Resources A-Z
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The Christian Science Monitor
Retrospective issues of The Christian Science Monitor are available through the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database platform, dating from the Monitor’s inception in 1908 through 1996.
Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Church Missionary Society Periodicals provides digital access to two hundred years of serial publications from the British-based Church Missionary Society (CMS) and the South American Missionary Society. The collection consists of two modules.
Module 1: Global Missions and Contemporary Encounters was released in April 2015 and features a wide range of titles from the collection at the Crowther Mission Studies Library in Oxford. It includes the Church Missionary Gleaner, CMS Outlook, CMS Intelligencer, Ruanda Notes (MAM News) and the South Missionary Magazine, encompassing issues from 1804-2009.
...The Churchill Archive
Bloomsbury Publishing launched a digital version of the Winston Churchill archives in October, 2012. The archive is held in the Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) at Churchill College, in Cambridge.
Climate Change and Law Collection Online
Digital collection containing original source, non-edited, and non-redacted "grey literature" (non-peer reviewed) on climate change and law. The law related content includes any discipline of law which addressed climate change, including: corporate law, environmental law, and human rights law. Materials in the collection originate from a wide range of organizations in the public and private sector, instructions, and/or individuals.
The collection is edited by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa, Canada and is updated annually.
The Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945-1991
The Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945-1991 provides access to CIA monitored, recorded, and translated coverage of the Cold War in foreign media and government publications during the period of 1945-1991. It covers newspapers, magazines, radio broadcasts, television broadcasts, books, government reports, and more.
Content for this collection is primarily sourced from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports and the...
Colonial America
Colonial America is a five-module resource expected to incorporate all 1,450 files form the CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK. CO 5 contains the original correspondence between the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State and the English, later British, colonies in North America and the Caribbean from 1606-1822.
This is a five-module resource, with Module 1: Frontier Life, Early Expansion and Rivalries expected to be released in September 2015.
Module 1: Frontier Life, Early Expansion and Rivalries Module 2: Towards Revolution: Disputes and Origins of the Conflict Module 3: The...
Confidential Print series
Adam Matthew Digital Collections has released four collections in the Confidential Print series. These collections are full-text searchable databases of British Government documents generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices based in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America from 1820 to 1970. All items marked “Confidential Print” were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad. These materials range from letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports, and texts of treaties.
Conscientious Objection during World War 1
Conscientious Objection during World War 1 provides access to 6,888 pages of papers written by Britain's peace campaigners during World War I.
CoreLogic
CoreLogic is a database of property information, real estate transaction services and analytics. The content provided includes publicly available data and multiple listing service (MLS) data combined with property, mortgage and financial databases to provide information required for mortgage and real estate services.
Corporate Affiliations
Corporate Affiliations is an online business database with information on companies from across the globe, it is provided by LexisNexis. The database includes company profiles, financials, parent and subsidiary company information, and access to business news feeds.
Countries At Risk of Electoral Violence
The open access dataset of Countries At Risk of Electoral Violence (CREV) includes provides detailed dyadic information on electoral violence in 101 countries between1995 and 2013. The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Crime and the 19th Century
Crime and the 19th Century from Gale is expected to release in Fall 2015.
Crimson Hexagon Data Library
Crimson Hexagon is a social media analytics service, based in Boston, MA, that indexes social media posts from a wide range of global sources,and maintains an online repository of social media data and a platform for social media analytics. The data library provides posts from content providers including: Twitter, Tumblr, Google Plus, Blogs, Forums, Facebook, Instagram Hashtags, Reviews, News, Comments, and YouTube.
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations (1959-) is the Vertical Archive of the Casa de las Americas, Part 1, "Casa y Cultra". The resource holds articles, newspaper clippings, cable messages, interviews, and conference memorabilia collected from 1959 onward which collectively document the activities of the institution both in Cuba and outside of it. The archive is comprised of 45,000 documents covering almost 60 years of cultural relations between Revolutionary Cuba and abroad.
The Current Digest of the Chinese Press
Like its older sibling, Current Digest of the Russian Press, this weekly serial publication launched early in 2012 (after a pilot issue in August 2011) provides English translations of timely articles selected from domestic Chinese news publications. The digital archive from East View contains 373 issues dating from 2011 to the present.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
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