Online resources : databases

Jacoby Online presents a completely new edition of "Jacoby" - byword for one of the fundamental modern sources of classical scholarship - in a fully searchable and indexed online format. Beginning in January 2007 and proceeding in twice-yearly updates at the rate of about 60 historians per update (approximate equivalent of 1,000 printed pages), each of Jacoby's 856 entries, comprising a total of more than 12,000 pages.

The "first substantial collection of writings in the author's own hand to survive for a British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing life, roughly 1787 to 1817; that is from childhood (aged 11 or 12) to the year of her death (aged 41). They display a wide variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and crafted 'publications' for private circulation among family and friends. Laid out in conscious imitation or parody of the formal features of book design, and labelled by Austen Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third, the teenage, handwritten notebooks (with the possible exception of Volume the Third) have long appeared to scholars to be finished artefacts. By contrast, most of the other manuscript writings consist of pre-print or rough drafts in various stages of development: the experimental novel later entitled The Watsons, a short, discarded section of Persuasion, and Sanditon, the final novel, unfinished when she died." The digital edition includes in the first instance all Jane Austen's known fiction manuscripts and any ancillary materials held with them, as follows: I. Volume the first. II. Volume the second. III. Volume the third. IV. Lady Susan. V. Susan. VI. The Watsons. VII. Persuasion. VIII. Sanditon. IX. Opinions of Mansfiled Park X. Opinions of Emma. XI. Plan of a novel. XII. Profits of my novels.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

Between ages 3 and 7, many structures form which will be indispensable for future mental development. Anything we can do to favor preschool education seems essential for the ultimate development of the child. I am very impressed by the principle of your Japanese League of Preschool Education-- to base education on psychological data, including the most recent and theoretical principles. Very often educators use out-dated theories of psychology. However, in the schools I visited yesterday, and in the work of Dr. Matsui and his collaborators, I have observed an attempt to adapt preschool education to the most current knowledge in child psychology. The study of child psychology has concerned my colleague, Dr. Inhelder, and myself for many years.

This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. Please note that since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History.

JISC Historic Books, part of the new JISC eCollections service, contains the full text or page images of over 365,000 books published in England before 1900. The service draws together content from two of the best-known and longest-established early book collections, EEBO and ECCO. Uniquely, and never before available online, JISC Historic Books also includes Nineteenth Century books from the British Library collection - digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions from the 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The collection extends to over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible content, and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book.

JISC Journal Archive consolidates the journal archives purchased on behalf of members, to provide a single platform for simple and fast cross-searching and full text access across more than 450 journals from publishers.

JISC Mediahub provides a single point of access to major multimedia archives purchased on behalf of members. It enables cross searching and exploration of TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music and includes the contents of Film & Sound Online and Newsfilm online. The films are of high quality, and are fully downloadable, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.

John Bowlby's Attachment Theory shows how relational patterns set early in life affect emotional bonds later in life. This film's focus is on attachment theory as it explains many aspects of personality development from childhood through to adulthood. The film is a companion piece to our very popular 2005 release on Bowlby's colleague, Mary Ainsworth, which was centered largely on the development of attachment relationships in infancy. The film addresses issues related to attachment in later life as people seek to establish new ties and cope with separations and losses. Therapeutic applications of the theory as developed by Dr. Bowlby and others are illustrated, along with new insights that neuroscience brings us to understand the legacy of attachment histories.

John Dewey wrote extensively about philosophy, psychology, education, political science, and the arts. In his very full 92 years of life (1859-1952), he not only wrote about the breadth of life, he participated in it as a teacher, social critic, political activist and involved family man. This fully produced video introduces students to his philosophy and his critical studies of education, the arts and the implications of democracy for the lives of individuals and their communities.

This site provides access to the online catalog of The John Johnson Collection. This collection of printed ephemera was originally collected by John de Monins Johnson between c.1923 and 1956. It was housed at the Oxford University Press (where it was called The Constance Meade Collection of Ephemeral Printing) until its transfer to the Bodleian Library in 1968. The collection consists of more than 1 million items and documents advertising; authors; book trade; entertainment; political, religious, social and economic history; printing; private presses; transport; and travel. The collection is retrospective and spans the years 1508 to 1939, with some ephemera of the 1940s and 1950s and a separate collection of post-1960 additions. The collection is strongest in 19th and early 20th century ephemera, with significant 18th century holdings. The site provides catalogue access, finding aids, headings, access to similar collections and an online exhibition of selected work.

This is the combined search-and-retrieval website for AAPG publications and related collections. Includes full-text and abstracts.

"The Lyell Collection is an online collection comprising of the Society's journal titles, Special Publications and key book series."--About.

A service for biomedical sciences, comprising the databases Medline and Cinahl, collections of full-text journals, and Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (including Best Evidence, Cochrane, and DARE). The database aggregates hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies, with each journal available by individual subscription. Includes access and searching of all the bibliographic citations, references, and abstracts in the database as well as to the full text of select journals.

While reading Debbie Miller's book, Reading with Meaning, or viewing her Happy Reading! video series, one wonders at Debbie's ability to orchestrate a buzzing classroom full of first-graders into a cooperative literacy community. The Joy of Conferring lets us focus in with Debbie and see what happens at the individual level as she conducts reading conferences with her students. Program 1: Listen and Guideђ́ؤThe Dynamics of Conferring Debbie engages in a series of six conferences with students who have a range of needs, from decoding and comprehension, to writing thoughtful responses to their reading. She maintains certain consistent practices across all of the conferences, such as referring back to her previous conferences with each student (either through notes or in oral exchanges), looking closely at the text to focus in on a word, concept or big idea, and listening to the child read and think aloud. Program 2: Three Minutes or Lessђ́ؤBook Selection, Quick Conferences Two of the biggest concerns teachers have about conferring with students are that there is never enough time, and it is difficult to get students to choose the right books for independent reading. How can a teacher provide individual attention to students during daily workshops, when she has twenty five or more children requiring attention? How can teachers help children learn how to select books that provide a balanced diet of genre, topic, and challenging text? "Three Minutes or Less" presents in almost real time the ways Debbie is able to check in with an entire class of students. Many of these conferences are less than a minute long, yet Debbie still manages to find time to instruct, listen carefully, and leave students with challenges.

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

JSTOR Plant Science offers access to botanical resources from dozens of herbaria, libraries, museums and other research institutions. The database includes plant type specimens from herbaria around the world, scientific research articles and correspondence dating back hundreds of years, and full-text books and reference works on botany.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

"JustCite is a legal reference search engine and citator, providing a fully cross referenced index to a comprehensive collection of authoritative UK and European legal information"--"About JustCite" screen.