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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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Unknown Learning Management System? Unknown Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Ask Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database 中国知网 Academic electronic materials from China, updated daily more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. If seeing issues with one browser, try a different browser. Over 2000 streamed feature films including classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? No Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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: Click on "Settings" and then "Library Links" 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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Ask Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. Kanopy provides online video streaming to more than 26,000 titles. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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 more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Ask Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Ask Tell me more »
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 more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Ask Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Unknown Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Ask Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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). more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Ask Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Wall Street Journal A well read American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? No Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
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. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »

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