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Trial ends: 16th May 2024.
Archive coverage: 1914-1942, 1946-current
The Rafu Shimpo (羅府新報, L.A. Japanese Daily News) is the longest-running Japanese American newspaper in the United States. The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. By the 1940s it was the most widely circulated paper in the region and included a weekly English section for second generation Japanese Americans. With the onset of World War II, the paper was forced to cease publication after its publisher, H. Toyosaku Komai, and most of the Komai family were arrested and interned for the duration of the war. The Rafu Shimpo quickly revived publication after the war and capitalized on being the first Japanese American newspaper to resume publication in January of 1946. The newspaper outlasted all its local competitors and grew to become the most prominent and preeminent Japanese American publication in the United States.
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Trial ends: 23rd April 2024.
Pressreader’s content covers a large selection of international newspapers and magazines, from 150 countries, in 70 languages, spanning 7000 titles.
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Trial ends: 30th April 2024.
Access World News Research Collection: Includes a combination of international, national, regional, and local news, supporting a diverse range of research needs across an array of academic disciplines. Covering current and archived news content (with backfiles beginning in the 1980s) from more than 14,200 sources spanning 200+ countries and territories across the following regions:
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- North America,
- United Kingdom, Ireland, and Europe,
- Australia and New Zealand,
- Asia and Middle East,
- Africa,
- Central America, South America.
Access World News Research Collection delivers primary source information for academic research and coursework across the curriculum including history, political science, business and economics, health sciences, religion, communications and journalism, women’s studies, and more. Combining all formats in one interface: full-text articles, web-only content, PDF-image editions. Providing researchers with seamless access to deep, comprehensive local & international coverage.
NewsBank also has a series of introductory and how-to videos on its you tube channel. Here are a few recommendations to help get you started:
- NewsBank’s value for public libraries – video;
- How to conduct a Basic Search – video.
- How to narrow your search – video.
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Censorship: Practice and Policy during the Second World War explores British postal and telegraph censorship throughout a pivotal era of modern history. The collection contains images drawn from Ministry of Defence files at The National Archives. It begins by surveying the first tentative steps that were taken, following the outbreak of conflict in 1939, to implement and to co-ordinate censorship. Documents reveal how hastily-assembled censorship teams looked back to the First World War for lessons and instructional precedents whilst adapting to the major technological developments that had occurred since. The work undertaken by censorship units — which necessitated keeping a close eye on all communications that could reveal sensitive or dangerous information to the enemy — soon became one of the most important, if somewhat underappreciated, fronts in the so-called “secret war”. Censorship became a wide-ranging, international endeavour. It involved not just Britain, but also the Dominions, colonies, allies (including the USA), and neutral states such as Ireland. Censorship teams sprung-up across the globe, typically employing local people, especially women. Censors from a wide variety of backgrounds became adept at breaking codes and recognising suspect material, even if it was cleverly concealed.
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Trial ends: 31st March 2024.
The Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library is an online collection for the interdisciplinary study of dress and costume history, design and making. It brings together resources, including primary source material, authoritative scholarly books and reference works, practical costume-making guides, overview articles, and videos analysing garments in detail, together with a timeline of costume through the ages. Students and researchers of dress history, film and theatre costume, costume design and construction will find an array of material to support their work. This collection aims to promote the study of historical dress via an object-based approach, highlighting the paramount importance of historical accuracy for students and researchers alike.
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Trial ends: 18th April 2024.
To access nkoda, it is necessary to download their APP. Links to instructions to do this are available via the Library Catalogue link above.
nkoda is a digital, interactive, sheet music application, which provides access to scores, performance & education resources.
Video tutorials on making the best use of nkoda are available here!
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Trial ends: 13th October 2023.
Archive coverage: 1872-1949
Established in 1872, Shen Bao (申報, historically transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao) was the most influential and longest lasting commercial newspaper before the establishment of the People’s Republic. Published in Shanghai until 1949, Shen Bao was founded by Englishman Ernest Major, but, uniquely, as a newspaper for Chinese readers, written by Chinese reporters. During its existence, Shen Bao gradually shifted from a conservative to a more liberal perspective, and played a pivotal role in the formation of public opinion in the imperial period and into the tumultuous beginnings of modern China. Shen Bao’s innovations in printing technologies, specialized use of the telegraph, and dispatch of special military correspondents gave it an edge.
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Trial ends: 13th October 2023.
Archive coverage: 1946-2012
Renmin Ribao (人民日报, People’s Daily) is the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the central newspaper of record for the modern Chinese state. Since its founding in 1946, Renmin Ribao has published the official policies and viewpoints of China’s central government and has been the voice of the upper echelons of power in the People’s Republic of China. Renmin Ribao publishes authoritative reports by government and party leaders, politically oriented speeches and articles, and covers major events at home and abroad. The newspaper is also important for the editorials, regarded as rather authoritative statements of government policy, covering politics and culture, communist theory and philosophy, and Marxist economics.
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Trial ends: 10th November 2023.
RRIMO provides online access to the seven ongoing Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American (including MUSA), and Oral Traditions. Titles in the series Collegium Musicum: Yale University are also included in RRIMO.
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Trial ends: 28th October 2023.
Please Note: Access to this trial is via the same landing page as our access to Wiley’s Royal Geographical Society collection. The trial is only to Wiley’s Environmental Science & History Collection.
Wiley Digital Archives: Environmental Science and History focuses on critical aspects of anthropogenic change, with unique and rare archival collections from multiple, global sources.
This archive includes collections from the following primal sources:
- Royal Botanic Gardens,
- The National Archives (UK),
- The Commonwealth Forestry Institute,
- CAB International (CABI),
- Royal Entomological Society,
- Ecological Society of America.
The collection contains approximately one million pages/images of primary sources, derived from new scanning and digitization, featuring data-heavy collections on Deforestation, Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries (Food Production); Ecology, Botany, Biodiversity, and Extinction; Insect Science; Water Sources, Irrigation, Wetlands, and Hydrology.
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