USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive TAGS: Armenia | China | databases | film | genocide | Guatemala | history | Holocaust | interviews | Politics | primary source | Rwanda | survivors | United States | video I’m pleased to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive®. You can access this online archive via the E-resources …Continue reading →

Los Angeles Times Archive on trial TAGS: databases | history | Newspapers | primary source | United States For the month of November the Library has trial access to the Los Angeles Times Historical Archive, 1881-1992, from ProQuest. You can access this online archive via the E-resources trials …Continue reading →

Luther’s Werke (Weimarer Ausgabe) TAGS: Martin Luther | Philosophy Martin Luther (1483-1546) is a central figure in the development of European culture, not only as a result of his religious influence but also for his contribution to the establishment …Continue reading →

Three Japanese e-resources for trial The Library has arranged a free trial for the following three e-resources from Japan: Fuzoku Gaho （風俗画報,1889 – 1916） Toyo Keizai Digital Archive（東洋經濟, 1895 – 1945） Mainichi Newspaper Maisaku（每日新聞, 1872 …Continue reading →

Trial access to magazine and periodical archives TAGS: databases | gender studies | history | Magazines | periodicals | political history | Politics | primary source | social history *The Library now has permanent access to the Women’s Magazine Archive I and II and News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive. We also have access to all British Periodicals collections …Continue reading →

Wicked Witches In our last post we revealed some of the Halloween customs detailed in the Statistical Accounts, including some spooky ghost stories.  Although superstitious beliefs seem to have been receding during …Continue reading →

5,000 Science and Engineering theses now online! TAGS: ERA | PhD | RedRock | thesis Library & University Collections is pleased to announce the upload of around 200 digitised Science and Engineering theses to our online repository, bringing to an end the University’s largest digitisation …Continue reading →

Some pictures from 1980s Punjab TAGS: collection | photography | Punjab In this project we tackle theses chronologically. We follow a spreadsheet that has been ordered, more or less, by date and name of author. As we move forwards, we have …Continue reading →

Halloween: Sports and Spooks in the Statistical Accounts Halloween is approaching and the nights are drawing in. So this is the perfect time to discover some spooky stories and supernatural superstitions reported in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland. …Continue reading →

Join us for webinars about BMJ resources! TAGS: BMJ Training Sessions | Guest post Join us for webinars about BMJ resources! BMJ Quality – 2 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 GMT BMJ Best Practice – 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 GMT BMJ Case reports – 23 November …Continue reading →