Press release from Reno Libraries at the University of Nevada.
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October 1, 2005
Press Release
Reno, Nevada
Contact: Donnelyn Curtis ([log in to unmask])
or Kathryn Etcheverria ([log in to unmask])
The Basque Database is now available through the University of Nevada,
Reno, providing multilingual access to Basque-studies books, articles,
chapters, dissertations, films and other materials written or produced
after 1994. Over 2,300 articles (27%) are available in open-access
full-text format through the database. Twenty-six "core journals" (17
with full text) are indexed completely while other journals are indexed
selectively. The subject emphases are Basque history, language and
culture. Search screens and help screens are provided in English,
Spanish and Basque languages, and most of the 4,650 records for
Basque-language materials and 10,000+ records for Spanish-language
materials are enhanced with English-language keywords. Searches can be
limited for precision, and search results can be marked, saved, e-mailed
and exported in various formats.
The two-year database development project, funded with a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, continues the work of Jon Bilbao
(1914-1994), "The Father of Basque Bibliography." His comprehensive
15-volume Eusko-Bibliographia, covering publications written by or about
Basques through 1980, contains a half million citations. With a team of
bibliographers, Bilbao continued indexing Basque works until his death
in 1994. Although his later work was not published in book form, it has
been made available online through the Eusko Bibliographia database
(also using III; at http://bibliotecaforal.bizkaia.net:8l) produced by
the Biblioteca Foral, the Regional Library of Vizcaya in the Basque
Country. Older records from the printed bibliographies are being added
to that database. The Basque Database of the University of Nevada, Reno
updates the previous works, and will continue to be updated to include
citations and full text of articles from the core journals and other
materials that are not indexed elsewhere. It can be found at
http://basquedb.unr.edu.
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