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Publisher's Marketplace Added15 Apr 2026.Publishers Marketplace is an book industry news website that can help authors connect with agents and editors. Their newsfeed tracks publishing deals, agents, editors, submission calls, bestsellers, and more.
Art Institute of Chicago Video Data Bank Added9 Apr 2026.Video Data Bank (VDB) is a leading resource in the United States for video by and about contemporary artists. The Video Data Bank is committed to fostering awareness and scholarship of the history and contemporary practice of video and media art and the artists represented in the collection.
Electronic Enlightenment: Letters & Lives (Oxford) Added1 Apr 2026.Digital compendium of edited correspondences dating from the early modern period to the mid-nineteenth century, including correspondences from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Salt Lake Tribune Added23 Mar 2026.Full image edition available back to 2025. Text only edition available back to 1990.
nkoda Added17 Mar 2026.Register using your email address. Do not choose “Login through Institution”. After completing this registration step, you will need to install the app and login using the credentials you just created. From the website, you can search for scores and add them to your library. However, viewing and annotating scores requires the nkoda app. You may only be logged in on one device at a time. Sheet music on your device - scores, parts and educational methods from over 140 publishers.
Videofashion Library (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library brings together 1,200 hours of vivid video capturing the many faces of fashion—including nearly 40 years of worldwide fashion shows, designer profiles, documentary segments, and more. This collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and features high-caliber content from the archives of Videofashion, the world’s premier provider of fashion video footage.
ProQuest One Anthropology Added10 Feb 2026.ProQuest One Anthropology collections offer comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials.
Music Reference Collection Added10 Feb 2026.Music Reference Collection delivers some of the most acclaimed music text content from the world’s best publishers spanning time periods, genres, cultural groups, and geographic regions, together in one place. The collection contains full-text reference books, artwork, biographies, songsheets, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
Music Periodicals of the 19th Century (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century is a collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s through local and international news, reviews, editorials, sheet music, and advertisements.
Music in Video (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Music Video Collection is the largest and most comprehensive video resource for the study of music. Users experience music through thousands of performances, masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews.
Theatre Performance and Design Collection (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Combining the most important video content types used in theatre education (filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material) with previously unpublished production designs, reference texts, and top-of-the-line teaching tools, there really is no better way for faculty to bring the brilliance of stage right into their classrooms.
Qwest TV EDU (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Qwest TV preserves diverse live performances, covering the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres. Co-created by Quincy Jones & Reza Ackbaraly, this unique collection of highly curated titles makes timeless concerts and global music accessible for research, teaching, and learning.
Music Online: Listening (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Music Online: Listening Collection allows students and researchers alike to analyze unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world.
Drama Texts Collection (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Drama Texts Collection spans nearly a millennium of dramatic writing, covering the core works of the Western canon alongside their important yet forgotten contemporaries—works that are necessary to any literary or theatrical education.
Performing Arts (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.The collection includes audio recordings, reference materials, music scores, video recordings of live performances, playscripts, monographs, periodicals, archival materials, and more. Material covers the early modern period through to the present, from all over the world, and across disciplines and genres, from opera to bluegrass, ballet to street dance, and Shakespeare to Broadway.
Fashion Studies Collection (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.An array of major fashion magazine archives and exclusive video content documenting more than 150 years of fashion history. The collection contains iconic consumer fashion and lifestyle publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and GQ, as well as influential trade titles such as Women’s Wear Daily and Daily News Record. With material documenting fashion trends and industry dynamics from the mid-19th century to the present, researchers can explore and interpret the history, art, and business of fashion across interdisciplinary fields.
Art and Architecture in Video Added10 Feb 2026.Documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses, the works within this collection offer a dynamic tool to enhance understanding of visual media.
Art, Design & Architecture (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.An extensive collection of leading consumer / trade magazine archives and videos covering the fields of art, design, architecture and their many sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts through to historic preservation and industrial design.
Gilded Age (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection that is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history. In addition to an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, The Gilded Age offers a wealth of rare materials, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. This primary content is enhanced by video interviews with scholars and numerous topical critical documentary essays specially commissioned for the project by Alexander Street Press. Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt.
U.S. History Collection (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.The U.S. History Collection brings together a selection of curated sets from Alexander Street made of primary sources including historical narratives and letters and diaries. They document North America from its native roots to the emergence and evolution of the United States.
ProQuest Civil War Era Added10 Feb 2026.This database covers a vast range of topics including the formative economic factors and other forces that led to the abolitionist movement, the 600,000 battle casualties and the emancipation of nearly 4 million slaves.
U.K. History Collection (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.The UK History Collection reveals how UK history evolved over time, and how it has influenced - and continues to influence - people and events around the world.
Historical Periodicals Collection (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.A foundational collection of historical serial content spanning academic journals, magazines, and trade publications.
Early Modern Collection (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.Early Modern Books covers material from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700. An integrated search across both Early English Books Online and Early European Books allows scholars to view materials from over 225 source libraries worldwide.
The World of Archie Comics Archive (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.The World of Archie Comics Archive
An unprecedented digital collection offering access to the runs of more than 100 publications from Archie Comics. It’s one of the longest-running, best-known comic staples, spanning the early 1940s to 2020. Alongside the flagship title, Archie, other prominent titles, which have pervaded wider popular culture, include Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Betty & Veronica, and Jughead.
Underground and Independent Comics (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.
Popular Culture Studies in Video (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Popular Culture Studies in Video covers a wide array of pop culture topics, incorporating documentaries on films, television, fashion, comics, and gaming. It spotlights influential figures across the fields of entertainment, art, sports and cultural spheres. Through collaboration with respected publishers and independent filmmakers this collection brings together a wide range of content representing the many dimensions of pop culture.
Screen Studies Collection Added10 Feb 2026.A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies.
Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive showcases unique periodicals from 1940-present, highlighting topics and trends of youth culture such as fashion, rock and roll, sports, sexuality, dating, as well as youth portrayal in the media. These unique periodicals provide insight to what has and continues to influence youth culture, especially during times of rapid social and cultural change in the U.S. and the UK.
Health & Fitness Magazine Archive (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.The backfiles of consumer magazines devoted to health and fitness topics. With publications aimed at a male readership and women’s titles, this collection supports research in topics such as the history of sex roles, body image, fitness/exercise, public health, food/nutrition, and medicine.
Entertainment & Popular Culture (ASP) Added10 Feb 2026.Primary sources that document many aspects of the entertainment industry and popular culture, including film, comics, advice literature, and youth culture. Diverse material from key content partners spans magazines, trade publications, comics, video archives, and more. With these essential materials, researchers may explore historical trends, genre developments, and the dynamic landscape of popular culture from multiple perspectives.
BBC News Bulletin Scripts Archive Added10 Feb 2026.Transcripts of historical BBC radio news bulletins that provide an overview of unfolding domestic and global news events. These news stories, from six daily broadcasts, show revisions and annotations throughout the day to reflect breaking news developments and changes in reporting tone and emphasis. The transcripts offer researchers valuable context for understanding 20th-century history, culture, and society; they cover major national and global events in politics, international relations, culture, technology, sports, health, and more.
Colonial Legacies: Empire & Commonwealth Periodicals (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.The backfiles of over 30 periodicals concerning the 20th-century history of the British Empire, decolonization, and the history and culture of former colonies. This archive offers a mixture of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century to the 21st – these publications encompass the key events in the empire’s later phase and its post-independence legacies.
Socialist and Radical Periodicals Added10 Feb 2026.The backfiles of more than 25 periodicals reflecting the 20th/21st–century history of a variety of movements and ideologies on the political left. These titles include Marxist, socialist, communist, social democratic, and Fabianist publications, addressing key topics and events such as labour history / workers’ rights, international socialism, anti-Nazi movements, Red Scares, class struggles, campaigns / legislation, and youth radicalism.
ProQuest One Women's Studies Added10 Feb 2026.Women’s Studies, Men’s and Masculinity Studies, and Gender Studies content in one destination for research, teaching, and learning purposes. This database combines primary and secondary sources, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Gender Studies.
ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design Added10 Feb 2026.Extensive archival and contemporary resources covering all aspects of art, architecture, design and fashion. It consists of the archives of leading magazines in these fields (including Vogue, Artforum, and House Beautiful), major video collections, hundreds of journals, and specialist indexes. With its unique archives, range of diverse content types, and international coverage, this is a rich source for academic enquiry and comprehensive arts literature reviews.
ProQuest One Literature Added10 Feb 2026.Supports the study of literature from a variety of sources including diverse primary texts, criticism, full-text journals, book reviews, dissertations, eBooks, reference material, audio, and video.
ProQuest One History Added10 Feb 2026.ProQuest’s flagship historical primary source collections, featuring early modern books, archival and manuscript collections, historical periodicals, letters and diaries, and multimedia content. Spanning from 1450 to the 21st Century, ProQuest One History comprises includes the world’s preeminent digitized collection of Early English and Early European books, pamphlets and ephemera as well as archival collections and historical periodicals from the 17th century through the 21st century.
ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations Added10 Feb 2026.Provides extensive resources for studying critical global and social issues in historical and contemporary contexts. Interrelated collections contain government documents, magazines, scholarly journals, news scripts, and multimedia resources. Supporting interdisciplinary research on key topics from diplomacy and policy, global trade, conflict and migration to social movements, human rights, and environmental change.
ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture Added10 Feb 2026.Comprises wide-ranging primary sources that document the many aspects of the entertainment industry and popular culture, including music, film, television, gaming, comics, and youth culture. Diverse material from key content partners spans magazines, trade publications, comics, video archives, and more. With these essential materials for examining the industry and its cultural impact, researchers may explore historical trends, genre developments, and the dynamic landscape of popular culture from multiple perspectives.
ProQuest One Black Studies Added10 Feb 2026.Developed with faculty, scholars and librarians, ProQuest Black Studies brings together award-winning content into one destination that can be used for research, teaching, and learning. Combining primary and secondary sources, leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents, government materials, video, writings by major American Black intellectuals and leaders, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies, this easy-to-use interface will enable students to find the resources they need, by topic pages, timelines, source types and more.
Music & Performing Arts Collection (PQ) Added10 Feb 2026.Supporting comprehensive literature reviews, this resource combines cross-searchable, seminal bibliographies in music and performing arts, with full-text from hundreds of journals. Both source bibliographies, International Index to Music periodicals and International Index to Performing Arts, take a global approach to their inclusion criteria. Topics range from musicology to the blues, and from theatre to broadcast arts.
ProQuest Digital Collections Added10 Feb 2026.Offers a wide-ranging array of archival and contemporary resources, of exceptional breadth and scale, bringing together many leading ProQuest research collections. Major research and teaching areas covered include history, literature, politics, visual arts and design, performing arts, entertainment and popular culture, ethnic studies, global studies, international relations, women’s and gender studies, and cultural anthropology.
Medieval Literature Aloud (Bloomsbury) Added10 Feb 2026.Medieval Literature Aloud: Chaucer Studio Audio Collection provides access to audio recordings of key works read aloud by leading experts, alongside a curated selection of scholarly eBooks. Experience audio works of commonly studied core texts on Medieval literature and language courses in full, including The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, Dante’s Inferno, Nibelungenlied, and many more. Discover a broad range of Medieval languages, from Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse, to Middle High German, Old French and Italian, as well as examples of Medieval music.
Frankfurter Allgemeine, F.A.Z. Added12 Dec 2025.FAZ 49-92 contains digitized articles from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1949-1992 and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from 1990-1992
Book History Online (Brill) Added10 Dec 2025.Book History Online (BHO) is the international bibliography in the field of book and library history. It provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a historical perspective. Included are monographs, articles and reviews dealing with the history of the printed book, its arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, its economic, social and cultural environment, as well as its production, distribution, preservation and description.
Japan News-Week (Brill) Added5 Dec 2025.American Japan News-Week was the last independent, foreign-owned English-language newspaper published in Japan. This exclusive holding runs from the first issue in November 1938 to within 6 months of the newspaper’s closure and the arrest of Wills and Argyll by Japanese ‘Special’ ( Tokko) police in early December 1941, the night before Pearl Harbor, on a charge of espionage.
Seoul Press Online (Brill) Added5 Dec 2025.The Seoul Press (publ. 1907-1937) was Japan’s Korean news flagship, its mission to validate the natural justice of Japanese imperialism in Korea, and Japan as the redeeming, organising and modernising force in East Asia. the Seoul Press represented the Japanese administration of Korea to the world.
Revolución y Cultura (Brill) Added5 Dec 2025.A Cuban Magazine About Revolution and Culture
Medieval Reference Library (Brill) Added5 Dec 2025.Research pre-modern European history and culture through online access to the following reference works in medieval studies: Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles, Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2016)..
Hebrew Pod Added3 Dec 2025.HebrewPod101 is an online language learning platform that uses audio and video lessons to teach modern Hebrew through practical, real-life conversations. It offers a library of lessons for various skill levels, from absolute beginner to advanced, with content focusing on communication, culture, and grammar. Supplementary tools like flashcards, word lists, and voice-recording features are available to help users study, and premium options include one-on-one tutoring and live group classes with a teacher.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Eastern Religions (ASP) Added2 Dec 2025.Explore the doctrines of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Jainism from the late 19th century through the 21st century. Key themes and topics include afterlife, dharma, incarnation, karma, Maya, meditation, mindfulness, reincarnation, sacred texts, and Zen.
Latin American Drama (ASP) Added2 Dec 2025.Plays written by Latin American playwrights in the 19th-21st centuries. Besides serving as a rich resource for literature scholars, the collection also supports the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.
Ethnographic Video from the Royal Anthropological Institute (ASP) Added2 Dec 2025.A curriculum-aligned collection of videos and segments curated to support the teaching of introductory anthropology courses. Each video and segment within this collection is accompanied by a teaching guide providing background information, lesson plans, and classroom exercises and activities. There are a variety of teaching themes, including family and kinship, gender, identity, belief, archaeology, and primate behavior. All teaching materials within this collection have been produced in partnership with the Education Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Ethnographic Sound Archives (ASP) Added2 Dec 2025.Over 6,000 audio recordings from field expeditions around the world, particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s—the dawn of ethnomusicology as a codified discipline.
Asian American Drama (ASP) Added2 Dec 2025.Asian American Drama is an online text collection that brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.
African Diaspora (ASP) Added2 Dec 2025.Essential for understanding Black history and culture, African Diaspora, 1860-Present allows scholars to discover the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent. With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes never-before digitized primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.
Historical Annual Reports (PQ) Added1 Dec 2025.Annual reports (1844-2008) available for over 800 companies. Searchable PDF images with indexed data such as: financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor and related companies. It can also be browsed by company name, related names, industry or date.
Latinx NPR Thought and Culture Archive (PQ) Added1 Dec 2025.Latin American Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive showcases two radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979-1988) and the Daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990), available for the first time in a searchable database as digitized audio with transcripts. They focus on Latinx issues related to politics, sociology, human rights, the arts and more with interviews of key figures and news reporting by a new generation of Latino/a journalists at the time.
Leftist & Communist Historical Newspaper Collection (PQ) Added1 Dec 2025.English-language publications spanning beyond the 20th century (1845-2015) covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism’s rise after WWII, Civil Rights, and modern-day class struggles which give rise to renewed interest in alternative social organizations.
Chinese Historical Newspapers Collection (PQ) Added1 Dec 2025.This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of 1832 - 1953.
Ethnicity & Culture Magazine Archive (PQ) Added1 Dec 2025.The backfiles of more than thirty 20th and 21st-century magazines, each aimed at ethnically specific audiences. Titles range from political publications to those concerned with lifestyle, fashion / beauty, culture, and identity. The collection reflects diverse voices and gives insight into cultural perspectives, societal shifts, and historical events.
Digital Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker (PQ) Added1 Dec 2025.Works of major German authors spanning eleven centuries and includes historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts. Collections of essays, speeches and other non-literary material add context and background material.
Medici.tv Added14 Nov 2025.Medici TV provides over 4,000 concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes and jazz programs available to stream in HD.
Access World News (Newsbank) Added11 Nov 2025.Collection of international, national, regional, and local news sources.
DeGruyter Linguistics Ebooks Added3 Nov 2025.
Brill Linguistics Ebooks Added3 Nov 2025.
Enhanced Electronic Grammars (De Gruyter Brill) Added31 Oct 2025.Enhanced Electronic Grammars (EEG) features comprehensive descriptions of languages from around the world. Through this unique Online Reference Work, full grammars are made available together in an interlinked and semantically-annotated format, allowing granular access to the grammatical data and enabling cross-language research of several grammars at the same time. In addition to cross-linguistic queries, each grammar can also be read and researched individually.
RetroNews Added31 Oct 2025.RetroNews offers exclusive editorial content that enriches your research and discovery experience. Access articles, podcasts, videos, long-form features, and in-depth dossiers created by historians and journalists, exploring specific topics with detailed context and analysis. This content is categorized by era and theme for easier searching. It is designed to provide a rich and comprehensive experience exploring the historical archives available on RetroNews.
Schlager Digital Library Added15 Oct 2025.More than 2,500 notable and often-studied primary documents, from government documents such as laws, legal codes, royal decrees, and court opinions to speeches, letters, and even visual sources such as paintings, illustrations, and photographs. Every document in the collection has been hand-selected and curated by a scholar as representative of important movements, events, people, and issues across history and culture.
North China Standard Online Added14 Oct 2025.The North-China Standard (in Chinese, Huabei zheng bao) presented Japan’s case for expansion and leadership in Asia to a growing readership in post-WW1 China and Japan. Despite its mission to present the case for Japan in China, two of the Standard’s three editors turned this sometime ‘propaganda rag’ into a real newspaper. Under the editorship of George Gorman in particular, the North-China Standard engaged with polemic and debate about Japan’s role in China, serving its Chinese and foreign readerships conscientiously and intelligently. Today, the North-China Standard constitutes a valuable ‘inside’ source for scholars of Japan and China, and of the ‘scramble for China’ in the 1920s.
North China Daily News Added14 Oct 2025.Published, with a wartime break 1941-45, from 1864 to 1950, the North-China Daily News (in Chinese: Zilin Xibao), was the most influential foreign daily in East Asia, and the key source for the history of Western interests in China and the transnational history of East Asia.
Interaction of Color Added1 Oct 2025.Must create an account.
Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques (Brepols) Added24 Sep 2025.This dictionary lists all Greek and Roman philosophers from the Pre-Socratics of the 6th century BC to the last Neoplatonists at the end of the 6th century AD, as well as many important witnesses of the philosophical tradition in Antiquity and some Byzantine scholars whose role was important in preserving the Greek philosophical heritage.
iLabz Added5 Sep 2025.Must create an account with a byu.edu email address. Includes the following four labs: Market Analysis, Foreign Exchange, Cultural Intelligence, and Global Compass.
Britannica online Added26 Aug 2025.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Added21 Aug 2025.Looking for primary sources? DPLA is a search portal connecting you to over 50,000,000 digital images, texts, videos, and sounds submitted by libraries and special collections all over the country (including BYU’s own digital collections materials)
Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) Added21 Aug 2025.Free access to a central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region: over 1,000,000 resources from a network of universities, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and other parts of the U.S. West.
Genealogical Publishing Books Added20 Aug 2025.
JSTOR Daily Added7 Aug 2025.JSTOR Daily stories provide historical, scientific, literary, political, and other background for understanding our world. It publishes weekly long-form feature articles that explore the sometimes-hidden depths of newsy topics. In addition, daily blog posts explore parallels between existing lines of study and the headlines of the day. It also showcases regular columns by subject-matter experts writing for a popular audience.
JSTOR Plant Humanities Lab Added7 Aug 2025.The Plant Humanities Lab uses original scholarship, linked open data and integrated primary and secondary resources to narrate and to foster the exploration of the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
JSTOR Understanding Series Added7 Aug 2025.With an ever-expanding roster of primary texts, the JSTOR Understanding Series is a powerful new way to research cultural and historical texts. It links original works with the scholarship about them by instantly connecting researchers with all the articles and chapters in JSTOR which quote a selected passage. Explore all of Shakespeare’s work, examine scholarly texts connected to the King James Bible, or delve into other works from American and British literature and history.
GIDEON Added4 Jun 2025.The Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network covers over 400 diseases in more than 200 countries and territories. This one-of-a-kind resource is ideal for detecting and identifying new diseases and pathogens, tracking outbreaks, preventing further spread, and understanding the epidemiology of diseases.