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Gale Archives Unbound is a multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

The online Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains the full data of all of the printed volumes of the BAS issued from the 1971 up to the 1991 volumes (published in 1997), as well as hundreds of thousands of entries compiled since then. Full information about the years of coverage of each and every journal is provided through the journal title browse function. The online BAS offers users various methods to search for citations. In addition to using the search function, users can browse by country-subject, or by journal title. A separate screen allows users to set their preferences for displaying and downloading data in different formats and character encodings. The BAS is updated regularly, with thousands of new entries in each upload.

This collection of Foreign Office files explores the history of Persia (Iran), Central Asia and Afghanistan from the decline of the Silk Road in the first half of the nineteenth century to the establishment of Soviet rule over parts of the region in the early 1920s. It encompasses the era of “The Great Game” - a political and diplomatic confrontation between the Russian and British Empires for influence, territory and trade across a vast region, from the Black Sea in the west to the Pamir Mountains in the east. Comprised of correspondence, intelligence reports, agents’ diaries, minutes, maps, newspaper excerpts and other materials from the FO 65, FO 106, FO 371 and FO 539 series, this resource forms one of the greatest existing sets of historical documents relating to this region, offering insights not only into the impact of Great Power politics on the region, but also the region’s peoples, cultures and societies.

China Conference Proceedings (CPCD-CPFD) is the most comprehensive full-text database of proceedings from national conferences in China. It provides access to the full spectrum of academic discussion in China’s premier institutions, delivering information from meetings of academic institutions, industrial organizations, governmental agencies and international bodies. Through its partnerships with over 10,500 academic societies and associations, CPCD-CPFD includes over 2.8 million papers from over 33,000 conference proceedings (with some going as far back as 1953), accounting for more than 90% of all national conference proceedings. CPCD-CPFD offers robust navigation and search tools, and provides expanded information for each paper, including links to similar documents, documents from related authors and institutions, and documents on related subjects.

China Doctoral Dissertations (CDMD-CDFD) full-text database provides an unparalleled look into the academic research of China’s most prestigious institutions. CDMD-CDFD is the most comprehensive, highest quality database of dissertations from China, representing around 500 PhD-granting institutions, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Agriculture, among others. CDMD-CDFD contains over 500,000 doctoral dissertations on a wide range of topics, including basic science, engineering and technology, agriculture, medicine, philosophy, humanities and social sciences. Users can browse by subject or degree grantor, or search multiple fields in quick, basic, professional, fund or sentence search modes. CNKI’s Knowledge Network Node, literature analysis and citation analysis tools offer extended information and discovery of related content.

China on Film features an exciting selection of documentary and actuality film footage from the British Film Institute, filmed through the eyes of predominantly Western travelers. Through a combination of amateur films, travelogues and newsreels, this resource provides a unique perspective on both everyday life and some of the key events of modern Chinese history.

China Research Gateway (CRG) database presents the full spectrum of Chinese research, with exhaustive representation of STEM, social science, and humanities disciplines. The sub-collections of this database are: China Academic Journals (CAJ); China Monographic Serials (CMSD); China Year Books (CYFD); China Doctoral Dissertations (CDMD-CDFD); China Master's Theses (CDMD-CMFD); China Reference Works (CRWO); China Statistical Yearbooks (CSYD); China Conference Proceedings (CPCD-CPFD); International Conference Proceedings (CPCD-IPFD); China Core Newspapers (CCND)

China Yearbooks (CYFD) provides access to primary sources and statistics of national and regional significance in the People’s Republic of China. As the largest and most continuously updated full-text yearbook database in China, CYFD features a wide variety of yearbooks, including national, regional and industrial, from authoritative sources such as national ministries, professional publishing houses, and local governments. Content in CYFD addresses all facets of Chinese life, including history, politics, military, education, science and technology, public health, and more. Featuring over 5,200 yearbooks, these volumes are digitized and indexed down to every table, chart, and picture, providing a comprehensive picture of China’s social development and enabling detailed search and discovery.

Spanning three centuries (c.1750-1929), China: Culture and Society makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia, one of the oldest and most distinctive collections of its kind. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. It also features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, a chronology and content guides.

China Monographic Serials (CMSD) is the first and only full-text database of irregularly published Chinese academic literature. In the gray area between journals and book- or reference-like resources, these publications contain high-quality, peer-reviewed research. CMSD presents a comprehensive collection of high-level articles written by experts who are driving the development of research in their respective fields. Dating back to 1979, CMSD contains over 370,000 serials. Serials in CMSD are organized by volume, year, issue and other bibliographic information. CNKI’s Knowledge Network Node enables discovery of related content with subject trees, citation networks, and related literature tools.

This collection of Foreign Office Files provides a comprehensive history of key events across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during a period of political upheaval, civil unrest and escalating conflict. Published in two sections, Conflict in Indochina explores the rising tension across Indochina after 1959: Crisis and Upheaval, 1959-1964 Escalation, Reunification and Withdrawal, 1965-1979 Comprising correspondence, maps, photographs and memoranda, this collection examines how the conflict crossed international borders and impacted the wider region. Administrative reports offer insight into the internal politics of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, covering key themes such as trade, economic development and increasing political instability. Documents reveal the growing intervention from foreign powers, as China and the Soviet Union sought to expand their influence over communist parties in the region. Files of the British Foreign Office (FO 371) and from the Southeast Asian Department (FCO 15) demonstrate how Britain acted as an intermediary between regional actors in Indochina, ambitiously seeking to dissuade policies that would escalate the conflict. Britain maintained a close relationship with America throughout the period covered by Conflict in Indochina. Diplomatic records between the two countries demonstrate the significance of this relationship for British foreign policy and provide fresh perspectives on American escalation in Indochina.

East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.

This free research database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. Content Includes: 100 proprietary essays covering topics relevant to current race-related issues 900 full-text articles from BlackPast, a leading source on the African American experience 250 photographs, graphs and charts Access now In addition to proprietary essays, photographs, graphs and charts, Exploring Race in Society includes: Thousands of full-text articles from academic journals Government agency reports curated and provided by HeinOnline Full-text articles, primary source documents and speeches from BlackPast, a leading source on African American history and experience Journal content covering issues related to race, including those of Indigenous communities

Welcome to Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 This collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 consists of the complete run of documents in the series DO 133, DO 134 and FCO 37, as well as all documents covering the Indian subcontinent in the FO 371 series. Events covered include independence and partition, the Indian annexation of Hyderabad and Goa, war between India and Pakistan, tensions and war between India and China, the consolidation of power of the Congress Party in India, military rule in Pakistan, the turbulent independence of Bangladesh and the development of nuclear weapons in the region. The files address these events from the standpoint of British officialdom. In addition to high politics, they deal with such issues as economic and industrial development, trade, migration, visits to South Asia by British politicians and by South Asian politicians to Britain and elsewhere, education, administrative reorganization, conflict over language, aid, political parties, agriculture and irrigation, and television and the press. Together they form a resource of fundamental value to scholars and students of modern South Asia.

Published in two parts, this extensive collection of Foreign Office Files explores South East Asia between 1963 and 1980 in a time of conflict, growth and change. Cold War in the Pacific, Trade Relations and the Post-Independence Period, 1963-1966 Foundations of Economic Growth and Industrialization, 1967-1980 This collection follows the establishment of an independent Malaysia in 1963, following the release of the Cobbold Commission Report. Under President Sukarno, Indonesia strongly opposed this decision and hostilities between the two countries escalated. Alongside tensions with Malaysia, Indonesia would experience growing civil unrest in this period, with anti-Communist sentiments on the rise. Documents featured in this collection cover these fundamental events alongside a number of key themes, including trade, economic development and authoritarian rule in this period. Consisting of correspondence, maps, government dispatches and press releases from the FO 371, DO 169, DO 187, FCO 15 and FCO 24 series, this resource offers an unparalleled insight into the political and economic challenges faced during this period as the region moved towards industrialization and establishing the foundations for economic growth.

The Global Press Archive includes newspapers in more than 30 languages and will ultimately include titles from over 80 countries. Many of the newspapers included are Hoover Institution collections now held by Stanford University or papers in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas. Wherever possible, titles are presented in their complete runs. The Archive currently contains four collections. In the Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese collection are 290 newspapers published in China during its transition from imperial rule to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. In the Middle Eastern and North African collection are nearly 900,000 pages of content from 84 newspapers from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Palestine, and Morocco covering 1870 to 2019. In the Independent and Revolutionary Mexican newspapers collection are over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods, 1807-1929. In the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection are 19 publications covering 189 years of history in Russia, from Peter the Great to Nicholas II and the Bolshevik Revolution.

Proquest's India Database is a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary resource that provides the full text of scholarly periodicals published in India. These sources offer academic support to the following areas of interest: economics and business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences, and humanities. It is a single source for the best academic journals in India, most of the content dates from the last five years and is updated daily with new content.

Note: Access to this database has been purchased using one-time funding and will be temporary and may be canceled June 8, 2021. JapanKnowledge provides access to various Japanese reference sources including JapanKnowledge Lib + Kokushi Daijiten + Nihon Rekishi Chimei

The University of Pennsylvania’s Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) creates, collects, and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. The LDC catalog is free to search, but datasets are only available for download if acquired. The University of Utah has acquired and provides access to the following corpora.

ACE 2005 Multilingual Training Corpus; Arabic Broadcast News Speech; Arabic Broadcast News Transcripts; Arabic Gigaword Fifth Edition; Arabic Treebank: Part 2 v 3.1; Chinese Gigaword Fifth Edition; Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Lexicon; Global TIMIT Mandarin Chinese; Global TIMIT Thai; Global TIMIT Mandarin Chinese-Guanzhong Dialect; Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork Ngomba Tone Paradigms; Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork Dschang Lexicon; Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork Dschang Tone Paradigms; Gulf Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech; Gulf Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech, Transcripts; Indian Language Part-of-Speech Tagset: Sanskrit; Iraqi Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech; Iraqi Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech, Transcripts; Japanese Business News Text Supplement; Korean Broadcast News Speech; Korean Broadcast News Transcripts; Korean Propbank; Korean Treebank Annotations Version 2.0; Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech; Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Transcripts; Middle East Technical University Turkish Microphone Speech v 1.0; Portuguese Newswire Text; Russian through Switched Telephone Network (RuSTeN); Spanish Gigaword First Edition; Spanish Gigaword Third Edition; Spanish Newswire Text, Volume 2; West Point Heroico Spanish Speech; West Point Korean Speech.

Questions? Contact ambra.gagliardi@utah.edu

Meiji Japan provides digital access to the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925), an American polymath notable for his work in natural history, ethnography, archaeology and art history. Morse was invited to teach at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1870s and travelled extensively in Japan, recording his experiences in great detail and maintaining a deep interest in the country and its culture for the remainder of his life. This resource, a digital edition of Morse's papers, provides insights into Japan during the Mejii Era (1868-1912) along with Morse's numerous and valuable contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines.

The Nixon Years provides complete Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO 7 and FCO 82 files from The National Archives, Kew, for the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency. It offers a different perspective and context from across the Atlantic, providing both an important counterpoint and valuable complement to records in the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California, a member of the National Archives and Records Administration’s system of presidential libraries. These files allow scholars and researchers the opportunity to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, and his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers, which culminated in Watergate and resignation.

Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies is a multi-and inter-disciplinary enterprise covering the study of China across all disciplines. This database provides an authoritative guide to the key works across the whole field, pointing researchers and practitioners at all levels to the most important scholarship in European languages as well as in Chinese (and Japanese), and giving scholars working in other fields easier access to scholarship on China.

This database provides access to the full text of the complete publication run of Shen Bao, a Chinese newspaper. The collection consists of over two million articles, including searchable text and page images.

This database contains a searchable collection of digital replicas of newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages. The collection focuses on the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during the 19th and early 20th centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative updates, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony or death notices and more. Includes Latin American and South Asian Newspapers.