Times Literary SupplementCentenary Archive 1902-1990

The Essential Review for Modern Cultural Studies

Winter 2010

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Agenda

• Why TLSCA?

• What’s in TLSCA?

• TLSCA demo

- Article search

- Contributors search

• TLSCA search example & results

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Why TLSCA?

• The TLS is the world’s leading newspaper for cultural studies.

• A unique record of developments, debate and discovery across all areas of the humanities and social sciences.

• Attracts contributions from the world’s most influential writers and critics.

- From Virginia Woolf and Henry James… to Francis Fukuyama and Richard Dawkins

• Reviews non-English and translated books

• Special issues survey specific countries

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What’s in TLSCA?What’s in TLSCA?

• Full-page digital facsimiles of one of the most respected literary publications of the 20th century

• 250,000 reviews, letters and poems in over 5,000 issues of the TLS from 1902 to 1990

• TLS reveals identities and ‘connections’ of contributors - anonymous until 1974

• In addition to the literary uses, the product provides insight into what influential opinion makers were saying and the response of their peers

• Unique Contributor Information News International Archive

University of Warwick

Editor: Prof. Jeremy Treglown.

From annotated copies of original TLS issues

Accounting records, editorial diaries

Times archives

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What’s in TLSCA?What’s in TLSCA?

• Supports study of Literature, book publishing and popular culture.

• An interdisciplinary resource- not just literature.

- Fiction

- World history

- International politics

- Science

- Economics

- Philosophy

- Classics

- Art

- Architecture

- Religion

- Sport

- Travel

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What’s in TLSCA?What’s in TLSCA?

•TLS allows users to find a specific article on the basis of:

Author of work being reviewed

Contributor of the article

Title of the work itself or the article

Subject

Type of article

Publisher name or place

Date of article

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Search facility

Article SearchArticle Search

Author

Article Title

Contributor/gender

Publisher

Name/place

Subject

Item description

Date of Publication/Years

All fields

Contributor SearchContributor Search

Name/gender

Year of Birth/Death

Occupation

Subjects reviewed

Languages reviewed

Non TLS journalism

All fields

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TLSCA- demo

The default search function is “Article search”.

The default search function is “Article search”.

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TLSCA- Article search

- Author: the author whose works have been reviewed.

- Book or Article Title: The book or article which is reviewed.

- Author: the author whose works have been reviewed.

- Book or Article Title: The book or article which is reviewed.

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TLSCA- Contributors search

- Non-TLS journalism: searching for more reviews which may be published on other newspapers, journals, or magazines.

※An author may have different occupations, review different topics or works in different languages.

- Non-TLS journalism: searching for more reviews which may be published on other newspapers, journals, or magazines.

※An author may have different occupations, review different topics or works in different languages.

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Article search example- Wind in the willows

Click “Detail” to find more

detailed bibliographies. Click “Detail” to find more

detailed bibliographies.

Search the related reviews of “Wind in the Willows”. Search the related reviews of “Wind in the Willows”.

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Article search result I

Read this review. Read this review.

Reviewer’s background and their works or articles have been published.

Reviewer’s background and their works or articles have been published.

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Article search result II- View Facsimile

The original content of review. The original content of review.

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Contributor search example- Virginia Woolf I

You can find Virginia Woolf’s background and the review written by her.

- Her anonymity, for example: Mrs. Leoard Woolf

- Her occupation, the review field which she is good at.

You can find Virginia Woolf’s background and the review written by her.

- Her anonymity, for example: Mrs. Leoard Woolf

- Her occupation, the review field which she is good at.

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Contributor search example- Virginia Woolf II

Understanding more about the authors’ background and their family members. Understanding more about the authors’ background and their family members.

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Print

Read the full-text. Read the full-text.

Print out the full-text. Print out the full-text.

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Print Format

Format: PDFFormat: PDF

To select the printing formatTo select the printing format

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Let’s take a look…

• Search on Bridges (contributor) in August 1914 (date & year).

• Search on Woolf (contributor) reviewing The Call of the East (title) by Charlotte Lorrimer (author).

• Search on Eliot (contributor) who submitted a letter (item) in April 1920 (date & year).

• Search on Cox (contributor) reviewing Victoria County Histories (title) of which he was co-author.

• Search on Proust (author).

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