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Trial ends: 19th October 2023.
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.
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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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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:
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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Trial ends: 14th October 2023.
The Film and Media collection spans feature films, experimental films, documentaries and interviews with film practitioners (Jane Campion, Milos Forman, Nicolas Roeg, Len Lye, Joseph Losey, Robert Altman, Lindsay Anderson, Agnes Varda, Alfred Hitchcock, the Maysles Brothers), and documentaries on sound and lighting, television editing and beyond. Highlights include ground-breaking avant-garde films by Fluxus, Chris Petit and others.
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Archive coverage: 1949-2010)
Launched on June 16, 1949 by the China Democratic League, Guangming Ribao (光明日报) originally represented the eight minority “democratic” parties in China. In 1957, the newspaper reported widely on the various forums critical of the Communist Party which followed Mao Zedong’s call to “let one hundred flowers bloom.” As a result, the paper was severely criticized in the Anti-Rightist Movement (1958) that followed. The paper then joined the mainstream of party publications. Today, Guangming Ribao is an influential daily, specifically in the fields of science and technology, education and culture, with readership among state agencies, universities and schools, the armed forces and in intellectual circles. With correspondents resident in many countries worldwide, Guangming ribao also reports on international news from a Chinese perspective.
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Trial ends: 14th October 2023.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers empowers researchers to travel back through centuries and become eyewitnesses to history. Every issue of each title includes full-page images in easily downloadable PDFs. Researchers can study the progression of views, events, people, and places over time through these historical newspaper pages, including articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, editorial cartoons and more.
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RetroNews is 2,000 press titles of French press published from 1631 to 1950, editorial contents (articles, long formats, video, audio) highlighting press archives and advanced research tools.
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