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State Papers Online, 1509-1714 ('SPO') offers a completely new working environment to researchers, teachers and students of Early Modern Britain. Whether used for original research, for teaching, or for student project work, State Papers Online offers original historical materials across the widest range of government concern, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people. The correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators present a full picture of Tudor and Stuart Britain. Part IV includes State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council.

NB: The Library has purchased access to three modules of SPO - "Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603", "Part III : The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714", and "The Stuart and the Cumberland Papers" - which can be found on the S databases page.

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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century. Archival collections were sourced from more than 60 libraries at institutions such as the Amistad Research Center, Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Archives, Oberlin College, Oxford University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Yale University; these collections allow for unparalleled depth and breadth of content.

Part III: The Institution of Slavery expands the depth of coverage of the topic. Part III explores, in vivid detail, the inner workings of slavery from 1492 to 1888. Through legal documents, plantation records, first-person accounts, newspapers, government records, and other primary sources, this collection reveals how enslaved people struggled against the institution. These rare works explore slavery as a legal and labor system, the relationship between slavery and religion, freed slaves, the Shong Massacre, the Demerara insurrection, and many other aspects and events.

28/07/2024

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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century. Archival collections were sourced from more than 60 libraries at institutions such as the Amistad Research Center, Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Archives, Oberlin College, Oxford University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Yale University; these collections allow for unparalleled depth and breadth of content.

Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World charts the inception of slavery in Africa and its rise as perpetuated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, placing particular emphasis on the Caribbean, Latin America, and United States. More international in scope than Part I, this collection was developed by an international editorial board with scholars specializing in North American, European, African, and Latin American/Caribbean aspects of the slave trade.

28/07/2024

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PressReader provides interactive, digital access to nearly 7,000 of the world’s best newspapers and magazines. It offers readers an intuitive and user-friendly way to read newspapers and magazines from around the world, including publications from Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Canada, and The U.S. From The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, El Pais and Le Figaro, to Newsweek, Vogue, Bloomberg Businessweek, and People, PressReader delivers full issues of premium newspapers and magazines the moment they hit newsstands. Users can read everything from local news stories to pop culture magazines, industry reports, and national opinion pieces. With the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles, and save both stories and full publications, researchers are sure to find the stories they’re looking for.

20/07/2024.

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Online question banks to help preparation for exams such as the Medical Licensing Assessment or Royal College exams such as MRCP, MRCS and FRCS. The questions are the same variety of question types as in the actual exams, and are based on published reports from  examination boards incorporating up to date clinical practice and information. The platform allows you to keep track of your own performance and focus your revision on subjects where you are scoring less well.

The trial has access to the following modules: MRCP Part 1, MRCP Part 2 Written, MRCS Part A 1 & 2, FRCS General Surgery, FRCS Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery and MLA

21/06/2024.

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TRAC combines one of the world’s largest databases of terrorists, terrorist groups, hate groups and their abettors with original, analytical essays on seminal terrorism topics, profiles of vulnerable regions and cities, and live feed of news and analyses.

• One of the world’s largest databases of terrorists, terrorists groups, lone wolves, hate groups, and abettors of political violence
• Profiles of vulnerable regions and cities
• Original analytical essays on seminal terrorism studies topics
• Hot links that quickly navigate between concepts within articles, news feeds, and outside resources
• Access to political violence experts worldwide.

26/06/2024.

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Al Manhal is the world’s only provider of an Arabic full-text searchable database of scholarly and scientific publications from the Middle East's, Africa's & Asia's leading publishers and research institutes. The resources provided include thousands of eBooks, eJournals, eTheses, intelligence reports, and conference proceedings.

30/06/2024.

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With over 120 thematic collections, AM Explorer is the gateway to a broad and diverse range of primary source content spanning the 15th to 21st centuries. AM’s collections provide full-text access to several million pages of digitised historical materials – manuscripts, government records, rare books, maps and more – across a wide range of disciplines, from History to English Literature, Gender Studies, Sociology, Economics, Area Studies, Political Sciences and more. 

08/07/2024.

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SignWorld is an online sign language learning tool aiming to provide a 21st-century way of learning British Sign Language. The learning and teaching products have been designed out of the creators' more than 20 years’ experience of teaching BSL and devising successful teaching methods, using their deep knowledge of learners' needs and their excellent relationship with networks of BSL teachers across the UK.

22/06/2024.

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NoorMags are Noor's collection of specialized magazines and journals. With more than 1,600,000 articles from more than 107,000 authoritative and scientific journals, NoorMag is the largest database of articles in Islamic sciences, humanities, and Oriental studies. NoorMag content is increasing by over 100,000 additional articles per year.

20/06/2024.

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Noor Digital Library (Noorlib) is a full-text e-book database administered by the Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences in Iran. It contains thousands of digitised book volumes from within the humanities, mostly in Arabic and Persian, with a particular focus on Islamic Studies. 

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Australian Collection empowers researchers to digitally travel back through decades to become eyewitnesses to history. Covering leading issues and events, like the gold rush, federation, international politics, society and business, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Australian Collection reveals the day-to-day news coverage valued by researchers.

This collection includes the two leading Australian newspapers: The Age (1854–2000) and the Sydney Morning Herald (1831–2000).

11/05/2024.

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Literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures, as well as unique access to a goldmine of rare and obscure literary texts and genres. This collection provides students and scholars of British and American literature invaluable access to a rich seam of resources to support in-depth study in this field. Highlights include:

• Holograph copies and early editions of books by George Eliot, including several volumes of the seminal work of English literature Middlemarch

• Autograph manuscript of The Ring and the Book and several early editions of Robert Browning’s poetry

• Personal papers, literary manuscripts and correspondence of Charlotte, Maria and Emily Brontë

• Manuscripts and correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, including early draft versions and corrected proofs of Walden, or Life in the Woods

11/05/2024.

Vanity Fair Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the popular magazine in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format, dating from its very first issue in 1913. Vanity Fair highlights artists, illustrators and writers providing in-depth coverage and social commentary. Beginning with the Jazz Age, the archive chronicles popular culture, fashion, celebrity portraiture and politics through the years. The original version of Vanity Fair featured popular, avant-garde covers for its first run from September 1913 through February 1936. The magazine was relaunched 47 years later in March 1983 with a new cover look focused on celebrity portraits and political figures.

Vanity Fair Magazine Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-century current events, politics and culture, as well as those interested in the history of photography, advertising, and fashion design.

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Though it was Northern California’s “newspaper of record,” the San Francisco Chronicle’s influence was so far-reaching that it was known as the Voice of the West. With colourful reporting and commentary on news ranging from the aftermath of the Gold Rush to the effects of World War II, the Chronicle offers an unparalleled glimpse into the issues and events that shaped the West Coast for over a century. Note that the Library already has access to San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) via ProQuest 350, which can be accessed via the Databases A-Z list at https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-a-z/databases-s.

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Social Policy and Practice (SPP) is a comprehensive bibliographic database for those working or studying in the health and social care sectors - bringing together information from the UK's five leading collections of health and social care resources. Social Policy and Practice helps professionals, practitioners, researchers and students interested in health and social care to identify articles and publications of relevance to the UK context. With over 400,000 bibliographic records and abstracts dating from 1981, SPP joins data from the following 5 leading collections of social policy and practice resources:

• AgeInfo - Centre for Policy on Ageing
• NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children - Planex
• IDOX Information Service
• Social Care Online - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
• ChildData – National Children’s Bureau (NCB)

With a focus on evidence-based information, topics and subjects span children and young people as well as adults and older people. These include: health and wellbeing, play, social and family policy, social care, crime and youth justice, child protection and safeguarding, mental illness, climate change and policy, and more.

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"India under Colonial Rule, 1752-1933" comprises 6 diverse primary source collections which detail the political, economic, and spiritual realities of British colonial rule in India. The featured collections include records from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, from the establishment of the East India Company and the India Act to the emergence of Gandhi and the independence movement. Drawn from a diverse range of sources, the materials show the Raj through the eyes of commercial, military, and bureaucratic elites, as well as missionaries, labourers, and Indians themselves. 

This series therefore provides students and researchers with a nuanced synopsis of British colonialism in India and India’s role in shaping modern Britain. The following primary source collections are included in the trial:

• The British Raj: Resistance and Reform in India, 1879–1920
• The East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India, 1806-1814
• The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774
• Indian and Sri Lankan Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1770-1931

• Indian Communists and Trade Unionists on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy, 1929-1933

• World News in Indian Newspapers, 1782-1908

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The journal Cine Cubano is an essential resource for studying the rich history of both Cuban revolutionary cinema and Latin American cinema at large, and is now made available online for the first time. The more than two hundred digital issues offer students and researchers unparalleled access to six decades of cutting-edge film theory, novel approaches to film making, and scores of film reviews.

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A unique collection of digitized historical film magazines from the 1910s to the 1960s, providing students and researchers with easy access to rare an previously dispersed sources documenting the cinematographic history of the biggest country in Latin America, Brazil.

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A database of five historic film periodicals, illuminating the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1930s-1960s). The database also gives access to the personal scrapbook of pioneering filmmaker Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), as well as to a collection of fifty rare lobby cards.

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Scanned at the Cinemateca de Cuba in Havana, Cuba, this online primary-source collection documents the history and development of Cuban cinema from the Silent Era to the Revolution. It offers unique access to unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, lobby cards, yearbooks, and a complete run of the weekly magazine Cinema (1935–1965), an obligatory starting point for any research on early Cuban cinema.

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The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th and early 21st-Century American thought. The Atlantic was originally created with a focus on publishing leading writers' commentary on abolition, education and other major issues in contemporary political affairs at the time. Over its more than 150 years of publication. It has featured articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, science and more.

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The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics includes more than 500 articles by renowned scholars from all over the world. Peer-reviewed and frequently updated, articles feature a wide array of resources, including audio-visual materials, links to digital archives, datasets, and other pedagogical tools. From morphology to neurolinguistics, semantics to sociolinguistics and sign languages, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics aims to map, over time, the entire landscape of the world’s languages, weaving together the various historical, theoretical, and experimental approaches that make up the field of linguistics.

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ABC is a Spanish-language newspaper launced in 1903 and the oldest newspaper in Madrid. Known for contributions from numerous esteemed writers and intellectuals the newspaper also uses extensive photography and was the first European newspaper to use photo engravings. Politically, ABC is known for supporting the Spanish monarchy and for its conservative political views. This is an excellent resource for the research of Spanish history and perspectives.

Access on and off campus. The Library advises to use Chrome to access Brill Online resources.

The Codices Vossiani Latini Online publishes all 363 codices which form the world-famous Latin part of Vossius’ manuscript collection held at Leiden University Library. The Codices Vossiani Latini count a large number of early medieval manuscripts (a whopping 76 Carolingian manuscripts dating from before 900), including major sources of many classic texts. The 363 codices in all comprise 40,278 openings, resulting in 84,266 images, including covers and flyleaves.

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The Philosopher’s Index with Full Text is a full-text database covering all major fields of philosophy and related disciplines. It provides hundreds of full-text philosophy journals from around the world, many of which are available with no embargo and includes the complete backfile of The Journal of Philosophy (from 1904 to present) with no embargo.

The Library currently has subscription access to The Philosopher's Index on the ProQuest platform. We have set-up trial access to The Philosopher's Index with Full Text on the EBSCOhost platform to allow users to compare database features on each platform and to investigate which platform provides best full-text coverage.

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The 55-volume set of Luther's Works is singular in its value to church historians, Luther scholars, and Christians. The first thirty volumes contain Luther's expositions of various biblical books, while remaining volumes include his Reformation writings and occasional pieces. The final volume of the set contains an index of quotations, proper names, and topics, and a list of corrections and changes.

NB: Please note that we have subscription/purchased access to other works on the Past Masters platform.

30/11/2023

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From the Company’s charter in 1600 to Indian independence in 1947, East India Company tells the story of trade with the east, politics and the rise and fall of the British Empire. It records the challenges of a globalising world and sheds light on many contrasting narratives; from records of powerful political figures, through to the lives of native populations and the individual traders who lived and worked at the edge of Empire.

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01/12/2023

This digital archive is a repository of source materials on the work of this globally influential organisation, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active today. Useful for scholars of missionary and global history, this varied archive, sourced from the Cadbury Research Library at University of Birmingham, includes records of both the CMS and the many other missionary societies which became associated or amalgamated with it. The digital archive covers the period 1619-1981.

Modules include: East Asia Missions, Missions to Women, Central Records, Africa Missions, Missions to the Americas, Missions to India, General Secretary’s Papers, Home Papers, Middle East MissionsEast Asia Missions, Missions to Women, Central Records, Africa Missions, Missions to the Americas, Missions to India, General Secretary’s Papers, Home Papers, Middle East Missions.

Note: The Library also has access to Church Missionary Society Periodicals which can be accessed from the Databases A-Z list. TEST

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Latin American Newspapers, 1805-1922 features such key publications as La Nacion, La Prensa and Vanguardia (Buenos Aires), Jornal do Commercio (Rio de Janeiro), O Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo), Mercurio (Santiago), La Prensa (Havana), El Guatemalteco (Guatemala City), Daily Chronicle (Georgetown, Guyana), La Revista de Yucatan (Merida, Mexico), La Patria, Mexican Herald and El Monitor Republicano (Mexico City), El Dictamen (Veracruz Llave, Mexico), La Estrella de Panama and Star & Herald (Panama City), El Peruano and West Coast Leader (Lima), Port of Spain Gazette (Port of Spain), the Venezuelan Herald (Caracas) and more than a dozen others. Through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony notices and obituaries, this unique collection chronicles the evolution of Latin American culture and daily life over two centuries. In addition, these newspapers provide a wide range of viewpoints from diverse cultures—ideal for comparing and contrasting perspectives on issues and events.

Bates Visual Guide is a video-based resource designed to support patient care skills development. We currently have access to the sections on physical examination, OSCE Clinical Skills as well as the Communication and Interpersonal Skills section.

Access on and off campus - for off campus access please use the University VPN - Click here for Access to the University network via the VPN.

Maruzen eBook Library is a Japanese e-book collection provided by Maruzen-Yushodo. To view only the titles included in our trial, please click the “購読一覧” filter at the top right of the page.

User guide: https://elib.maruzen.co.jp/app/eguide/mel_manual_e.pdf

31/12/2023.

The University of Edinburgh Student link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3139&k=ha31iTQeSFCzjBV7tWQWgdZwS7yMZz8K

The University of Edinburgh Faculty link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3140&k=0UU4ZaavSO2nzPvDn82Bi0TfTlCyciMI

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With over 12,000 key references, 150+ psychotropic drugs and links to complementary products on MedicinesComplete, Psychotropic Drug Directory helps multidisciplinary teams confidently and quickly manage clinical scenarios

NB If the link above takes you to the MedicinesComplete landing page, scroll down the page to "Browse our Publications" and select Psychotropic Drug Directory under subscribed resources.

31/12/2023.

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Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars and librarians, ProQuest Black Studies brings together ProQuest’s award-winning Black Studies content into one destination for research, teaching, and learning purposes. This database combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies.

Note: The Library already has access to much of this content via the ProQuest 350 subscription. However, ProQuest Black Studies also includes additional content such as the Black Study Center and two new US Black Historical Newspapers, the Kansas City Call and Louisville Defender.

30/11/2023.

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KinoDen (Kinokuniya Digital Library) is a Japanese academic e-book service for libraries.

Video tutorials:

• How to use KinoDen
• How to use KinoDen Mobile Reading App

30/11/2023.

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Jus Mundi – Academic Research is a comprehensive, multilingual, user-friendly, and intelligent search engine for international law and Arbitration. It covers over 72,000 international law and arbitration documents, including investment arbitration, commercial arbitration, public international law, law of the sea, and international trade law. Jus Mundi has international cases from more than 100 institutions globally and commercial arbitration documents made available through their international partnerships.

17/11/2023

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Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars and librarians, ProQuest Black Studies brings together ProQuest’s award-winning Black Studies content into one destination for research, teaching, and learning purposes. This database combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies.

Note: The Library already has access to much of this content via the ProQuest 350 subscription. However, ProQuest Black Studies also includes additional content such as the Black Study Center and two new US Black Historical Newspapers, the Kansas City Call and Louisville Defender.

30/11/2023.

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PRAGDA STREAM is the film streaming platform from PRAGDA, a leading educational film distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. PRAGDA STREAM provides access to hundreds of films, in Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous languages, and more, representing 30+ countries, and covering over 50 important subjects. Films are provided with English subtitles and/or captions.

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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819, contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America during the first two decades of the 19th century. Providing complete digital editions of more than 37,000 printed works, Series II covers subjects ranging from history, literature and culture to politics, government, and society. The database is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, supplemented by thousands of newly identified items. The database continues the Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800.

06/11/2023

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Iberoamericana Online is a companion collection to the world-leading journal Revista Iberoamericana, now published by Liverpool University Press. The collection comprises of 106 volumes including those from IILI’s renowned print series. The majority of the volumes in the collection are Spanish language and largely focus on Latin America and the Caribbean with titles on Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. An essential digital resource in Latin American literary studies, this collection is rich with an abundance of academic research spanning subject areas including literary criticism and theory, poetry, politics, history, colonialism, indigenous studies, queer studies, gender studies and more.

NB: Please note that this trial includes only 50 books from the collection.

01/11/2023

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Providing high-level analysis of European Union law by specialized distinguished contributors, Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Law (OEEUL) articles define, explain, and analyze EU law’s key legal concepts in an accessible yet profound way. It is a source of great pride for the OEEUL team that in its first year, the encyclopedia has grown from the initial 100 entries to its current 131 articles – with the team dedicated to increasing this content by tenfold in the coming years to eventually cover the entire EU legal order.

16/10/2023.

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This extensive digital resource covers three centuries of Caribbean history. Drawn from the vast archives of the British Colonial Office, this is an essential resource for all students and researchers of the Caribbean and British colonial rule. This enormous range of unique primary sources covers British governance of 25 territories in the Caribbean from 1624-1872.

This trial relates to the recently published Module 3 of Colonial Caribbean which covers documents dated 1850-1870 from the following series:

CO 7: Antigua and Montserrat (Original Correspondence); CO 8: Antigua (Acts); CO 23: Bahamas (includes Turks and Caicos Islands up to 1848); CO 28: Barbados; CO 37: Bermuda CO 71: Dominica; CO 101: Grenada; CO 111: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo (Original Correspondence); CO 116: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo (Miscellanea); CO 123: British Honduras; CO 137: Jamaica; CO 175: Montserrat; CO 184: Nevis; CO 239: St Christopher (St. Kitts), Nevis and Anguilla; CO 253: St. Lucia; CO 260: St. Vincent; CO 285: Tobago; CO 295: Trinidad; CO 301: Turks and Caicos; CO 314: Virgin Islands; CO 318: West Indies.

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05/10/2023

The University of Edinburgh Student link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3139&k=ha31iTQeSFCzjBV7tWQWgdZwS7yMZz8K

The University of Edinburgh Faculty link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3140&k=0UU4ZaavSO2nzPvDn82Bi0TfTlCyciMI

BFI Player is a video-on-demand service from the British Film Institute, streaming acclaimed, landmark and archive films. BFI Player’s focus is on British and European independent films, as well as international releases. The availability of films is dependent on rights agreements with licensors.

Instructions for registering for access to our BFI Player institutional subscription: 

1. Go to https://player.bfi.org.uk/academic/subscribe and create an account using your UoE email address and a password of your choice OR sign in if you already have one by selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in'.
2. Select University of Edinburgh from the dropdown list and click "Link institution". 
3. Authenticate subscription using your university credentials.  

November title list

Any titles with less than 6 months remaining are highlighted in orange on the first tab.

Please note that you first need to register your BFI Player account via a web browser by visiting https://player.bfi.org.uk/help. Once your account is set up, you can log-in via pc, laptop, mobile devices (iOS: iOS 13 or higher ; Android: V11 or higher) and the following TV apps:

• Samsung Smart TV app (2015-2024)
• LG Smart TV app (2019-2024)
• Amazon Fire TV app
• Apple TV app
• Android TV app
• Chromecast with Google Play

Further details are available in the "Supported Devices” section at: https://player.bfi.org.uk/help 

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In the early Middle Ages, literate individuals in and from the Celtic periphery of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, Scotland and the Isle of Man) wrote many and varied Latin works constituting what can arguably be seen as a distinctive literature, whose unusual vocabulary, grammar and phrasing (to say nothing of subject-matter) made it into what has been called “one of the most curious and interesting phenomena of medieval philology”. This database contains more than five hundred Latin works by over a hundred known and unknown authors, spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, etc

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The critical edition of all medieval Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle is one of the main projects of the research unit Aristoteles Latinus. The project is supervised and supported by the International Union of Academies, and its most important objective is to bring to evidence the various forms in which Aristotle’s texts came to be read in the West. The Latin versions of these texts constituted the main tools for the study of science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. They were considered as being the canonized littera to which all the commentaries on Aristotle’s works referred. The role played by these translations in the development of Western philosophical and scientific terminology can thus hardly be overestimated. The Aristoteles Latinus collection meets the highest standards for critical editions of medieval texts and an international board is responsible for its scientific value.

05/08/2023

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Brepols Publishers remains committed to developing new tools to make its various electronic databases more user-friendly. To this end, Brepols offers the ‘Cross Database Searchtool’. This interface allows the user to search various Latin full-text databases simultaneously, namely the Library of Latin Texts, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature and the Aristoteles Latinus Database. As a result, users who have access to these different databases are able to use this common interface to conduct a search of the various corpora.

NB the University Library currently has a subscription to Library of Latin Texts,  and trials to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature and the Aristoteles Latinus Database (see elsewhere on this page).

05/08/2023

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The Monumenta Germaniae Historica was founded in 1819 by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlands ältere Geschichtskunde. It is without doubt one of the most prestigious editorial undertakings for the critical publication of medieval historical texts. In more than 300 volumes, covering the widest possible range of historical documents, divided into five major Series (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae and Antiquitates) and into 33 Subseries, the Monumenta not only continues its editorial programme but it has established for all Western scholarship a standard for critical editions.

Epidemiological database and point of care resource for worldwide diseases, drugs, and bacteria. Includes disease outbreak and vaccine coverage maps. Data is taken from over 20,000 sources including journals, monographs, public health organisations and ministries of health.

Generate comparison tables of infectious diseases, drugs and pathogens. Identify bacteria, mycobacteria, yeasts and algae. Run driven differential diagnosis (DDx) tools to diagnos infectious disease. Trace disease outbreaks through history.

Decision trees for the probabilities of test results, or signs and symptoms, and “Why Not” modules help clarify why pathogens or diseases are not relevant to results. 

Short video tutorials:

https://learn.gideononline.com/help/tutorial-videos

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Published in three parts, this collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952.

• Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945.
• Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952.
• Japan and Great Power Status, 1919-1930.

NB: Please note that PDF download options are not available during this trial.

24/06/2023.

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Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. Still growing, it is one of the most important sources available for qualitative social data in the UK. This collection consists of the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation between 1980 and 2010 and the thousands of responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers. 

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Oxford Historical Treaties (OHT) is the premier resource for historical treaty research and home to the full text of The Consolidated Treaty Series, the only comprehensive collection of treaties of all nations concluded from 1648 through 1919. Available via the Oxford Public International Law platform, OHT is cross-searchable with Oxford’s leading public international law resources and benefits from a modern, intuitive interface and sophisticated functionality.

16/06/2023

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Bloomsbury Professional Scots Law Titles - replacement access for titles withdrawn from LexisLibrary. Enter login on left-hand side of webpage.

31/05/2023

BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings.

Please note, content for these resources is still currently being digitised.

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The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology is a dynamic digital encyclopedia continuously updated by the world’s leading scholars and researchers. In-depth peer-reviewed articles cover a broad range of topics, with multi-media features embedded in articles, along with cross-referenced links to related content.

Access on and off campus. Please sign in for institutional access - click the head icon in the top right hand corner, click "Sign in through your institution", search for University of Edinburgh and, if prompted, enter your University Login.

Oxford Clinical Psychology provides access to over 400 book titles covering a broad range of specialty areas, disorders, and treatment modalities. The collection includes high-quality research and practice information from world-class authors and editors. This comprehensive library includes an array of professional and scholarly research and reference works. NB - the Library has already purchased the collected works of D. W. Winnicot which appear in this resource.

First time users need to create a personal account associated with the Library's institutional subscription.

To create your account, please your University of Edinburgh email and the unique link on our usernames and password page available here.

After the initial account creation, future access can then be direct from app.overton.io

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The East African Newspapers collection provides insight into this region during the 20th and early 21st centuries, a time of great change for Africa. In East Africa, this time witnessed the growth of decolonization as independence movements swelled, and local, autonomous self-governance took hold throughout the region. This period was also punctuated by famine, drought, political uprisings, border disputes, and war as countries worked to navigate the post-colonial landscape. The collection includes 3 key newspapers: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda).

Sex & Sexuality covers a broad range of topics and is drawn from leading archives around the world. From papers of leading sexologists to LGBTQI+ personal histories, the collection is an essential resource for the study of human sexuality, its complexities and its history. Module I is sourced solely from the renowned Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections.

The Library has access to:

Module I: Research Collections from The Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections

Module II: Self-Expression, Community and Identity

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From traditional constructions of femininity and masculinity, to the struggle for women's rights and the emergence of the men's movement, Gender: Identity and Social Change offers three centuries of primary source material for the exploration of gender history. Explore records from men’s and women’s organisations, advice literature and etiquette books to reveal developing gender roles and relations. Gain an insight into changing societal expectations about gender roles through personal diaries and correspondence and explore the life and careers of key figures and pioneers in gender history. Covers 19th to 21st centuries.

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27/04/2023

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Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers fully searchable issues from over 730 invaluable American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies. Note that the Library already has access to Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900.

Beck have authorised the University of Edinburgh for remote access to their database. Please go to Access to beck-online via VPN  to read the registration instructions (English language further down the page).

While you are on the VPN and at https://beck-online.beck.de the login box on the right hand side will display University of Edinburgh and then you can start the registration process using  your University of Edinburgh email address.

You will create your own username and password after that, use it to log into the Beck database whilst still on the VPN.

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Based on the bestselling The Study Skills Handbook by Stella Cottrell, Skills for Study offers an interactive and personalised solution to help students hone their academic skills while developing skills required by employers:

1. Confidence with Numbers
2. Getting Ready for Academic Study
3. Referencing and Understanding Plagiarism
4. Critical Thinking Skills
5. Group Work and Presentations
6. Research Principles
7. Employability and Personal Development
8. Projects, Dissertations and Reports
9. Time Management 
10. Exam Skills
11. Reading and Note-making
12. Writing Skills

Each of the modules comes complete with exercises, activities, and module assessments along with supplementary videos, articles and blogs.

20/04/2023

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Bloomsbury Video Library provides a diverse range of streamed collections, for academic libraries, across the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features content from filmed performances to documentaries and instructional videos. Bloomsbury Video Library launched in December 2022 with the ‘Arts and Humanities Collection’ (formerly known as Artfilms). With an international range of content, this collection features exclusive indie films and shorts, avant-garde performances, interviews with renowned writers, artists, choreographers, performers and practitioners, and documentaries on an international range of themes.

23/03/2023

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This collection covers the African Government Gazettes, 1808-1919, with each item containing colonial laws for the year they were published. The legal records also include property for sale, probate records and bankruptcy notices. The items in this collection cover the Napoleonic Wars, the Boer War and the First World War. They also cover the abolition of the legal status of slavery. This is the first part of the three part series 'Colonial Law in Africa'.

NB: the Library already has access to the third part in this series, Colonial Law in Africa, 1946 -1966.

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This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1820 and 1860. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports and the second records exports. This collection provides an overview of the emergence of Liverpool as a prominent maritime centre. It also provides an insight into shifting patterns of global trade during the 19th century.

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South Africa in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1819-1900 The United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG) is a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation operating worldwide. During the 18th, 19th, and early-20th centuries, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). This collection includes letters and supplementary material compiled by its South African branch during the period 1820-1900. Includes records for: Capetown, Grahamstown, Natal, Kaffaria, Zululand.

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Formed in 1929 and owned by the Illustrated London News, this magazine marketed itself to a predominantly female readership, and especially to wealthy and conservative women. It maintained an emphasis on fashion, beauty and the home, and featured contributions from some of the most influential female artists and writers of the time. It became well known for the artistry of its illustrations and for its wide-ranging coverage. Given its popularity, eclecticism and influence, it provides critical insights into the history of fashion, gender history and British print culture.

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Launched in 1965, as a reincarnation of The Tatler, this title reflected all aspects of the life of London, conveying the spirit of the “swinging sixties”. It covered a wide range of topics from music, film, sexuality and gender, and the thriving nightlife of London’s west end. At the same time it captured the increasingly cosmopolitan and diverse nature of British society.

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The Sketch began publication in 1893 as a light-hearted sister paper to The Illustrated London News and described itself as ‘A Journal of Art and Actuality’. It was published weekly and was for ‘the cultivated people who in their leisure moments look for light reading and amusing pictures, imbued with a high artistic value’. The Sketch was the first newspaper to publish the short stories of Agatha Christie, who wrote 49 stories for the paper between 1923 and 1924.

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From 1901 to 1968 The Tatler was one of various publications owned by the Illustrated London News. It catered to an affluent and traditionalist audience, keeping them informed about the latest developments in British High Society. Focusing mainly on fashion, theatre and sports, The Tatler regaled readers with news and gossip about Britain's most prominent socialites, including aristocrats, athletes and actors. This collection yields valuable source material for researchers of British society in the early to mid-twentieth century, and of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite.

Airiti Library trial consists of three full-text databases of academic content produced in Taiwan:

1. Taiwan Electronic Periodical Service (TEPS) provides full-text access to over 2,700 titles of academic journals published in Taiwan. It also includes some titles published in Hong Kong, Macau and other traditional regions using Chinese.  Contents cover six main fields from 1991 onwards: Humanities, Basic & Applied Sciences, health & Medical Care, Bio-Agriculture, Engineering, and Social Sciences.
2. Chinese Electronic Dissertations (CETD) provides full-text Masters and PhD theses from over 20 outstanding universities in Taiwan, including National Taiwan University, National Chiao-Tung University, National Taipei University of Technology, National Tsing-Hua University, Tamkang University, etc. The period of coverage is from 2004 onwards.
3. Conference Proceedings (CEPS Proceedings) collect significant conference proceedings held by various Taiwanese universities or scholarly associations from 1991 onwards. Contents cover the same six subject areas as TEPS. 

This new multimedia collection has been designed to support novice or experienced social science researchers who are conducting research online. Whether conducting their first or their hundredth study online, users will find support to employ a variety of digital methods from online surveys, interviews to digital ethnography, social media, and text analysis, as well as learn how to manage, store and archive digital data. Privacy and other ethical considerations specific to conducting research online are also covered. Researchers will also get support with how to navigate the challenges of being supervised online.

Content & Features:

• ‘How to Guides’ (providing practical help with using digital research methods);
• Videos (tutorials, expert interviews, video case studies, etc.);
• Case studies (focused on challenges of designing and conducting research online);
• Teaching sets of data with a guide (suggesting a method to analyze both digitally created and existing online data, plus a step-by-step guide to how to do it so that students can practice data analysis);

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Literary Studies provides digital access to British and American literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures, as well as unique access to rare and obscure literary texts and genres. Includes : Personal papers, literary manuscripts and correspondence of Charlotte, Maria and Emily Brontë, holograph copies and early editions of books by George Eliot, and the collected writings, correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant.

*Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

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The above link lands on the home page of Irish Newspaper Archives - to access Radical Irish Newspaper Archives, click "RADICAL ARCHIVE" in the top right hand corner of the screen.

Radical Irish Newspaper Archives is an extraordinary collection of over 115 Irish radical and political newspapers, journals, pamphlets and bulletins. Fully searchable and consisting of more than 11,000 editions with a total page count of 102,755 these newspapers, according to Dr Ciarán Reilly of Maynooth University, ‘hold the key to understanding Ireland in the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century’. Spanning one of the most important periods in Irish history, from the Home Rule debates of the 1880s to Ireland on the eve of the Second World War, these somewhat obscure titles provide an insight into a myriad of opinions on Irish life.

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Ogonek (Огонёк, Spark) was one of the oldest weekly magazines in Russia, having been in continuous publication since 1923 until it ceased publication in 2020. It was one of the most influential shapers and reflectors of the public character of the Soviet culture. The Ogonek Digital Archive (1923-2020) contains all obtainable published issues from 1923 on. The archive features full page-level digitisation, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with other East View digital resources.

Supplied by ProQuest, Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive database that provides online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers, including “New York World”. Dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s, Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.

The Louisville Defender is a weekly newspaper founded in 1933 and has been one of the main Black newspapers in the local Louisville area, and is an excellent source for coverage on issues affecting African Americans. The newspaper played an integral role in the fight for integration in the 1960s. At present this resource covers the years 1951-1981 but subsequent years will be added in the next few months.

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Optional individual registration. Click the login button, find the University of Edinburgh from the drop-down menu and use your University email address to register.

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Optional individual registration. Click the login button, find the University of Edinburgh from the drop-down menu and use your University email address to register.

18/10/2022.

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Diaolong Full-text Database of Chinese & Japanese Ancient Books contains about 30,000 ancient books which cover a wide range of subjects including history, religion, philosophy, literature, politics, economics, medicine and local gazetteers. The page display can be in scanned images, in transcribed texts, or in both side by side. The huge number of books are sourced from 21 large series titles which can be searched or browsed. These 21 series are:

1. Daozang (道藏, 1513 book titles / 5878 vols);
2. Daozang jiyao (道藏辑要, 299/2553);
3. Sibu congkan (四部叢刊, 472/13685);
4. Xu Sibu congkan (續四部叢刊, 364/15328);
5. Yongle dadian (永樂大典, 813/813);
6. Gujin Tushu Jicheng (古今圖書集成, 33/10012);
7. Dunhuang shiliao(敦煌史料,2952/2955);
8. Qingdai shiliao (清代史料, 113/10832);
9. Zhongguo difangzhi (中國地方誌, 2137/52022);
10. Zhongguo difangzhi xuji (中國地方誌續集,1939/37477);
11. Zhongguo difangzhi sanji (中國地方誌三集,2090/18309);
12. Riben gudian shujiku (日本古典書籍庫, 618/7400);
13. Siku quanshu (四庫全書, 3541/92074);
14. Xuxiu Siku quanshu (續修四庫全書, 5550/104703);
15. Siku cunmu (四庫存目,4350/65551);
16. Siku wei shou shu (四庫未收書,167/2479);
17. Siku jin hui shu (四庫禁毀書,620/13342);
18. Liufu wencang （六府文藏, 7717/149576);
19. Zhongguo minjian wenxue （中國民間文學,203/538);
20. Qingdai keju zhujuan （清代科舉硃卷, 1071/7792);
21. Yi jia ku (醫家庫,1033/9362).

The English-language Manchuria Daily News (1908 - 1940), published in Dalian (Darien), presents Japan's case for its presence in China. From 1932 the Manchuria Daily News promoted Japan's newly founded vassal state Manchoukuo, as the showcase state for Japan's cultural, political and technological leadership of Asia.Complemented here by Manchuria Magazine, Manchuria Month, Contemporary Manchuria and the Manchuria Information Bulletin, the Manchuria Daily News offers scholars of the modern history of Japan in China a multifaceted view of competing Japanese agendas in the China theatre.

East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.

Access on and off campus. Choose Login via UK Federation. Registration is required. Follow the registration link for details.

Reuters Screenocean: a free six-month trial to the Reuters News archive “Screenocean”, one of the world’s oldest, largest and most renowned video archives. Reuters Screenocean Archive for Education gives staff and students at subscribing institutions unlimited access to over 1m clips to download and use in student films, video essays and coursework. The clips range from 1895 to the present day, covering all genres from historic newsreels to current affairs, with approximately 150 clips added each day. Students can also share course work which uses the footage non-commercially online, and at exhibitions, events and festivals to promote their work. The trial subscription is available until the end of July 2022 and provides authenticated access to staff and students.

30/06/2022.

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Digitalia Française provides access to over 2,300 French e-books from 33 academic and beyond in the following collections: French Literature in French Language, French Fiction, French Literature Criticism, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion and Mythology. Users can search or browse across these collections.

18/06/2022.

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Research Methods Primary Sources is an online learning tool for primary source literacy that can be used in classroom-based and online teaching, as well as for independent study. It provides the practical tools needed to understand and interact with primary sources and includes case studies, learning tools and practice sources.

16/06/2022.

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eHRAF World Cultures is an online cross-cultural and ethnographic database containing descriptive information on cultures (based on the Outline of World Cultures or OWC) and ethnic groups from around the world. Each culture collection in eHRAF contains a variety of documents (books, articles, monographs, and dissertations) that have been subject-indexed at the paragraph level by trained anthropologists according to HRAF’s comprehensive Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). This feature extends search capability well beyond keyword searching, allowing for precise culture and subject retrieval, even in a foreign language. As an ethnographic database, eHRAF appeals to many academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, and any other area with an interest in cultural diversity.

16/04/2022.

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15/04/2022

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BOA provide students and researchers with access to unique collections of primary source documents. Their website hosts over 3 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine. Themes include ‘American Studies: the colonisation of North America and the American revolution’, ‘The British industrial revolution: mills and education’, ‘Governing Africa: British records from African countries under colonial rule’, ‘Politics and protest: from major party politics to popular protest and parliamentary history’ and many more.

31/03/2022

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Krokodil (Crocodile) was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union from 1922 until 2008. Circulation of Krokodil peaked at around 5.8 million (in 1980) and it was firmly established as one of the leading publications in the Soviet Union. Krokodil lampooned religion, alcoholism, foreign political figures and events as well as ridiculing bureaucracy and excessive centralised control. This resource provides access to the full archive.

27/03/2022.

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The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) digital archive contains more than 150,000 maps, charts and atlases complemented by manuscripts, field notes, expedition reports.  Includes primary source material related to colonization, de-colonization, British Empire, polar and desert expeditions.  

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Novaia gazeta (Новая газета, The New Newspaper) is a popular independent Moscow newspaper known for critical investigative reporting in Russia. Launched in 1993, the newspaper has published under the title of Novaia ezhednevnaia gazeta (Новая ежедневная газета, The New Daily Newspaper) and Novaia gazeta ponedel’nik (Новая газета понедельник, The New Newspaper Monday). The newspaper is known for consistent reporting on a variety of contentious political issues in Russia. The newspaper was recently recognized for its efforts to defend and promote free speech with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Novaia gazeta’s co-founder and editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. The Novaia Gazeta Digital Archive contains the most complete collection available for this title and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other East View digital resources.

04/03/2022.

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Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876, a comprehensive primary resource from the American Antiquarian Society, is the largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in the region. It is a valuable resource for studying the development of Western society and international relations within this important group of islands.  This unique resource is essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region, as far back as the early 18th century. 

Created in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society—one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories—this collection will provide students and scholars with easy access to more than 150 years of Caribbean and Atlantic history, cultures and daily life. Featuring more than 140 newspapers from 22 islands, this resource will chronicle the region’s evolution across two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other news items.

To summarise, it is:

• The largest collection of fully searchable 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers online demonstrating the evolution of the region across two centuries, chronicled within more than 140 titles from 22 islands
• Essential for research on colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and related topics.

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Early American Newspapers, Series 10, provides more than 440 titles from all 50 present states. Included are more than 60 18th-century newspapers that offer fresh insight into the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras. The earliest 19th-century newspapers in Series 10 include more than 160 published before 1825, presenting new material on Westward expansion, the Early National era and other major topics. Also in this collection are more than 200 newspapers published between 1825 and 1900, including the first papers printed in the newly formed states of Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, and North Dakota.

06/03/2022.

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Passport provides key business intelligence on countries, consumers, lifestyles, markets and companies.  It is especially useful for studying entry into new country markets, the launch of new products and services targeted to new consumer market segments, benchmarking companies against competitors or investigating the growth potential of specific industry sectors.

The University currently subscribes to Passport, the additional content the trial provides is:

• Passport Cannabis
• Passport Luxury Goods
• Passport Mobility (formerly Automotive)
• Passport Nutrition
• Passport Product Claims & Positioning (formerly Ethical Labels)
• Passport Sports
• Passport Ingredients
• Passport Industrial (currently subscribed to as an add-on)

Access to the additional content is available for the trial period.

07/03/2022.

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The Vetus Latina Database is an electronic index to all Greek and Latin patristic citations or allusions to the pre-Vulgate editions of the Bible, collected by the Vetus Latina Institut in Beuron, Germany.

Access on and off campus. For off campus access please use the University VPN - Access to the University network via the VPN.

31/12/2021.

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1. Once you’re on the trial page, enter your email address in the field provided and click “Get Started”.
2. Next, create a username and password for your account or if you have existing credentials, sign in with these. Then click “Next”.
3.  At this point, your account has been created, and you now have free access to nkoda for 14 days.
4. Click on the relevant App Store link to download the app or, use the links below
   • For Windows 10
   • For iOS
   • For Mac OS
   • For Android
5. Once your download is complete, log in to the app (click “ Log In ”, not “Sign up via email”), using your institutional nkoda account (i.e., the credentials you created).
6. Once you’ve filled in the details created on the trial page, press ‘Login’, and you’re ready to start exploring!

31/10/2021

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31/10/2021

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Founded in 1875, Al-Ahram is one of the longest-running newspapers in the Middle East. It has long been regarded as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential newspaper, and one of the most important newspapers in the Arab world, with a circulation of over 1 million. Prior to 1960, the newspaper was an independent publication and was renowned for its objectivity and independence. After being nationalized by President Nasser in 1960, Al-Ahram became the de facto voice of the Egyptian government and today the newspaper is managed by the Supreme Council of Press.

Al-Ahram has featured writings by some of the most important political and literary voices of the day, including Nobel Literature Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, nationalist leaders Mustafa Kamil and Saad Zaghlul, as well as Salama Moussa, Taha Hussein, Yusuf Idris, Edward Said, Hamid Dabashi, and Anis Mansour.

01/10/2021

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Digital archive from Shanghai Library collections of over 120,000 books published in China between 1840-1949, covering the following categories: politics, economics, law, literature, lifestyle, contemporary biographies, children’s books, school textbooks, as well as communist publications.

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Thieme's MedOne Ophthalmology is a postgraduate educational resource for ophthalmologists, providing a range of resources to support learning, diagnosis and management within surgical eye disease.

• E-Books - A fully searchable database with access to 44 ophthalmology e-books
• E-Journals - Access to content from the Open Access Journal of Academic Ophthalmology.
• Content collections - Diagnosis-oriented content collection based on symptoms.
• Media - Over 16,000 images with legends and 370 videos

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Thieme's MedOne Plastic Surgery is a postgraduate educational resource for plastic surgeons and students, providing a range of resources to support learning and practice. The collection contains 8 ejournals, 150+ ebooks (including the core text, Essentials of Plastic Surgery by Janis), videos, procedures, other media, and over 1000 self-test Question and Answers categoried by region and procedure.

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Arm Education Media Online Courses provide an understanding of fundamental engineering concepts using Arm-based hardware and software technologies as tools and demonstrators. Each course contains around ten modules each, and each module may include lecture slides and notes, interactive quizzes (to test learning outcomes) and lab videos (to reinforce competency through practical application of concepts on Arm-based hardware platforms and associated software). The courses on offer are as follows:

• Efficient Embedded Systems Design and Programming
• Rapid Embedded Systems Design and Programing
• Internet of Things
• Graphics and Mobile Gaming
• Real-Time Operating Systems Design and Programming
• Introduction to System-on-Chip Design
• Advanced System-on-Chip Design
• Embedded Linux
• Mechatronics and Robotics

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The Henry Stewart Banking and Finance Journals Collection offers over 3,000 in-depth peer-reviewed articles, case studies and applied research papers in banking and finance. There are  approximately 300 new additions a year. The 8 titles in the collection are:

• Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal;
• Journal of Digital Banking;
• Journal of Financial Compliance;
• Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems ;
• Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions;
• Journal of Securities Operations & Custody;
• Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning;
• Journal of Data Protection & Privacy;  

All titles can be found individually in DiscoverEd for the duration of the trial.

16/07/2021

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Drawn from The National Archives (UK) and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this collection contains a wealth of digitised documents regarding the British government's efforts to investigate and prosecute Nazi crimes during the period 1944-1949. The evidence gathered sheds light on almost every aspect of the Holocaust and includes victim testimonies.

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History of Feminism is a new online platform that brings together the best and most relevant scholarship from Taylor & Francis, its imprints, and its authors. It is the first part of the new Routledge Historical Resources online programme that will provide both academics and students with an in depth research tool for studying the long Nineteenth Century through thematic collections in areas such as Feminism, the History of Economic Thought, Romanticism and Empire. This resource covers the fascinating subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes:

• Politics and Law
• Religion and Belief
• Education
• Literature and Writings
• Women at Home
• Society and Culture
• Empire
• Movements and Ideologies

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BOA provide students and researchers with access to unique collections of primary source documents. Their website hosts over 3 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine. Themes include ‘American Studies: the colonisation of North America and the American revolution’, ‘The British industrial revolution: mills and education’, ‘Governing Africa: British records from African countries under colonial rule’, ‘Politics and protest: from major party politics to popular protest and parliamentary history’ and many more.

31/03/2022

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Archaeopress is offering an extended free trial to its suite of journals hosted on the Archaeopress platform .

Journals covered by the trial are as follows:

• Journal of Greek Archaeology;
• Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies;
• Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture;
• Ash-sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East;
• Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies;
• EX NOVO: Journal of Archaeology;
• KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies;
• Offa’s Dyke Journal;

31/03/2021.

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21/12/2020.

State Papers Online, 1509-1714: Part III: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic is a collection of English government documents originating primarily from the seventeenth century. The Stuarts' internal struggles come to life through a wealth of primary source documents from one of the most compelling and turbulent eras in Britain's social, political, and religious history. Among the more than one million pages of manuscripts, researchers will find accounts of the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I, and the invasion of William of Orange.

The Library already has access to State Papers Online Part II: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign: Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council.

30/11/20

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13/10/2020.

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27,441 titles and 163,293 segments of feature films, drama, documentary films, educational videos, animation or cartoon, archival films, newsreels, interviews, etc. covering a wide range of subjects area studies, history, anthropology, art, architecture, business, economics, applied health, biology, and other subjects.

30/09/2020.

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Project Syndicate provides commentaries by distinguished economists and policymakers. Sections include Economics, Politics, Development, Sustainability, Culture, and Innovation. Includes archive of past articles, including in-depth thematic coverage via ‘Big Picture’

Access on and off campus. NB THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE - AS OF 30 NOVEMBER 2021 THE PUBLISHER QGateway, Inc.  CEASED OPERATIONS.

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The Expert Collection is comprised of 28 peer-reviewed journals from Taylor and Francis' well-established Expert Opinion and Expert Review series. These journals combines the personal opinions of expert authors who are all internationally recognized experts in their fields. They provide their insights about where research is now, where it should go next and how it should get there. In this respect, all Expert Collection reviews end with an expert opinion, not a conclusion. Journals included in the Collection are as follows:

• Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy;
• Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery; Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery;
• Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology;
• Expert Opinion on Drug Safety; Expert Opinion on Emerging Drugs;
• Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs;
• Expert Opinion on Orphan Drugs;
• Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy;
• Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents;
• Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets;
• Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy;
• Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy;
• Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy;
• Expert Review of Clinical Immunology;
• Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology;
• Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism;
• Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology;
• Expert Review of Hematology;
• Expert Review of Medical Devices;
• Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics;
• Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics;
• Expert Review of Ophthalmology;
• Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research;
• Expert Review of Precision Medicine and Drug Development;
• Expert Review of Proteomics;
• Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine;
• Expert Review of Vaccines;

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30/09/2020.

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NK News provides news and analysis about North Korea with reporting based on information collected from in-country sources, recently returned western visitors to North Korea and other sources.

NK Pro (North Korea Professional Research Platform) provides access to data analysis tools including the North Korea Leadership Tracker, the North Korea Ship Tracker, the North Korea Aviation Tracker, Leading Indicators, etc.

KCNA Watch (Korea Central News Agency – North Korea’s national news service) is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and searchable repository of North Korean state media, including KCNA’s DPRK and Japan-based sites, Uriminzokkiri, the Pyongyang Times, Rodong Sinmun, Tongil Sinbo, and numerous monthly and quarterly periodicals.

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13/08/2020

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This database contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the world-leading independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference. The Institute's analysis and research, as well as debates and speeches it has hosted, can be found in this online archive, subject-indexed and fully searchable.

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Nineteenth Century Literary Society offers unprecedented digital access to the peerless archive of the historic John Murray publishing company, and is an unparalleled resource for nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.

Held by the National Library of Scotland since 2006 and added to the UNESCO Register of World Memory in 2011, the Murray collection comprises one of the world’s most important literary archives.

This digital resource enables researchers to discover the golden age of the company that published genre-defining titles including Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Emma, and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels

Key figures who feature in the Archive include, Jane Austen, Isabella Bird, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli,  Elizabeth Eastlake, William Gladstone, David Livingstone, and Sir Walter Scott.

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This comprehensive collection includes National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994. From its founding in 1888, the National Geographic Society has grown into an organization synonymous with exploration, photography, maps, and rethinking the world as we know it. From the iconic National Geographic magazine to the popular National Geographic Traveler and hundreds of books, maps, videos and images, there’s simply no substitute for the depth and quality National Geographic Virtual Library will bring to your library.

30/06/2020.

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This trial opens up access to a vast collection of primary sources material which comprises the following collections:  Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest;; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; Photography: The World through the Lens; Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II; Women: Transnational Networks.

Please note that the Library provides permanent access to two of these collections: British Politics and Society, and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection.

30/06/2020.

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As a new American nation emerged in the 1800s, the first draft of history was written by those who experienced it and recorded it in newspaper pages from coast to coast. This collection provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America that is of interest to both professional and general researchers. With 1.8 million pages available, the collection features publications of all kinds, from the political party newspapers at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mammoth dailies that shaped the nation at the century's end. Major newspapers stand alongside those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women’s rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.

30/06/2020.

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Oxford Law Trove facilitates a rounded and complete study of law. Its powerful search facility means you can delve deeper into your title, navigate more easily, and connect with additional resources in your own institution’s library collection. For the first time Law Trove enables you to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s textbook law list.

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Politics Trove facilitates a rounded and complete study of politics. Its powerful search facility means you can delve deeper into your title, navigate more easily, and connect with additional resources in your own institution’s library collection. For the first time Politics Trove enables you to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s textbook politics list.

30/06/2020.

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This archive covers a period of just over a century (1900s to 2010s) and is a compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements.  With an extensive scope of content focused on political extremism and radical thought, this archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and radical left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera, which allow researchers to explore unorthodox social and political movements in new and innovative ways and to understand what impact they have had on today’s society.

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In 1868, Joseph Sabin produced a prospectus for his famous bibliography of monograph works about the "Americas", and Bibliotheca Americana was produced over the course of nearly 60 years. This archive reaches into all aspects of American history and culture. It touches upon the political and religious life in North America and at times South America and the Caribbean. It features American and European views of the colonization of the Americas, the American Revolution, the days of the early Republic and Jacksonian period, the antebellum period, Civil War, era of Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction, the settlement of the West and the onset of the Gilded Age. Through published pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and innumerable other genres, Sabin opens a window onto the Americas through which few get to glimpse.

30/06/2020.

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Comprising four parts, this archive includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.  Sections include 1. Debates over Slavery and Abolition; 2.  Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; 3. The Institution of Slavery, and 4. The Age of Emancipation. Slavery and Anti-Slavery.  This database contains: 5.4 million cross-searchable pages: 12049 books, 170 serials, 71 manuscript collections, 377 supreme court records and briefs and 194 reference articles from Macmillan, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale encyclopedias. Links to websites, biographies, chronology, bibliographies, and information on key collections, to give users background and context for further research.

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State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. The trial comprises four of the modules:

• Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military and Naval and the Registers of the Privy Council - Part I focuses research on British domestic politics and society in an age punctuated by plots, rebellions, uprisings, and financial crises.
• Part II: State Papers Foreign- Low Countries and Germany - Part II contains the papers written or received by the secretaries of state in the processes of British diplomacy in the Low Countries and Germany through the eighteenth century.
• Part III: State Papers Foreign: Western Europe - Part III includes the State Papers series relating to France, Dunkirk, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples, as well as supplementary records of the Levant Company in Aleppo and the Aleppo consulate. It also includes the Royal Letters and Treaties series.
• Part IV: State Papers Foreign: Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey - Part IV presents, digitised for the first time, the letters, memorials and treaties pertaining to Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Saxony, Prussia, Russia, Turkey and the Barbary States.

NB the Library has already purchased access to two of the modules of State Papers Online - Part II and the Stuart and Cumberland Papers, and has other modules currently on trial.

30/06/2020.

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Founded in 1903, the Mirror plays a pivotal role in the history of journalism. Peaking in 1967, with a daily circulation of 5.25 million, the newspaper has had a history full of highs and lows. Today, it is the only mainstream left-wing tabloid remaining in the UK. Gale's Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000 features more than 800,000 pages of brand-new, full text searchable, scans of the complete run of the Mirror from 1903-2000, including the Sunday Mirror.

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This series covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring almost every aspect of American and British law, and significant content covering other world regions.  It complements the traditional study of law with books from the most influential legal writers throughout history.

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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926 provides researchers with instant, full-text access to primary source documents previously found only at the largest and oldest repositories. Coverage is primarily from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but there are also several hundred classics in European international law since the seventeenth century.

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926 brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, and Wheaton, among others.

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Fulfilling legal historians' needs with superseded codes in an easy-to-find online form, this series complements the collection of treatises found in Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926. It provides an interpretive analysis with books on codes, the "primary sources" of law. Jurisdictions include Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, as well as other countries in northern and Eastern Europe.

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This collection expands the range of legal primary source documents available to researchers. It deepens critical understanding of social, economic, political, and historical issues by surfacing over half a million pages of briefs from appellants, appellees, and supporters (amicus briefs), with their respective replies, as well as appendices, memoranda, petitions, plaintiff statements, transcripts, and more from the various circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

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Comprising two parts, Primary Sources contains information for researchers of American legal history.  Part I: 1620-1926 provides a fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests, and more. The collection brings together in one place many of the important documents that have been lost, destroyed, or previously inaccessible to researchers of American legal history around the world. Part II; 1763-1970 supports research in legal and social history, from the eighteenth century to the era following World War II.  It consists of US state and territorial codes, municipal codes, and constitutional conventions and compilations.  Those interested in America's common-law heritage will find this resource useful for tracing major legal topics across all states and territories.

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This collection describes the courtroom dramas that gripped American society, the British Empire, and the world. This fully-searchable digital collection includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs, and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions. The collection also supports studies in government, psychology, critical theory, theater and performance, gender studies, race studies, and journalism.

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The Telegraph Historical Archive is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full-text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper's backfile from its first issue to the end of 2016, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.

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Much of history is one-sided, focusing mainly on the male perspective and leaving women's voices unheard. Bringing women’s stories to light, the Women’s Studies Archive connects archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources. Focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the archive provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals. By providing the opportunity to witness female perspectives, this is an essential source for researchers working in Women’s History, Gender Studies and Social History.

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The Yale A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook and image resource that features important works of scholarship in the fields of history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality, including smart image searching, and extensive metadata, the site includes many out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers

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The South Asia Commons (formerly South Asia Archive) is a specialist digital platform providing global electronic access to culturally and historically significant literary material produced from within, and about, the South Asian region.  Contains millions of pages of digitized primary and secondary material in a mix of English and vernacular languages dating back to the start of the 18th Century, up to the mid-20th Century.  Contains Journals, Reports, Books,  Legislation documents and Indian Film Booklets.

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The world's first database of newspapers and magazines of Ukraine (UDB-UKR) includes publications in Russian, Ukrainian, and English. They cover a broad range of political, economic, and cultural affairs of Ukraine. Topics include Ukraine's progress along the reform path, the view and positions of various political forces, changes in legislation, ethnic relations, and organizational trends in development of the armed forces. The database also includes news wire reports and other products of Ukrainian news agencies. An integral and unique part of this database is the Ukrainian Book Chamber's editions, which list everything published in Ukraine with detailed bibliographic description.

15/05/2020.

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ERUDIT have opened up access to their subscribed scholarly journals to enable SPARC to study the growing use of their journals by users in the UK (2 million views per year) in the context of an Open Access transition. It is conducted in collaboration with Raym Crow, Senior Consultant at SPARC (sparcopen.org). Each scholarly journal is independent and is published by Canadian learned societies or university presses and faculties. They are selected by their scientific committee and meet rigorous selection criteria. It represents more than 30 SSHAL disciplines: literature, law, sociology, economics, cinema, etc.

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The Paris Peace Conference was a meeting of Allied diplomats that took place in the aftermath of the First World War. Its purpose was to impose peace terms on the vanquished Central Powers and establish a new international order. This collection contains archival material relating to this tumultuous period in European and world history. The documents cover the treaties of Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Trianon, Sèvres, Lausanne, and Locarno, as well as the foundation of the League of Nations. Together, these treaties severely curtailed German power and influence, redrew national boundaries in Europe and the Middle East, and led to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

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17/03/2020

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This one-of-a-kind collection provides online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English-, Gujarati- and Bengali-language papers published in India, in the regions of the Subcontinent that now comprise Pakistan, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), South Asian Newspapers offers extensive coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent between 1864 and 1922.

13/03/2020

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This groundbreaking online collection provides more than 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, African Newspapers, Series 1, offers unparalleled coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922.  From repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade, life under colonial rule and the results of the Berlin Conference to the emergence of Black journalism, the Zulu Wars and the rejection of Western imperialism, these newspapers provide a wide range of viewpoints on diverse cultures.

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African Newspapers: The British Library Collection features 64 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901. Originally archived by the British Library—the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the largest and most respected libraries in the world—these rare historical documents are now available for the first time in a fully searchable online collection. From culture to history to geopolitics, the pages of these newspapers offer fresh research opportunities for students and scholars interested in topics related to Africa.

13/03/2020

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An essential, unique collection of American jazz periodicals, a primary source reference and research tool, and of great importance to any lover of jazz and its history. This database benefits from RIPM’s partnership with the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, which holds the most extensive collection of jazz periodicals in the world

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Bloomsbury Architecture Library is a leading digital resource for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design. Its dynamic digital platform offers access to wide-ranging collections of text and image content, from architectural history to cutting-edge design guidance. The platform is comprised of multiple collections, including the newly updated ebook edition of Bannister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 21st edition.

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Esmé Howard (1863-1939) is widely regarded as one of the most influential British diplomats of the early-20th century. Howard held a number of important posts before serving as British Ambassador to the United States between 1924 and 1930. This collection contains Howard’s papers, from private correspondence to professional records. These documents provide an interesting insight into the evolution of British foreign policy during and between the two world wars.

22/02/2020

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The Yale A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook and image resource that features important works of scholarship in the fields of history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality, including smart image searching, and extensive metadata, the site includes many out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers

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From the Eiffel Tower and the Space Needle to the invention of television, chewing gum and hot dogs, world’s fairs have shaped our world. Collating material from archives around the world, this resource offers a unique insight into the phenomenon of international expositions by presenting official records, monographs, personal accounts and ephemera for more than 200 fairs together for the first time. From the earliest plans to public reception and the legacy that remains, the impact of these global events can be examined in a comprehensive context.

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14/02/2020

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Organised into Units and Chapters, JoVE Core: Bio delivers hundreds of animated videos of foundational concepts, supporting scientific learning at all levels. Access to JoVE Core: Bio is provided free to all until the end of 2019.

31/12/2019 - incorporated into our JOVE subscription (to all modules)

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AskZad is a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) based digital library focusing primarily on Arabic content. It contains journals, indexes, e-books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and other types of electronic content. Designed with the needs of researchers in mind, AskZad contains scans of original articles going as far back as 1823. AskZad's diverse collection includes published content from the Middle East in Arabic as well as Arabic content worldwide.  The majority of AskZad's content is in Arabic but content in English, French and German is also available - click the top left button to translate the website into English

17/01/2020

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National Theatre Collection gives access to high definition streamed video of world-class theatre productions and unique archival material, offering insight into theatre and performance studies. Drawing on 10 years of National Theatre Live broadcasts and unseen archival recordings, the video content includes 17 video performances in the initial release and will expand in 2020 to 30 video performances. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as photographs, scripts, and costume designs will provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.

05/01/2020.

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Comprising curated and illustrated reference works alongside extensive eBook and image collections Bloomsbury Cultural History presents essential content within a single, fully cross-searchable platform. The Cultural Histories Series offers an authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages.

05/01/2020.

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The whole Tapestry (and two facsimiles) with full commentary, maps, genealogies, glossary, libraries of textual and visual analogues. Runs in all major browsers on all major computer systems - please note that this online version uses Flash, so it does not work in an i-Phone or i-Pad.

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Ta Kung Pao Database was established by Lianzhi Ying in Tianjin at the year 1902 which collects about 3 million articles. It has been focusing on politics and current affairs and was the most famous newspaper which recorded Chinese modern history, and served as one of the representatives of public voices especially during 1926-1949. This newspaper was awarded “Best News Service” by The University of Missouri, Missouri School of Journalism in 1941.

30/12/2019

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Diaolong Database is one of the most comprehensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ancient books including almost 30,000 types of ancient books covering historical, political, economic, religious, philosophic, literary, ethnic and geographic documents. It is composed of many sub-databases, namely : are Zhong tong dao zang, Dao zang ji yao, Yong le da dian, Si bu cong kan, Xu si bu cong kan (Si bu bei yao), China local gazetteers, Liu fu wen zang, Qing dynasty archives, Gu jin tu shu ji cheng, Japanese ancient books, Dunhuang archives, Diaolong xu xiu si ku quan shu, Diaolong si ku quan shu, Chinese folk literature (including Min jian bao juan), and Ming qing ke ju zhu juan.

30/12/2019

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Database of Chinese Modern Newspapers includes modern newspapers published in both mainland China and Taiwan before 1949 which reflects the entire history of the Republic of China. This database includes these sub-databases, namely; Shun Pao, Central Daily, Taiwan Min Bao, Taiwan Daily News, and Taiwan Times. The publisher of this cooperates with National Chengchi University on analyses of subject news, in order to help readers and researchers locate precious materials they really need.

30/12/2019

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Plays International & Europe is a quarterly journal which continues the tradition of the London theatre magazines Plays and Players and Plays International of the mid to late 20th century that defined British theatre culture, with a new editorial shift in emphasis to continental Europe. Its articles, unhindered by editorial conformity, cover theatre festivals, interviews with major theatre personalities, and “What’s on in London” and “What’s on the Broadway” lists describing all the upcoming mainstream shows. The articles reflect national trends in the performance arts all over the globe. Access from the first issue Spring 2016 onwards.

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Explore the history of illness, treatment and disease on international front lines from 1850 to 1927. From the beginning of the Crimean War to the discovery of penicillin, Medical Services and Warfare gathers material from multiple conflicts to build a picture of the experience and development of medical practice as influenced by the wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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16/12/2019.

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London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond.

In addition to the digital documents, London Low Life contains a wealth of secondary resources, including a chronology, interactive maps, essays, online galleries and links to other useful websites.

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16/12/2019

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Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics combines the speed and flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.  Like other ORE resources, it is continuously updated by the world’s leading scholars and researchers. Subjects covered by ORE Linguistics include applied and computational linguistics, historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and semantics.

13/12/2019

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Translations of the Peking Gazette Online is a comprehensive database of approximately 8,500 pages of English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China’s long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912. As the mouthpiece of the government, the Peking Gazette is the authoritative source for information about the Manchu state and its Han subjects as they collectively grappled with imperial decline, re-engaged with the wider world, and began mapping the path to China’s contemporary rise.

04/12/2019.

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This is a new digital archive that offers full-page images of recent editions of The Guardian (UK) newspaper, from 2010 onwards (not including last 3 months due to embargo). For the first time this gives you cover to cover access to recent issues including all articles, photos, images, advertisements, classifieds, etc. 

01/12/2019.

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The National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streamed video of world-class theatre productions and unique archival material, offering insight into British theatre-making and performance studies. Volume 1 contains 30 video performances and Volume 2 has 12 performances. All the performance recordings include captions.  As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitised archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and more are available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information. The featured 40 performances are:

Volume 1

• Comedies: She Stoops to Conquer (2012), One Man, Two Guvnors (2011), London Assurance (2010)
• 20th century classics: Yerma (2017), The Cherry Orchard (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2016), Les Blancs (2016), A Streetcar Named Desire (2014), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018), Consent (2017), Translations (2018)
• Shakespeare plays: Hamlet (2010), Othello (2013), King Lear (2011), Macbeth (2018), Julius Caesar (2018), Coriolanus (2014), Twelfth Night (2017), The Winter's Tale (2018), Romeo and Juliet (2017)
• Literary adaptations: Frankenstein (2 performances, 2011), Jane Eyre (2015), Treasure Island (2015), Peter Pan (2017), Wonder.land (2015), Small Island (2019)
• Greek classics: Antigone (2012), Medea (2014)
• World historical drama: Dara (2015)

Volume 2

• Turn of the century plays for contemporary audiences: Heda Gabler (2017), Julie (2018), The Seagull (2016), Three Sisters (2019)
• 20^th century classics: A view from the Bridge (2015), All My Sons(2019)
• Contemporary plays: Barber Shop Chronicles (2017), This House(2013)
• Shakespeare: Macbeth (2019)
• Musical theatre: I want My Hat Back (2015)

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The Statista Global Consumer Survey offers a global perspective on consumption and media usage, covering the offline and online world of the consumer. It is designed to help marketers, planners and product managers understand consumer behavior and consumer interactions with brands. This trial covers over 50 industries and topics.

30/11/2019.

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CNKI English Resources consists of three databases: China Data Insights, Academic Focus, and Journal Translation Project. China Data Insights provides access to more than 1,083 statistical yearbooks with 8,446 volumes and 1.49 million tables. Academic Focus contains 262 English journals published in China, English content translated from top Chinese academic journals and over 2400 conference proceedings. The Journal Translation Project features the bilingual full-text content of 140 top academic journals in China with the English and Chinese versions displayed side-by-side. Comprehensive subject coverage.

30/11/2019.

Instructions to create a personal username and password:

1. On the Lexis360 homepage, click the SE CONNECTER button.
2. On the right side of the page under ” PREMIERE VISITE “, click on CREER MON COMPTE button
3. Follow the on screen instructions to create your personal username and password. NB when asked to input your email address, this MUST be your University of Edinburgh (@ed.ac.uk or @sms.ed.ac.uk) email address.
4. On second and subsequent visits, simply input your username and password.

This French language database offers access to legal news and case law decisions. It contains JurisClasseur encyclopaedias and legal journals, editions of La Semaine Juridique, based on Jurisprudence (including JurisData), Official Journal Laws and Decrees, Official Bulletins, legislation (EU), case law (EU), doctrine and legal journals. Covering public law, private law and criminal sciences: civil law, tax law, medical and hospital law, pharmaceutical law, local law of Alsace-Lorraine. 

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Bloomsbury Medieval Studies offers a global perspective on this rich field of study, bringing together high quality secondary content with visual primary sources, a brand new reference work and object images in a one-stop digital resource that will open up the medieval world.

24/11/2019.

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Featuring titles like Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier, Black Newspaper Collection from ProQuest provides cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are valuable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.

Note that the Library already has ongoing access to The Baltimore Afro-American and New York Amsterdam News from this collection, access to these two titles will continue once trial has ended.

20/11/2019

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This database contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the world-leading independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference. The Institute's analysis and research, as well as debates and speeches it has hosted, can be found in this online archive, subject-indexed and fully searchable.

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21/08/2020

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CDI contains more than 1,083 statistical yearbooks, 8,446 volumes,1.49 million tables and 1,647 million indicators of statistics presses and other yearbook publishers of all provincial divisions in the Chinese mainland. In its corresponding Chinese interface (http://data.oversea.cnki.net/chn), it collects 2,302 statistical yearbooks, 25,401 volumes.

CDI is the new English version of China Statistical Yearbooks Database, integrating authoritative statistical yearbooks of all Chinese provincial divisions and combining multiple functions like statistical data search, data mining analysis and personal data management as a whole, so as to provide the most comprehensive statistical data of the development of contemporary Chinese society for English users. The content covers 18 major fields: national accounts, education and technology, public health, population and human resources, energy and environment and so on. Based on the Chinese version, CDI realizes the English transformation and entirely fragmentation of statistical data, supports single and mixed searches from three dimensions: indicator, table and yearbook, and provides better and more convenient data mining experience for users.

30/09/2019.

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More than 3,000 proprietary, licensed, and commissioned cases cases from over 100 countries. These cases are accompanied by instructor-only teaching notes with suggested teaching strategies and possible responses to discussion questions that can help facilitate classroom discussion. This collection brings together cases selected from a variety of sources, including key university and association partnerships. Topics include accounting, business ethics & corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, human resource management, marketing, operations management, organizational studies and more.

10/08/2019.

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SAGE Video showcases leading academics and practitioners in many brand new videos, mapped to course curricula. The breadth of video types available support diverse research and learning needs, such as tutorials, in-practice examples, and theory definitions, all fully citable with searchable transcripts. Topics include accounting, business ethics & corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, human resource management, marketing, operations management and organizational studies.

10/08/2019.

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The complete, unabridged and edited diaries (1918–1959) of the Romance philologist Victor Klemperer described the process of the Jews’ deprivation of rights, his personal thoughts and reactions, and at the same time documented everyday life from the Weimar Republic to the early GDR.  Exclusive and unabridged in the database:

• Klemperer’s reflections on Germany and Judaism, humanism and barbarism, and antisemitism.
• Available to researchers for the first time: Klemperer’s entries in the run up to Lingua tertii imperii and preliminary work for his history of French literature.
• Detailed film notes on 750 films, accompanied by a separate filmography: a treasure trove for cineastes.
• Detailed accounts of Klemperer’s numerous trips, which give striking contemporary descriptions of destinations such as France, Italy, and China.

Note: Click on Content in the left-hand panel to browse.  USe Google translate to convert into English.

31/07/2019.

Society Digimap allows you  to explore a range of demographic data, providing a wealth of census and socio-economic information for Great Britain. The processing required to visualise Census and other demographic datasets can be a barrier to use for many people interested in the value of the datasets. By providing these datasets as layers to visualise along with high quality Ordnance Survey data, the rich information can offer valuable insights without the need to learn how to use a GIS.

The mapping facility, Society Roam is available. A full data download application is under development, which will offer the ability to download both the census data and the corresponding boundaries together. 

Global Digimap provides access to global datasets in cartographic styles and downloadable formats that are useful to you. The service provides the following:

• An easy to use interface to allow you to browse, annotate and print global maps.
• A data download facility providing access to global datasets for use in GIS software.

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Geospatial Data gives access to UK maps and mapping data for view and data download from six collections: Ordnance Survey, Environment, Geology, Historic,  Maritime and Aerial Photography To log-in, select the 'Map' option (at top of screen). 

31/07/2019.

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This digital archive brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics.

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Content from SAGE publisher (some unique to SRM) on the steps involved in a research project. Full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioural sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences.

Topics: Key concepts in research, Philosophy of research, Research ethics, Planning research, Research design, Data collection, Data quality and data management, Qualitative data analysis, Quantitative data analysis,  Writing and disseminating research.

This trial gives access to the following additional modules:

Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2 - http://methods.sagepub.com/uploads/files/SRM%20Cases%20Part%202%20-%20Title%20List%202019.xlsx SAGE Research Methods Datasets 2  - http://methods.sagepub.com/uploads/files/SRM%20Datasets%202%20Title%20List%202019.xlsx (more titles to be added). Research Methods Video: Data Science, Big Data Analytics, & Digital Methods - http://methods.sagepub.com/uploads/files/SRMV3_March2019_FullTitleList.xlsx

20/06/2019.

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This digital research source from Adam Matthew provides you with access to a huge range of primary sources covering social, cultural, political, scientific and religious perspectives, from the 15th to early 18th centuries. The breadth of sources provided within this collection is extensive, from sources concerning the Black Death to the Restoration of the English monarchy and the Glorious Revolution. Includes illuminated manuscripts, personal papers, diaries and journals, correspondence, rare books, receipt books, account books and manuscript sheet music.

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The database contains a vast amount of full-text material for Chinese studies. It includes the following categories of resources:

• Over 7,000 periodicals from the late Qing Dynasty to 1949; 
• Over 200 Chinese Communist Party periodicals before 1949;
• 39,000 books published between 1911 and 1949; 
• 3,400 local gazetteers published throughout China’s history before 1949, some dating back to Song Dynasty; 
• 15,000 pre-modern and rare Chinese books; 

10/06/2019.

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Icelandic–English dictionary, Icelandic monolingual dictionary, plus other language combinations and specialised dictionaries

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This digital archive offers a searchable full-text backfile of all issues of The New Republic. The magazine, founded in 1914, is considered of the country's leading journals of opinion on politics and the arts. It features award-winning writers and critics from many fields and from most political viewpoints

31/05/2019.

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National Review Archive offers complete indexing, abstracting and full text for the magazine from the first issue in 1955 to the present. National Review has been an important American journal of opinion and has consistently provided readers with well-reasoned editorial commentary on critical issues. The National Review is seen as a key resource for conservative news, commentary and opinion.

31/05/2019.

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The Nation Archive makes it possible for researchers to access 14 decades of America's best alternative journalism in ways never before possible. The archive contains thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles dating back to the magazine's first issue from July 6, 1865. The Nation is an important clearinghouse of primary source material in America and around the world.

31/05/2019.

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‘State Papers Foreign: Low Countries and Germany’ contains the papers written on received by the secretaries of state in the processes of British diplomacy in the Low Countries and Germany through the eighteenth century. This rich archive includes correspondence with English diplomats abroad and foreign diplomats in England, original and draft treaties, letters between heads of state, intercepted dispatches and other intelligence, working papers of the secretaries, and material relating to military, naval, and colonial policy. Part II expands on the domestic papers in Part I and presents the first section of the foreign papers during the reigns of George I, George II, and George III until 1782 when the State Papers series ends.

30/05/2019.

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We have had access to all of the content in JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments). JoVE is a scientific video methods journal containing over 10,000 video articles. JoVE publishes novel methods, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold-standard protocols in both the physical and life sciences. JoVE articles are peer-reviewed and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, SciFinder, and Scopus.

In addition, we have access to JoVE Science Education Library which aims to “better teach and learn key concepts and fundamental techniques at the undergraduate course level. The simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations cover a wide range of STEM subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Engineering.”

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This bibliographic database provides high-quality cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 800 journals, some dating back to 1911, encompassing the broad spectrum of linguistics and language study. It offers more than 768,000 records with subject headings from EBSCO’s robust thesaurus, curated by subject matter experts.  See https://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/lao-coverage.htm?_ga=2.260594958.261807341.1551718566-808336705.1549299418 for full coverage.

30/04/2019.

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This ground breaking online collection provides more than 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring both English and a range of foreign-language titles this database offers unparalleled coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922.

19/04/2019.

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The Mainichi Shimbun (“Daily News”) is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper with a history spanning over 140 years. It continues to be one of the most important daily newspapers in Japan today.  The Maisaku database provides access to over 6 million articles from Mainichi Shimbun since 1872 to present and the Mainichi Weekly Economist from 1989. Newspaper images from 1989 to 1999 are in flash format, which include features like page turning, scaling, bookmarking, etc., as in an electronic book.  

18/04/2019.

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State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. It provides unparalleled access to thousands of manuscripts that reveal the behind-the-scenes, day-to-day running of the British Government during the eighteenth century. We currently have a trial to Part I, which focuses research on British domestic politics and society and Part IV, which covers nations and events at the borders of Europe and European power.

Note: you will be cross-searching these two collections with State Papers Online, 1509-1714: Part II, which the Library already has access to.

15/04/2019.

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The Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker provides unparalleled access to carefully edited editions of German literature. In co-operation with the Deutsche Klassiker Verlag in Frankfurt am Main, we’re publishing a wide array of classic German literature, from early German texts to the major German writers of the 19th century. The Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker includes the critical editions of the works of 34 authors. Researchers will find early German texts, such as Lancelot und Ginover; complete editions of Wolfram von Eschenbach; the works of Meister Eckhart; collections of Medieval German poetry and novels; Carmina Burana; and complete editions of important German authors such as Lessing, Eichendorff, Keller, Kleist, Hoffman, Storm, and Seume. To provide essential context and background material to the political and intellectual debates at the heart of Europe during the 19th century, the texts are accompanied by collections of other influential literary and non-literary materials. For example, texts relating to art history, theory of the state and church, theory and history of war, and political speeches are included, providing context to the plays, poetry, and novels.

14/04/2019.

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The first authorized electronic edition of Brecht's writings, Bertolt Brechts Werke (Jubiläumsausgabe) comprises the poetry, drama, and major critical writings contained within the Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden. Produced with the cooperation of German publishers Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, this new literary resource will provide scholars with much broader access to a range of Brecht's works. It will enable researchers to carry out more comprehensive analyses that compare and contrast his approach to the role of drama and his philosophy from his early work during the Weimar Republic through his time in the United States to his final residence in the German Democratic Republic. This edition is based on Bertold Brecht - Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden - Jubiläumsausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag, which collects Brecht's works and writings in six volumes, with brief notes on each text.

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10/04/2019.

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10/04/2019.

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A Wiley Digital Archives Collection that will reflect interdisciplinary interests in a broad range of subject areas, that span over 500 years of history, with some material pre-dating the founding of the Royal College of Physicians by charter of King Henry VIII in 1518.   From astronomy and anatomical studies to neurology and botanical research, the collection comprises an extensive body of diverse and interdisciplinary original materials.  Topics include History of Medicine; History of the Royal College of Physicians; Regulation, Law, Policy, and Control;  Medieval and Early Modern Texts; Non-Western Medicine; Anatomical Studies; World Health; Vaccinations; Medieval and Early Modern Diseases and Medical Treatment; Public Health and Common Diseases; Military Medicine; Early Medical Textbooks.

05/04/2019.

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The New York Academy of Sciences mission is to drive innovative solutions to society’s challenges by advancing scientific research, education, and policy. Among the oldest scientific organizations in the United States, it is also one of the most significant organizations in the global scientific community.  Accessible through the Wiley Digital Archives platform, the New York Academy of Sciences collection contains the vast range of original sources that have shaped two centuries of scientific progress, Spanning a wide range of disciplinary research from medical research and botanical studies to climate science and zoological research, the Wiley Digital Archives: New York Academy of Sciences collection contains an extensive body of diverse and interdisciplinary original materials. 

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A Wiley Digital Archives Collection containing original primary source materials that have been discovered and researched for over a century by the members of the Royal Anthropological Institute.  From archaeology and historical research to geographical and religious studies, the collection contains an extensive body of diverse and interdisciplinary original materials including Administrative Records; Correspondence; Data; Ephemera; Fieldwork; Gray Literature; Illustrations; Manuscripts; Maps; Monographs; Pamphlets; Periodicals; Personal Papers; Photographs; Proceedings and Reports.

05/04/2019

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Archives of Sexuality & Gender provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, you can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing digital archive offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history. The database currently includes 4 collections: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture, LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940, Part I and Part II and Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

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This digital primary resource from British Online Archives allows you to follow the slave trade from Africa and America to Britain through these records. See who traded in slaves, read accounts of their transportation and learn about the plantations where they were forced to work. Then uncover the philosophies that endorsed or fought against the existence of this trade in people. This resource includes 84,629 pages of digitised archive material.

17/03/2019.

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This digital primary resource from British Online Archives allows you to see narrative accounts from missionaries combine with colonial statistics to create a picture of these former colonies' development. Learn how owners of an Antiguan sugar plantation adapted to emancipation, and witness the nature of missionaries' roles in the slave trade. It also includes the papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1694-1709. Together, these collections reveal how governments, slave owners and missionaries shaped the development of these countries over three centuries.

17/03/2019.

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This ebook collection from the American Academy of Ophthalmology includes: the Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) containing 13 volumes of ophthalmic reference texts, with new editions published annually and a number of textbooks published by AAO.

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BabelScores gives access to a large and growing library of online contemporary music scores. It selects the works of the most creative, original and innovative contemporary composers offering a wide catalogue to instrumentalists, ensembles, orchestras, composers, musicologists, conservatoires, and universities.

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Unlike other digital offerings in this area that have largely focused on short-lived, informal publications, LGBT Magazine Archive will offer the complete backfiles of many of the leading, established, long-running periodicals of this type. Coverage is from the first issue of each publication, with the earliest content dating from 1957 and the default termination point for each title is 2015 (or the journal ceased date). Each title is scanned from cover to cover in full colour.

Magazines of this type have been a crucial source of identification for many LGBT people; they chronicle the evolution of myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, including law/politics/society, the arts, health, and, lifestyle. Whilst this material will be indispensable for dedicated LGBT studies and broader gender/sexuality research, it will, additionally, cater to interests in many related disciplines, including 20th-century history and culture, sociology, psychology, health, and literature/arts.

The library has access to:

• LGBT Magazine Archive Collection 1
• ​LGBT Magazine Archive Collection 2

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28/02/2019

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Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume IV, Eastern Religions focuses on the various facets of Eastern Religion spanning over two-hundred years from the early 1900s to the present day. It includes an international selection of English-language editions of key thinkers such as Alan Watts, Sister Nivedita, K. N. Jayatilleke, and Prayadh Payutto, among others. Future releases will introduce more works by significant thinkers and archival content. Upon completion, it will include 100,000 pages of printed works and primary sources. 

28/02/2019.

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Shanghai Library has provided us with trial access to the digital archives of 6 modern Chinese newspapers until 16 Feb 2019. 

The six Chinese newspaper archives are:

《小报》The Tabloids (1897～1949).

《新闻报》Sin Wan Pao (1893～1949).

《时报》The Eastern Times (1904～1939).

《大公报》（1902~1949/1952）Ta Kung Pao（1902~1949/1952）.

《大陆报》The China Press (1911～1949).

《字林洋行中英文报纸全文数据库》The North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists (1850~1951).

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Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection dedicated to the history of exploration.

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11/02/2019.

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Journals from the Royal Society have been communicating the latest developments across all of science since 1665. The journals archive, launched in 2017, contains high quality full colour images of the original publications, and is significantly easier to read and more searchable than previous archive material.

The archive is a major resource for History of Science courses and also covers major works in Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Maths and the broad interdisciplinary studies for which the Royal Society journals are so well known. 

With articles by scientists who were prominent in different areas of public life, the archive is a fascinating resource for all History students and researchers working on the post-enlightenment period, whatever their area of interest. Authors include Sir Christopher Wren, Benjamin Franklin, James Clerk Maxwell, Alan Turing, Kathleen Lonsdale, Stephen Hawking and Dorothy Hodgkins. 

31/01/2019

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The 2018 Emerald eJournal collections feature 170,000 articles from more than 300 journals, providing comprehensive coverage of management and complementary specialist subjects. Providing access to the latest research for the maximum value, this premium collection provides access to all current content and selected archive material for all Emerald eJournals.

31/12/2018

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Artfilms-Digital  is the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media and Artfilms and provides access to over 1660 videos in Arts & Humanities subject areas with strengths in performing arts, visual and digital art, architecture, design, new media, film, cinema, communication and culture.  Includes masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews.

31/12/2018.

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Containing over 54,000 digitised pages from Bodleian's Commonwealth and African manuscripts and archives, this database contains documents relating to the UMCA’s (Universities’ Mission to Central Africa) activities in Tanzania and Malawi during the period 1857-1965. The papers provide an insight into the spread of Christianity in Central Africa. Made up of 5 volumes it includes ‘Central Africa’ magazine, missionaries’ correspondence and journals as well as miscellaneous correspondence, press cuttings, books and conference papers.

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The Colonial State Papers offers access to over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records with this incredible resource on Colonial History. In addition to Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals for power, this collection also covers the Caribbean and Atlantic world. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.

Coverage: 1574 - 1757

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Comprising 2,429 documents, this set on one of Washington’s most important Latin American relationships describes the development of U.S. policy as it attempts to deal with the tragedy experienced in Argentina during the critical, formative period of the late 1970’s, which featured a political collapse verging on civil war; a military coup; and massive illegal detentions, torture, and kidnappings. The documents show U.S. officials from two very different presidential administrations grappling with human rights violations in the context of the Cold War on a scale never heard of in the Western Hemisphere, underscored by the dramatic disappearance of tens of thousands of people at the hands of the security forces.

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This online archive brings together two distinct but historically related collections: The Stuart Papers, the papers of the exiled James II, and VII in Scotland, and his heirs; and the Cumberland Papers, the papers of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, second son of George II and military commander of the British Army. Both collections have been digitised for the first time for this archive and the originals are held in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.

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Investment Arbitration Reporter is a news and analysis service tracking international arbitrations between foreign investors and governments.   It offers proprietary insight into breaking legal developments and policy trends in investment treaty arbitration, as well as reports on the latest legal pleadings, decisions and arbitral awards

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Digital encyclopedias that expand research on foundational topics, all written, peer-reviewed and continuously updated by leading scholars.  Trial is to the full collection.

28/11/2018.

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This resource provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Newly digitised, these newspapers published by or for African Americans can now be browsed and searched as never before.

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The Encyclopedia is the first broad, systematic and international compendium of comparative law and represents the labour of hundreds of lawyers and scholars throughout the world. With detailed descriptions of the legal systems of more than 150 countries, as well as thoroughly documented comparative analyses of the main issues in civil and commercial law and related issues world-wide.  Coverage: mid 1960s onwards.

30/11/2018.

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The Times-Picayune has long been one of the nation’s leading sources of news and a vital force in journalism for more than 150 years. Beyond insight into colourful New Orleans, the newspaper's reporting has included exceptional coverage of Louisiana’s politics, culture and local industries.

30/11/2018.

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These reports reveal what was reported to the British government by their governors in the African colonies. The statistical reports cover 13 colonies, with some data that pre-dates the abolition of the slave trade. Our collections on Colonial Law show how those laws were implemented. The legal notices in the three collections reveal how colonial laws were used to control citizens during wars and uprisings. Notices of land sales also reveal how land changed hands between 1808 and 1966. Less formal notices within the legal content provide context to the legal notices. The colonial reports for each colony explain how the statistics in the Blue Books were intended to be interpreted by colonial readers.

21/11/2018.

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A full text digital archive, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The database lets researchers view history in the context of women's thoughts and gain unparalleled insight into their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires

16/11/2018.

State Papers Online, 1509-1714: Part III: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic is a collection of English government documents originating primarily from the seventeenth century. The Stuarts' internal struggles come to life through a wealth of primary source documents from one of the most compelling and turbulent eras in Britain's social, political, and religious history. Among the more than one million pages of manuscripts, researchers will find accounts of the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I, and the invasion of William of Orange.

The Library already has access to State Papers Online Part II: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign: Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council.

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An enhanced version of our current subscription to MLA International Bibliography which includes:

• Many of the most-used journals in the MLA International Bibliography, such as Applied Linguistics, Critique, Comparative Literature, Renaissance Quarterly and College Composition & Communication
•   3-year backfile of the top 100 journals
•   Extensive backfiles to Volume 1, Issue 1 for over 45 journals

Citations to critical documents on literature, language, linguistics and folklore from over 4,400 journals and series and over 1000 book publishers. Also covers monographs, reference works and collections, including working papers, conference papers and proceedings.  Coverage includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing. 

15/11/2018

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An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines published in North America. Issues are scanned in high-resolution colour and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Essence and Seventeen are just some of the titles included. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

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From 16th-century origins as a trading venture to the East Indies, through to its rise as the world’s most powerful company and de facto ruler of India, to its demise amid allegations of greed and corruption, the East India Company was an extraordinary force in global history for three centuries. This digital resource allows students and researchers to access a vast and remarkable collection of primary source documents from the India Office Records held by the British Library, the single most important archive for the study of the East India Company. *Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

16/11/2018

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A wide range of sources - by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others - documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century. Highlights include:

• Illuminated medieval manuscripts relating to Japan, including an account by Marco Polo.
• Log book of William Adams (1564-1620), alias Miura Anjin, the first Englishman known to have visited Japan.
• The journals of US Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry and officers, relating to the momentous voyages of 1853-54 and the 'opening up' of Japan.
• Letters of Sir Harry Parkes, diplomat and British Minister to Japan between 1865 and 1883.
• Journals of William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928), American orientalist, author and education reformer in Japan.

12/11/2018.

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A vast array of Western perspectives and sources on China and Southeast Asia spanning several centuries, from the first British mission to China in 1792-1794 through to the mid-20th century. Highlights include:

• A wide and varied array of records of traders, travellers, missionaries & diplomats, 1792-1942, offering western perspectives on all aspects of Chinese culture and society.
• British government records covering economic development in China, Hong Kong, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, 1950-1980.

12/11/2018.

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Drama Online is a digital library of the world’s most studied and critically-acclaimed plays, accompanied by a wealth of innovative teaching and performance tools, critical analysis, contextual information, references and practical texts. We have subscribed to following components:

• Nick Hern Books Collection: Over 500 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill.
• The RSC Live Collection: 17 films of live productions from the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2013 to the cutting-edge 2016-17 production of The Tempest starring Simon Russell-Beale
• Shakespeare's Globe On Screen (2008-2015): 21 films recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV
• Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016-2018): Features landmark productions from the Globe Theatre’s most recent seasons, including the first production from the indoor Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014
• Shakespeare in the Present: A six hour acting masterclass with international coach Patsy Rodenburg, starring Joseph Fiennes
• Stage on Screen: Critically acclaimed stage productions of four key set drama and literature texts: The Duchess of Malfi, Doctor Faustus, The School for Scandal, and Volpone.
• Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains: Steven Berkoff: A 90 minute masterclass from Steven Berkoff, world-renowned writer, director, and actor.
• Maxine Peake as Hamlet: A landmark reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Maxine Peake in the title role.
• Oberon Books Collection: A unique collection of over 500 titles of play texts from ground-breaking British plays to the best of international drama and plays in translation.

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This ebook collection from the American Academy of Ophthalmology includes: the Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) containing 13 volumes of ophthalmic reference texts, with new editions published annually and a number of textbooks published by AAO.

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Bloomsbury Screen Studies offers a broad range of content to support moving-image studies. It comprises award-winning screenplays, presented in industry-standard studio format, from ‘Orlando’ to ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’. It also includes critical and contextual books on film from the late nineteenth century to the present, and an interactive timeline of cinema history. It is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning around film history, theory and practice.

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A comprehensive research tool for international trade and investment law.  It includes decisions and awards for investment-treaty claims cases, arbitration rules, and investment and trade treaties and agreements.  Through its research tools, including article, jurisprudence and publication citators, ISLG has mapped the world of investment treaty law by capturing the relationships between treaties, arbitral rules, cases and other key materials.

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The Index Buddhicus is the first classified comprehensive bibliography of Buddhist Studies. It describes secondary material ranging from articles, papers and chapters appearing in journals, proceedings and collections, through reference works, monographs, editions and theses, to digital resources. All entries are linked to an elaborate index of both proper names and thematic, and cross referenced to related material. It complements Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism.

01/08/2018.

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The eastern Miscellany 《东方杂志》was an iconic periodical of The Commercial Press from 1904 to 1948. It is highly regarded as a very important resource for the study of the modern history of China. The database includes the full run of the 44 volumes (819 issues), with over 30,000 articles, 12,000 pictures, and over 14,000 advertisements. Articles cannot be downloaded directly, but the full texts of the articles can be copied and pasted.

21/07/2018.

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EarthDoc is the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE’s) geoscience database. This trial gives access to all papers published in the following journals: First Break, Near Surface Geophysics,  Petroleum Geoscience, Seismic Technology, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics & Journal of the Balkan Geophysical Society. Also includes access to all event papers presented at EAGE’s events including those of and in cooperation with other societies.

28/07/2018.