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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
User-friendly, powerful cloud-based mapping software for creating web maps and performing analysis. Includes access to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and premium content, including demographic, environmental, and imagery data.
This resource consists of British intelligence files that were gathered on Afghanistan in the context of the British rivalry with the Russian Empire in the Great Game, and also to control and govern the local Pashtun tribes in British territories.
This collection documents British attempts to impose imperial order on the Pashtun tribal lands that made up the border between Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province of British India.
Requires sign in with CalNet. Dewey provides licensed access to datasets provided by corporate partners in the following subject areas: urban planning and real estate, behavioral economics and public policy, marketing and management, and corporate finance
From Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Cultures covers the recent history of the Jews from 1750 until the 1950s.
The first cohesive and discreet reference work on the Jews of Muslim lands, particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.
The first comprehensive reference work devoted to the Bible and its reception, EBR is an indispensable reference source not only for theology and religious studies, but also for the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the social sciences. From the origins and development of the Bible in the canons of Judaism and Christianity, to the history of biblical interpretation and reception (in Christianity and Judaism, as well as in Islam and other non-Western religious traditions), the Encyclopedia records how biblical texts have been read, interpreted, and integrated into thought, science, and culture throughout the centuries.
A searchable index holding bibliographic information on European academic journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities. 2004 - current. At the moment more than 12,200 journals are included and 10 million articles are available through ERIH PLUS powered by Dimensions.
Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) monitored activities of groups and individuals trying to undermine the British colonial government in India. Declassified in 1997, these files are a primary source on revolutionary movements in British India.
MGG Online builds on the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG, 1994–2008), offering new and substantially updated content as well as continuous updates, revisions, and additions.
Muteferriqa consists of two main collections: periodicals and books. Together they offer a glimpse into the world as seen in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Provides full text access to approximately 1,500 periodicals, and more than 30,000 books. Both collections are printed Ottoman Turkish texts, and feature other languages including Turkish, French, English, Italian, Armenian and Kurdish. In addition, it provides access to 650,000 visuals.
My China Roots is a family history database for the Chinese diaspora that includes millions of searchable ancestors in America and Southeast Asia.
Complete online access to the editions, interpretations and reference works on Nietzsche, including authoritative editions of the works and the letters, and all De Gruyter publications on Nietzsche.
Oxford reference spans 25 subject areas with 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
offers a range of primary sources on the history of Mandatory Palestine. Gives access to the principal memoranda, statements and reports published during the time of the British Mandate, from 1917 to the end of the Mandate in 1948.
Offers source materials on the legal position of the Israeli-Occupied Territories until 1984. Additional sources, such as the Ottoman laws and the Palestine Gazette, have been added to offer a wider historical context.
Pharos provides hazard, use, and exposure information on chemicals and building products. NOTE: You must first register for an account using the link here and your Berkeley email address.
Published six times per month from February–July 1930, this illustrative journal provides critical insights into the Soviet Union’s brief but notable experiment with a five-day workweek, comprising four workdays followed by a day of rest.
The primary sources in Power to the People presents social history that highlights equity, diversity, and inclusion. The materials document issues of social justice and how attitudes about civil rights, gender equality, the environment, the government, and many of society's institutions shifted dramatically to include citizen involvement, public welfare, and the planet's health in the twentieth century. The archive presents a social history that highlights equity, diversity, and inclusion in materials created by the last generations that depended on primarily print communication, offering a unique reflection of the time before the growth of the internet and social media.
Launched in 2016, RetroNews, the press website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, offers access to more than 2,000 newspaper titles published between 1631 and 1954. Specializing in French press archives, RetroNews complements the resources available on Gallica. It serves as both a digital archive consultation space, a research tool, and a media platform that draws on historical press archives to shed light on current events.
SUR, was a major twentieth-century Latin American literary magazine. The collection features over 50,000 pages, covers, ads, a corrected 6,300-entry index, manuscripts from its debut, and unpublished letters by Victoria Ocampo. Founded in 1931 by Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), SUR was a highly influential journal in Latin America and Europe. It featured works by major literary, philosophical, and artistic figures such as Le Corbusier, Lacan, Sartre, Woolf, Borges, Cortázar, Silvina Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. SUR fostered cultural exchange by translating works, introducing Latin Americans to European writers, and vice versa. Ocampo's editorial choices and commentary promoted Argentine Liberalism amidst challenges like reactionary regimes, military rule, and economic turmoil, shaping intellectual discourse.
Tabloids recorded what broadsheet newspapers missed, and spoke what cannot be expressed by broadsheet newspapers. This resource would be a great complement of regular news resources published in the same time period. It would also provide much needed primary sources to academic programs in the area of history/art history, sociology, cultural/popular cultural studies, journalism studies and film studies.
Established in 1924 in Ashgabat, Turkmenskaia iskra (The Turkmen Spark), named after Lenin’s newspaper Iskra, was a Russian-language publication affiliated with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) is a legal research platform that provides access to statutes, cases, administrative agency materials, as well as treatises, reporters, newsletters, and blogs.
