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  • 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.Includes the following four labs: Market Analysis, Foreign Exchange, Cultural Intelligence, and Global Compass. Create an account or access as a guest.
  • 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.
  • Bloomsbury Cultural History Added14 Mar 2025.Exclusive digital access to Bloomsbury’s cutting-edge Cultural Histories series as well as an extensive eBook collection, image partnerships with leading galleries and museums, and supporting features like teaching resources and an interactive timeline.
  • Playaling Added10 Mar 2025.Learn Arabic through engaging real-world content and interactive captioning.
  • Trends & Policy: U.S. Civil Rights (PQ) Added3 Feb 2025.Comprehensive insights into the executive, legislative, and judicial aspects of civil rights policies, their real-world impact, and implications for civil liberties.