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ARTstorArchive of 550,000 high-quality, digitized images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Images may be downloaded and manipulated in customized mini-collections. Also searches for images in JSTOR's collection of scholarly articles.
Bibliography of Asian StudiesCitations and the full-text of Western-language journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften published anywhere in the world that deal with East, Southeast and South Asia and with the overseas Asian communities. Includes over 900,000 citations, dating primarily from 1971 onwards, with more than 400,000 citations since 1992.
Cambridge Histories OnlineDate range varies. Full-Text. Over 300 volumes of the renowned Cambridge Histories series covering History; Economic History; History of Science (including Modern Biological and Earth Sciences and Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences); Language and Linguistics; Law; Literary Studies; Music; Philosophy; Political and Social Theory; Religious Studies; Theatre Studies and Performing Arts; and Warfare. In addition to substantial sets on American, British and European History, the collection also contains major works on the Histories of Africa, Egypt, India, Iran, Japan, Latin America, Russia, Southeast Asia, Turkey and the 15-volume Cambridge History of China.
Digital National Security Archive1942-present. Fulltext. Over 63,000 of the most important declassified documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Includes presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material.
Dissertations & Theses GlobalFulltext and citations. Contains 1.2 million full-text dissertations, including most dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Includes 2.7 million citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day.
Electronic Resources Database (ERDB) - JapanERDB-JP is a data-sharing service for e-resources published in Japan, and is built through the collaboration of universities, publishers and knowledge-base vendors.
Empire OnlineFull-text. Primary source material linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. Includes exploration journals & logs, letters, diaries, government papers, missionary papers, slave papers, travel writing, memoirs, maps, etc.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)1955-present. Citations and abstracts. History of the world (excluding the U.S. & Canada) from 1450 to the present. Military history, women's history, and history of education. 1,700 academic journals in over 40 languages.
JSTOR- Coverage begins with the first issue of a journal, some as early as the 1600s, and continues up until 1-to-5 years ago. An online archive of core scholarly journals in most fields of study. Comprised of high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Not a source for recent articles.
Nexis Uni- Date coverage varies, mostly current. Fulltext. Includes news, business, health and legal topics, primarily from print, broadcast, and online media.
Project MUSE- Date coverage varies, mostly current. Fulltext access to complete scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences.
