African Writers Series
- This online edition of the Heinemann's African Writers Series publishes the key texts of modern African literature, including over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose. Most of the works come from English-speaking countries in Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, but there are also a number of volumes translated from French, Portuguese, Zulu, Swahili, etc.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
- American State Papers, 1789-1838 enables scholars to search and browse legislative and executive documents of the first fourteen U.S. Congresses and more. Part of the America's Historical Government Publications suite of collections and complement to the digital U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994. American State Papers is also cross-searchable with the digital U.S. Congressional Serial Set and all other Readex Archive of Americana collections.
Ancestry and Genealogy (Please ask librarian for access)
- This database includes information of official church registers, birth registers, and also newspaper archives.
Central and Eastern European Online Library (C.E.E.O.L.) - Archiv
- C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 446 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. The CEEOL and GHI cooperation provides access to archived material up to 12/31/2009.
Declassified Documents Reference System / DDRS
- The DDRS is a collection of more than 75,000 documents, a large selection of U.S. government documents obtained from presidential libraries, consisting of more than 465,000 pages of declassified documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and others.
Deutschsprachige Frauenliteratur des 18. & 19. Jahrhundert
- This collection contains more than 220,000 pages drawn from 848 monographs written by 19th century women writers. The digital collection of these monographs contains digitally improved facsimiles of the historical book pages, including links to relevant text passages within the respective work. The collection is mainly comprised of short stories, dramas, travel literature, children's books, biographies, and memoirs.
Digital Karl Barth Library
- The collection features the entire corpus of Karl Barth's Gesamtausgabe, which is comprised of more than 40 volumes of letters, sermons, talks, dogmatic discussions, and academic works. It further features Barth' s 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik (Church Dogmatics) as well other works which include lectures and writings about dogmatic questions. The database is searchable through keywords, for instance those that appear most often in Barth's academic writings or letters.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
- This collection is comprised of the principal works of the most eminent writers of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras and lesser-known authors of the period. The database includes biblical commentaries, catechisms, treatises, pastoral writings, sermons, church histories, disputations, and personal letters by 16th and 17th Western European Protestant writers. It is searchable by the authors' names or the titles of their works.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
- The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation is comprised of texts by a wide range of Catholic writers between the 14th and 17th century. Documents are searchable by author, topic, religious order affiliation, genre, or work title. Included are papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors' manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, liturgical works, etc.
Digital National Security Archive
- The Digital National Security Archive contains declassified government documents since 1945, including 38 collections consisting of over 94,000 documents. It covers critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Crisis, Afghanistan, or the Kissinger Transcripts.
Early English Books Online / EEBO
- This collection contains more than 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Scholars are able to search diverse subject areas, including English Literature, History, Philosophy, Linguistics, Theology, Fine Arts, Education, Mathematics, and Science.
Early American Imprints
- Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera enable researchers to explore America's distant and not so distant past. Available here: Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- The database includes over 136,000 of books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides etc. The collection's content is based on the English Short Title Catalogue and mainly includes works published in the UK during the 18th century, although works from other countries are included. Most works are in English, some foreign-language works are included as well.
Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, 1685-1815
- The database digitally provides unique or rare eighteenth century periodicals. There is no selection of titles on the basis of subject matter or theme. The collection is comprised of five sections: Eighteenth Century Journals I through IV, and Eighteenth Century Journals (a full run of The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832), as well as of a collection of related Essays.
EIU Country Reports Archive
- This database is comprised of all Country Reports by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) from 1996 to June 2011. These Reports contain information on economic and political situations and developments, as well as trade and specific economic information as per country. The site is searchable by country or continent.
Empire Online
- Empire Online is a collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It uses images of the texts rather than transcriptions, but each section features thematic essays by leading scholars in the field. Mostly, the entire document, complete manuscript or volume of a rare publication is included. Searchable by relevant People, Century, Topic, or Geographical Region.
Entscheidungssammlungen: Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Zivilsachen und Strafsachen
- The database consists of the complete collection of verdicts that have been made by the Reichsgericht in Civil Law between 1880 and 1945. It provides 172 volumes of more than 15,000 verdicts printed on 91,000 pages. The site is searchable by entering the volume number, the date the verdict has been issued, or by means of the file reference number as well as by entering specific keywords.
Fold3 (Please ask librarian for access)
- Contains primary source documents from the holdings of the United States National Archives relating to all aspects of American history, from the Revolutionary War, to the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents. Highlights include Papers of the Continental Congress (1774-89), records of the Constitutional Convention, the Matthew B. Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs, and the Investigative Case Files of the Bureau of Investigation, 1908-1922.
This database includes newspaper archives.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises
- Derived from two essential reference collections for historical and more contemporary legal studies-the Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections - Making of Modern Law, published by Gale Cengage Learning, features a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works on legal treaties between 1800 and 1926.
The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
- Also part of Gale, this part of The Making of Modern Law allows researchers to browse for authors and works within the full-text collection of Anglo-American trials from 1600 to 1926, as well as documents, reports, and secondary literature on the topic.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records, and Briefs, 1832-1978
- U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 features a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are available for 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, with documents based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, and for 1915 to 1978, with documents from the Library of the Association of the Bar in New York City.
Making the Modern World: Economics, Politics and Industry
- This is a comprehensive collection of economic literature written between 1460 and 1850. Two important collections are the source for this database: Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at University of London and Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. The emphasis is on Economics, including Political Science, History and Sociology.
Munzinger
- We subscribe to the biographical information about persons of interest in politics, culture, film, and sports.
New York Review of Books (Please ask librarian for access)
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. It is composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives and in selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement 1945-1950
- This online archive delivers essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves. The database contains about 3000 documents from the Wiener Library in London and from the National Archives of the UK.
Religion & Theologie des 16.-19. Jahrhunderts / Religion & Theology 16th - 19th Centuries
- Religion & Theology oft he 16th-19th century is a collection of 937 writings from 430 authors kept at the library of the Benediktinerabtei St. Walburg in Eichstätt and published between the 16th and 19th century. The works are digital facsimiles and can be viewed in pdf format.
Serial Set Maps
- The maps published as part of U.S. Congressional Serial Set publications.
Springer Lecture Notes Archiv 1964-1996
- SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers about 3,000 peer-reviewed journals and 55,600 books online.
Testaments to the Holocaust
- The collection offers fully searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda materials such as school text books, limited circulation publications and rare serials, enabling research into the domestic policies of Nazi Germany, Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to after the war, propaganda, life in the concentration camps, in hiding, emigration and refugee life.
The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
- The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs, physicist and feminist, is a full text database for the history of women and feminism with more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945.
The Gerritsen Collection consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
- Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
World Bank E-Library Archive
- The World Bank eLibrary is the World Bank's subscription-based collection of nearly 8,000 books, reports, journals, and working papers. It includes articles published since 1996, Development Economics (DEC) policy research working papers published since 1995, e-books and reports starting in the 1970's (in the case of the World Development Reports), as well as all new formal publications upon release.
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