This page contains all of the e-resource content that has been added to the A-Z Database list in this fiscal year. This content is discoverable in the library's catalog, in OneSearch+, and in the A-Z Database list. Databases are displayed in reverse chronological order with the most resent additions to the A-Z database list on top. If you have questions about this content, please reach out to Jason Mitchell.
Subjects: History
Description: This collection provides access to key events in the history of European maritime exploration from c.1420-1920 and features rare manuscript and early printed material, illustrated maps and documents, diaries and ships' logs.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Theatre Arts
Description: The collection presents classics of the Western canon, modern works by American luminaries, originally commissioned plays, and high profile docudramas—by both renowned and emerging playwrights. LMU has access to Volume 2.
Contents: Streaming Audio
Subjects: History
Description: Early Modern England is a collection of digitized primary sources illustrating society, culture, and everyday life in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection aims to cover the experiences of “ordinary” and prominent people. Material types in this collection include court records, family papers and correspondence, administrative records, wills and inventories, diaries, tax records, trade records, governance records, commonplace books, printed books with handwritten annotations, and more.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: History
Description: East India Company is a collection of the digitized India Office Records held by the British Library in London. These are the archives of the London administration of the East India Company and the pre-1947 government of India. These records offer a British colonial perspective of the East India Company's global activities. LMU has access to Modules 1-6.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Theatre Arts
Description: Eighteenth Century Drama is primarily a collection of digitized play manuscripts; it includes nearly every play submitted for license in the United Kingdom from 1737-1824.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: History
Description: Digitized primary sources documenting British travel to the European continent from the 16th through the 19th centuries. These travels influenced British art, architecture, urban planning, literature, and philosophy. Material types include letters, diaries and journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings and sketches, architectural drawings, and maps.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: History
Description: Interwar Culture showcases popular and lesser-known periodicals published across Britain, the United States, France and Australia during the interwar period (1919-1940). With articles covering culture, entertainment, fashion, home and family life, world current affairs, class, social and welfare issues, these historically significant and highly visual magazines provide a rich insight into these dynamic yet turbulent decades, as well as allowing examination of a burgeoning media industry that both shaped and reflected society. LMU has access to Module 1 (the 1920s) and Module 2 (the 1930s).
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines
Subjects: Classics & Archaeology, English
Description: The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown. This collection makes them available online, and includes unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings that trace the inspiration and genesis behind the period’s greatest works.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Communication Studies
Description: The Stationers' Company Archive contains digitized primary source documents about the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishments of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. Documents date from 1554 to the 21st century.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: History, Classics & Archaeology
Description: A digital collection bringing to life the streets of Victorian London. From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares is included. Contains children’s chapbooks, street cries, and slang dictionaries.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: History
Description: The Macmillan Cabinet Papers provides coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) (CAB 128) and memoranda (CAB 129) of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s government, as well as selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees (CAB 134).
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Classics & Archaeology
Description: A primary source collection of digitized manuscripts and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization (from 1937 to the mid-1950's), as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features. LMU has access to the original module, plus Updates 1-4.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Classics & Archaeology
Description: Mass Observation Project (1981-2009) provides digital access to a unique life-writing archive, capturing the everyday experiences, thoughts and opinions of people living through the turbulent final decades of the 20th century and the advent of the 21st century. LMU has access to Module 1 (1980s), Module 2 (1990s), and Module 3 (2000s).
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Classics & Archaeology, History, Psychology, Sociology
Description: This resource contains full color images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise the Paston Family Papers letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, c1400-1490. The Paston Family Papers have long been a subject of both literary and historical interest. They are Britain’s first surviving records of private correspondence, describing everyday life in East Anglia during the Wars of the Roses.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: History
Description: From the century of immigration, through to the modern era, Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history. Explore the rise and fall of the New Zealand Company, discover British, European and Asian migration and investigate unique primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organizational papers. LMU has access to Modules 1 and 2.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Music
Description: nkoda is a digital music score collection that allows you to access the complete scores catalogues from over 125 major global music publishers including, Boosey & Hawkes, Breitkopf & Härtel, Bärenreiter, Durand, Faber, G Schirmer, Novello, Ricordi, Salabert, Simrock, and more.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Dance, Music, Theatre Arts
Description: A website providing HD-quality contemporary performance films available for streaming. Filmed at the On the Boards center, as well as peer theaters across the United States, the performances present a snapshot of the newest works by current leaders in dance, theater, and music.
Contents: Streaming Audio; Streaming Video
Subjects: Business, Economics
Description: A collection of objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Contents: Industry Ratios; Industry Reports; Primary Sources
Subjects: Women's and Gender Studies
Description: Covering a century, the database highlights and evaluates activism through individual efforts, organizational initiatives, and socio-cultural projects led by or for women in the Global South. It shows how women have negotiated power and status regarding private or public programs centered on their rights and social inclusion.
Contents: Primary Sources
Subjects: Women's and Gender Studies
Description: Using themes related to empire as a new way to explore modern historical movements, Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires provides users with more than 75,000 pages of highly curated text-based documents. Seen through the eyes of the women who shaped our history, this collection provides a new perspective on the global patterns that have shaped our world.
Contents: Primary Sources