The Library recently acquired 8 new databases from Alexander Street Press, providers of full-text historical and literary letters, essays, diaries, memoirs, biographies, and plays.
New titles available include:
All of the databases available from Alexander Street Press provide users with a browsable Table of Contents, a comprehensive Help page, and a Showcase highlighting items of interest found within the respective database. Each database contains a Find and Search Texts option. The Find option allows users to search for specific authors, sources, sections of text, images, etc., while the simple and advanced Search Texts options enables locating key concepts and terms within a specific piece of work.
Access to the respective databases (listed above) from Alexander Street Press is available from the Library's Research Databases page by clicking on the corresponding letter in the Browse by Title section.
The databases from Alexander Street Press can also be accessed by conducting a title search using the Library's catalogue, TRELLIS.
For more information, please contact:
Jane Forgay
Liaison Librarian for History, Independent Studies, and Political Science
Ext. 35417
University of Waterloo Library
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
519 888 4883
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