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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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Archivision

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Archivision is a database of over 80,000 high quality, professionally photographed images of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, archaeology, and design searchable within the MDID platform.

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Artstor

The Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024 and will move to the JSTOR website. Saved Artstor Image Groups will move over to JSTOR as well. For more information and how access - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ubc.ca?url=https://www.jstor.org/artstor

Artstor is a digital image library for the arts and sciences with an unparalleled range of images licensed for educational use at UBC.

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Berg Fashion Library

Online portal with cross-searchable access to an expanding range of content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and more.

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British Literary Manuscripts

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

Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.

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British Periodicals

The full text of hundreds of periodical titles from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

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ClinicalKey

Additional features, including a presentation maker, the ability to download PDF versions of ebook chapters, customize patient handouts or save content in a personal profile, are available to users who create a free account.  Click 'Register' at the top right of the ClinicalKey landing page to create a free account.  

ClinicalKey provides access to FirstConsult, top journals, best-selling medical and surgical books, thousands of medical videos, millions of images, and much more content across 12 distinct content types.

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Literary Manuscripts: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.

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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926

Provides digital images for all pages of 22,000 American and British legal treatises published between 1800 through 1926.

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Medieval Family Life

Full-colour images of medieval manuscripts from the Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers. Includes, where available, searchable full-text transcripts from the principal printed editions.

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Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape

Literary manuscripts,letters and other material by Wordsworth, Coleridge, de Quincey and others supplemented by selections from printed books and images of the Lake District created by Gainsborough, Turner and others.

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Shin Nihon Kotenseki Sōgō Dētabēsu 新日本古典籍総合データベース

Constructed by the National Institute of Japanese Literature, this database provides access to high-definition images of pre-modern Japanese manuscripts and publications held separately by multiple institutions in Japan.

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SUR, 1931-1991 [Digital Archive]

Now part of "Archives Unbound". Click "Collections" to find SUR

Digital archive of Latin American literary magazine SUR. Contains images of the complete run of the magazine (including covers, photographs and advertisements) with an interface in both Spanish & English.

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Vogue Archives

Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.

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19th Century British Newspapers

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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 UK Periodicals

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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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American Antiquarian Society historical periodicals collection

Digitized content of more than 7,500 periodicals comprising over seven million pages. Coverage ranges from 1691-1877. Multidisciplinary.

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AnatomyTV

Interactive 3D anatomy tool

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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

With nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language.

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Birds of the World

Comprehensive information (e.g. characteristics, distribution, migration, habitat, food habits, behaviour, sounds) for bird species around the world

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Black Drama: Third Edition

Full text of 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries

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BMJ Best Practice

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BMJ Best Practice offers a step-by-step evidence-based approach to clinical problems throughout the patient journey. Includes access to Comorbidities tool and mobile app.

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Canadian Encyclopedia

Canada's national encyclopedia covering all branches of knowledge. Includes more than 35,000 articles in English and French.

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Caribbean newspapers from the American antiquarian society, 1718-1876

Includes fully-searchable page images from more than 140 newspapers. Predominantly in English but Spanish-, French- and Danish-language titles are also included.

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Clinical Anatomy

Clinical anatomy resource hub created by the UBC Department of Anatomy

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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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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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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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Early Encounters in North America

Documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales & British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

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Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)

EEBO-TCP creates XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books in ProQuest's Early English Books Online.

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Economist Historical Archive

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

 

Includes every issue of The Economist from 1843 to latest year.

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Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920

Primary source material from the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.

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Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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Gale Associated Press Collections Online

Contains materials from AP Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archives, including wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more, with coverage from the turn of the century to the early 2000s.

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Gale NewsVault

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

A range of historical newspaper and periodical collections.

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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine

Basic information & journal articles on consumer health, allied health, medicine, nursing.

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.

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Grand Secretariat Archives 內閣大庫檔案

The database allows keyword searching for responsible official, title, matter and document number. It includes full text images of 310,000 documents dated from the Ming dynasty to the late Qing dynasty.

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Index of Medieval Art

Archive of medieval art, describing and presenting iconographic subjects and images, without geographical limitation, from early apostolic times to the early modern era.

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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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LWW Health Library

NOTE: To print chapters to PDF and access case studies and self assessment quizzes, create a "Free Personal Account" on the LWW Health Library site.

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Selected collections include Pharmacy, Exercise Science, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Hearing, Medical Education, and Internal Medicine. See under More to find links to a specific specialty.

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Permitted uses not available. Please contact e-resources for details.

National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals

User limit: 5 maximum

A group of databases giving access to articles published in Chinese periodicals from 1833 to current, compiled by the Shanghai Library, and Shanghai Tuqing Information Co., Ltd.

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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

A unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada concentrating on the period from 1890 to 1920.

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North American Indian Drama

Full text scripts of over 250 plays by American and Canadian Indigenous playwrights, with brief information about authors, characters, theatrical companies, productions and cast. Searchable by scene.

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North American Indian Thought and Culture

American and Canadian primary source materials. Mainly textual materials from American libraries (books, articles, pamphlets, oral histories). Indexed for place, event and individuals. Also audio, video, images.

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PMN : Plant Management Network

PMN is a collection of electronic applied agricultural science resources, including peer-reviewed journals, a plant science database, field trials, test results & an image collection.

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RISM - Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 (RISM-OPAC)

RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is a comprehensive annotated index to music manuscripts produced after 1600.

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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland archives

Part of the Wiley Digital Archive primary source collection. The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland archive includes a 150,000-image library of ethnographic photographs dating back to the 1860s.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

The Royal Geographical Society digital archive includes over 150,000 maps, charts, atlases, manuscripts, field notes, and more collected by members of the society.

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SEARCH

USDA National Agricultural Library’s main search tool to search AGRICOLA, PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC), together from a single place.

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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

An important portal for slavery and abolition studies.

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Social Explorer

User limit: 5 maximum

Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information.

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Taiwan UDN Newspapers Online / 全文報紙資料庫

Newspaper database of the United Daily News Group, the largest news group in Taiwan

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The Globe and Mail (archive)

Electronic full-page newspaper archive from June 1844 to 2017.

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The New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences' digital archive covers the development of the natural, technological, and biomedical sciences in government and corporation documents, field notes, maps, conference proceedings and more.

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Theatre in Context Collection

The Theatre in Context Collection (formerly North American Theatre Online) is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of Canadian and American Theatre

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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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Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

Women's travel diaries and correspondence from The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

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Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals (Series 3) 1800-1900

Publication details for 73,000 nineteenth-century English periodicals and newspapers.

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Wiley Digital Archives

Digitized archives of academic and scientific societies. UBC Library has purchased 4 archives: Royal College of Physicians, Royal Anthropological Institute, New York Academy of Sciences, and Royal Geographical Society.

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Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000

The resource, which examines perspectives on women's social movements from colonial times to the present, was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of SUNY at Binghamton.

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Academic Search Complete

A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications.

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AccessMedicine

Approximately 100 e-books, including a clinical library (Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and more), Lange Educational Library, and a USMLE self-assessment tool and 50+ clinical cases.

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American History I 1493-1859: from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history

Will ultimately comprise over 50,000 primary source documents supported by a range of secondary resources including chronologies, essays, and video lectures.

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Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Rare and unique documentation of LGBTQ history through fully-searchable newsletters, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other primary sources.

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Art Full Text

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Indexes Art, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning journals. Reproductions of works of art appearing in periodicals are also indexed.

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Asahi Shinbun Cross-Search 朝日新聞クロスサーチ

A newspaper database for Asahi shinbun published from 1879 to present. Also includes articles from Aera, Shūkan Asahi, Chiezō, Asahi shinbun jinbutsu dētabēsu, and Asahi shinbun rekishi shashin ākaibu.

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Building Types Online

Full text architectural database providing case studies and thematic articles from Birkhäuser publications (2002-2016). Includes photos and plans.

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cIRcle

University of British Columbia's digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners.

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cIRcle: Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Creative Arts, 2017+

University of British Columbia's digital portal for creative arts theses (creative writing; film; music; theatre - MFA and MMus only), beginning October 21, 2017 (UBC-V) and March 1, 2018 (UBC-O).

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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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elementsdb

Tools and examples to develop responsible urban plans. Database cases are built from field-measured examples of urban form: parks & open spaces, streets, residential, commercial, civic and industrial buildings.

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Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980

The complete British Foreign Office Files for the period concerning China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947 - 1980

An outstanding resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters

Digitised primary source materials documenting the relationships and interactions between European settlers and indigenous peoples. Includes material from repositories in N. America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

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Functional Neuroanatomy

Neuroanatomy resource hub created by the UBC Department of Anatomy

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Global commodities: trade, exploration and cultural exchange

Primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. Covers fifteen commodities ranging from coffee to wine and spirits.

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Global Plants

Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.

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Grove Art Online

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Grove Art Online is the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering both Western and non-Western art. First published as the Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, Grove Art encompasses all aspects of visual culture.

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Historical Map Society of British Columbia database

Database of all historical maps covering the area of what is now British Columbia up to joining Confederation in 1871.

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JapanKnowledge Lib (in Japanese)

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A Japanese reference database containing dictionaries, encyclopedia, and reference compilations. Also includes JK Books, an e-book platform, with titles such as Gunsho ruijū and Bungei Shunjū Archives.

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Library Stack

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The Library is providing access to Library Stack to you for your convenience. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose to create a temporary account will be stored on servers outside of Canada. When you use this service, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide directly to Library Stack. For more information please review the Library Stack Privacy Policy.

A catalogue and index of ebooks, audio files, videos, apps, and digital documents published within the fields of contemporary art, design, architecture, media studies, cinema, and philosophy.

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Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965

Presents the complete market-research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era's foremost consumer analyst, along with an ad gallery, contextual essays and other material.

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Native American Archives

USA. Original historical documents (18th - 20th century): treaties, ratified treaties, related correspondence, chronological list of treaties. Indexes place, tribe. Photos from 1898 Indian Congress by Frank A. Rinehart.

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OnArchitecture

An audiovisual database featuring the main trends in the field of architecture.

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Oxford Art Online

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Oxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.

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Perseus 4.0

Perseus has a particular focus upon the Greco-Roman world and upon classical Greek and Latin.

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Pidgeon Digital

A collection of historical and recent talks given by some of the world's most important architectural professionals.

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Planet.com Satellite Imagery Archive and Basemaps

User accounts are provided by request. To request an account, please click the hypertext or Connect to Resource (whichever appears above) to fill out a request form. Accounts will be created within 1-3 business days.

Planet.com provides access to a global satellite imagery archive of multi-spectral imagery dating back to 2009.

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Royal College of Physicians archive

The Royal College of Physicians archive, which ranges from the year 1205 through 1980, reflects the history and development of modern Western medicine.

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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

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

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Trade literature and the merchandizing of industry

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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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TRAIL - Technical Reports Archive and Image Library

TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library is a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.

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World's fairs and expositions: visions of tomorrow

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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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