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• AWWA Water & Wastewater Rate Survey Added28 Mar 2024.The Water and Wastewater Rate Survey collects key rate, financial, and operating information from a broad swath of utilities across the country.
• StatPearls Added26 Mar 2024.An expansive array of point-of-care and educational activities for health professionals in hospital, ambulatory, and community-based settings.
• Victorians on Film Added28 Feb 2024.
• Women in The National Archives Added28 Feb 2024.
• World's Fairs Added28 Feb 2024.
• The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Added28 Feb 2024.
• Socialism on Film Added28 Feb 2024.
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home Added28 Feb 2024.
• Sex and Sexuality Added28 Feb 2024.
• Shakespeare's Globe Archive Added28 Feb 2024.
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Added28 Feb 2024.
• Meiji Japan Added28 Feb 2024.
• Nineteenth Century Literary Society Added28 Feb 2024.
• Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain Added28 Feb 2024.
• Race Relations in America Added28 Feb 2024.
• Service Newspapers of World War Two Added28 Feb 2024.
• Literary Manuscripts Berg Added28 Feb 2024.
• Medical Services and Warfare Added28 Feb 2024.
• Mass Observation Project Added28 Feb 2024.
• Mass Observation Online Added28 Feb 2024.
• Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Literary Print Culture Added28 Feb 2024.
• Life at Sea Added28 Feb 2024.
• Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture Added28 Feb 2024.
• India Raj and Empire Added28 Feb 2024.
• Global Commodities Added28 Feb 2024.
• Gender: Identity and Social Change Added28 Feb 2024.
• Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Interwar Culture Added28 Feb 2024.
• J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America Added28 Feb 2024.
• Indigenous Newspapers in North America Added28 Feb 2024.
• Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America Added28 Feb 2024.
• East India Company Added28 Feb 2024.
• Eighteenth Century Journals Added28 Feb 2024.
• Royal Shakespeare Company Archives Added28 Feb 2024.
• Conflict in Indochina, 1959-1979 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Early Modern England Added28 Feb 2024.
• Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan Added28 Feb 2024.
• Food and Drink in History Added28 Feb 2024.
• Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Ethnomusicology Added28 Feb 2024.
• British Newsreels, 1911-1930 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Broadcasting America Added28 Feb 2024.
• Church Missionary Society Periodicals Added28 Feb 2024.
• Children's Literature and Culture Added28 Feb 2024.
• China: Culture and Society Added28 Feb 2024.
• Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Colonial Caribbean Added28 Feb 2024.
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 Added28 Feb 2024.
• Amnesty International Archives Added28 Feb 2024.
• America in World War Two Added28 Feb 2024.
• African American Communities Added28 Feb 2024.
• Africa and the New Imperialism Added28 Feb 2024.
• American West Added28 Feb 2024.
• Age of Exploration Added28 Feb 2024.
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive (Gale) Added7 Feb 2024.Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950 offers a unique and permanent perspective on the nation’s daily life, interests, and values during a most vital and extraordinary period. The magazine flourished during a time of immense creativity and growing interest in world affairs, when illustrated magazines were the leading form of mass entertainment. The magazine charted the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle America through three of its most significant decades.
• BioCyc Added26 Jan 2024.The BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) provides a reference on the genomes, metabolic pathways, and (in some cases) regulatory networks of thousands of sequenced organisms.
• AM Explorer Added8 Jan 2024.Search millions of pages of primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries.
• Trade and Globalization Studies Online (ASP) Added4 Jan 2024.Trade and Globalization Studies Online examines the history of trade, trade policies, financial crises, emerging markets and technological innovations that unite the world in an ever-changing system of trade. The collection gathers books, case studies, archival materials and documentaries to provide historical context and insights. Users can explore the societal impact of global trade by browsing on global themes, events, and areas.
• Patrologia Latina (PQ) Added4 Jan 2024.The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The complete Patrologia Latina is included with all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne’s column numbers, essential references for scholars, are included.
• Children’s Magazine Archive, 1866-2020 (PQ) Added4 Jan 2024.This archive provides access to the backfiles of a variety of 20th-century serials covering many aspects of children’s lives and interests. These include titles focusing on education, entertainment / literature, news, and religion / moral development. As well as shedding light on the history of childhood and family life during this period, these titles provide alternative perspectives in the study of 20th-century advertising/marketing, popular culture, society, education, media, and print culture.
• Acta Sanctorum (PQ) Added4 Jan 2024.This database is an electronic version of the complete print edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint’s feast day. It runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. The entire Acta Sanctorum is available, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices along with Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers.
• Trends & Policy: U.S. Environment (PQ) Added11 Dec 2023.Explore how human interaction with the environment is changed by government policies.
• Trends & Policy: U.S. Criminal Justice (PQ) Added11 Dec 2023.Trace the Path from Legislation to Real-World Outcomes of Criminal Justice Policies.
• Rotunda Added8 Dec 2023.Scholarly digital editions of historical, architectural, and literary resources.
  
  American History Collection of documentary editions spanning three centuries, from the earliest surviving writings of George Washington through the presidential correspondence of Woodrow Wilson. Presidential Recordings Digital Edition, with transcripts and audio of nearly 4000 conversations from White House recordings; People of the Founding Era, a biographical reference to over 75,000 individuals; Literature and Culture Collection features seven editions of literary work and correspondence from nineteenth-century America and Britain.
• American Indian Experience Added8 Dec 2023.Centering American Indian voices and perspectives, The American Indian Experience engages students with the historical experiences and contemporary practices of more than 150 Native American tribes across North America. Dedicated investigations of events and time periods, illustrated through rich primary source and reference libraries, prepare students to deepen their understanding of multiple dimensions of American Indian history and culture.
• Bloomsbury Design Library Added8 Dec 2023.Bloomsbury Design Library provides cutting-edge scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. It offers reference and book content, alongside a rich selection of museum object images. Its coverage includes graphic, product and industrial design, and important themes such as sustainability, globalisation and design futures. Users can also discover a vast array of content on crafts and making, ceramics and art history. It will support both students and academics by allowing them to explore the theory, history and context of influential design schools, people, periods, places, and disciplines.
• Trends & Policy: U.S. Healthcare (PQ) Added1 Dec 2023.Healthcare-related news from major U.S. newspapers. These newspaper articles provide first-hand accounts of both current and historical healthcare policy issues and events.
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019 (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023. This database examines efforts to foster gender equity through expanded economic and social participation of women on a global scale. Covering a century, the database highlights and evaluates activism through individual efforts, organizational initiatives, and socio-cultural projects led by or for women in the Global South.
• Women and Social Movements, International: 1840 to Present (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
• Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820 (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices. With a clear focus on bringing the voices of the colonized to the forefront, this highly-curated archive and database includes documents related to the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States Empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.
• Performance Design Archive (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.Performance Design Archive Online is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, and makeup. Bringing together essential books and periodicals, archival material, and specially commissioned instructional videos, the collection will cover design concepts for a broad range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.
• BBC Landmark Video Collection (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.From the depths of the oceans to the Antarctic ice cap, from a firsthand view of evolution in animals and plants to Cretaceous Alaska and far-flung corners of the globe, the BBC Landmark Video Collection is your groundbreaking exclusive HD view into our natural world. Through access to cutting-edge series like Planet Earth and Blue Planet, your classrooms and students can now experience breathtaking natural events like never before.
• Food Studies (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.Archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us. Examples of topics covered in the collection: Organic Farming/Small Farms, School lunch programs, Childhood nutrition, Marketing and advertising, Packaging, Food industry, Environmental impact of GMOs, US food programs during WWI/WWII, Food security, Famine, Vegetarianism, Labor practices, Food safety, Wine making, Obesity, Gender roles through history, Food habits around the world and more.
• Engineering Case Studies (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.Video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes, including quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
• Disability in the Modern World (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.One person in seven experiences disability, yet the story of this community and its contributions is largely absent from the scholarly record. The primary sources, supporting materials, and archives within this collection are essential for teaching and research - not only in the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.
• Contemporary World Drama (ASP) Added21 Nov 2023.This collection examines the richness and diversity of contemporary theatre and drama from a global context. Contemporary World Drama brings together new work from our existing playwright partners alongside work from up-and-coming playwrights from around the world, including recently produced world premieres, previously unpublished works, etc. from every continent.
• Early European Books (PQ) Added17 Nov 2023.Early European Books provides scholars with new ways of accessing and exploring all works printed in Europe before 1701, drawing together a diverse array of printed sources, regardless of language, as well as works published further afield. Developed and produced in close collaboration with scholars, rare book librarians, bibliographers, and other experts from the library world, this resource offers full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of some of the world’s most significant collections of early printed books in Europe.
• Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Brill) Added15 Nov 2023.The Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic.
• Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies (Brill) Added15 Nov 2023.The Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies presents a comprehensive overview of the rich scope of Taiwan studies, a discipline that took root in the 1990s in Taiwan and around the world. The birth of Taiwan studies reflected an important epistemic challenge in the existing academic landscape of sinology and China studies, as it called for a dedicated focus on Taiwan’s history, society, culture, economy, politics, and international relations in their own right. The Encyclopedia introduces the multifaceted aspects of Taiwan’s past and present in almost 600 entries, authored by more than 300 worldwide experts in each field. The Encyclopedia can thus be seen as a portal to the multifaceted world of Taiwan, with its vibrant culture, important developments, and radical transformations.
• Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Brill) Added15 Nov 2023.The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches in order to be as objective and versatile as possible. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online is cross-searchable and cross-referenced, and is equipped with a browsable index. All relevant fields in Arabic linguistics, both general and language specific are covered and the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online includes topics from interdisciplinary fields, such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and computer science.
• Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia Online (Brill) Added15 Nov 2023.Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia Online consists of the five volumes of P. Marcel Kurpershoek’s work on Bedouin poetry from Najd, published between 1994 and 2005. This work is the fruit of Kurpershoek’s almost twenty years of involvement with Arabian oral culture. In the work he discusses some of the striking features of the traditions collected, and their significance within the broader political, social, and cultural context of the tribal system stretching from Yemen to the Anatolian highlands.
  In addition to the English translation of the oral text this work offers a complete transcription of the Arabic poems, based on taped records. The original recordings of the poets and transmitters have been added to this online version.
• Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Niermeyer (Brill) Added8 Nov 2023.
• Daniels' Orchestral Music Added30 Oct 2023.Access to information on more than 17,900 works by more than 2,900 composers.
• Grand Tour (AM) Added13 Oct 2023.The Grand Tour was a rite of passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young Britons of the eighteenth century, and a phenomenon which shaped the creative and intellectual sensibilities of some of the era’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers. Study the history of travel with this unique collection of written primary and secondary sources, artworks, photographs and maps, c. 1550-1850, which highlights the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy. From Adam Matthew.
• Encyclopaedia Judaica Added10 Oct 2023.Includes more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
• CAB Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO) Added4 Oct 2023.Produced in collaboration with the experts at CABI, provides access to the world’s applied life sciences literature. Coverage includes subjects across the applied life sciences — from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition.
• Gale Primary Sources Added21 Sep 2023.
• Frontier Life Added3 Aug 2023.Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
• Index Religiosus (Brepolis) Added31 Jul 2023.The Index Religiosus (IR) begins from the basis of two existing bibliographies: the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and the Elenchus Bibliographicus from the journal Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. These two tools are internationally recognized as essential working instruments for Theology and Religious Studies.
• RMA eStatement Studies Added12 Jul 2023.Risk Management Association eMentor & eStatement Studies Industry Resource Center contains composite financial data on manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, service, and contracting lines of business. Arranged by SIC code, this work makes it possible to compare one company’s performance relative to other companies in the same line of business.
• MLA Handbook Plus Added7 Jun 2023.MLA Handbook Plus includes the full text of the ninth edition of the handbook, the second edition of the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, as well as a video course that teaches the principles of MLA documentation style through a series of short videos.
• Sezgin Online II: The Frankfurt Volumes (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.Sezgin Online II offers bio-bibliographical information about renowned figures (writers, poets, philosophers, physicians, scientists, linguists etc.) from the Islamic world in the subjects of geography and cartography, anthropogeography, literature.
• Sezgin - Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.Sezgin Online offers bio-bibliographical information about renowned figures (writers, poets, philosophers, physicians, scientists, linguists etc.) from the Islamic world for the Arabic literary tradition in general and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular.
• Philosophy in the Islamic World (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.Philosophy in the Islamic World Online: 8th - 10th Centuries is a comprehensive and unprecedented reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam in its formative period: from its beginnings in the eighth century up to the tenth century AD. Both major and minor figures are covered, giving details of biography and doctrine, as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works. It covers the period when philosophy began to blossom thanks to the translation of Greek scientific works into Arabic and the emergence of autochthonous intellectual traditions within Islam.
• Christian Muslim Relations 600-1500 (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History Online (CMR Online) is a general online history of relations between the faiths. It covers the period from 600 to 1500 CE, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. It comprises introductory essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims in canon law, and the main body of more than two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost.
• Christian Muslim Relations 1500 – 1900 (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.Christian-Muslim Relations Online 2 (CMRO2) is a bibliographical history of relations between the two faiths as they are reflected in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world from the year 1500 to 1914, including the ages of European expansion and colonialism. CMRO2 comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered
• Brockelmann in German (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.
• Brockelmann in English: The History of Arabic Literary Culture (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.Bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. It is divided in chronologically organized sections, which are subdivided by literary genre.
• Arabic Literature in Africa (Brill) Added2 Jun 2023.Arabic Literature of Africa Online (ALA) is a bio-bibliography on the Arabic manuscript tradition in the African continent, which continued well into the 20th century CE. It offers authoritative information about African authors, the texts they wrote in Arabic, the manuscripts in which these texts are found, and the locations of these manuscripts, together with bibliographical references to the literature.
• Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (Brill) Added30 May 2023.SEG collects newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents (from archaic Greek texts up to the 8th century A.D.) and presents the complete Greek text and critical apparatus of new inscriptions. Additionally, it summarizes new readings, interpretations, and studies of known inscriptions, occasionally also mentioning their original text.
• Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) Added11 May 2023.The Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) holds the largest available collection of references in Egyptological literature and is updated nearly every day. It includes the records and abstracts from Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB, 1947-2001), combined with Bibliographie Altägypten (BA, 1822-1946), the Aigyptos database with keywords, and more than 50,000 further items. Coverage is from 1822 to the present.
• Phase Online Added10 May 2023.Phase Equilibria Diagrams Online