Women Writers Online

Newly redesigned Women Writers Online, beta launch at

http://tinyURL.com/wwonew

This early beta version is the first step in redeveloping the WWO interface and moving WWO onto a platform of modern XML publishing tools.

We welcome bug reports; a list of the major ones we know about is here:

http://www.wwp.brown.edu/wwo/help/known_bugs.html

Feedback form is here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wwo_feedback

NEW features aimed at improving the value of WWO for teaching and research (to be rolled out gradually over the coming months)

--faceted browsing, narrow searches by genre, date, and other metadata

--reader control over the display of the reading text

--simpler, more direct interface for searching and manipulating the collection

--basic biographical details for many authors

--new tools for exploration, such as maps, timelines, and visualizations

Other important changes planned for 2012-13:

--all of the contextual and biographical essays currently included in Renaissance Women Online will be freely available, rather than being part of WWO's licensed content, and we will be recruiting additional essays to expand this collection beyond the Renaissance.

--contemporary reviews and reception materials from our current grant project on readership and reception will be linked from the texts they comment on.

Both the old and new interfaces will remain available during the month of March; the old WWO will be retired permanently in early April.

Women Writers Online: New platform

The Women Writers Project, Brown University is due to launch a new Women Writers Online (WWO) platform and interface. The launch will take place in stages over the next few months. In March the new interface to WWO will be publicly visible in parallel with the existing interface. In April, the new interface will become the WWO interface, and access to the old interface will be cut off.

The new platform will retain and improve on familiar features:

•  full-text searching
• searching on bibliographic data
• clear reading interface

New features to be added:

• faceted browsing (narrow searches by genre, date, etc.)
• detailed control over the display of the text (e.g. modernization of typography)
• simpler interface for searching and manipulating the collection
• basic biographical details for many authors
• new tools for exploration, e.g., timelines, visualizations

Also, over the course of the coming year:

• expand and update the collection of contextual and biographical essays included in Renaissance Women Online, and extend this collection beyond the Renaissance;
• add contemporary reviews and reception materials arising from our current grant project on readership and reception.

Ebooks and GEAC, Library OPAC

Ebook packages which HAVE MARC records for each title in the Library catalogue:
ACLS Humanities ebooks,
ECCO
Hein
LexisNexis
LWW Nursing
MOML
MyiLibrary
Past Masters

Ebook packages which DON’T have MARC records for the individual titles in GEAC (although there is a general record for the package in the catalogue):
LION
SAFARI
ORO (Oxford Reference Online) 250 books
SourceOECD
WWO (There may be title access for some of these via EEBO although the format of the EEBO ebook will be different to that in WWO.)

*New resources (record loading to be advised):
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) 800 titles.
MEMSO (Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online) 500 titles