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The FBIS collection consists of intelligence reports from 1941-1996, gathered by the CIA from various sources like government publications, newspapers, and broadcasts. These documents, now accessible in a digital format, offer valuable insights into global events during the latter half of the 20th century.
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HeinOnline Foreign Relations of the United States presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which began in 1861 under President Abraham Lincoln, contains books and documents from various Presidential libraries as well as different governmental agencies.
Gale Primary Sources offers a comprehensive platform for research, enabling users to search multiple collections simultaneously. It goes beyond basic retrieval, providing tools for analysis and discovery of new material.
Gale Primary Sources Collections:
American Fiction, 1774-1920 (Gale Primary Sources)
Archives Unbound (Gale Primary Sources)
Associated Press Collections Online (Gale Primary Sources)
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture (Gale Primary Sources)
British Library Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources)
British Library Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources)
Economist Historical Archive, The (Gale Primary Sources)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Primary Sources)
Financial Times Historical Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
History of Disabilities (Gale Primary Sources)
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842--2003 (Gale Primary Sources)
Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, The (Gale Primary Sources)
Making of the Modern World, The (Gale Primary Sources)
National Geographic Magazine Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Primary Sources)
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources)
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Gale Primary Sources)
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500--1926 (Gale Primary Sources)
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection (Gale Primary Sources)
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
State Papers Online (Gale Primary Sources)
Times Digital Archive, The (Gale Primary Sources)
Women's Studies Archive, The (Gale Primary Sources)
This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
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Coverage of the Asian American experience sourced from American and global newspapers, including Asian American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in Asian American History.
HathiTrust is a partnership of research institutions committed to digital preservation of the cultural record. The Digital Library provides access to public domain and some in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Materials are available to the extent permitted by copyright law.
HathiTrust catalog records are included in Scout, but not in the Libraries’ Catalog.
Asian Film Online showcases independent Asian filmmakers' perspectives on Asian culture, curated by scholars and critics, covering themes like modernity, globalization, female agency, social unrest, and cultural identity
Images of the full text of many scholarly titles in a range of subject areas, including literature, biological sciences, economics, finance, and statistics. Search the archive or pull up a specific article. Artstor is now available on the JSTOR platform.
Project MUSE provides full-text access scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The database is a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and other university presses and not-for-profit publishers. Also included are the UPCC collections in Asian and Pacific Studies, and Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction.
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Google Scholar is a freely available scholarly search engine that allows you to search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles – from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the full text version of the ATLA Religion Database. This database provides a collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States.
The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is a comprehensive resource for students and scholars interested in East, Southeast, and South Asia, providing citations and full-text of various journal articles and proceedings.
Oxford Bibliographies Online is a scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules for the social sciences and humanities. This database combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, and guides researchers to scholarship produced across a wide variety of subjects.