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19th Century British Newspapers

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

National, regional and local British newspapers from the holdings of the British Library. Includes the full text of 71 newspapers, totalling over 3 million pages.

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19th Century U.S. Newspapers

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

Digitized images of over 1.7 million pages from nineteenth-century American newspapers.

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19th Century UK Periodicals

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

Subjects covered include women, children, leisure and sport, humour, anthropology, travel, missionaries. colonies. Totals over 2.1 million digitized page images.

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BrowZine

BrowZine can be accessed online or via an app. It organizes articles found in our ejournals, uniting them into journals, then arranging these journals on a virtual newsstand for browsing.

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Chatham House online archive

UBC Students, Staff & Faculty - click on "Login via your home Institution".

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

The publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Includes analysis and research originating in the Institute as well as the transcripts of debates and speeches it sponsored.

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China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database 中国知网

Academic electronic materials from China, updated daily

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Criterion On Demand

Criterion-on-Demand uses DRM that may cause issues by blocking access (e.g. when sharing your screen). Currently older versions of the Firefox browser (on UBC computers) are displaying error messages.

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Over 2000 streamed feature films including classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.

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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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Financial Times Historical Archive

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

 

A fully-searchable facsimile edition of the FT running to over 700,000 pages.

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Google Scholar

For a seamless experience, on the Library Homepage Login to OpenAthens.

On the Google Scholar page, Sign In if you have a GMail account.

After you sign in:

  1. Click on "Settings" and then "Library Links"
  2. Search for   UBC   then select and Save the UBC eLInk results

If you do not have a GMail account, just go to the Google Scholar menu, select "Settings" and follow through as above.

In your search results, click on UBC eLink to access licensed resources.

A simple way to search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities.

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HathiTrust

On the HathiTrust site, click the "LOG IN" button, find "University of British Columbia", click "Continue", then log-in with your CWL.

Temporary additional access to many of UBC Library's Print titles, when available in Hathitrust, is made possible through the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). These titles are marked "Temporary Access".

 

HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository.

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Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

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

The world’s first fully-illustrated weekly newspaper presented in a fully-searchable digital format.

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Indigenous peoples North America

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

Includes manuscript material, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, and images of artwork drawn from a variety of repositories in the United States and Canada.

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Kanopy

Use the RED log-in button (LOG IN TO UBC) not the black one (Log In).

PLEASE READ: UBC access to Kanopy videos is currently being mediated by UBC Library staff. Only videos for course use requested by faculty/instructors will be activated at this time. Requests for access to videos can be sent to koerner.reserve@ubc.ca.

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Kanopy provides online video streaming to more than 26,000 titles.

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Liberty magazine historical archive

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

Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody was founded in 1924 during an era when the illustrated magazine was the most important form of mass entertainment.

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Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991

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

The complete 62-year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991

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Maclean's magazine archive, 1905-2015.

110 years of the leading Canadian news and general interest magazine. Initially known as The Business Magazine, then The Busy Man’s Magazine, it became Maclean's in 1911.

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MLA Handbook Plus

Digital version of the 9th Edition of the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Handbook -- a complete resource for documenting/citing sources using MLA's citation style.

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Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. UBC faculty looking to create a playlist to share with students, please contact Kevin Madill, UBC Music Librarian - kevin.madill@ubc.ca

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nkoda - Digital Sheet Music Library

nkoda is a digital sheet music subscription service that can be accessed via app on your phone, tablet or desktop.

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Picture Post Historical Archive

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

Complete, fully-text searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957 that defined the style of photojournalism in the 20th century.

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Punch historical archive

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

The celebrated British humorous periodical whose contributors ranged from Thackery to Wodehouse.

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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

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

A collection of pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and other published material relating to the Americas.

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Slavery & anti-slavery: a transnational archive

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

Includes 5.4 million cross-searchable pages: 12,052 books, 170 serials, 71 manuscript collections, 377 US supreme court records and briefs, and 194 reference articles from scholarly encyclopedias.

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Smithsonian and Air & space magazines

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

Two popular and highly-regarded magazines from the Smithsonian institution.

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State Papers online [U.K.]

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

Consists predominately of the papers of the Secretaries of State now housed in the National Archives at Kew. Covers 1509-1782.

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Sunday Times digital archive

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

The Sunday Times (not related to the Times newspaper) began publication in 1822. It is is said to have been the first weekly to serialize a novel.

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Times Digital Archive

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

An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times (London).

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Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

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

Contains images of every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902-2013. Fully-searchable.

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Trade literature and the merchandizing of industry

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

Brings together catalogs, pamphlets, advertising materials, and other ephemera relating to American industrial development in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

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U.S. Declassified Documents

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

Provides online access to more than 500,000 pages of previously classified US government documents.

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Wall Street Journal

A well read American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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World's fairs and expositions: visions of tomorrow

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

Documents the rise of world's fairs as symbols of cultural and technological progress beginning with London's Great Exhibition of 1851.

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