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The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.

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17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features London newspapers and pamphlets gathered by antiquarian and printer John Nichols. This collection, sourced from the Bodleian Library, spans the years 1672 to 1737 and complements the titles and issues found in 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

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The National Archives released the 1940 census population schedules more than 3.8 million pages) to the public. In order to find a person in the census, you first need to determine the appropriate enumeration district (E.D) number. The E.D can be found by searching census district maps and descriptions. The digitized schedules can be saved,shared or downloaded.Besides name, age, relationship, and occupation, the 1940 census included questions about internal migration; employment status; participation in the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and National Youth Administration (NYA) programs; and years of education.

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Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.

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Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from 500 newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

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19th Century UK Periodicals is a new multi-part series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. It provides an invaluable fully-searchable facsimile resource for the study of British life in the 19th century - from art to business, and from children to politics. Few of the materials in this extensive online collection have ever been reissued, in any format since original publication. All the original color work has been specially captured for this program.

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Includes two databases. National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile, 1933-1945, is a database containing fundamental primary sources on the Nationalist Socialist State and the NSDAP, Nazi ideology and propaganda, National Socialist justice and legislation, on resistance and persecution, and annihilation and expulsion in the Third Reich.

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5 Minute Consult

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Evidence-based monographs on diseases, drugs, procedures, and laboratory tests. Includes patient handouts on drugs, aftercare, and physical therapy exercises. Combines access to all contents of the "5 Minute Consult" book series.

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60 Minutes: 1997-2014

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This collection from Alexander Street grants access to the CBS News archives from the period 1997-2014, including many episodes not widely seen since their original broadcast.

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Kafkas Werke

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Kafkas Werke (Kritische Ausgabe) is an electronic version of the critical edition of his complete works: Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebucher.

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Kagan

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Technology, media and telecom research from the media research division of S&P Global Market Intelligence, a merger of S&P Capital IQ and SNL Financial. Covers Technology; Broadcast; Film & TV Programming; Global Multichannel; Internet & OTT; Mobile, TV Networks; US Multichannel and US MediaCensus reports.

Instructions: Sign up with your USC email address by going to 'New User Sign Up/S&P Capital IQ Pro New User Sign Up'. Then go to the Industries tab/Technology, Media and Telecommunications.

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Non-profit organization focusing on national health issues. Develops and runs policy analysis, journalism and communication programs.

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Kamakura Ibun

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This Collection of Historical Materials of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333) contains approximately 36,000 texts in 42 volumes with 4 supplements.

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Kanopy

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A streaming service that provides access to videos on a wide variety of subjects inclduing Popular Films; Education; Global Studies & Languages; Health; Media & Communication; and Social Sciences.

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Keesing's World News Archive contains about 95,000 unbiased, full-text reports of the most historically significant political, social, and economic events of the world since 1931.

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Data, policy recommendations, and tools focused on child and family welfare curated by Anne E. Casey Foundation.

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Over 100 indicators of child well-being, including economic status, health, safety, and risk factors on the local community, city, state, and national level.

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King James Bible(UK)

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The King James or Authorized Version of the Bible was printed in 1611 and became the standard edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries.

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KISS

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Korean studies Information Service System.

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This is the catalog of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. The records of Caribbean Abstracts can now be found in this catalog.

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Multimedia health sciences education resources from the University of Utah includes animations, tutorials, and image banks.

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Korea A2Z

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Full-text database on classical Korean literary works, history records, and articles from old newspapers & journals. Includes Samguk Sagi (삼국사기), Saso Samgyong (사서삼경), and the Digital Encyclopedia of National Culture (EncyKorea). By DongBang Media.

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Collection of excavation reports of historical sites in Korea, which consists of research reports, catalogs and maps related to Korean geography, history, folklore, and architecture. By ZININZIN.

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KRpia

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Full-text from various dictionaries and encyclopedias, classical and modern literature, primary sources, etc. in Korean language.

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KSDC DB

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The unified database of Korea Social Science Data Center, which includes statistical yearbooks published by government, public institutions and overseas institutions of Korea.

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W. B. Yeats Collection

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The major works of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between 1885 and 1995.

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Wall Street Journal

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New users are required to create an individual user account using their USC email address.
  • Students will have seamless access through graduation
  • Faculty and staff will be required to refresh access once a year. An email will notify the user when they need to refresh
  • For those who have a personal WSJ membership and want to take advantage of the complimentary school-sponsored membership can call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel

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Includes thousands of Chinese journals in the humanities and social sciences from mainland China from 1997 on. Also includes select monographic series titles, such as 元史及民族与边疆研究集刊, 藏外佛教文献, etc.

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Contains full text and abstracts of theses and dissertations in the humanities and social sciences from key research institutions in mainland China.

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Covers a wide range of Chinese laws, regulations and policies at both national and regional levels, international treaties and conventions, and judicial cases and interpretation from 1949 onward.

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WARC

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Previously known as the World Advertising Research Center, WARC provides a wide range of information on advertising and marketing trends around the world including expenditure data, case studies, industry trends and consumer insight.

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Washington Post

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The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provides cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).

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Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries from 1967 to the present of the world's technical, scientific, and public policy literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources as well as the legal aspects of water supply, use, control, or management.

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Web of Science

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Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.

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The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine.

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Images from British Wellcome Museum holdings including historical, contemporary, biomedical, and clinical collections.

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Includes 20,000+ volumes and 650,000+ articles of Chinese literary and historical materials compiled by the national and local government agencies mostly during the 1980s and 1990s. To access the database, please click the link “click to enter” on the homepage, then click “文史资料专题库 (第一期)" under “SuperStar specialty” section, and then you will then be able to browse and search the wenshi ziliao collection.

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Collection of databases designed for quantitative analysis of financial data: Compustat Global & EMDB; Fama French Momentum and Liquidity; Audit Analytics; EVENTUS; Blockholders; CUSIP Master File; Federal Reserve Bank Reports; Bureau van Dijk; DMEF - Direct Marketing Educational Foundation; FDIC; Bank Regulatory; CBOE Indexes; Execcomp; CRSP - Center for Research in Security Prices; Compustat North America; Dow Jones; Mutual Funds Links (MFLINKS); Thomson Reuters; TRACE; NYSE TAQ; PHLX; SEC Disclosure of Order Execution; I/B/E/S International; IRI - Information Resources Inc.; Penn World Tables.

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