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Dar al-Mandumah provides access to a series of databases with full-text content of Arabic scientific conferences, dissertations, and academic journals from 1921 to present day. Content is mainly in Arabic and English. The databases included are:
• EduSearch (education)
• HumanIndex (humanities)
• IslamicInfo (Islamic studies and Islamic law)
• AraBase (language and literature)
• EcoLink (economic and management studies)
• Mandumah Dissertations
ArabDigest is a source of information and political analysis on current events in the Middle East and North Africa. Arab Digest members have access to articles and podcasts containing a mix of material drawn from a wide range of published sources together with original input from the editor and Arab Digest’s high-level network. Members have the option to sign up to receive the daily newsletter and podcasts direct to their emails or can access them at any time via the website.
Eastern European Newspaper Archive, containing scientific and professional journals, weekly and daily newspapers, encyclopaedias, and thematic book collections.
The ASM Handbooks are a comprehensive series on materials science and engineering, covering topics like metals, alloys, heat treatment, and failure analysis. Each volume focuses on specific properties, processing, performance, and evaluation of metals and nonmetallic engineering materials.
This archive provides a primary source collection relevant to the social, political, legal, and economic history of the highly globalized Shanghai International Settlement as well as the history of modern China from 1836 to 1955. Comprised of nine series of British Foreign Office files from The National Archives in the United Kingdom that are directly related to the history of Shanghai and the International Settlement, plus a small number of files selected from the records of the British Ministry of Labour, Treasury, and War Office, this collection illuminates Shanghai and the International Settlement as the seat of various formative events that shaped the history of modern China as it transformed from an imperial dynasty to a globally engaged republic.
The archive consists of a wide range of archival documents—including but not limited to general correspondence; judges’ and magistrates’ notebooks; registers of companies, births, deaths, and marriages; protocols of treaties; dispatches; reports; maps and plans; and photographs—produced by the Foreign Office, British legation in China, British Consulate in Shanghai, British Supreme Court for China, and so on.
This collection of ephemera (brochures, clothing items, booklets, flyers, etc.) offers important insights into LGBTQ activism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the past decade. It includes 140 items (more than 2,000 pages) of valuable research materials collected by East View in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland and Serbia.
Education Magazine Archive provides access to the digitized backfiles of 26 major magazines and trade publications in the field of education, dating from the early 20th century through to the 21st.
Every issue of each title, from the first through to 2015, is scanned in color, with fully searchable text. All articles are separately indexed to allow for easy searching and navigability.
Included each issue from the first through to 2015 and to scan from cover to cover. Due to the rarity of some of the original print volumes, however, there are small gaps (issues or pages) in the runs of some publications.
Published in three parts, this collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952, shedding light on Anglo-Japanese ties in a time of shifting alliances. This second module covers the Occupation period (1946-1952). Following surrender at the end of the Second World War, Japan was occupied by Allied Powers for the first time in its history. The files for this period offer a British perspective on the creation of a democratic state in Japan and the enforcement of a new constitution. They include key British communications and reports covering topics such as war crime trials, reparations, and Japan’s economic recovery. They conclude in 1952, the year the Treaty of San Francisco normalised Anglo-Japanese relations and the first post-war British Ambassador to Japan, Esler Dening, was appointed. The majority of documents in this section are sourced from FO 371, with a smaller number from FO 262.
This resource requires you to register before use using your *.ox.ac.uk email address. Please do not use your Oxford SSO username or password to register.
Klassiki is a video-on-demand platform which is dedicated exclusively to cinema from Eastern Europe – including Ukraine, Russia, and the Baltics – the Caucasus and Central Asia. Klassiki features a library of over 100 titles, spanning silent cinema to the 2020s, a film Pick of the Week feature, and a Journal area of related content including interviews, essays and national cinema overviews. A potentially useful resource to students of film, visual culture and modern languages.
The Letopisi Digital Archive, which complements the Eastview Russian National Bibliography to which we already partially subscribe, gives us access to Soviet/Russian book, journal and magazine records going back to the years after the revolution and up to the 1990s and it now has searching for all three. There is a caveat: the search is not perfect because it relies on the imperfect OCR but it is better than nothing. The Bodleian holds paper copies of these indexes but these are incomplete and notoriously difficult to consult being printed on fragile and brittle paper. As one would expect from a National Bibliography all subjects are covered and coverage extends to all republics of the former Soviet Union.
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LexiQamus is an aggregator for all major dictionaries of Ottoman Turkish matching the given restrictions. With LexiQamus, you can find a word with missing or unclear letters almost immediately, a task that would have been almost impossible with a regular dictionary. (https://www.lexiqamus.com/en)
Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution; c.1500-1929
Mexico in History comprises primary sources covering a broad range of Mexican history, from Spanish contact with Indigenous communities, through colonial rule, Independence, and the National and Reforma periods, and the onset of the Revolution. Students and researchers can explore hundreds of years of Mexico’s history through social, religious, and political change. The archival materials are predominantly in Spanish as well as including Indigenous languages, with translated metadata. The collection is drawn from The Bancroft Library's Latina Americana Collection and includes rare manuscripts and visual materials.
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Le Monde is one of the newspapers of record for France. The newspaper website is available in French and English versions, which can be selected at the top of the page.
Please note: Mac users - If you experience an issue accessing full text content, please click on the "Text" icon located in the bottom right.
Noor Digital Library (Noorlib) is a full-text e-book database administered by the Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (CRCIS) in Iran. Noor Digital Library contains more than 88000 digitised book volumes from within the humanities, mostly in Arabic and Persian, with a particular focus on Islamic Studies.
Noormags is a journal database administered by the Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (CRCIS) in Iran. Noormags offers digitized versions of specialized journals concerning Islamic studies, social sciences and the humanities. The extensive text-image database has become one of the most important databases for academic texts in Persian, also featuring content in Arabic and English.
Source: U.S. National Archives
Date Range: 1945-1959
This archive traces the period that saw the end of the British mandate in Palestine. Documents address the role of the Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations and that of the United States in the creation of the state of Israel. Included here are the Palestine Reference files of Dean Rusk and Robert McClintock, as well as documents from the Mission of the United States in Tel-Aviv. The years 1955-1959 contain instructions and correspondences of the U.S. Department of State. Most of the State Department’s internal documentation as well as correspondence between the State Department and other federal departments and agencies, in addition to documents from private individuals and organizations, are included in the central files. Documents types comprise official and unofficial correspondence, inquiries, memoranda, situation reports and studies, special reports, and telegrams. The files offer insight into a range of subjects including the politics, laws, military, economy, industry, natural resources, public works, and media of Palestine and Israel. The documents in this collection are sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State. The records are under the jurisdiction of the Legislative and Diplomatic Branch of the Civil Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
The Complete Bioscience Collection provides students with access to around 100 bioscience titles, facilitating a rounded and complete study of undergraduate bioscience.
The Complete Chemistry Collection encourages broader reading, providing access to all the textbooks students need to engage with course content at a deeper level and succeed in their undergraduate studies.
Access to 1,000 e-books in Behavioural Science and Psychology published by Springer Nature from 2021 to 2024. This will include new publications as they come out during 2024. Individual e-books will be listed in SOLO.
At the end of the access period, we will select books based on appearance on reading lists and heavy use during the period. These selections will be added permanently to the e-book collection of the Bodleian Libraries.
Access to over 2,000 ebooks in Earth and Environmental Sciences published by Springer Nature from 2021 to 2024. This collection covers topics relevant to Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Geography, Environmental Sciences, and more. This will include new publications as they come out during 2024. Individual e-books are listed in SOLO.
At the end of the access period, we will select books based on appearance on reading lists and heavy use during the period. These selections will be added permanently to the e-book collection of the Bodleian Libraries.
Access to over 1,700 ebooks in Mathematics and Statistics published by Springer Nature from 2021 to 2024. This will include new publications as they come out during 2024. Individual e-books are listed in SOLO.
At the end of the access period, we will select books based on appearance on reading lists and heavy use during the period. These selections will be added permanently to the e-book collection of the Bodleian Libraries.
Access to over 2,000 e-books in Politics and International Relations published by Springer Nature from 2021 to 2024. This will include new publications as they come out during 2024. Individual e-books will be listed in SOLO.
At the end of the access period, we will select books based on appearance on reading lists and heavy use during the period. These selections will be added permanently to the e-book collection of the Bodleian Libraries.
