Centre for Digital Scholarship Projects

Current and Recent Projects

New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Project

New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Project provides researchers with unified access to UNB Libraries' current and historical newspaper collections in all formats, from New Brunswick and across the world. Search and discover print, microform, and selected digital newspaper titles (including New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Online collection) available from UNB Libraries. New digital titles and issues will be added on a continuing basis.

Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World

The Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World is an ongoing project that seeks to provide digital access to the laws governing slavery and freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World, from the founding laws of the seventeenth century to the laws that governed emancipation in the nineteenth century.

Tide & Time: a New Brunswick Bibliography

The Tide & Time: a New Brunswick Bibliography is an ongoing project aimed at documenting New Brunswick’s printed heritage, and compiling a searchable bibliography of books, chapters, pamphlets, articles and other items about New Brunswick or by New Brunswick authors. This broad, multidisciplinary resource includes focused topical bibliographical collections, profiles of NB authors, links to selected digital resources, and more.

New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia

An initiative of Dr. Tony Tremblay, Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick Studies (2007-17), the site aims to be a useful research tool for students, scholars, and teachers interested in New Brunswick literature. Its most prominent feature is an encyclopedia of biographical, critical, and bibliographic information about more than 200 New Brunswick writers and literary subjects. As well, the site provides resources for further study and teaching, including links to the New Brunswick Literature Curriculum in English.

New Brunswick Literature Curriculum in English

Designed for students, teachers, and general readers, the comprehensive curriculum is a guided reading tool for those who want to know more about New Brunswick literature. NBLCE is also an initiative of Dr. Tony Tremblay, Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick Studies (2007-17),

Brunswick News Archive

In partnership with Brunswick News, the Centre for Digital Scholarship developed digital images from microfilm of nearly 3 million printed pages of New Brunswick news primarily from The Daily Gleaner, The Times Transcript, and the Telegraph Journal. More than a century of content from these titles is included, and all titles are available to UNB community members in-person at UNB Libraries in Fredericton and Saint John from within the New Brunswick Historic Newspapers Project. [This content is also available on Newspapers.com for individual access by personal subscription.]

Early Modern Maritime Recipes

Early Modern Maritime Recipes examines recipes circulating before 1800 in print and manuscript in the area now defined as Canada's Maritime provinces. Early modern recipe writing focused on food and medicine, but recorded a range of other practices associated with alchemy, cosmetics, veterinary, medicine, and laundry, amongst other things. Early Modern Maritime Recipes compiles a record of extant recipes by digitizing and transcribing recipes from archival collections throughout the Maritime provinces. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and developed in partnership with Principal Investigators Dr. Edith Snook and Dr. Lyn Bennett.

Vocabularies of Identity

“Vocabularies of Identity II: The evolution of collective identity in Acadian and Loyalist texts published in New Brunswick newspapers from 1880 to 1940,” includes a database of journalistic texts digitized and compiled from New Brunswick newspapers with a focus on the expression of collective identity in Loyalist and Acadian populations in the region. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and led by Principal Investigator Dr. Chantal Richardin partnership with UNB Libraries' Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Atlantic Canada Studies Centre (UNB) and the Laboratoire d’Analyse de Données Textuelles (LADT) at l’Université de Moncton.

British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867

This full-text database includes digital images and transcription of all legislation passed by the pre-Confederation assemblies of eastern British North America: Nova Scotia (1758-1867); Cape Breton (1785-1820); Prince Edward Island (1768-1867); New Brunswick (1786-1867); Lower Canada (1792-1838); Upper Canada (1792-1840), the United Canadas (1841-1867); and Newfoundland (1832-1867). The database is hosted by the Atlantic Canada Studies Centre and UNB Libraries' Centre for Digital Scholarship, with funding made possible by Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies held by Elizabeth Mancke (2012-2019).

Nature’s Bounty: Four Centuries of Plant Exploration in New Brunswick

Digital book by Dr. C. Mary Young. A study of plant exploration in New Brunswick from 1604 to 2000, encompassing short biographical sketches and tells the stories of naturalists and botanists in the light of the times in which they lived. Features illustrations by the author.

Connell Memorial Herbarium

The Connell Memorial Herbarium Database was created in partnership with the Department of Biology at the University of New Brunswick with the assistance of the Centre for Digital Scholarship. It features over 55,000 records, almost half of which with full-color scanned specimens.

Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Dictionary

A searchable dictionary produced by the Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute at the University of New Brunswick. The Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal links the 18,000-word online Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary with an extensive archive of videos of conversations and activities of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet speakers. The Portal is designed as a resource for language learning and research.

Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self

A digital volume by Dr. Tony Tremblay that offers a selection of a selection of prose, poetry, and correspondence of Cogswell and a critical appraisal of his creative and cultural work. A broad entry to and assessment of the work of one of Canada’s most important literary modernists.

UNB Scholar Research Repository

The UNB Scholar Research Repository is the new repository initiative by UNB Libraries. It represents a renewed, explicit focus on open access, communication, and transparency in Scholarly Communications at the University of New Brunswick.

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