Resources A-Z

De Gruyter provides access to a select number of databases that focus in German studies and related fields.  As of Summer 2021, a total of 18 titles were available on the De Gruyter platform with an area focus in German studies including: encyclopedias, diaries, writings by German authors, and more.

De Gruyter eBook Collections provides digital access to varying book titles recently digitized.  The titles cover topics in the humanities, sciences, and more.  A select number of eBooks are in German studies and related fields.

The de Gruyter Online Journal Archive comprises the full text content of 155 academic journals, published between 1826 and 2010.    It is offered to institutions as an outright perpetual purchase, either as a Complete Collection, or as a selection of subject-based packages: Library and Information Science; Science, Technology and Medicine; Linguistics, Literature and Communications; Classical Studies and Theology; Philosophy; and Law. Individual titles are also available on request.

Declassified Documents Reference System is a digital collection of U.S. government documents.  It includes original documents from the the White House and a variety of U.S. government agencies, such as: the CIA, FBI, Defense Department, Justice Department, National Security Council, State Department, and Commerce Department and International Trade Administration.

DemographicsNow: Business & People connects users with detailed demographic data that spans the entire United States and Canada.

Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. provides digital access to over 27,000 motion picture films distributed by Warner Bros., NBC Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, New Line Cinema, Screen Gems, Magnolia Pictures, Focus Films, Entertainment One, Image Entertainment, Miramax, Relativity, Oscilloscope, Questar, and The Weinstein Co.

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) provides access to declassified U.S. government documents from 1945-2013.  The resource now includes 48 collections consisting of approximately 120,000 indexed documents focusing on national security topics, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. Intelligence after 9/11, and the Vietnam War.

DigitalGlobe is the primary commercial provider of very high-resolution (VHR) geospatial images and data for all world regions,from satellite and aerial capture. DigitalGlobe Basemap is a subscription service that provides access to customized collections of data sets from the DigitalGlobe repository tailored to the needs of individual client libraries.

Digitalia provides online access to a collection of streaming videos and thousands of French language e-Books.

Their subscription based platforms include:

DigiZeitschriften is an online archive of German language scholarly journals, similar to JSTOR.  It includes more than 200 journal titles, 500,000 articles, and 6 million pages.  New content is added each month.

DIVA-GIS is a free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis (geographic information system) that also provides access to free spatial data for the whole world that you can use in DIVA-GIS or other programs. Spatial data is also openly available at the country and global level and also includes global climate data, species occurrence data, and high resolution satellite images. 

Diversity and Dissent: Civil Society in 20th Century America is a thematically-driven digitization initiative by Reveal Digital to digitize diverse material along the themes of civil society: items from non-governmental/non-commercial organizations that supported gender and race equality, workers rights, and other issues that challenged social norms in 20th Century America.

DocumentCloud is a platform and tool to help journalists share, analyze, annotate, and publish source documents to the open web. 

All DocumentCloud is open source and available on Github.

In partnership with Alexander Street Press, Docuseek2 provides exclusive educational streaming access to more than 800 films from Bullfrog Films®, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, KimStim, the National Film Board of Canada, and Terra Nova Films.

e-Marefa is a full-text database of Arabic language academic journals and other content in Arabic, English and French. Content includes more than 1,900 academic and statistical periodicals, 25,000 theses and dissertations, and 210,000 research abstracts produced by academic and research institutions throughout the Arab world, covering all research areas in humanities, social sciences, engineering and technology, and health and life sciences.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides online access to 22.5 million pages from more than 125,000 books from 1473 to 1700. EEBO is being further enhanced through the JISC-funded Text Creation Project*, that is re-keying 20% of the titles in the collection to make them fully searchable for the first time. *The EEBO-TCP project is an international scholarly collaboration and partnership between Oxford University, the University of Michigan, JISC, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and ProQuest.

Early State Records, contains a compilation of the microfilm collection Records of the States of the United States of America that was created in the 1940's.

East India Company is a digital collection of the official records of the East India Company (1595-1858) and the India Office (1858-1947) held at the British Library. Adam Matthew is digitizing the IOR archive over the next five years in conjunction with the British Library, . 

This collection will include the charters and minute books of the East India Company and the minute books of the post-1858 governing agency, the Council of India.