Searchable database containing more than 39,200 binary and ternary alloy phase diagrams, each with their associated crystal and reaction data. Also includes all inorganic systems.
Web collection of enzyme functional data, including nomenclature; organism, kinetics, isolation, stability, and reaction data; and more.
Main collection of enzyme functional data on the web. Includes nomenclature; organism, kinetics, isolation, stability, and reaction data; literature references; and links to sequence databases. Related to the Enzyme Handbook (Springer). Free for academic, non-profit users.
Art images from 2,000 sources, 8,000 locations and 30,000 artists, including photography, fine art, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology & ethnography, history, science & medicine, decorative arts, and artifacts
"[Searchable database of over] 300,000 [art] images from 2,000 sources, 8,000 locations, and 30,000 artists. The site offers an excellent quality of image and metadata (captions and keywords) as well as the legal right to use the images within your institution. Search all media including photography, fine art, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology & ethnography, history, science & medicine, decorative arts and artifacts."--About us.
Index of articles, reports, books, and book chapters.
Contains publications "on archaeology and the historic environment, historic buildings, maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of material culture - with a geographical focus on Britain and Ireland." Covers 1695-present.
British Online Archives contains a wide range of materials related to British history, including the colonization of America, India, Africa, the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia and Melanesia. The collection contains sources that relate to both politics and history, including: *Records of missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel *Records made by the East India Company *Papers of the Parliamentary Labour Party *Anti-fascist newsletters of the International Transport Workers' Federation *Records of the Communist Party of Great Britain *The British Union of Fascists’ newspapers and secret files *British Broadcasting Corporation records *Trade directories Additional content can be found by selecting the ‘List Collections’ option on the toolbar.
Search form offering convenient access to search for Creative Commons licensed content provided by other independent organizations, including Google Images, Flickr, and YouTube.
The Creative Commons project is a nonprofit organization offering flexible copyright for creative work. On their website you will find links to music, images, video, text, and more. One of their goals is to encourage creativity through sharing and collaboration.
A selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. Covers 1949-present.
The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
Full-text historical content about Canada, including books, magazines, and government documents.
Documents Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada.
India Office Records from the British Library, 1595-1947
This database contains three modules:
Module 1: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947
Module 1 consists of the most important executive papers of the East India Company and later the India Office, covering the entire period of British rule in India and the expansion of the British Empire over several centuries. Charters, treaties, minutes and correspondence shed light on the foundation, development and demise of the East India Company and, later, the work of the Council of India in overseeing the British Raj.
This module offers comprehensive digitization of the following core classes:
• The East India Company’s charters, deeds, statutes and treaties (IOR/A), with related documents, 1600-1947.
• The minutes of the meetings of the East India Company’s Courts of Directors and Proprietors (IOR/B), 1599-1858.
• The minutes and memoranda of the Council of India (IOR/C), 1858-1947.
• The minutes and memoranda of the general committees and offices of the East India Company (IOR/D), 1700-1858.
Modules 2 and 3: Factory Records for South Asia, South-East Asia, China, Japan and the Middle East (1613-1870)
The East India Company Factory Records (IOR/G) reveal the role of individual trading posts (‘factories’) and are some of the richest sources in the India Office Records for the study of trade networks, daily life for those living and working in the British Empire, and the interaction between Western traders and Asian societies. The material consists of letters sent and received between the factories and London, official trading diaries, accounts of Company embassies to rulers, proceedings of provincial councils and revenue boards, military documents and account books.
The English Corpora site provides a search interface for some of the most well-known corpora for linguistic research, containing millions (or billions) of words. Some of the most famous are the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and the British National Corpus (BYU-BNC). English Corpora also includes News on the Web (NOW), Global Web-based English (GLOWbE) and the Wikipedia Corpus. This link is to U-M's institutional account, with higher search limits for U-M researchers. Create a personal account to save queries and customized word lists.
Documents existence on the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920, including frontiers of North America, Africa, and Australasia.
Digital Collection of primary sources documenting existence on the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. Various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia are presented through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
The earliest documents in this collection are from the seventeenth century but the majority of the material originates from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The material covering North America covers the varied frontier regions from fur trappers in Canada to cowboys in Texas and government in Baja California. It is divided into the frontier regions of the American East, the American Midwest, the American Southwest, California & Mexico and Canada. It covers the exploration of these regions followed by trade with native peoples, colonial rivalries, expansion of government and new nations and the final settlement and 'closing' of the frontier.
Africa is mainly represented by its frontiers of the south with the British colonial expansion into modern day South Africa. There are also excellent groups of material relating to the exploration of West Africa and the colonial administration of Lagos.
The beginnings of European Australia and New Zealand are covered by British government documents, starting with Arthur Phillip and the penal colony at Sydney. The frontiers of other parts of Australia are also covered by documents from the UK National Archives and some material from Australian archives.
Finally, there is some material relating to Central America, specifically British Honduras (Belize), in the form of the George Arthur Papers. George Arthur’s career here relates to the other regions featured here as he spent time on the Canadian and Australian frontiers.
Thesauri and indexes of terms, metadata, and geographical and personal names relating to art, architecture, and related subjects.
The Getty Vocabularies contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, conservation, and bibliographic materials. Compliant with international standards, they provide authoritative information for catalogers, researchers, and data providers. Includes these files:
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online AAT
• Cultural Objects Name Authority Online CONA
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names Online TGN
• Union List of Artist Names Online ULAN
Commentary and data on economic conditions worldwide.
Global Economic Monitor provides daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency and forecast data that is refreshed daily. It provides analysis of current economic trends, economic, financial and commodity data indicators, an extensive database including growth and commodity forecasts and access to the iSimulate modeling platform.
All issues of the oldest general interest monthly in America, publishing essays, fiction, and reporting on politics, society, the environment, and culture.
Indexes 4,200 European-language journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities & social sciences, 1972-2014.
NOTE: As of 2016, FRANCIS is available only combined into a single database with its scientific index counterpart, PASCAL. Results can be limited to just one of the two databases after running a search, by using search filter check boxes.
PASCAL and FRANCIS are multidisciplinary, multilingual bibliographic databases, produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in France, that together index over 4,200 scholarly journals as well as conference proceedings, books, reports, dissertations and theses. Over 14 million texts from all over the world in 100 different languages are indexed, with French and European literature particularly well represented. PASCAL covers science, technology and medicine from 1984 to 2014 (12 million texts), while FRANCIS covers humanities and social sciences from 1972 to 2014 (2.5 million texts).
FRANCIS provides indexing and abstracts of many books and articles from over 2,300 European-language journals in religion, history of art, literature, philosophy, economics and additional subjects such as: administrative sciences, archeology, business management, company management, data processing and law, education, employment and training, energy, ethnology, geography, history of science, information science, Latin America, linguistics, prehistory, psychology, public health, and sociology.
PASCAL provides indexing and abstracts of articles from over 1,600 journals in pure and applied biology, homeopathy, medicine, botany, pharmacology, toxicology, biotechnology, agriculture, physics, chemistry, telecommunications, construction industry, engineering, metallurgy, earth sciences, oceanography, and astronomy.
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