Set capture all aspects of American life from westward expansion, Indian affairs, politics, international affairs, business and manufacturing. The new Congressional Serial Set search screen allows users to conduct focused searches of the material. From the Search Indexes screen these records of American government are also cross-searchable with the rest of the C19 indexes - including their U.K. equivalent, the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - allowing users to easily compare the evolving attitudes and legislation of the two nations.
The Curran Index of Additions to and Corrections of the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals has also been completely integrated with the original Wellesley Index within C19 Index. Professor Eileen Curran, one of the original editors of Wellesley, has compiled an index of corrections and additions made by scholars since Wellesley was published. These entries originally appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review and elsewhere. The Curran Index continues to be updated, and includes information on some additional periodicals not covered in the original Wellesley. Curran is essential for keeping up to date with recent research into the authorship of Victorian periodical articles, and it has now been completely integrated with the online Wellesley Index. Additions and corrections from Curran have been appended to the relevant article, contributor and periodical records from Wellesley, while new records have been created for Curran entries without a corresponding Wellesley record. The full Curran Index can be viewed using the new Browse screen.
June 2007 release
Thousands of new records from Periodicals Index Online and British Periodicals have been added in this release.
Four new options have been added for searching British Periodicals. It is now possible to search for semi-monthly publications, for the content types Drama and Fiction/Narrative, and for articles containing photographs.
November 2006 release
In this release of C19 Index a new index was added for British Periodicals Collection I. Over 300,000 records from the first 71 titles completed as part of ProQuest's ongoing digitization of hundreds of early British periodicals have been added to C19 Index along with a new, dedicated search screen. Additional records will be added over the next couple years as work on converting British Periodicals progresses. Linking to the corresponding full text article is available for customers of the British Periodicals full text resource. More information about this exciting project is available at About British Periodicals. More information on all of the full text linking options is available at Linking to full text.In addition, alternate titles have been added to all records in the American Periodicals Series data set, making it easier for users to follow the history of those publications and search across the variations.
