THE THOMAS HARDY
ASSOCIATION
LINKS
| C 35 |
DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
© 1999-2004
ELECTRIC LIBRARY
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://ask.elibrary.com
Contact: Unidentified
Date: 07/01/04
The "Electric Library" is a service sold by "Alacritude, LLC," which offers, for $14.95 a month or $79.95 a year,
access to a "library" of etext sources for reading and downloading, which, it claims, includes
"hundreds and hundreds" of full-text periodicals, as well as newspapers, "classic books,"
encyclopedias, and other sources. In addition, "Electric Library" offers email alerts and personal folders in which to store selected articles.
COMMENT:
The specific sources currently available in the "library" include some scholarly journals, but the number relevant for Hardy studies is very limited. A preliminary search for "Hardy, Thomas" on 04/09/03 yielded a list of 30 documents. Among these were citations to Victorian Studies and to College Literature. Some were reviews in newspapers such as The Herald Tribune or citations to Monarch Notes volumes. For anyone interested in doing serious research on a topic related to Hardy, this database is practically useless.
It is worth mentioning, also, that "Researchpaper.com"--an all-but-worthless service for research--includes many links to this "Electric Library" and was at one time the product of an "Infonautics Corporation" which also produced the "Electric Library": see the description and negative evaluation of it in our Links C 12. Electric Library --or "eLibrary" in its current name--now has commercial connections with the Microsoft corporation.
SUMMARY:
Of possible limited use for someone searching for Hardy-related reviews in newspapers, but otherwise of no practical value for serious research on Hardy.
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