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Full archival runs (up to the moving wall) of over 2800 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Includes JSTOR Archive Journal Collections: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Public Health Journals, Security Studies, & Sustainability; Primary Source Collections: 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, & Global Plants. Relevant to all majors.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
High resolution colour, cover to cover scanned backfiles of consumer and trade publications. Consists of 17 titles including Architectural Review, ID (Industrial Design), Graphis, and House Beautiful. Text is fully searchable.
High resolution colour, cover to cover scanned archival backfiles of consumer and trade publications. Consists of 22 titles including British Journal of Photography, Art and AsiaPacific, Apollo, and Ceramics Technical. Text is fully searchable. Coverage is from earliest issue date to 2015 at the latest.
Nearly three million high-resolution digitized plant specimens from herbaria world-wide. Also features partner-contributed reference works and primary sources such as collectors' correspondence and diaries, botanical illustrations, and photographs. Relevant to illustration, animation, anyone who need plant reference pictures.
A search tool for electronic resources including articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, podcasts, reports, and digitized archival documents and photographs. Primary focus is on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on Indigenous peoples of the United States, Australia, Aotearoa – New Zealand, and other areas of the world. Filter by indigenous creators available. Links to open access full text where possible; otherwise, if subscription access is unavailable, request an InterLibrary Loan.
Select monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, drawings, paintings and more. Consists of 3 Collections: 19th Century British Pamphlets; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; World Heritage Sites: Africa.
