Alumni Databases A - L
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Database | Subject | Description |
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American Consumer Culture: Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 |
Business, Sociology, History, Psychology |
An index of film scripts to provide access to many previously unpublished screenplays. |
Film Studies |
An index of film scripts providing access to many previously unpublished screenplays. |
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History, First Nations Studies |
This resource provides an insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. |
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History, First Nations Studies |
Consisting of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources of early pioneers, explorers, and hunters, including the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon. |
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Theatre |
Full text plays written from the mid-1800s to the present from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. |
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Black Studies, Political Science, History, Music, Literature, Art |
Monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. |
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Women’s Studies, History, Genealogy |
Spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. |
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Multi-disciplinary |
A collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. |
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Multi-disciplinary |
Leading, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. |
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Multi-disciplinary |
Contains English and French e-book titles, including major Canadian university presses, among them the University of Toronto Press, the UBC Press, Les Presses de l'Université du Québec, and McGill-Queen's University Press |
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Science |
A Canadian Science Publishing flagship suite of award-winning international publications. The journals cover a broad range of scientific disciplines. |
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History |
This database explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China, and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. |
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History |
The collection contains a range of materials documenting western interaction with China. |
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Music |
Contains important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis. |
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History |
This database contains important papers generated by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices relating to Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. |
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Sociology, Gender Studies |
Original manuscript and printed material from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
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Humanities, Social Sciences |
The e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections provide online access to Duke University Press journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
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History |
Books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European settlers to the early 20th Century. |
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment |
Anthropology, First Nations Studies, History |
Features pages of letters diaries memoires and accounts for early encounters. |
History |
Rare journals printed between c1680 and 1816, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political, and literary life. |
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History |
Contains images of original manuscripts and printed material. |
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Multi-disciplinary |
Access to Canadian peer-reviewed journals, published mainly in French. Includes a few bilingual and English titles. |
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Theoretical and Applied Mathematics |
A platform of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, monographs, and conference proceedings in the fields of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. |
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History, Sociology, Women’s Studies |
This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history. It addressed 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature. |
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History |
This portal presents primary source documents on the personal experiences of men and women, recruitment, and the development and the various forms of propaganda. The documents feature in self-contained modules, Personal Experiences, Propaganda and Recruitment, and Visual Perspectives and Narratives. |
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Foreign Office Files for China, |
History, Political Science |
The documents combine a variety of sources on developments relating to China during this time period. |
Business, History |
This resource provides access to a wide range of material associated with the history of 15 commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, wine and spirits. The material also covers other commodities including beef, cheese, coal, corn, fish, fruits, machinery, rice, silk, and wool. |
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Multi-disciplinary |
Global Resource Network is a collaborative initiative of CRL and higher academic research institutions to support international studies. |
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History |
The collection is particularly relevant to historians studying: the British Indian Empire; government, administration and politics, the relationship between Britain and the British Indian Empire, the relationship between the British Indian Empire and Indian Princely States. |
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Philosophy, Humanities |
A collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy. It includes significant collections in the history of political thought and theory, religious studies, education, German studies, sociology, the history and philosophy of science, economics, and classics. |
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History, Judaica, Ethnic Studies |
A resource for scholars and students interested in understanding and exploring the history of Jewish communities in the United States of America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today. |
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Literary Manuscripts Victorian manuscripts (Berg) from the Mew York Public Library 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. |
Literature |
Authors include: Matthew Arnold, the Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad. Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray. |
History, Sociology |
Full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps, and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London (England); Material includes: Fast literature, Penny fiction, Street Views, Chapbooks, Street Cries, Swell's guides to London prostitution, Tourist guides, and the manuscripts of George Gissing. |