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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.

Provider: Adam Matthew Digital
Updated: May 2, 2014 4:37pm

Global Financial Data Series

In the Global Financial Data Series, the publisher (GFD) provides deep historical data on a wide variety of securities, price indices, exports, imports and more from around the world.  This resource is unique in that it is the only resource, at this point, that provides easy access to many historical time series.

Provider: Global Financial Data
Updated: Jan 22, 2024 12:01pm

ProQuest Indian Journals

Intedisciplinary, full-text databases of current, English-language journals published in India.  Topics include: economics, agriculture, finance, information science, medicine, and musicology.

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Feb 24, 2015 8:26am

DigiZeitschriften

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.

Provider: DigiZeitschriften
Updated: Feb 11, 2024 11:20am

Engineering Case Studies Online

Engineering Case Studies Online focuses on engineering failures and employs the case study method for learning from the past. Materials included in cases can range from documentaries, accident reports, company reports, photographs and interviews. There are 58 cases that include significant supporting materials. Other cases are currently included with minimal information. The case studies product was released in February 2014, and is expected to be completed in late 2014.

Alexander Street Press is a new name to many engineering librarians and engineering faculty. The focus of their previous products are in humanities, social science, and health care fields. This new product, released in...

Provider: Alexander Street Press
Updated: Dec 20, 2014 12:00am

Bibliography of Asian Studies

About the Bibliography of Asian Studies from their website, http://bmc.lib.umich.edu/bas/Help/about.

This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains 787,165 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. In 2011 the interface of the BAS was completely rebuilt and now uses an up-to-date search engine and facets, while all the entries were converted into Unicode format.

The BAS is updated regularly, with batch posting of thousands of new entries in each upload.

In addition to entries compiled since 1997, the online BAS includes the full data...

Provider: Association for Asian Studies, Inc
Updated: Feb 17, 2015 11:21am

Numérique Premium

Numérique Premium is a new digital books platform including works from 50 French-speaking publishers and societies.  The ebooks are offered for annual subscription or one-off purchase in thematic collections.This e-books database is intended to provide access to secondary works and some compilations of source materials in both “humanities and social sciences.” 

Provider: Numérique Premium
Updated: Jan 3, 2023 12:32pm

Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine (WM), created and maintained by the Internet Archive, is an open access online archive of website content, derived from periodic crawls of the open web and data donations from Alexa Internet and others.  

Provider: Internet Archive
Updated: Apr 25, 2017 9:09pm

Meet the Press

The publisher has compiled recordings from nearly the full extent to date of the broadcast news and public affairs television show Meet the Press, which has run since 1947. The collection is slated for initial launch in late 2013.

Provider: Alexander Street Press
Updated: May 9, 2017 1:15pm

The Independent

This archival digital collection, covering the years 1986-2012, is intended to complement other NewsVault archives collections.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Punch, 1841-1992

This digital collection presents the full run of Punch magazine from its start until its initial demise, from 1841-1992. The re-launched version from 1996-2002 is not included.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Indigenous Peoples: North America

The publisher has assembled an extensive grouping of archival materials related to Indians of North America, dating primarily up through the early twentieth century, with some material extending through the 1980s.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Associated Press Collections Online

The Associated Press Collections Online (AP Online) consists of an extensive collection of archival files and internal communications from various bureaus of the Associated Press (AP), in six parts, anticipated to total around 2.7 million pages.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Le Grand Robert

Le Grand Robert Online Dictionary provides all six volumes of the latest edition of this French language reference work.  Its latest edition, published in 2011, includes:

86,000 articles 100,000 words 350,000 definitions 410,000 use examples 325,000 quotations 25,000 idioms, expressions, and proverbs

 

Provider: DeMarque
Updated: Nov 27, 2023 3:39pm

Bibliography of Linguistic Literature

Bibliography of Linguistics Literature Online has over 452,000 citations (as of September 2015), with 10,000 added annually. The bibliography lists journal articles, articles of conference proceedings, and other collective works as well as monographs, dissertations, and Festschrifts.  Fields of study included in the bibliography are general linguistics, English, Romance languages, and German and other languages to a lesser degree.

The search interface is available in English and German.

 

Provider: Semantics Kommunikationsmanagement GmbH
Updated: Feb 11, 2024 11:41am

London Low Life

Provider: Adam Matthew Digital
Updated: Aug 15, 2014 1:29pm

South and Southeast Asian Literature: classic and postcolonial writers in English 1825-Present

Provider: Alexander Street Press
Updated: Aug 15, 2014 1:30pm

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: a transnational archive

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: a transnational archive provides access to four series devoted to the history of slavery in America, slave trade, and anti-slavery movement.

The four series are:

Slavery and Anti-Slavery 1: Debates over Slavery and Abolition Slavery and Anti-Slavery 2: Slave Trade in Atlantic World Slavery and Anti-Slavery 3: Institution of Slavery Slavery and Anti-Slavery 4: Age of Emancipation

 

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Washington Evening Star, 1852-1981

Provider: Readex
Updated: Aug 15, 2014 1:19pm

The Making of the Modern World

The Making of the Modern World (MOMW) is a very large digital collection of over 60,000 works primarily on economics written in Europe and the United States. It is comprised of two parts: MOMW I (1450-1850), and MOMW II (1851-1914).

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 2, 2020 10:28am

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