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The collection includes 150,000 digitized pages of handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books describing American attitudes towards family dynamics, gender roles, sexual relationships, and race relations. Much of the content includes images.
Twentieth-Century Drama contains the essential collection of published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day, alongside unpublished works by major writers and Pulitzer Prize winners. The collection's contents range from canonical authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Langston Hughes, Sean O'Casey, Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, Harold Pinter, Neil Simon, Tom Stoppard and Thornton Wilder, to off-Broadway experimentation and South African township theatre.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought is a multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to worldwide religious thinkers, from the early 1900s until the turn of the 21st century.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Islam focuses on modern Islamic theology and tradition and details Islam’s evolution from the late 19th century by examining printed works and rare documents by Muslim writers, both non-Western and Western voices.
Provides summary statistics at the state and county level of census data related to demographics, education, economics, etc. Good for finding basic information about a specific city or state.
A full-text database of key publications of the United States Congress.
Declassified Documents Index provides full text access to formerly U.S. government classified documents that Primary Source Media obtains as they are declassified.
American public and political documents from 1774 to the present day.
This agency regulates medical devices, food safety, drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, and tobacco. Find data on the methods of regulations, ways to report violations, lists of safety alerts and recalls, and approved products in each of these categories.
History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
This collection of over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond.
This office reviews and approves United States patent and trademark applications. Find the full text of patents from 1790-present and trademarks from 1940-present. Find information how to apply for a patent or trademark, and regulations.
Recommendation summaries and links to supporting documents. Includes Final and In Progress recommendations. Browse all recommendations or search with keywords.
Correspondence, reports and more explore America's relations with the Vatican during World War II and the Holocaust.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 is a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents related to the Supreme Court from 1832-1978.
Collection of manuals, handbooks, and clinical information tools. Also available and searchable through mobile app.
Based in the UK this is a collection of information related to public health policy and the prevention of non-communicable diseases.
Find bibliographic information about journals, including where they are indexed, ISSN, publisher, subject coverage, and whether or not the journal is peer-reviewed (refereed).
USC is beta test partner for Umbra, a freely available digital discovery tool designed for the research and study of African American history and culture. It includes a growing collection of digital materials—images, videos, books, and more—provided by libraries, museums, and other repositories around the country.
The UN iLibrary is the first comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations.
Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960's to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this art form.
List and description of about 69 Information services and Documentation centres located at Headquarters and field offices, as well as virtual Clearing Houses.
With over 120 maps, charts and tables, the UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education (2012) enables readers to visualize the educational pathways of girls and boys in terms of access, participation and progression from pre-primary to tertiary education, and places issues of gender equality in a broader context.
UNICEF provides international statistics on children and children’s health.
UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) maintains a variety of databases comprising statistics of overall industrial growth, detailed data on business structure and statistics on major indicators of industrial performance by country in the historical time series.
The United Nations Environment Programme and World Conservation Monitoring Centre combined their interests for this site has information on biodiversity worldwide, including publications and a species database.
UNICEF-generated publications focused on the health and well being of children. Includes advocacy reports, annual reports, flagship, publications for children or special populations, etc.
This is the official repository for documents published by the United Nations.
Find national statistics on a wide-range of topic areass, including but not limited to demographic, social, economic, environmental, gender, and generational data.
A repository of statistical information and methodological materials from foreign countries, international organizations, and other sources.
Historical Publications of the USCCR from its inception in 1957 A partnership of the United States Government Printing Office, The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland.
Well organized, very interactive, and full of information for all, theEPA site offers news, local information, teacher resources, multimedia(videos, photos, audios), resources, and even a trivia quiz, allaccessible from the homepage.
This full text Russian language collection covers current academic journals in the social sciences and humanities. It also includes Vestnik Evropy, an important 19th century Russian literary and political journal.
The University of Adelaide's Barr Smith Library has established a digital Press with an electronic edition of each new book published as well as print.The electronic editions are Open Access and free, in PDF format.
Since the Scout Report last visited the Digital Map Collection at the University of California, there have been many worthy additions to this cartographic cornucopia.
The University of Pittsburgh Press and the University Library System have formed a partnership to make books published by the Press available online.
Find drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and audio and video recordings in applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center was formed to be the utility that digitizes, provides access to, and maintains digital projects.
This digital collection features oral histories, photographs, video recordings, and visual art that document the January 25, 2011 Revolution.
An evidence-based resource covering multiple medical specialties. Includes topic monographs, patient education, practice updates, drug interactions, guidelines, and medical calculators. To obtain CME, create a personal profile and log in.
Freely available patient education materials about common medical conditions and procedures.
Monographs, ebooks and interactive tools covering over the counter and prescription drugs.
Monographs, ebooks and interactive tools covering over the counter and prescription drugs.
The database contains 40,000 records gathered from legislative groups, research institutions, public research agencies, universities, and scholars from around the world covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Coverage is from 1973 to the present.
This site is a resource that has grown over the course of 15 years from a site focusing on the metro system in Barcelona to a site called metro Planet to its current incarnation with an international scope and convenient, easy-to-use maps of urban railway systems in the world's largest cities on 6 continents.
Bibliography covering all 245 years of U.S. government publications—twenty-seven collections with a single search.
US Hispanic Newsstream offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from US publishers in both Spanish and English. All of the content in ProQuest US Hispanic Newsstream is available on the ProQuest platform and is cross searchable with other ProQuest databases.
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.