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DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index

Articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. Information on designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc.

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Dacheng old periodical full-text database/ 大成老旧刊全文数据库

Historical Chinese-language periodicals published in China (1844-1949), plus 3 newspaper databases in the same time period: Shen Bao, Shuntian Shi Bao and Shanghai Evening Post

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DACHS (Digital Archive for Chinese Studies)

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Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS) is a project founded at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

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Dai Kan-Wa Jiten 大漢和辞典

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Dai Kanwa Jiten is Japan's largest Chinese-Japanese character dictionary containing 50,000 kanji entries and 530,000 compounds.

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Daily Mail historical archive

Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE.

A pioneering example of the mass circulation British popular press, the Daily Mail was founded in 1896 by the future Lord Northcliffe.

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DaSinD online: Datenbank Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland 1945 ff.

Database of post-1945 Women Writers in Germany, indexing works of contemporary female German writers and translators, with entries for over 176,000 monographs, 33,000 works in collections, and nearly 9,000 radio dramas.

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Data Planet

The largest repository of standardized and structured statistical data

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Database for the History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements 1949-

Includes 4 collections: Cultural Revolution, Anti-Rightist Campaign, Great Leap Forward -- Great Famine Database, 1958-1962, Political Campaigns in the 1950s:(1949-1956)

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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)

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The collection of reviews of reviews provides critical assessments of systematic reviews. It was produced by the UK National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) between 1994 and March 2015.

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Database of Latin Dictionaries

Comprises three kinds of dictionaries: those that assist translation from Latin into modern languages, those that provide semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words, and historical Latin dictionaries.

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Database of Religious History

The DRH is one of the initiatives of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium, based at UBC. It continues as an independent academic initiative, but involving worldwide partners and collaborators..

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Datastream

Please Note:  this resource has moved from Datastream Advance platform to Refinitiv Workspace platform.  Please follow instructions on the Refinitiv Workspace information page on how to request an individual account.

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Datastream is licensed for academic purposes only. Users cannot use this product for commercial purposes.

Individual account required. Accounts expire after 30 days. You may re-apply after 30 days as long as you are a current UBC student, faculty or staff.

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International economic, company and financial data, that can be downloaded for analysis, display and print

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DBpia (Korean Database)

Over 2 million full-text articles from more than 2,000 scholarly journals.

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De Gruyter ebook collections

Ebook collections on the de Gruyter platform for titles on a variety of university presses.

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Defining gender

110 source documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century supported by introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.

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Dental Trauma Guide

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The site offers treatment guidelines for dental trauma in primary and permanent teeth.

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Detail Inspiration

Over 3,700 architecture and building projects from the last 50 years of Detail available for pdf download.

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Diao Long Database of Chinese and Japanese Ancient Books / 雕龙-中日古籍全文检索数据库

The database claims to be one of the most comprehensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ancient books, so far has included over 20,000 titles.

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Dictionary of American Regional English

American regional vocabulary, from Adam’s housecat to Zydeco.This digital version is an interactive, multimedia tool that will greatly benefit both scholarly inquiry and general intellectual curiosity.

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Dictionary of Canadian biography

The definitive Canadian biographical dictionary. Includes entries for non-Canadians who played a significant role in the history of the country.

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Dictionary of Canadianisms on historical principles (second edition)

An historical dictionary that shows changes in the meanings of words over time. Includes words that have become outdated or obsolete and others that are now considered offensive or derogatory. These are clearly marked.

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Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources Online

A comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin and the first ever to focus on British Medieval Latin. Based on the close reading of thousands of Medieval Latin texts, both literary and documentary.

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Dictionary of Old English Corpus

The Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text.

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Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

Contains terms from Chinese, Japanese and Korean Buddhism. The dictionary is fully searchable, and the site also includes browsable indices, presentations about the dictionary, and details of contributors.

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Digital Himalaya

The Digital Himalaya project is designed as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region.

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Digital National Security Archive

The DNSA is the most comprehensive collection of primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 94,000 declassified documents - more than 650,000 pages - are included.

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Digitalia Hispanica

Database of ebooks in Spanish from renowned publishers in Spain and Latin America

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Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement

Primary source collection of newspapers, videos, texts and images that document the rise of a social movement around disability history and disability studies.

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DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Independent database of over 17,000 open access journals

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Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology On-line

For more than forty years, the American Musicological Society has sponsored the publication of listings of dissertations in the field of musicology.

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Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal (DTES RAP)

The Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal (DTES RAP) is an easy-to-use resource intended to improve access to academic and community-generated research related to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

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DRAM

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DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing educational communities with on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.

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Drama Online

Includes Core Collection, Shakespeare's Globe on Screen, Playwrights Canada Press, Royal Shakespeare Company Live, Critical Studies & Performance Practice, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, and National Theatre Collections

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Duxiu Knowledge Search Database 读秀中文学术搜索

Chinese bibliographic search engine

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Dyabola

DYABOLA provides citations to books, articles, and essays on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology

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DynaMed

DynaMed is the next-generation clinical reference tool for fast, easy access to point-of-care decision support. A point-of-care reference tool containing clinically-oriented summaries for 3,200+ topics.

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