Resources: CRL Pipeline
CRL gathers and provides information here about commercial and open access digital resources of interest to the CRL community. This information is intended to inform library decisions on investment in electronic resources and related services.
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Analyse Africa
Analyse Africa, a service from the Financial Times, provides access to macroeconomic data from global and local data sources on Africa from 2000-Present.
It includes access to key indicators in the following categories: political stability, banking and financing, infrastructure, education, economic potential, environment, social dynamics, trade, labour, and foreign direct investment.
Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
Provides materials from the National Archives of the United Kingdom. It includes official correspondence, diplomatic dispatches, profiles of leading political figures, and minutes of meetings for South Africa during the period 1948-1980.
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Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) Digital Library
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) Digital Library (also known as the BORI Digital Library) provides access to the digitized books and manuscripts held at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune.
Bloomberg Professional Service
A comprehensive, premium financial information platform used by finance and investment professionals, journalists, economists, and other researchers, Bloomberg Professional Service provides access to current and historical news and information relating to financial markets and financial activity worldwide.
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CEIC Global Database
CEIC Global Database provides access to macro- and microeconomic data from 128 countries, containing reportedly over 2.5 million time series from the United States and countries worldwide. Indicators include government and public finance data (gross domestic product, national government debt), inflation, domestic trade, foreign trade, financial markets, and key industry sectors such energy and tourism. Data is compiled and normalized by CEIC for comparison of various economic factors across countries. CEIC’s platform (CDMNext) allows dowloading of time series data (up to 3,000 series at a time) to Excel for analysis.
https://www.ceicdata.com
Cumhuriyet Digital Archive
Cumhuriyet Digital Archive provides access to the Turkish daily newspaper, Cumhuriyet (“The Republic”). The archive contains published issues from 1924-2019, with additional years added on an annual basis.
This title is part of the East View Global Press Archive.
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Digitalia
Digitalia provides online access to a collection of streaming videos and thousands of French language e-Books.
Their subscription based platforms include:
Digitalia Film Library is a multilingual, multi-national collection of streaming films from Spain, France, other European and eastern European countries, North American Classic films, and Latin American films from many Latin American countries including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil (Portuguese), and others. This library now has approximately 900+ films and will grow to over 900 films this year.
Digitalia Française provides...
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Financial Times
FT.com is an English-language, online business news portal, produced by London-based Financial Times Ltd. FT coverage of financial markets and interests is global, with extensive coverage of Western Europe, North America, China and Japan, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. FT was one of the first newspaper publishers to successfully charge for access to its website.
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Granth Sanjeevan
Granth Sanjeevan provides access to over 25 million pages of digitized material from The Asiatic Society of Mumbai. The collections include digitized copies of old and rare books from the 15th Century onwards, newspapers like Bombay Chronicle, Bombay Times and others, manuscripts, journals, maps and government publications.
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IntelCenter Database
Online subscription database of multimedia content, covering "Terrorist/Rebel Incidents, Threats, Hostages, Groups,[ . . .] Individuals, Country Data, Alerts, Maps & Recognition Photos of Vehicles, Weapons, Clothing & More. . . . . As of 30 Sep. 2014, the ICD contains more than 141,000 records covering more than 1,100 hours of audio and video (3,800+ releases), 124,000 incidents, 800 facial records, 330 hostage records, 2,200 photos, 350 logos, 2,900 threat communications, 29 ArcGIS maps, 400 analytical reports." (www.intelcenter.com/icd, January 2015).
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London Review of Books
The London Review of Books (LRB) was founded in 1979 and is a British literary magazine published twice monthly that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.
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MIRABILE
There is an open resource/aggregated content http://www.mirabileweb.it/index.aspx?lingua=en
Medioevo Latino (MEL) Bibliotheca Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Recentiorisque Aevi (BISLAM) Compendium Auctorum Medii Aevi (CALMA) Medioevo Musicale (MEM)Additional publications are included free
Romance Database Hagiographic Database Journals – publisher Edizioni del Galluzzo: back file and new issues; institution with active print subscription get a discount Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale Filologia Mediolatina Hagiographica Iconographica Itineraria...Le Monde
Le Monde is a French daily newspaper that was founded in 1944. The online version of Le Monde began on 19 December 1995.
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NK News
NK News is an independent site that provides news, opinion & analysis, research tools, data, and expertise focused on North Korea.
The site provides free access to basic articles, intelligence, and opinion. Institutional subscription provides full article access, full access to databases and tools, and access to NK Intelligence.
http://www.nknews.org/
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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Online
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Online provides access to 217 volumes from the "Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteen Century" (SVEC) and "Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment" (OSEO).
This digital collection is scheduled to launch in September 2018, with all volumes within the print series digitized by 2020.
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PoliticoPro
Politico Pro is a premium news service offered by POLITICO, a global news and information company covering politics and policy making in the U.S. and internationally. Politico Pro offers subscription-based access to breaking news alerts and in-depth reporting catered primarily to a political audience (federal agencies, political staffers, lobbyists, analysts and related sectors). Political Pro offers coverage of 16 policy areas including agriculture and trade, defense, education, energy, health care, technology, transportation, and others. Articles frequently link to source documents stored within Pro's "Document Drawer" (with documents dating back to 2011). http://www.politico.com/proProQuest International DataSets
Aggregated datasets from national governments, international organizations, and research firms.
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Rand Daily Mail Archive (1902-1985)
The Rand Daily Mail Archive provides searchable, full-text coverage of the Rand Daily Mail, a daily newspaper published in Johannesburg, South Africa. Coverage spans1902, the year of the founding of the newspaper, to 1985, the year it was closed amidst a government crackdown on anti-apartheid activism. .
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STAT+
STAT+ is the premiere enterprise offering from STAT, the leading digital news authority reporting on biopharma, health tech & AI, the business of making medicines, the intersection of politics and health policy, healthcare, insurance, and the life sciences.
Sabinet Legal Access
A set of online subscription databases of historical and current South African legal publications aggregated by Sabinet. The collection includes official gazettes, journals, bills of the South African Parliament, municipal bylaws, acts and provincial and national legislation, and labor judgements in the courts, dating from 1910 to the present.
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