In this guide, we try to list some of the key resources that related to subjects including history, politics, development studies and international relations. Those resources cover the academic databases, periodical databases, core journals and also some free internet resources.
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All of the databases below can be accessed viaNUsearchDatabases section.
Major Databases
Gale primary sources
An integrated research experience, Gale Primary Sources unifies extensive digital archives and enables researchers to make never-before-possible research connections. The Gale Primary Sources program combines dozens of historical archives covering hundreds of years of history. In this exhaustive resource you will find monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs. Gale continues to make additional primary source collections available through the Gale Primary Sources cross-search experience. Collections availability limited to licensing agreement.
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19th century British pamphlets
This collection, created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. They have been underutilized within research and teaching because they are generally quite difficult to access – often bound together in large numbers or otherwise hard to find in the few research libraries that hold them. The digitization of more than 20,000 pamphlets from seven UK institutions will provide researchers, students, and teachers with an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. This collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme.
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CNBKSY now provides the one-stop services of more than 50,000 titles of newspapers and periodicals and over 50 million pieces of literature, with an annual update of more than 5 million entries.
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ProQuest historical newspapers: The Guardian and the Observer
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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