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42 Databases found for Images and Multimedia

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Wide ranging print and image resources. Most notably for researchers in screen studies, the oral history videos and recordings sourced from collections at Atlanta History Center, Washington University in St. Louis and Weeksville Heritage Center include interviews with practitioners such as Julie Dash, Melvin Van Peebles and Spike Lee and scholars such as Charlene B. Regester and Clyde P. Taylor.
Media content now hosted on the Academic Video Online platform subscribed collections include the Filmakers Library Online; Ethnographic Video Online; Asian Film Online; African Diaspora, 1860-Present and Dance Online: Dance in Video. Trial access also in place for the Film platform and the CNN Video Collection. Accompanying support provides users with synchronously scrolling transcripts, indexing, clip-making, custom playlists, social media functionality, and other tools. Today, Alexander Street Press publishes more than 80 collections totalling many millions of pages, audio tracks, videos, images, and playlists. Alexander Street Press concentrates on building the best collections possible across the curriculumin literature; music; women's history; black history; psychological counseling and therapy; social and cultural history; drama, medical, theatre, film, and the performing arts; religion; sociology; and other emerging areas.
The Archives of Sexuality and Genderprogram 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, researchers and scholars 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 archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history.
Art Full Text is a comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus. Topics covered include art history & criticism, architecture & architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles and much more.
ARTstor provides approximately 500,000 images covering artistic traditions across many times and cultures: architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Simple personal registration at the ARTstor site gives you access to a wider range of facilities.
Online article database that permits easy investigation of past events, and is available in many universities and libraries both inside and outside Japan. The largest online newspaper article database in Japan, permitting searches of 16 million articles and advertisements from more than 140 years of the newspaper, from its first edition in 1879 (Meiji 12) to today. Allows access to articles from the newspaper editions published in Tokyo (using the Asahi Shimbun Reduced-size Facsimile Edition keywords search) and published in Osaka enabling users to compare the two editions with different content by searching on publication date. Also contains articles from the magazines 'AERA' and 'Shukan Asahi, plus the Historical Photo Archive, a database of approximately 10 thousand photographic records mostly taken in Asia during the World War II period. Additional features: English-language News Database, Asahi Graph, Who's Who database, Image Database of Regional pages, Overseas Editions and Contemporary Words Chiezo.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These invaluable documents -- many never before available -- include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more, offering a look at the inner workings of international relations. This resource allows scholars to explore in detail the history of British and US foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports from 1790 to 1949.

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ScreenOnline is a website developed by the British Film Institute which is devoted to the history of British film and television. The site features hundreds of hours of video clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Film and Television Archive together with thousands of stills, posters and press books and several hours of recorded interviews with film and television personalities. This material is supplemented by contextual material commissioned for screenonline.

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ClinicalKey Student is an interactive education platform that supports students and faculty by enhancing the learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals. ClinicalKey is the next-generation medical learning platform, making it easier for students to study and turn information into knowledge. The platform meets students in their world, working around their lives and schedules to help them to find the answers they need whenever they need them, from the most complete and trusted collection of medical content.
ClinicalKey Student is an interactive education platform that supports students and faculty by enhancing the learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals. ClinicalKey is the next-generation medical learning platform, making it easier for students to study and turn information into knowledge. The platform meets students in their world, working around their lives and schedules to help them to find the answers they need whenever they need them, from the most complete and trusted collection of medical content.
Confidential Print: Middle East 1839-1969 collection consists of the Confidential Print for the countries of the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. Beginning with the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the documents trace the events of the following 150 years, including the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis and post-Suez Western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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The Digitalia film library has a collection of streaming films and documentaries from Spain, Latin America, Argentine and other countries. There are some fascinatingly under-researched - and hard to find - films from across Europe and the US. There is also a small but nearly definitive collection of Hollywood studio films which would be valuable additions to a range of courses across the English/American Studies, Drama and Languages studies.
The award-winning Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. Our constantly growing collection meets the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools. From the epic to the monologue; ensemble to one-person plays; comedy to tragedy; the historical to the contemporary; and from the highly political to the profoundly personal, there is plenty to discover. Our unique Play Tools with Character Grids, Words and Speech graphs and Part Books offer a new way to engage with plays for close study or for performance.

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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-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books in Europe. Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through the close of the seventeenth century. The resource represents a diverse array of printed sources and opens the door to some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO) and is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials; however, books in English or printed in the English-speaking world that are already represented in EEBO are not omitted from Early European Books where they form an integral element of the predominantly non-Anglophone collections that have been made available for digital capture. Full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is captured in its entirety, complete with its binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages, and any loose inserts.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages, making ECCO the premier and irreplaceable resource for eighteenth-century research. Users of ECCO Part I and Part II can full-text search the collection via an intuitive user interface. In addition, MARC record/metadata enhancements, a research guide section for undergraduates with contextual essays and chronology, an image gallery, and a key documents section facilitate discovery and study. Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800; Part I includes 135,000 printed works, comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages. While the majority of works in ECCO are in the English language, researchers will also discover a rich vein of works printed in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh. Full-text searching across all 26 million pages enables users to explore a vast range of books and directories, bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements, and works by both celebrated and lesser-known authors. Researchers will also find rare works from women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. From books and directories to bibles and sheet music to sermons and pamphlets, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II features a variety of materials to provide a critical tool for both faculty research and classroom use. With more than fifty thousand new titles of previously unavailable or inaccessible materials, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II is an essential addition for current owners of Part I.
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Empire Online brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology. Empire Online is a powerful and interactive collection of primary source documents, sourced from leading archives around the world. This project has been developed to encourage undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society. Material in the collection spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires; from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others, right through to de-colonisation in the second half of the twentieth century and debates over American Imperialism. Material in Empire Online has been sourced from a wide range of reputable institutions, with a particularly strong core of documents and images from the British Library. There is a good balance between highly indexed manuscript and full text printed material, with a broad range of document types; written by women and men from the European and non-European perspective. By its very nature, Empire Studies is a global subject. In our selection of material we have endeavoured to cover all continents and did not feel it appropriate to focus on the British Empire in isolation. Thus, there are a number of documents and secondary resources which relate the story of the Empire from the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German points of view, as well as that of indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America.
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Engineering Case Studies Online will dramatically improve teaching and research by providing a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. The collection covers over 300 videos and 70,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world. The analysis of engineering failures is an essential part of many engineering curricula today. This focus enables modern engineers and scholars to learn what not to do and how to create designs with a greater chance of success. Key to learning is establishing the nature of each failure—structural, corrosive, electrical, etc. and understanding that element.

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Global Health is the only specialist bibliographic abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health, completing the picture of international medical and health research by capturing key literature that is not covered by other databases. Derived from over 7,000 journals, reports, books and conferences, Global Health contains over 3 million scientific records from 1973 to the present. Almost 155,000 records were added last year, and over 96% of these records include an English abstract. Publications from over 100 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and all relevant non-English-language papers are translated to give access to research not available through any other database. The database's open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature means that 40% of material contained in Global Health is unique to the database. Everything from proceedings, theses, electronic-only publications and other hard-to-find sources are included. Global Health has a growing number of full text articles (over 90,000) from journals, conferences, and reports.

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Henry Stewart Talks Ltd (HSTalks) is a leading provider of specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks and case studies for medical schools, business schools universities and commercial enterprises in over 60 countries around the world. The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC) contains over 2,500 specially commissioned, multi-media, online lectures by leading world experts from universities, research centres, medical schools, and pharmaceutical/biotech companies. There are over 2,000 contributing editors and speakers, complete series of lectures covering both the fundamentals and the latest thinking and developments, complete course modules with full supporting material (suggestions for projects, workshops and tutorials; recommended reading (research papers, review articles and book chapters); multiple choice questions and suggested exam questions with bullet points of model answers), accredited tests for US Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and UK Continuing Professional Development (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom) and more than 100,000 slides. All content can be embedded in Moodle, Blackboard and other online learning environments. TBLSC supports self-motivated learning, distance learning programmes, blended learning courses and flipped classroom education and is accessible onsite and offsite. Talks in the collection ensure faculty have access to a wide range of expert lectures to support and extend existing course modules. The presentations consist of navigable slides with accompanying narration synchronised for ease of listening. They are all approximately 40-50 minutes long and are organised into a comprehensive series of talks.

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Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

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Library Stack is an archive and lending library for new digital projects across visual art, design, architecture, film and theory. Library Stack works directly with artists and publishers, and many items are openly available.

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Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation founded in 1937 to record everyday life in Britain. Mass Observation Online offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features. This online resource contains primary material gathered by Mass Observation from 1937-1955, including diaries and questionnaires sent in by its panel of volunteers, and research gathered by paid investigators in the form of File reports and Topic collections. The collection includes works by Mass Observation founders Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings, and photographer Humphrey Spender, as well as contributions by volunteer panellists Nella Last and Naomi Mitchison.
MediaPlus is a service delivered to the UK higher and further education community in association with Jisc, bringing more than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings to your screen. Formerly the Jisc MediaHub subscription service (which was retired on 31 August 2016), MediaPlus is hosted and delivered to existing and new subscribers by Alexander Street, the leading provider of academic streaming media. All Jisc-licensed news, film, image and music content including high profile collections such as ITN, Getty images and Wellcome Library images and sound are available alongside new content, services and benefits. You can cross-search 130,000+ multimedia resources, including: 73,000+ streaming video titles, 55,000+ documents and images, 346 albums. This collection is essential for those studying 20th century British social, political & cultural history.

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Grove Art Online is available via Oxford Art Online. This database provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

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Includes a large database of images (coins, vases, sculpture), Greek and Latin texts and translations, resources for textual studies, and English word searches of the texts.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource allows users to study this exciting period using manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia. The interactive chronology, extensive visual resources and video footage provide valuable contextual background to the materials included in this collection. From music and youth culture to politics and fashion, the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society.

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Catalogue for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Library. Browse records for physical collection and explore online image Library RIBApix.
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Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) was founded in 1830. The learned Society promotes the advancement of geographical science in all its aspects. The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) – Part I includes content in the date ranges of 1485 through 1899, and Part II includes content in the date ranges of 1900 through 1983. The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes (as gores or mounted on stands) and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485. Since its founding, the RGS-IBG has served as an information exchange for geographers and geography. The Society’s extensive map collection has been continuously developed from its foundation in 1830 and accessible to all users from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Historically, as today, the Society sponsored and supported expeditions and fieldwork; in the past it has loaned survey and photographic equipment to explorers and published early guidance on how to conduct expeditions and gather data. The geographical information compiled and gathered by Society-backed fieldwork and exploration covering over almost 200 years has made a monumental impact. Today, collections material from the RGS enables contemporary researchers to critically re-assess and re-evaluate these contributions to our understanding of the world.

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TheSlavery, Abolition & Social Justice archive is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period, between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. The archive offers: High-quality colour and greyscale images of many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and other documents not available elsewhere; A powerful portal with links to other significant online sources approved by leading scholars (these international sites are a very important aspect of this resource); A series of contextual essays by leading authorities from around the world, each essay includes hypertext links to the primary sources it discusses.

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The Technology Collection is a full text database that includes Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database and Materials Science & Engineering Database. It provides full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, books/monographs, conference proceedings, reports, newswires, videos, and more in the areas of engineering, technology, materials science, computing, physics, and aerospace.
Testaments to the Holocaust is the online publication of the archives of the Wiener Library, London, the first archive to collect evidence of the Holocaust and the anti-semitic activities of the German Nazi Party. It contains documentary evidence collected in several different programmes: the eyewitness accounts which were collected before, during and after the Second World War, from people fleeing the Nazi oppression, a large collection of photographs of pre-war Jewish life, the activities of the Nazis, and the ghettoes and camps, a collection of postcards of synagogues in Germany and eastern Europe, most since destroyed, a unique collection of Nazi propaganda publications including a large collection of 'educational' children's' books, and the card index of biographical details of prominent figures in Nazi Germany, many with portrait photographs. Pamphlets, bulletins and journals published by the Wiener Library to record and disseminate the research of the Institute are also included. 75% of the content is written in German.
The First World War portal makes available invaluable primary sources for the study of the Great War, brought together in four thematic modules. From personal collections and rare printed material to military files, artwork and audio-visual files, content highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of a conflict that shook the world. The carefully selected content in The First World War is the result of close collaboration with collection staff at participating libraries, archives and museums and specialist academic editorial board members. Feedback from focused conferences also played a large part in ensuring material is relevant and appropriate for students and scholars. The resource showcases intimate personal narratives, wartime propaganda and recruitment material, the truly global reach of the conflict, and the role of women in war while covering an array of international perspectives.These histories are presented through correspondence, diaries and journals, government files and printed books, ephemera, photographs, artworks and objects.
Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970--offers the widest range of original source material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1. Here major policy statements are set out in their fullest context, the minor documents and marginalia revealing the workings of colonial administration and, following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, British diplomacy towards Israel and the Arab states. Additional value has been by the expansion from the original 562 National Archives records to over 17,000, thus substantially improving access to over 138,000 pages documenting the politics, administration, wars and diplomacy of the Palestine Mandate, the Independence of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internets premier source of evidence-based content. Our motto is Find evidence fast and this is something we aim to deliver for every single search.As well as research evidence we also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

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The UK Medical Heritage Library is the culmination of a three-year project between Jisc, the Internet Archive, the Wellcome Library and nine other partner institutions to digitise more than 15 million pages in over 66,000 works. With full colour page scans, PDF downloads and OCR machine-generated full text for all publications, the collection is a valuable resource providing a broad and diverse range of relevant publications from the 19th century. The Visualising Medical History sister-project has created powerful visualisation tools unique to the UKMHL collection, which researchers can use to search the content in new and hitherto untapped ways. The visualisations are available in a separate Labs area. The UK Medical Heritage Library collection is the first open access collection for Historical Texts.

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The Handbook of Varieties of English provides an overview of the morphology and syntax of varieties of English from around the world. The database also provides: a unique collection of speech recordings of English from around the world; sound samples interactive and synchronized maps that allow either phonological or morphosyntactic (grammatical) comparisons; extensive bibliographies on the relevant research literature.
Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist sances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures. An essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Includes full-text, full-color reproductions of books, ephemera, handbills, pamphlets, photos, posters, programs, scripts, and other types of materials. Coverage in Victorian Popular Culture is most extensive for Great Britain; but there is also a fair range of materials for the U.S.A. The main thematic areas are: Spiritualism in Victorian Britain; Popular Entertainment in the Nineteenth Century; The Circus; Pleasure Gardens; Advertising Popular Culture in Britain; and Victorian Music Hall.

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Examples of content include "Taiwan Historical Materials Manuscript" a typed and mimeographed manuscript compiled by the Historical Materials Compilation Committee of the Governor-General's Office of Taiwan. It is in chronological style and dates from 1895 to In 1919, the important policy minutes of the Governor-General of Taiwan were compiled in the year, month, and day, and included "Historical Materials of China before the Transfer of Liquor", "Miscellaneous Compilation of Historical Materials of Taiwan", "Batavia City Diary" (Batavia City Diary) and "Commander Historical materials such as "Commander Rayson's Diary" can be said to be indispensable basic materials for studying the history of Taiwan. Books such as "Investigation Book of the Gaosha Tribe", "Overview of Lifan", and "Annual Report of the Grant of Property of the Gaosha Tribe" are important reference materials for aboriginal research. The "Gaosha Tribe Survey Book" consists of 6 volumes, divided into household registration, life, evolution, summary, overview of Tibetan communities and superstitions, medicinal grass roots and bark, etc. "Lifan Overview" records the police deployment, management situation and education situation in the areas where aborigines live. The "Gaosha Tribe Annual Report on Production Grants" investigates aboriginal industrial activities on an annual basis. Before the Japanese colonial period, Western explorers were curious about Taiwan and came to Taiwan to explore. They wrote books such as "On the birds of the Island of Formosa Lond" and opened up Taiwan's modern museum. The forerunner of academic research. During the Japanese occupation, the Taiwan Governor-General conducted a planned survey of Taiwan's natural resources based on the needs of governance and colonial development. "Research on the Zoological Geography of Hongtou Island" and "The Bird World of Taiwan Island" are the research results of Japanese naturalists Tadao Kano and Nagarei Kuroda, writing a new page for the development of natural history in Taiwan. In addition, education is also one of the policy priorities of the Taiwan Governor-General. The data in this system include academic statistics, lists, overviews, and records of schools at all levels, as well as educational information such as school journals and directories of schools at all levels. For example, "Hsinchu Prefecture Education Statistics Summary", "Taiwan Education Affairs", "Tainan Prefecture Academic Affairs Summary", "Taichung State Taichung No. 1 Middle School Summary", etc. In addition to school education materials, there are also social education materials such as "Keelung City Social Education Outline" and "Mandarin Mobilization Guide". Beginning in the 1910s, social education groups such as the "Mandarin Popularization Association", "Tongfeng Association", "Youth League", and "Youth Association" were established one after another. In the early days of Japanese rule, Taiwan's health situation was poor and infectious diseases were rampant. Improving the health environment became a top priority for the Governor-General's Office. Books such as "Taiwan Army Health Overview", "Taiwan's Disease Epidemic Chronicle in the 31st Year of Meiji", and "Taiwan's Health Status" record the overview of infectious diseases and epidemic prevention work in Taiwan. Books such as "Health Survey Book", "Malaria Prevention and Control Chronicle" (Malaria Prevention and Control Chronicle), and "Taiwan Henan Prevention and Health Overview" present the health overview of Hsinchu, Taichung, and Penghu, as well as the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The library has more than 300 kinds of periodicals from the Japanese colonial period in its collection, with all-inclusive contents and diverse themes. During the Japanese colonial period, the Governor-General promoted new education in Taiwan. The collection of the "Journal of the Taiwan Education Association" (later renamed "Taiwan Education") and the journals of local education associations can help you understand the development of education at that time. For example, "Journal of the Taiwan Architectural Society" is the official publication of the "Taiwan Architectural Society" and is an indispensable resource for studying the history of modern Taiwanese architecture; "Journal of the Taiwan Communications Association" (later renamed "Journal of the Taiwan Correspondence Association") is An important publication about Taiwan's traffic; the "Journal of the Taiwan Police Association" (later renamed "Taiwan Police Times") is a precious resource for studying the police system and social development during the Japanese occupation. They were both long-term and representative publications during the Japanese occupation period. journal. Literary and art societies were very active during the Japanese colonial period. The literary journals in our collection, such as "Silver Bell", "Taiwan New Literature", "Huali Island", "Wild Grape", "Papaya", "にひたか" (New High), etc., are all It is the only remaining copy in the country. In addition, periodicals such as "Taiwan Local Administration", "Taiwan Criminal Affairs Monthly", "Journal of the City Street Association", "Taiwan Water Conservancy", "Taiwan Farmers Association Journal" and "Taiwan Maritime Affairs Association Journal" are Publications on Taiwan's civil affairs and industrial development during the Japanese occupation are indispensable materials for studying Taiwan's society, politics, and industry during the Japanese occupation. During the Japanese colonial period, as Taiwan's economy developed, social conditions gradually matured, and people's lifestyles changed. "Feng Yue Bao", "Taiwan Arts News", "Interesting Mountaineering Club", "Taiwan Chess", "Performing Arts" appeared on the market Entertainment periodicals such as "とキネマ" (performing arts and movies) and "Travel and Fishing". "Feng Yue Bao" published popular novels and once held a newsletter beauty pageant. It included free ballots, which became a trend for a while; "Taiwan Arts News" introduced news about music, movies, drama, dance and other arts circles, with photos, Comics, illustrations, pictures and texts, deeply interesting and entertaining. Religious periodicals such as "Journal of the Southern Buddhism Association" (later renamed "Southern Buddhism" and "Taiwan Buddhism"), "Li Zhengjiao Daily", "Yuantong" and "Evangelical Church" are also unique materials.
The library has received funding from the Ministry of Education in 104 to complete the digitization of about 500 Asian special collection materials, covering materials from Japan, China (Manchuria and South China), Korea (today's South Korea) and Nanyang during the Japanese colonial period. It had not yet been established at that time. Set up a dedicated data imaging system and temporarily import the digitized electronic files into the "Japanese Occupation Period Library Imaging System". In 2016, we received a subsidy from the Ministry of Education to build the "Southern Collection Information Imaging System". 35,000 images will be scanned, 350 volumes of interpretation materials will be built, and they will be imported into the "Southern Collection Information Imaging System". In addition, the digitized electronic files of southern materials originally belonging to the "Library and Image System of the Japanese Occupation Period" will also be transferred and imported into the "Collection of Southern Materials and Image System". There will be a total of 850 volumes of book materials, which will help researchers obtain precious southern materials. , to promote related research.
The term "ancient documents" refers to various types of private deeds, licenses, account books, lot books, letters, certificates, certificates, resumes, group agreements or local collegial documents, etc., as well as official-related deeds, accounts, and edicts. The contents of public and private documents such as instructions, case files, and complaints are complex. Early scholars mostly called it ancient deed, ancient document deed, old-script evidence, ancient deed, ancient contract document, etc. However, in recent years, the term "ancient documents" has been widely used by academic circles and has become a common tacit understanding. The Taiwan Studies Research Center of our museum has many important ancient documents in its collection and has been collecting them continuously in recent years. The ancient documents currently collected in this database can be roughly divided into deeds, licenses, husband's bills, completed bills, bills, vouchers, lot slips, land ownership registration applications, receipt certificates, certificates of ownership, land title change registration applications, Cadastral transcripts, maps, etc., totalling 2,867 items. In the 100th year of the Republic of China, our library signed a "Cooperation Agreement on Digitization of Ancient Documents" with National Taiwan University, whereby our library provided ancient documents in its collection and sent them to National Taiwan University for digitization. After the digitization of this batch of ancient documents was completed in 2011, since no database was established at that time, the "Collection of Ancient Documents Imaging System" was established to help readers to query relevant information about the ancient documents in the collection.
The library received funding from the Ministry of Education to complete the digitization of about 500 Asian special collection materials, covering materials from Japan, China (Manchuria and South China), Korea (today's South Korea) and Nanyang during the Japanese colonial period. It had not yet been established at that time. A dedicated data imaging system was set up to temporarily import the digitized electronic files into the "Japanese Occupation Period Library Imaging System". In 2016, the library received a subsidy from the Ministry of Education to build the "Southern Collection Information Imaging System". 35,000 images will be scanned, 350 volumes of interpretation materials will be built, and they will be imported into the "Southern Collection Information Imaging System". In addition, the digitized electronic files of southern materials originally belonging to the "Library and Image System of the Japanese Occupation Period" will also be transferred and imported into the "Collection of Southern Materials and Image System". There will be a total of 850 volumes of book materials, which will help researchers obtain precious southern materials, to promote related research.

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The following databases were recently acquired by the Library.
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The study of environmental history emerged in the 1960s, inspired by the popularity of emerging environmentalist movements, but concerns about human intervention and interaction with the natural environment can be traced much further back. Starting in the late nineteenth century, in direct response to the Industrial Revolution, forces in social and political spheres across the globe struggled to balance the good of the public and the planet against the economic exploitation of resources. In Environmental History, researchers may explore the history of the environment and conservation efforts across the globe from the late 1800s onwards.
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With nearly 70 million individuals dislocated by war, famine, and environmental disaster, refugee crises have been, and will continue to be, a highly visible part of our global reality. But understanding and addressing what the future holds requires reckoning with the past. In the series Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement, Gale opens a window onto the history of refugees and forced migration so that the thousands of scholars and students who will study—and possibly work with—refugee populations may look profitably to the primary source record of the past to help them navigate the present and the future.
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Amnesty International Archives presents the archival records of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International from the period of 1961-1991. These records are housed at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Covering a wide range of human rights concerns and issues, the documents in Amnesty International Archives allow researchers to follow not only the influence Amnesty International had on the global human rights movement in the late twentieth century, but also to chart the internal growth and development of the organisation through the first three decades since its founding in 1961.
Content Acknowledgement: Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights publishes the records of Amnesty International from the second half of the twentieth century. The material contains minutes, reports, correspondence, first-hand accounts, publicity materials and circulars relating to human rights violations of all kinds in all parts of the world. Amnesty International’s remit of campaigning for an end to human rights abuses means that this archival material inherently relates to the themes of oppression, cruelty and degradation. Content includes, but is not limited to, descriptions of persecution, disappearances, capital punishment, violence and torture. This content contains both written descriptions and images.
Language Statement: All editorial decisions relating to Amnesty International Archives have been made with great care, consideration and sensitivity. Every effort has been taken to preserve the historic authenticity of the documents included in this collection. Due to the age and nature of this material, some items may reflect outdated, biased, and offensive views. With this in mind, terminology that would no longer be deemed acceptable may be found within the digitised sources.
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BFI Player is a video on demand service from the British Film Institute, streaming acclaimed, landmark and archive films. The focus is on British and European independent films, as well as international releases. BFI expert curators group most of our films into unique collections, which highlight their significance, whether theyre cultural, award-winning, by a renowned director or they represent a landmark moment in film.
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Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leadersteachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figurescovering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America. Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.
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The Coptic Gnostic Library is the only authoritative edition of many of the Coptic writings of the Gnostics from the first centuries AD. It was originally published by Brill in fourteen hardback volumes as part of the Nag Hammadi (and Manichaean) Studies series between 1975 and 1995, under the general editorship of James M. Robinson. The Coptic Gnostic Library contains all the texts of the Nag Hammadi codices, both in the original Coptic and in translation. Each text has its own introduction, and full indexes are provided. The Coptic Gnostic Library is the result of decades of dedicated research by the most distinguished international scholars in this field.

The Coptic Gnostic Library continues where the Dead Sea Scrolls left off. Our main sources of information for the Gnostic religion are the so-called Nag Hammadi codices, written in Coptic. These were unearthed in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. The texts literally begin where the Dead Sea Scrolls end. Their discovery is considered equally significant as the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves, bringing to light a long-hidden wealth of information and insights into early Judaism and the roots of Christianity. Furthermore, these writings clearly show that the Gnostic religion was not only a force that interacted with early Christianity and Judaism in their formative periods, but also a significant religious movement in its own right.

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Empire Online brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology. Empire Online is a powerful and interactive collection of primary source documents, sourced from leading archives around the world. This project has been developed to encourage undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society. Material in the collection spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires; from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others, right through to de-colonisation in the second half of the twentieth century and debates over American Imperialism. Material in Empire Online has been sourced from a wide range of reputable institutions, with a particularly strong core of documents and images from the British Library. There is a good balance between highly indexed manuscript and full text printed material, with a broad range of document types; written by women and men from the European and non-European perspective. By its very nature, Empire Studies is a global subject. In our selection of material we have endeavoured to cover all continents and did not feel it appropriate to focus on the British Empire in isolation. Thus, there are a number of documents and secondary resources which relate the story of the Empire from the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German points of view, as well as that of indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America.
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Engineering Case Studies Online will dramatically improve teaching and research by providing a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. The collection covers over 300 videos and 70,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world. The analysis of engineering failures is an essential part of many engineering curricula today. This focus enables modern engineers and scholars to learn what not to do and how to create designs with a greater chance of success. Key to learning is establishing the nature of each failure—structural, corrosive, electrical, etc. and understanding that element.
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Collection of primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. Core US and UK trade and mass market consumer magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theatre are included in the wide-ranging portfolio.
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Gender: Identity and Social Change contains essential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the mens movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics. Gender: Identity and Social Change includes primary sources for the study of gender history, womens suffrage, the feminist movement and the mens movement. Other key areas represented in the material include: employment and labour, education, government and legislation, the body, domesticity and the family. Explore records from mens and womens organisations and pressure groups, detailing twentieth-century lobbying and activism on a wide array of issues to reveal developing gender relations and prevalent challenges. Gain an insight into changing societal expectations about gender roles through pamphlets, speeches, newsletters, newspaper clippings and more, and explore the life and careers of key figures and pioneers in gender history through personal diaries and correspondence. Also featured is a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, illustrations, posters, scrapbooks and objects. Material has been sourced from across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. The earliest documents are from the nineteenth century and the latest from the early twenty-first century.
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Global Issues Library is a growing educational resource that covers important topics and events that are key to understanding the issues of today. The thematic collections span the period from the 1700s to the present and include topics that are global and interrelated such as borders and migration, human rights violations, climate crisis, terrorism, revolutions, mass incarceration, energy insecurity and chronic financial turbulence. Specific events explored include the U.S. and Mexico Border, the Rwandan Genocide, the Arab Spring, climate migrants in Asia Pacific, and Covid-19 and world economies. Curated by an international board of scholars, issues and events are presented through a variety of perspectives—personal, governmental, legal, contemporary and retrospective— demonstrating the interconnectedness of global history, policies, and events.
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The database covers the entire four-decade period (from 1918 to 1959) in which Klemperer kept his diaries. Klemperer, who primarily identified as "German," was the son of a reform rabbi and converted to Protestantism in 1912. For the Nazis, however, he remained a Jew and was persecuted as such. His careful observations and analyses from the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist era, and the German Democratic Republic illuminate what it meant to live under these three regimes. As the Nazis rose to power, he adopted the role of a "cultural historian of the catastrophe," documenting the ongoing withdrawal of rights from Jews. These observations are accompanied by a minute account of his day-to-day life under National Socialism. His post-1945 diaries testify to a desire for a radical new beginning - both for himself and for Germany. Though less well known than his other diaries and until now never published in full, these provide significant insights into the divided post-war Germany and early East Germany, as well as Klemperer's engagement with Communism and Zionism.
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Newly available through the MusicOnline platform, the largest, most comprehensive collection of in-copyright scores available to libraries online. The material offers researchers ready digital access to some of the most important scores in classical music ranging from the middle ages to the 21st century. Scores in a range of forms – full, part, manuscripts and for specific instrumentations – are immediately available on an interactive platform allowing users to zoom in to examine specific notations and tempo markings, and print scores for class or personal study.
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Eventually encompassing 900 (individually indexed) titles from a key publisher of plays and books on theatre practice and theory and accessible through Drama Online. In additional to canonical texts, the portfolio incorporates an unparalleled range of new and diverse writing from the contemporary era.
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Oxford Bibliographies provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations. Offering a rapidly expanding range of subject areas and ongoing enhancements, Oxford Bibliographies is reaching more scholars and students than ever before, increasing productivity, saving time, and elevating the quality of research. An authoritative guide to the current scholarship, written and reviewed by academic experts, with original commentary and annotations. Expert scholars share the trusted sources they use across a variety of academic disciplines. Sources are rigorously peer reviewed and vetted to ensure scholarly accuracy and objectivity. The interface guides users directly to the information, providing personalized citation lists and seamless links to full-text print and online content.
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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, Svres, 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. Most of the files, including FO 608 (Foreign Office: Peace Conference; British Delegation, Correspondence and Papers), are drawn from the UK National Archives, while the British Library provided the personal papers of Lord Robert Cecil and Sir Arthur Balfour.
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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 the time. Full-page images and article images from the Chicago defender under all its title variants: Chicago daily defender (1966-1973 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago daily defender (1960-1973 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1905-1966 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago defender (1973-1975 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1921-1967 : National ed.), and the Daily defender (1956-1960 : Daily ed.). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
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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 the time.
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During the Second World War, the Nazi state was responsible for the systematic enslavement and extermination of millions of Jews. Other groups, such as Russian prisoners of war, Slavs, Sinti and Romani, homosexuals, the disabled, and political opponents of the regime were also targeted. After Germanys surrender, Allied forces established a series of military tribunals, known as the Nuremberg Trials, to bring the architects and perpetrators of these crimes to justice. Drawn from The National Archives (UK) and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this collection contains a wealth of information 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, from the concentration camp system to the mass murder of the incurably sick in psychiatric hospitals. More importantly, it gives a voice to the victims of these atrocities, many of whom testified about their experiences immediately after the war. The files include materials from the WO 309 (War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office; British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group), WO 311 (War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office; Military Deputy's Department), and WO 235 (War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office; War Crimes Case Files) series.
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RtroNews (1631-1951) is the platform of the French national library (Bibliothque nationale de France) housing digitised historical printed press materials and offers a vast online archive of French and francophone periodicals. The collection features over 2000 newspapers, journals, magazines and reviews published over three centuries, including both important dailies - Le Petit Parisien, Le Journal, Le Matin - but also a variety of periodicals across the political spectrum, together with regional publications and satirical magazines. Full title listings are readily available. The collection is dynamic, increasing monthly to provide a large plurality of sources covering all of France, including its former territories, from the first newspapers up until the 20th century.
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The backfile of Rolling Stone covers the magazine from its launch in 1967 to the present. One of the most influential consumer magazines of the 20th and 21st centuries, it initially sought to reflect the cultural, social and political outlook of a generation of students and young adults. It soon became a leading vehicle for rock and popular music journalism, shaping and chronicling new trends and movements. Also notable for its commitment to reporting on controversial topics that were largely absent from mainstream media, Rolling Stone was closely identified with a multifaceted 1960s-70s counterculture. Major journalists and authors have contributed including Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith and Tom Wolfe. From the 1980s, coverage expanded to encompass more entertainment topics, such as film and television, making it a leading resource for contemporary reporting and reviews pertaining to wider popular culture. This period also saw the successful serialization of Wolfes The Bonfire of the Vanities and the publication of one of the first national magazine features to address AIDS. The archive supports research in 20th and 21st century history, politics, music, cultural studies, media studies, sociology and more.
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Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) was founded in 1830. The learned Society promotes the advancement of geographical science in all its aspects. The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) – Part I includes content in the date ranges of 1485 through 1899, and Part II includes content in the date ranges of 1900 through 1983. The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes (as gores or mounted on stands) and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485. Since its founding, the RGS-IBG has served as an information exchange for geographers and geography. The Society’s extensive map collection has been continuously developed from its foundation in 1830 and accessible to all users from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Historically, as today, the Society sponsored and supported expeditions and fieldwork; in the past it has loaned survey and photographic equipment to explorers and published early guidance on how to conduct expeditions and gather data. The geographical information compiled and gathered by Society-backed fieldwork and exploration covering over almost 200 years has made a monumental impact. Today, collections material from the RGS enables contemporary researchers to critically re-assess and re-evaluate these contributions to our understanding of the world.
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BoF Professional is an essential daily resource for fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs all over the world. Through BoF, members gain in-depth analysis and actionable insights for navigating the rapidly-changing global Fashion industry. BoF Professional includes: Daily industry insights and analyses, case studies and how-to guides, online courses and live webinars. Serving members in more than 125 countries, The Business of Fashion combines independent, agenda-setting journalism with practical business advice, online learning, career-building tools and immersive events, powering positive change in fashion and the wider world. Over time, our pioneering approach has made BoF the fashion industry’s leading source of business intelligence, and one of its most respected and influential voices, simply because you won’t find BoF’s original reporting, analysis and advice anywhere else. The Business of Beauty brings the same kind of agenda-setting coverage to the beauty and wellness space. Today, our talented team of correspondents, editors, analysts, engineers, designers, marketers and more numbers more than 100 people in London, New York, Paris and Milan.
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A searchable archive of the US (1867 to present) and UK (1930-2015) editions of Harper's Bazaar. The issues are reproduced as high-resolution color page images and supported by fully searchable text and article-level indexing. This resource chronicles over 150 years of American, British, and international fashion, culture, and society, supporting researchers by offering unique insights into the events, attitudes, and interests of the modern era.
The Harper's Bazaar Archive offers access to the backfiles of both the US and UK editions of Harper’s Bazaar. In combination, these publications comprise almost 500,000 pages of content, from 1867 to the present, representing a vast and indispensable resource for the study of fashion and related fields.
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The Making of the Modern Worldis an extraordinary series which covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation. It is also strong in the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century. In addition, the archive offers resources on the role of finance and taxation and the growth of the early modern monarchy. It features essential texts covering the function of financial institutions, the crisis of the French monarchy and the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, and the connection between the democratic goals of revolutionaries and their legal aspirations. The majority of the material within The Making of the Modern World was collected by one man, Herbert Foxwell (1849-1936), a preeminent British economist and one of the most important collectors of economics literature. His two main collections form the nucleus of two of the greatest economics libraries in the world, Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature (Senate House, University of London) and Kress Library of Business and Economics (Harvard University), and the basis of this digital series.
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Part of our wide-ranging Power and Preachers series, this collection contains copies of three English language newspapers published in India during the period 1782-1908: The India Gazette (1782-1834); The Bengal Hurkaru and Chronicle (1822-1866); and The Bengal Times (1876-1908). These newspapers were primarily sold to colonial businessmen, merchants, and administrators with an interest in regional and international trade. Editors and reporters therefore focussed on providing readers with an overview of significant political, military, economic, scientific, and societal trends, as well as their potential impact on stocks, commodities, and other investments. Subjects covered range from the American Revolution and the Crimean War to British parliamentary debates on the India Act of 1858 and the dramatic industrial and pharmaceutical breakthroughs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. India, England, France, Ireland, Italy, the United States, and China receive the most attention, though items regarding other nations also feature.
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