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National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile

The database National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933–1945 starts the series of 20th century German history online. The database provides fundamental primary sources on the following topics:

• National Socialist state and policy, ideology and propaganda
• National Socialist justice and legislation
• History of the NSDAP
• Holocaust
• Resistance and persecution in the “Third Reich”
• Annihilation and expulsion
• Deportation and exile

This database represents the first online research centre for extensive academic studies of the “Third Reich” with unique collections of primary sources including:

• Administration files and correspondence from the highest authorities of the “Third Reich”, especially from the party chancellery of the NSDAP
• Situation and status reports of the secret state police authorities from the Reich and the annexed and occupied territories
• Indictments and judgements from NS courts at which thousands of cases of high treason against the opponents of the regime were heard
• Adolf Hitler’s speeches, writings and orders from 1925 to 1945
• Joseph Goebbels’ diaries from 1923 to 1945
• Expatriation and deportation lists

This database can be searched in both English and German.

Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more.

This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 3,100 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years.

Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe

Based in Luxembourg, the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) is an interdisciplinary research and documentation centre dedicated to the European integration process.

Its mission is to create, share and valorise knowledge in an innovative digital environment.  As such, the CVCE’s digital collections contain a wide range of previously unpublished documents, oral accounts, contemporary film footage, analytical material and scholarly articles that document the European integration process.

America: History & Life

America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.

America: History and Life also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

In cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, EBSCO Publishing created European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750, a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. The database contains more than 32,000 records, and covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

The authoritative bibliography is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide, and a valuable index for libraries, researchers and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. It was co-developed by John Alden and the Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library, Dennis Landis. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a centre for advanced research in history and the humanities.

Credo Reference History

Credo Reference provides authoritative content that covers every major subject – from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. The award-winning titles in Credo Reference are from over eighty of the world’s leading academic publishers. Proposed content undergoes a highly-selective process before being chosen for the Credo platform and is selected from a range of reference types – including general and subject encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more. Credo’s collections are continuously updated to reflect the most relevant, up-to-date content.

Credo Reference’s technology enhances the content by adding millions of cross-reference links – related entries – that cut across topics, titles and publishers to deliver accurate, contextual results from across the entire collection. The Concept Map, a data visualization tool, is ideal for visual learners for brainstorming and the discovery of related content.

Some of the titles provided in Credo Reference’s History Collection are:

• The 9/11 Encyclopaedia
• Chambers Dictionary of World History
• Dictionary of British History
• A Guide to the Ancient World
• Who Was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle

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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online offers a liberal and scholarly overview of the whole sphere of economic thought.  It is a dynamic resource tailored for researchers in economics.  The dictionary also offers non-economists the opportunity to find more information on issues that impact on them or to enhance their knowledge of a particular subject area from an economic perspective. Historians, for example, will find the biographies of key figures particularly interesting, and people in the field of international relations will find the economic look at terrorism, world trade and foreign aid an excellent addition to current literature.

The dictionary is a dynamic resource which:

• offers excellent search and browse facilities, both full text and advanced;
• contains hyper-linked cross-references within articles, making it an indispensable tool for researchers and students;
• features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites, sources of further information and bibliographical citations;
• enables users to bookmark searches and articles, along with their own notes, in My Dictionary, or add links to articles on social bookmarking sites;

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EconLit

As the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature, EconLit —the American Economic Association’s electronic database—adheres to the high-quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides links to articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

EconLit indexes six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. These sources bring the total records available on the database to more than one million.

OECD iLibrary

As one of the most comprehensive online resources on the world economy, society, education and environment, OECD iLibrary is a powerful tool for people working at academic institutions, in the private sector and at governmental or non-governmental organisations.

OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, The International Energy Agency (IEA), The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), The OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and The International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 – over 1 200 journal issues, 3 300 working papers, 2 900 multi-lingual summaries, 7 700 e-book titles, 16 000 tables and graphs, 25 000 chapters and articles, and 480 complete databases with more than 4.5 billion data points.

Emerald Management Plus

Emerald Management Plus offers a growing collection of high quality, peer reviewed articles from over 230 online business and management journals, spanning 24 subject areas. New titles in the field of management are automatically available as soon as they are published.

In the Economics arena, Emerald Management Plus provides full-text access to the following journals:

Agricultural Finance Review

• China Agricultural Economic Review
• Humanomics
• Indian Growth and Development Review
• International Journal of Development Issues
• International Journal of Manpower
• International Journal of Social Economics
• Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies
• Journal of Economic Studies
• Journal of Financial Economic Policy

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Francis

The FRANCIS database is created by the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France and is an invaluable resource for research libraries. FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. Its broad subject areas and international scope make it an ideal stand-alone social science database, as well as a suitable complement for more specialised databases. FRANCIS is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology. The database contains approximately 2 million records, with abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers and other documents.

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Modern Language Association International Bibliography

The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present from all over the world. It includes the MLA Thesaurus or Subject Guide providing the user with a means to obtain highly precise results, to discover related terms on which to search, and to develop ideas for refining or expanding your research.

The MLA International Bibliography also includes the MLA’s Directory of Periodicals, which offers detailed information on more than 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the Bibliography. The entries include editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

JSTOR Language & Linguistics

JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.

The 58 titles in the JSTOR Language & Linguistics Collection span the literary cultures of many different countries, containing articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, the collection includes PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association of America, and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.

Credo Reference Language

Credo Reference provides authoritative content that covers every major subject – from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. The award-winning titles in Credo Reference are from over eighty of the world’s leading academic publishers. Proposed content undergoes a highly-selective process before being chosen for the Credo platform and is selected from a range of reference types – including general and subject encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more. Credo’s collections are continuously updated to reflect the most relevant, up-to-date content.

Credo Reference’s technology enhances the content by adding millions of cross-reference links – related entries – that cut across topics, titles and publishers to deliver accurate, contextual results from across the entire collection. The Concept Map, a data visualization tool, is ideal for visual learners for brainstorming and the discovery of related content.

Some of the titles provided in Credo Reference’s Language Collection are:

• Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
• Concise Encyclopaedia of Sociolinguistics
• Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
• Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
• Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
• Word Origins

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ACM Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library provides access to the full text of articles from journals, newsletters and conference proceedings published by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. It also has bibliographic citations from other major publishers in computing although not all of these will be available in full-text.

The ACM Digital Library can be searched in two different ways:

1. Click here to connect to the ACM Digital Library and search using its interface. A useful video tutorial produced by the Cannavino Library in New York explains how to use the interface.
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IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore is a gateway to the most vital information in the computing and engineering industry with access to journal articles, conference proceedings and standards helping you to advance in computer hardware and software innovation.  Here is just a sampling of IEEE content:

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• IEEE Internet Computing Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
• IEEE Design and Test of Computers Magazine
• IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine
• IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

Standards

• 1364-2006: IEEE Standard for Verilog Hardware Description Language
• 1076-2008: IEEE Standard for VHDL Language Reference Manual
• 830-1998: IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications
• 829-1998: IEEE Standard for Software Test Documentation

Conference Proceedings

• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• IEEE Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
• IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering
• International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

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Computers and Applied Sciences Complete

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete (CASC) covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges & research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,200 academic journals, professional publications with full text available for more than 1,000 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context.

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Springer e-Books

The series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) from Springer, has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching – quickly, informally, and at a high level.

All volumes are published simultaneously in printed version and electronically, most of them in time for conferences, and selected titles in the print library have also been added to the digital library. The LNCS digital library holds over 35,000 papers written by over 50,000 individual scientists and professionals.

Also available is access to the full Springer e-book collection from 2005 to present day.

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Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (AKL)

The database Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online is the world’s most contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. It contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1 million artists.

The database offers biographies in full text from A to Z. The greatly extended scope is due to the incorporation of the renowned Thieme-Becker/Vollmer encyclopaedia, the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon and the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen into the database. The number of full-text biographies doubled, as did the number of articles appearing not only in German but also in the original language.

The database now offers articles “online first”. This means that the articles are published online immediately, often long before they appear in print. Several thousand art history sources are evaluated on an ongoing basis for the database, and the content is continually updated and expanded.

ARTbibliographies Modern

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.

ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artist’s books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway users can access—and simultaneously cross-search—an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

Oxford Art Online provides complete access to Grove Art Online, the foremost scholarly art encyclopaedia, covering both Western and non-Western art. The content of Grove Art encompasses all aspects of visual culture. It features articles about topics as varied as Fauvism and Frida Kahlo, bibliographies for further research, and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations. Grove Art is a living resource, with scholars and specialists from around the world continually reviewing and updating existing content and contributing new articles. In addition to the vast number of entries on the visual arts, Grove Art features a host of exceptional learning resources that organize the content for use in art and art history classrooms, making Grove Art an essential source for scholars and students alike.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences

JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.

The 185 titles in the JSTOR Art & Art History Collection span the artistic cultures of many different countries as well as time periods.  A sampling of titles includes:

• American Art Journal
• Archives of Asian Art
• Berliner Museen
• Fine Arts Journal
• Kunst des Orients
• Modern Art

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PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

PsycARTICLES is recognized worldwide as a leading full text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines. Featuring a continuously growing number of significant and highly regarded periodicals, PsycARTICLES is an unmatched resource for information in behavioural science.

PsycARTICLES can be accessed from within the National Library of Luxembourg, the University of Luxembourg, the Centre de Recherche Gabriel Lippmann, the Centre de Recherche Henri Tudor and the Centre de Recherche Santé.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO is an expansive abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioural sciences and mental health, making it an ideal discovery and linking tool for scholarly research in a host of disciplines.

PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.

PsycINFO can be accessed from within the National Library of Luxembourg, the University of Luxembourg, the Centre de Recherche Gabriel Lippmann, the Centre de Recherche Henri Tudor and the Centre de Recherche Santé.

Oxford University Press Journals

Oxford Journals is a division of Oxford University Press, which is a department of Oxford University. Oxford Journals publishes well over 230 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.

Their mission, as part of the University, is to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience.

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Francis

The FRANCIS database is created by the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France and is an invaluable resource for research libraries. FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. Its broad subject areas and international scope make it an ideal stand-alone social science database, as well as a suitable complement for more specialised databases. FRANCIS is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology. The database contains approximately 2 million records, with abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers and other documents.

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