Notes & Queries online

Subject: Notes & Queries online
From: IanC
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 10:36 AM

I haven't seen any previous reference to this on a thread, so here goes.

I just discovered that the excellent Bodleian Library, Oxford (well known for their ballads site) have published, in facsimile, the first 3 series of Notes & Queries covering the period from 1849 to 1869. The later ones, from 1880 to 1900 approx have more folk information (including texts of mummers plays etc.) but what they've got so far is already a gem. Think of it as an earlier version of The Mudcat!

Happy hunting!
Ian

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 10:47 AM

well - THIS could take a while to peruse!!!!

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 10:57 AM

Also available are significant runs of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and The Gentleman's Magazine, both of which also contain relevant material, though it isn't always very easy to find; beats an afternoon in the library trawling through a year's worth of small print, though!

Internet Library of Early Journals

I did put a link to a piece in Notes & Queries in a discussion a while ago, but I'm blessed if I can remember what it was.

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: IanC
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 11:18 AM

Forgot to say that after No. 2 they do start having an index on the first page, which makes life a little easier thereafter!

:-)

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: masato sakurai
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 11:08 PM

When I searched for "My Aunt Margery" (mentioned in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 2, p. 534) last year, I went to this Notes and Queries site. The search system there didn't help, but the mention of it was found anyway (not much info, though). A treasury of various kinds of information, and great predecessor of our Mudcat forum.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: IanC
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 11:23 AM

Just went back in to carry on with my long term trawling project. Comes up with "No Volumes Available".

Does anyone know what's happened?

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: MMario
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 11:40 AM

looks like the whole project is offline until they get new funding.

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: MMario
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 11:42 AM

seefinal report

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: IanC
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 11:46 AM

Thanks MMario - Wot a pain!

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: MMario
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 12:05 PM

You wold think that once all the conversion was done and it was online for over two years they would leave it - I'm assuming it is hosted on their own computers - but I may be wrong.

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 12:06 PM

Here's a list of (and links to) Electronic Journals.

"Notes and Queries" is on this page:

Electronic Journals -- General arts, humanities & social sciences

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: MMario
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 12:14 PM

their link leads to the same (offline) project.

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: Burke
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 12:22 PM

Unfortunately, the lists provide links back to the orginal project where the files seem to be gone. ;-(

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: Mark Clark
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 01:27 PM

Actually I was able to get clear in as far as links to PDF documents but when I tried to read one, it asked for an ID and password.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Notes & Queries online
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 05:57 PM

It looks like this is an online subscription service, set up the way many libraries are going now. Perhaps you can find it in libraries here in the U.S. It's available online here in Texas through the state universities; anyone who goes to the school and uses a computer on campus should be able to view the early issues. State universities are funded with tax dollars, so they have a special obligation to keep libraries and resources avaliable to the public (with some restrictions depending on licensing and availability).

Sometimes understanding how the bibliographers have catalogued it is difficult; I can't help you much, I'm a writer, not a librarian:


FULL DISPLAY

TITLE:
Notes and queries.
PUBLISHED:
London (etc.) Oxford University Press (etc.)
DESCRIPTION:
v. ill., ports. 22 cm.
INTERNET:
Academic Search Premier includes some full-text articles from 09/01/2000 to 1 year ago.
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?db=aph&bquery=is+00293970&scope=site
Expanded Academic ASAP includes some full-text articles from 03/01/1993 to 12/01/1998.
http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc3%5fEAIM%5F0%5F%5Fjn+%22Notes+and+Queries%22
NUMBERING:
v. 1- Nov. 1849-
NOTES:
"For readers and writers, collectors and librarians," (varies)

Indexes: Ser. 1-12, Nov. 1849-June 1923 (an index for each ser.) 12 v.; Vols. (145)-156, July 1923-June 1929. 1 v.; Vols. 157-168, July 1929-June 1935. 1 v.

Vols. 1-(145), Nov. 1849-1923, called ser. (1)-13 (ser. 1-12 in 12 v. each, ser. 13 in 1 v.)

Vols. 199- 1954- called new ser. v. 1.