The key source for searching scholarly journal literature published in mainland China, with many full-text articles dating back as early as 1915.
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China from Empire to Republic is a series of digital archive collections sourced from preeminent libraries and archives across the world, including the Second Historical Archives of China and the British Library. The series covers a period of about 180 years (1800s to 1980s) when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic. Consisting of monographs, manuscripts, periodicals, correspondence and letters, historical photos, ephemera, and other kinds of historical documents, these collections provide excellent primary source materials for the understanding and research of the various aspects of China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as diplomacy/international relations, economy/trade, politics, Christianity, sinology, education, science and technology, imperialism, and globalization.
A freely accessible relational database with biographical information (in both English and Chinese) about approximately 370,000 individuals as of April 2017, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries.
Includes newspaper articles from nearly 1,000 newspaper titles published in mainland China since 2000.
Includes dissertations and theses in humanities and social sciences from major universities and institutions in mainland China.
CRG is a centralized means for discovery and access to a breadth of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, dissertations, patents, and more.
Provides access to statistical data published by the mainland Chinese government at all levels from 1949 to the present.
Provides access to authoritative facts and statistics of national and regional significance in mainland China from 1949 to present.
The Inter-American Dialogue's new online China-Latin America Finance Database is the most up-to-date source of information on Chinese lending activity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Explore an extensive range of archival material connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps document this fascinating history. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
Spanning three centuries (c. 1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library's Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
Contains a growing collection of Chinese e-books published in mainland China. To access the e-book collection, please click the link “click to enter” on the homepage, and then click the subject areas listed under the “SuperStar Digital Library” section to browse and read titles acquired by USC libraries.
An online tool for converting between Chinese and Western calendars from A.D. 1 to A.D. 2100.
An online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world.
Includes 女子世界 (Women's World, 1904-07), 婦女時報 (The Women's Eastern Times, 1911-17), 婦女雜誌 (The Ladies' Journal, 1915-31), and 玲瓏 (Elegance, 1931-37).
A classic Chinese-English dictionary compiled by Lin Yutang. Provides excellent guidance on translating terms.
Chosun ilbo is the Korean language daily newspaper in South Korea. This archive covers the first publication in 1920 to the present day of Chosun ilbo.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1836-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
From its roots as an Anglican evangelical movement driven by lay persons, this resource encompasses publications from the CMS and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work from the 19th to the 21st century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounter. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
Comprehensive source for research in international affairs.
Most comprehensive database of full-text for nursing & allied health journals from 1937 to present. Includes access to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, magazines, pamphlets, evidence-based care sheets, books, and research instruments.
CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.
Only includes research conducted outside of the United States.
Comprised of over 110,000 pages, this database focuses on the Civil War as it was fought from 1861 to 1865 and represents both Northern and Southern perspectives.
This collection includes: Part I: A Newspaper Perspective - contains articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published from 11/1/1860-4/15/1865. Part II: The Soldiers' Perspective - provides an in-depth look at the day-to-day actions of the troops primarily in the form of regimental histories. Part III: The Generals' Perspective - digitized books and memoirs that give a sense of the strategies and tactics used in battles. Part IV: The A Midwestern Perspective - contains articles from 7 newspapers published in Indiana from1855-1869. Part V consists of Civil War memoirs, pamphlets, and regimental histories from the University of Iowa. Part VI: Northeast Regimental Histories - include rosters, transportation documents, honor rolls, casualty statistics and promotion and court martial documents.
An index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities from 1975 to the present which combines two databases.
Mexican Cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its Golden Age (1930s to 1960).
Performances, operas, ballets, master classes, documentaries, and interviews. (Alexander Street / ProQuest).
Audio recordings from all eras of western music history. (Alexander Street / ProQuest).
Classical Music Reference Library brings together a variety of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form.
Editions of works from all eras of western music history. (Alexander Street / ProQuest)
Cases, self-assessments, journal club support, and online access to textbooks for medical school rotations in family medicine, internal medicine, OB/GYN, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery.
International listing of clinical trials registers compiled by the York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, UK.
Online collection of ebooks, journals, guidelines, patient education handouts, drug monographs, images, and videos focusing on clinical health care. Includes MEDLINE full-text.
Registry and results database; includes information about publicly & privately funded studies including; completed & ongoing trials, research design, results, and contact information.
Collection of clinical microbiology publications including Manual of Clinical Microbiology (13th ed), Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (4th ed) and Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook (5th ed).
Includes a growing collection of e-books published in mainland China acquired by the USC libraries.
Collection of databases aimed at gathering and summarizing health research.
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
This resource includes access to all six of their journals; their Protocols; and the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. This is especially strong for molecular biology topics.
Reports, publications, and news broadcasts offering firsthand analysis, descriptions, and viewpoints of every facet of the Cold War.
The Getty Research Institute is one of the richest resources for the study of provenance and the history of western European art collecting.
CollegeSource Online features over 14,000 full text college catalogs representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Other resources include links (and some catalogs) to international universities; financial aid information and assistance; career planning links; and college entrance exam information.
The Colloquium Digital Library is an original collection of PDF e-books for researchers, instructors, and advanced-level students in the biomedical life sciences.
Includes correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies from UK National Archives (1606 - 1822). This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as found in the British National Archives.
Essentially an encyclopedia of geographical places and features, the Gazetteer contains the names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 170,000 places in the world.
This is a source for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves, including a series of related print and electronic titles.