Academic Video Online

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February 2015 Database of the Month


Academic Video Online: Premium 
 
is Alexander Street’s most comprehensive video subscription, an ever-growing resource that comprises content from 39 full video collections and 8 bonus discipline clusters.

Titles in every collection and cluster within Academic Video Online: Premium have been carefully selected to meet departmental needs and include documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. You’ll find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable. Click here for  a complete list of collections.

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Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876

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April 2014 Database of the Month

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 . Created in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society—one of the world’s largest and most important newspaper repositories—this collection provides students and scholars with easy access to more than 150 years of Caribbean and Atlantic history, cultures and daily life. Featuring more than 140 newspapers from 22 islands, this resource chronicles the region’s evolution across two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other news items. Continue reading

ICPSR – Inter-University Consortium For Political And Social Science

March 2013 Database of the Month

Inter-University Consortium For Political And Social Science (ICPSR) acquires, preserves, enhances, and distributes original social science research data for research and instruction.

ICPSR data span many disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology, history, education, demography, gerontology, international relations, public health, economics, and psychology.
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The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 – May Database of the Month

The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of 200 years of The Times (London), one of the most highly regarded resources for the 19th – 20th-century history. The entire newspaper from 1785 to 1985 is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.  This archive is a good resource for teachers, students and researchers of  Irish history, politics, social and cultural history, law, genealogy and criminology. Continue reading

Eighteenth Century Collections Online Upgrades

Discover Eighteenth Century Collections Online and get up close and personal with history. You can access images of books published between 1701 and 1800, check out accounts of voyages and discoveries, browse historical biographies and memoirs, or search genealogical collections, gazetteers, works on church antiquities and tourist guides of Britain.

Already familiar with Eighteenth Century Collections Online?  Check out the new look and look for these added features:

  • Research Guide section for undergraduates with contextual essays and chronology
  • Image Gallery
  • Most Popular Searches and Key Documents sections
  • Citation generator and export functionality
  • Expanded download and e-mail features
  • Keyword in Context feature from results list

Connect here to access Eighteenth Century Collections Online off campus.