Monthly Archives: April 2012

New Resource: Classic Mexican cinema online

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Now avail­able:
http://mco.primarysourcesonline.nl/mco/

The Golden Age of Mex­i­can Cin­ema is illu­mi­nated in this col­lec­tion of pop­u­lar movie peri­od­i­cals. Not only does it include chief mag­a­zines such as Cin­ema Reporter (1943–1965) and Cine Mundial (1954–1955), it also fea­tures extremely rare copies of El Cine Grá­fico from 1935 and of the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902–1910). The true extent of the pop­u­lar­ity of Mex­i­can film is illus­trated by Cinelandia (1931–1947), which was pub­lished in Hol­ly­wood both in Span­ish and in Eng­lish. This col­lec­tion also includes dozens of film fly­ers, which were dis­trib­uted on the streets to lure peo­ple into the cin­ema. Finally, for the first time this col­lec­tion gives access to the per­sonal scrap books of Fer­nando de Fuentes (1894–1958), one of the lead­ing Latin-American film­mak­ers to this day. These vol­umes con­tain reviews, movie stills, pro­grams, and adver­tise­ments, shed­ding a unique light on the career of this pio­neer­ing director.

TRIAL: Erudit

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Trial avail­able April 5 — June 30, 2012

http://www.erudit.org/?lang=en

Sent com­ments to Sion Romaine

Éru­dit is the only North-American dis­sem­i­na­tion plat­form of schol­arly and cul­tural jour­nals in French lan­guage. Éru­dit is a plat­form whose mis­sion is to pro­mote and dis­sem­i­nate research and cul­ture. Éru­dit is a non-profit cor­po­ra­tion and an inter-university con­sor­tium of the Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal, Uni­ver­sité Laval, and Uni­ver­sité du Québec, which has oper­ated in the area of dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing since 1998.

TRIAL: Statista

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http://www.statista.com

Trial avail­able April 4 to May 3, 2012

A brief overview:

Data aggre­ga­tion plat­form with sta­tis­tics, facts, and mar­ket data
More than 60,000 top­ics of infor­ma­tion – use­ful to stu­dents of all aca­d­e­mic fields
Over 10,000 pub­lic and pri­vate sources of infor­ma­tion
All sta­tis­tics can be directly down­loaded in JPG, Excel, and Pow­er­Point for­mats
All data pre­pared accord­ing to aca­d­e­mic cita­tion stan­dards, with links to the orig­i­nal source for fur­ther research

Review avail­able:
http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/01/reference/statista/