Texas State students and faculty across a variety of academic areas are benefitting from two key resources purchased in 2022 through University Libraries’ Online Resource Grant funding. Online Resource Grants support the purchase of one-time online resources such as primary source databases, journal backfile collections, e-book collections, and audio or streaming media collections.
These resources were requested by faculty last spring during our annual call for Online Resource Grant applications:
NAACP Papers
This resource delivers first-hand accounts of crucial issues that document segregation in the early 20th century (1909 – 1972) and what led to the passage of landmark legislation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The online collection contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the NAACP across the country. Topics covered include major campaigns for education, voting, housing , employment, armed forces, anti-lynching, criminal justice, peonage, labor, segregation, discrimination, and the supporting legal files.
Oxford University Studies in Enlightenment
This fully digitized and searchable book series hosted by the Liverpool University Press is devoted to Enlightenment studies. This e-book collection offers a complete archive of 500 volumes published in the series between 1955 and 2016 and includes studies of history, culture, literature, biography, religion, philosophy, and gender.
Thanks to those faculty members who took the time to apply for this grant, our campuses will be able to access these and other wonderful online research materials.
Applications for the 2023 Online Resource grants are now open with a deadline for submissions of Feb. 28. Please see our Online Resource Grants webpage for more information.
This article contributed by Debbie Pitts, UL Marketing and Communications Coordinator