Literature Titles on CD-ROM

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Admyte
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
Arden Shakespeare
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina BTL 1 and 2
Black Literature Index
Catalogo Colectivo de Fondos Iberamericano
Catalogue of Early American Imprints (Evans)
CD Coreworks
CETEDOC
Comprehensive Shakespeare Dictionary
DaSinD - Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland
Dotze Sentits
Granger's World of Poetry
In Principio
Lexikon der deutschen Literatur
Library of the Future
Poem Finder
Le Robert Electronique
Romanticism, the CD-ROM
World Shakespeare Bibliography

Black Literature Index, 1827-1940
Index on CD-Rom (Units 1-5)
Chadwyck-Healey

A CD-ROM index to the microfiche collection Black Literature,1827-1940 (Davis Microforms, Fiche 1-3162). When completed, the microfiche collection will reproduce over 150,000 discrete pieces of fiction, poetry, book reviews and literary notices appearing in approximately 900 black periodicals and newspapers, 1827-1940. The beginning date coincides with the initial publication of Freedom's Journal, the first black periodical. The collection is being issued in units of approximately 200 microfiche (numbered sequentially) and is expected to run to 15 units. This CD-ROM indexes the first 5 units of the collection. Updated, cumulative CD-ROM indexes will be issued after the publication of Unit 10 and upon completion of the set. Searchable (with browsable indexes) by author, title, title keyword, keyword, genre, date(s) of publication, publication title, and fiche number.

Catalogo Colectivo de Fondos Iberamericanos en Bibliotecas Espanolas
Chadwyck-Healey Espana S.L., c1993

This database was created as one of the international projects of the Quinto Centenario program and was designed as a reference tool for researching Latin American history and culture. Catalogo Colectivo comprises three databases. The first is a union catalog of holdings on Latin America in six major Spanish libraries (approximately 242,000 book records). The second is a database of records of more than 10,000 articles on Latin America drawn from 688 Spanish journals, 1975-1992, in the areas of the social sciences and humanities. The third segment is a bibliography of 3,500 doctoral theses on Latin America presented in European universities 1980-89.

Catalogue of Early American Imprints 1640-1800
American Antiquarian Society, READEX

This CD-ROM contains North American Imprints Program records for materials printed before 1801 in what is now the United States, including records for items recorded by Evans or Bristol but not filmed by Readex and records for materials unrecorded by Evans or Bristol and therefore not filmed.

CD CoreWorks
Roth Publishing, Inc.

CD CoreWorks is an index database of poems, essays, plays, and short stories. It combines the latest versions of four previously published paper indexes: Master Index to Poetry, Roth's Essay Index, Roth's Index to Short Stories, and World's Best Drama Index. CD CoreWorks has two search options: SEARCH and SMART INDEX. SEARCH allows you to search all fields and all types of documents or to limit your search by field (Author, Title, First Line, etc.) and/or document (Drama, Poetry, Essays, or Stories). After your search is completed you may look at a list of citations. Select a citation and it is displayed for you. SMART INDEX allows you to search the database index. As you type each letter of a word the system moves through the index. The index lists the number of occurrences for each word. The number of occurrences of the word is not limited by field or type of document.

CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts
Brepols N.V.

CETEDOC contains a set of 21,600,000 forms, representing virtually the entirety of the volumes published in the Corpus Christianorum, both the Series Latina and the Continuatio Mediaeualis, the opera omnia of major authors such as Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, as well as several works not yet available in the Corpus Christianorum but included in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum of Vienna, the Patrologia Latina, or other collections.

The intention of CETEDOC is to produce a general database of Christian Latin texts and thus to create a computerized Patrology, without necessarily stopping at the chronological limits of the ancient Patrology. The use of this database is situated in two complementary perspectives: one documentary, the other cognitive. In the first, one is concerned with finding who said what, when, where, and how many times; to see the precise references of this usage or that association of terms, to find again the various uses of texts produced in the course of history. The second allows for multiple entries into the texts in order to understand them better. This time one searches not so much for references as for understanding.

CETEDOC uses a fill-in-the-blank form to perform searches. To move within the form use the Page Down and Page Up keys. Within the form you can search the entire database or limit the search by using the filters. The filters available are author, title, Clavis number, and patristic or medieval period. Other function keys are explained at the top of the screen.

Granger's World of Poetry
Columbia University Press

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry helps you find poems. It is both a treasury of the most popular poems in the English language and a key to an even larger world of poetry in hundreds of anthologies, many of them available in libraries everywhere.
You can read and print:

• 8,500 classic poems
• quotations from 1,500 more recent poems
• anthology citations for 90,000 poems

You can also read and print descriptions and evaluations of 400 recent anthologies of poetry.

You can find poems:

• on any of 4,000 subjects
• by any of 15,000 poets
• if you know a title, first line, some words in a title or first line, or even only some words in the text of a poem reproduced in Granger's World of Poetry.

This work derives from several printed books:

• Granger's Index to Poetry
• The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
• The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations
• The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies

Function keys are defined at the bottom of the screen. On-line help is available by pressing F1. A complete list of the poetry anthologies indexed in Granger's World of Poetry is available in the documentation.

In Principio: Incipit Index of Latin Texts
Incipitaire des Textes Latins
1994
Brepols

Prior to the invention of printing, texts underwent changes as they were copied from manuscript to manuscript. The "incipit," or opening words of a text, are the surest designation of a particular text.

In Principio is an index to about 400,000 incipits identified by the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes from libraries and collections throughout the world, with an emphasis on holdings of French libraries and the Vatican Library. Together with the collection of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at Collegeville, In Principio represents the richest collection of incipits at the disposal of scholars studying Latin literature and its transmission.

Chronologically, In Principio covers all Latin texts in manuscript form from their origin to about 1500 when printing began -- ancient, patristic, medieval, and humanist Latin literature. Texts cover all literary genres, among them: theology and the liberal arts, history, poetry, medicine, liturgy, civil and canon law, the sciences, sermons, glossaries -- even cooking recipes and cursing formulas.

"In Principio provides, on the basis of the incipit:

• an identification: an author's name and a title of a work
• one or more manuscripts containing the text
• a bibliographical reference, catalogue, study, edition, etc. when the record comes from a bibliographic registration
• a name of an institution (at present, only the IRHT) or a person, in the case of primary, unpublished research." (User's Manual, p. 9)

Library of the Future
World Library, Inc.

Library of the Future (3rd edition) is a full text database of some 1,750 literary titles. Altogether there are more than 3,500 texts -- novels, single poems, short stories, plays, historical documents, scientific works, and children's books and stories. Works are English language or translations into English.

A list of titles is available.

Features of the software:

• Searching by word, subject, phrase and date;
• Searching by time period (century, era), country and category
• Autoscrolling feature that advances text for reading
• Setting and retrieving bookmarks
• Reading and comparing several texts simultaneously
• Printing (screens or entire works)
• Saving text in ASCII format to file
• Illustrations
• Video clips from movies for some works (NOTE: this feature may not be available, depending on the software)

Poem Finder
Roth Publishing, Inc.

This mammoth database indexes more than 360,000 poems in English or English translation by 44,000 authors writing from antiquity to the present. Poems are drawn from 1,600 popular anthologies, 2,100 single-author collections, and 109 periodicals. The poems are searchable by author, keyword title/first line, last line (in most cases), keyword, subject, and language. It is also possible to search by an author's nationality, religion, profession or sex; conversely, from within a citation it is possible to link (Shift + F2) to a brief author biography. Source publications are accessible via title, author/editor, publisher, year, ISBN, etc. Boolean searching of multiple fields and combined set searching provide for considerable flexibility and refinement. A Browse function is available for most fields (author, keyword title/first line, etc.). The indexing of this database is sometimes sloppy or inconsistent. However, this is more than offset by the sheer amount of material indexed.

Le Robert Electronique DMW
Dictionnaires LE ROBERT

This CD is the electronic version of the nine-volume Grand Robert de la Langue Francaise. Containing some 80,000 articles for a word list of 100,000 entries, the CD provides for each word its standard form plus feminine forms and irregular plurals, primary and secondary meanings, pronunciation and examples of usage.

The user can search a shortened entry giving principal definitions; a more-detailed definition with illustrative examples; etymology; quotations illustrating meanings; synonyms and antonyms; and homonyms and derivatives. Altogether, the disc contains about 1,000,000 synonyms and cross-references and 160,000 quotations from a broad spectrum of French literature.

For each word the user can call up a screen of phonetic equivalents to determine pronunciation. For each verb the "conjuger" feature allows the user to call up the conjugation for all tense forms, either with or without the subject pronouns. The database can be searched using function keys or pull-down menus. It is possible to search truncated forms using the "joker" feature; and to search the quotations (citations) for the use of a word by a particular author. The database can be accessed directly from word processing software so the user can transfer words into a text.

These features make Le Robert Electronique an important and powerful tool for the serious user.

World Shakespeare Bibliography

When complete, this resource will provide complete, annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audio-visual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. The coverage is international, extending to more than eighty languages and most countries of the world. The first disk covers 1990-1993. Annual updates will move forwards one year and backwards three. This bibliography both cumulates and significantly expands the annual bibliographies in Shakespeare Quarterly.

Because of its coverage of productions and popular materials this should be very useful for undergraduate theater projects, especially as the chronological coverage expands.

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