From zines, newspapers and ephemera, to oral histories, films and photographs, 1980s Culture and Society is an eclectic and multi-faceted resource compiled from archival collections housed across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Capturing diverse perspectives, materials produced by grassroots organizations and under-represented groups are presented alongside government records and mainstream media to showcase the key social, cultural, and political concerns of the decade.

Also known as: Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets

Provides access to full text of significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries that cover political, social, and economic issues of 19th century Britain. Included are the following individual collections that belonged to politicians or political families: Bristol Selected pamphlets (1800-1899); Cowen Tracts (1603-1898); Earl Grey Pamphlets collection (1800-1900); Foreign and Commonwealth Office collection (1545-1900); Hume Tracts (1769-1890); Knowsley Pamphlet collection (1792-1868); LSE Selected pamphlets (1800-1899); Manchester Selected pamphlets (1799-1900); and Wilson Anti-slavery collection (1761-1900).

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Also known as: Art and architecture ePortal,

The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site offers students and scholars an engaging experience, encouraging critical thinking skills and supporting rigorous academic research. The site includes many out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers.

Also known as: American Astronomical Society-Institute of Physics Astronomy

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has partnered with IOP Publishing to create a collection of e-books focusing on astronomy, astrophysics, instrumentation, methods and technologies, celestial mechanics, astrometry, solar astronomy, planetary systems, stars, the galaxy, cosmology and related subject areas.

Abbreviationes identifies abbreviations used in medieval Latin manuscripts ("Latin paleography"). The manuscripts come from "libraries throughout Europe -- from Catania in the South, Uppsala in the North, Coimbra in the West to St. Petersburg in the East. It includes large collections such as the manuscripts held by the Vatican Library or the libraries at Oxford and Paris as well as many smaller collections. Major collections in the United States, such as the manuscripts held by the Morgan Library (New York City, New York) and the Huntington Library (San Marino, California), are also included." The database currently comprises over 70,000 entries containing a total of 80,098 references to manuscripts. Entries in the database cover the 8th century through the 15th century.

Contains content from business and management publications worldwide, covering advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Provides full text articles for over 2,000 titles. Also provides access to information on more than 60,000 companies as well as executive profiles, reports on market conditions, and in-depth case studies of global business trends. Coverage starts from 1971 forward.

Bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for articles from more than 1,000 business periodicals and newsletters with an industry and trade focus. Includes the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Covers publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. Includes full text for selected titles.

A scholarly, multidisciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and others. Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. This release contains 1,000 more journals than Academic Search Premier (ASP).

Also known as: NewsBank: Access World News

Provides full-text information and perspectives from thousands of U.S. and international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus, offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and global issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.

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Also known as: Access Engineering

AccessEngineering is an engineering reference and teaching platform that delivers world-renowned, interdisciplinary engineering content integrated with analytical teaching and learning tools. Content includes Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, Schaum's Outlines, Golnaraghi's Automatic Control Systems, Vanek's Energy Systems Engineering, and Davis' Water and Wastewater Engineering.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 books in the humanities and related social sciences. These titles are presented in collaboration with more than 120 publishers and Michigan Publishing. Books in the HEB collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.

A collection of citations and full text from ACM journals, newsletters, magazines, multimedia titles, and conference proceedings. It is a repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers about computing and information technology.

A collection of American Chemical Society's publications on emerging topics and techniques from across the broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.

This database is a fully searchable digitized collection that chronicles the development and advancements in aeronautics and space sciences technology during the last half of the 20th Century. The collection was curated by a U.S. government organization that became part of the CIA as part of a program monitoring media from around the world.

Covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1993 with full or short records for films from 1994 to 2015. Every film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed from the birth of cinema to the present day. New records are created by the AFI editorial team and added each year.

Contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries on topics including private sector development, infrastructure, human development, agriculture, rural development, environment, population, labor, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and household welfare. Provides data from 1960-2006.

Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this collection presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity. Also featured is a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, maps and ephemera.

Also known as: Music Online: African American Music Reference

Brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998, provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Part of the America's Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the world. Titles in Series 1 come from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, while titles in Series 2 come from the American Antiquarian Society, Center for Research Libraries, the Library of Congress, and New York Public Library.

This collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998) and drawn from holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society. It features news, commentary, advertisements, literature, drawings and photographs, more than 170 periodicals from 26 states and includes, but is not limited to, academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, and annual reports. Containing titles from every region of the United States, this collection goes beyond simply offering opinions on issues and events of the day to also capture the voice of African American society and culture.

Searchable and browsable database containing nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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"Essential for understanding Black history and culture, African Diaspora, 1860-Present allows scholars to discover the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent. With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes never-before digitized primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera."--Database description.

African Newspapers, Series 1, 1800-1922. This groundbreaking online collection provides more than 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, African Newspapers, Series 1, offers unparalleled coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922. From repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade, life under colonial rule and the results of the Berlin Conference to the emergence of Black journalism, the Zulu Wars and the rejection of Western imperialism, these newspapers provide a wide range of viewpoints on diverse cultures.

The African Writers Series (AWS) was established in 1962, with the aim of publishing works by black African authors for a general readership in newly independent African nations. It went on to become the principal publishing outlet for new African writing, covering mainly fiction, but also non-fiction, poetry and drama; all the major African authors of the post-independence period were published in the AWS, alongside new editions of classic earlier texts, important political writings, and new works by generations of young authors from the 1960s to the early 21st century

Publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Although the NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) does not contain the text of the materials it cites, thousands of its records are linked to full-text documents online.

Consists of Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), which covers many of the most important design and applied arts journals and annuals published during the 20th century; Arts + architecture ProFiles (AAP), a comprehensive dictionary of design and designers; ReVIEW, which contains digitized, searchable full-text versions of 19th and early 20th century art journals; and Research Sources: Posters, a database of extensive information on poster design.

Every year, AIAA publishes about 5,500 papers from 20 to 30 technical conferences. Covering every aspect of aerospace, they represent the most important - and most complete - source of recent research results and innovative thinking in everything from engineering and science to policy and standards. This is a searchable full text database of all nonclassified papers presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics meetings, from 1963 to the present. Contains author, title, paper number, and conference date and location information for papers presented at AIAA meetings.

The digital edition of the Opera Omnia Alberti Magni was established on the basis of the critical edition published by Albertus-Magnus-Institute, which is funded by Arch-Diocese of Cologne, with Aschendorff Verlag. The Editio Coloniensis, named after the institutional seat of the institute, is the first complete edition of the works of Saint Albert the Great to fulfil the standards of modern editorial policies.

A full-text database of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on contemporary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.