New: The American Civil War Research Database

The American Civil War Research Database is a new addition to our databases for those studying the American Civil War. It includes a record for virtually every soldier who served in the war. There are descriptions of thousands of battles, with detailed multi-page battle orders and reports for significant battles.

You can also use the analysis tools to visualize trends in Confederate and Union losses, regimental dynamics, and soldier statistics. This distinctive feature of The American Civil War Research Database lets you graph large-scale trends and then focus down to the regiment or individual soldier.

Let the Games Begin!

In honor of the 2008 Olympics, which begin on August 8, our Reference display on M-Level (outside the Reference Librarian office) features selected reference titles about sports and databases that will keep you up-to-date. Take a look at the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport and the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports for background on the events. Curious about where the games are held? Flip through Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism. Lexis Nexis Academic and Academic Search Premier are updated daily with magazine and newspaper articles about the events.

America’s Historical Newspapers Expands

We’re happy to announce we’ve expanded our subscription to America’s Historical Newspapers to include hundreds of additional historic newspapers totaling approximately 6 million pages from newspapers published in all fifty states between 1690 and 1922. Notable newspapers include: The Baltimore Sun (1837-1901), The New Orleans Times-Picayune, (1861-1900), The Liberator, (1831-1865), and the Maryland Gazette (1728-1832), amongst many others.

You can search America’s Historical Newspapers by date, state or city of publication, as well as browse individual newspaper titles. Once you find an article or issue, you’re able to view, magnify, print and save digital images of articles, pages, and issues of papers. Wonder what the articles look like? See the above sample image from a November 20, 1908 article from the Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota), about developments in experimental physics at Johns Hopkins. Click the image to go read the rest of the article!

Catalog and Databases are Back

Thanks again for your patience. The University’s DNS problem has been solved and you can get to our catalog and databases once again.

Getting to Library Databases

We have ascertained that the problem isn’t so much our catalog, as a DNS problem. We have also determined that access to our databases is affected. This is because of a proxy prefix. If you are on the Homewood campus you can get around this two ways:
1. After clicking on the link to the database (LexisNexis or Scopus), go up to the URL and delete this part:
http://proxy.library.jhu.edu/login?url= Hit enter and you should get into the database.
2. Go to the Welch Medical Library to get to their lists of databases.
Thanks for your patience.

JHU Catalog Down

Please accept our apologies - the server hosting our JHU catalog is again having problems.  Our staff are working hard and we will notify you when service returns. In the meantime, you can use the WorldCat catalog to see what we own.