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Watch full episodes of the PBS series American Experience, which "brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present".
Added July 2009
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Several collections of historical film footage covering such topics as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, early animated films, Coca-Cola advertising, Presidential Inaugurations, etc.
Added August 2009
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Annenberg Media videos are intended for use by teachers, but many are ideal for use in the classroom or for viewing at home. Videos with a VoD icon are available for streaming (click on the program title to see if it has the icon).
Added July 2009
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More than 137,000 pages of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-71.
Added April 2009
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The Archaeology Channel is
a streaming-media website for sharing the important messages of archaeology and indigenous peoples. The site includes a Teacher Resources area that includes lesson plans and other kinds of information designed to assist teachers in employing archaeology in the classroom.
Added August 2009
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AtoZ Maps Online provides a diverse range of maps, including modern outline, political, thematic, topographic (including USGS), scientific, and animated maps, as well as tens of thousands of antique maps of the world, individual countries, U.S. states, and U.S. towns and cities.
A key benefit is that users can download, modify, and use any of the maps however they wish, including use in print and electronic reports, with no copyright restrictions.
Added October 2009
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Includes links to the following medieval bibliographies, Latin full-text databases, a medieval directory, and a Latin dictionary:
• Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
• Aristoteles Latinus Database
• Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale
• Cross Database Searchtool
• Database of Latin Dictionaries
• International Directory of Medievalists
• International Medieval Bibliography
• Library of Latin Texts - Series A
• Library of Latin Texts - Series B
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Added February 2009
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Business, Educational, and Psychology/Psychiatry directories that can be used to help identify journals likely to publish research. They also contain information that can shorten the time required to prepare a manuscript for submission. Includes:
• Accounting, 10th ed.
• Economics & Finance, 10th ed.
• Educational Curriculum & Methods, 8th ed.
• Educational Psychology & Administration, 8th ed.
• Educational Technology & Library Science, 1st ed.
• Management, 10th ed.
• Marketing, 10th ed.
• Psychology & Psychiatry, 2nd ed.
Added March 2009
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Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of the Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic, religious, and social history as well as literature about selected countries and topics.
Added November 2009
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Interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions. Episodes and segments are available back as far as 1993.
Added August 2009
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These large-scale plans of a city or town were created to assist fire insurance companies assess the risk associated with insuring a particular property. This collection includes 660,000 maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
Added April 2009
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ebrary Academic Complete is a collection of nearly 45,000 e-books in a broad range of subjects. Titles are available from more than 150 publishers, including Brill, Cambridge, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Johns Hopkins University Press, MIT, Taylor & Francis, Palgrave-MacMillan, and more. The ebrary QuickView Reader works in a browser, so no software installation or download is required. Features include the ability to add titles to a personal bookshelf, highlight text, take notes, and integrate with RefWorks and EndNote.
Added September 2009
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International coverage of around 118,000 films and 685,000 film personalities from over 170 countries. Includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists. All eras of film-making are covered - from the early silent movies to recent box-office hits.
Added April 2009
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Folkstreams is an online national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. The films were produced by independent filmmakers in an age that began in the 1960s and was made possible by the development of portable cameras and the capacity for synch sound. These films focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities.
Added August 2009
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FRONTLINE is a weekly PBS documentary program "covering the scope and complexity of the human experience". View full episodes as far back as 1983. The Frontline site includes lesson plans and activities to accompany use of the documentaries in the classroom.
Added July 2009
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A comprehensive cultural, business, and travel database with in-depth coverage of 175 countries.
Major categories include:
• Society and Culture (What are taboo gifts in Saudi Arabia?)
• Food and Recipes (What are classic dishes in Iceland and how do I make them?)
• Communications (Will my cell phone work in Zimbabwe?)
• Travel (What are notable places to visit in Japan?)
• Business Culture (What should I expect at a business meeting in India?)
• Money and Banking (What do banknotes and coins look like in Indonesia?)
• Country Maps (9 downloadable maps per country)
• and more than 20 other topics with integrated photographs.
Added October 2009
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Career and Employment Resources including:
• Country Career Guides
• USA City Career Guides
• Job Postings and internship listings
• H1B Visa Employers
• Key Employer Directory
Added May 2009
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Google Magazines is a collection of more than 80 popular magazines such as Black World, Jazz Times, Mac Life, The Rotarian, Torque, and Yoga. Issues are at least a year old and coverage varies (for example, there are more than 1800 issues of Life and issues are available for Popular Science back to 1927. Magazines can be both browsed and searched.
Added November 2009
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Includes a broad range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.
Added April 2009
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Indexes to and abstracts of Congressional committee publications, including hearings, committee prints, reports, documents, and public laws. It includes the full text of reports and documents (1789-1969), hearings (1833-2003), Congressional Record (1985-), Statutes at Large (1789-), and Federal Register (1980-) as well as the current U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations.
Added February 2009
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Tens of thousands of hard-to-find scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books, and periodicals. Choose to search any combination of Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Added February 2009
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The Living Room Candidate includes more than 300 commercials from every presidential election since 1952.
Added August 2009
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MORE offers lesson plans aligned with the Michigan curriculum requirements. Users can select Content Expectations and navigate through subjects to locate online resources tied to curriculum requirements.
Added April 2009
Middle East Online Series 1 and 2
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Moving Image Archive at the Internet Archive includes thousands of movies, films, and videos from such topics as animation, technology, full-length feature films and classic shorts, open source movies, sports videos, and video game videos. Many videos are available for free download.
Added August 2009
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More than 300 videos from the Apollo Missions to the most recent space shuttle and space station missions.
Added August 2009
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A selection of historical video clips from the National Archives. Includes NASA History, United Newsreel motion pictures, and Department of the Interior motion pictures.
Added August 2009
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Nearly 300 videos and video clips from National Geographic about the environment, music, science, travel, and culture.
Added August 2009
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Full episodes of the PBS series Nature and behind-the-scenes video exclusives with filmmakers and producers. Also includes fun interactive content, teacher lesson plans, and more.
Added July 2009
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Watch full episodes of NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW, PBS series about science and technology. Includes episodes as far back as 2001 and teacher guides.
Added July 2009
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NOW on PBS is a weekly newsmagazine composed of documentary segments and interviews about the most important issues facing democracy, including media policy, corporate accountability, civil liberties, the environment, politics, social responsibility, and foreign affairs. Includes video back at least to 2004, transcripts to 2002, and ideas for using NOW in classrooms.
Added July 2009
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The NewsHour was the nation's first hour-long nightly broadcast of national news and has received virtually every significant award for quality television and outstanding journalism. The Online NewsHour includes shows and transcripts as far back as 1996. Also includes teacher resources, including lesson plans.
Added August 2009
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OpinionArchives is an electronic archive for leading journals of opinion. Journals that can be searched with OpinionArchives include Commonweal, Dissent, Harper's, The Nation, National Review, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker among others.
Added July 2009
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Provides succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance compiled by faculty members at Oxford and other universities, think-tanks, and institutes. Three new articles added each day.
Added May 2009
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Panorama is the world's longest running current affairs program featuring interviews and investigative reports on a variety of topics. Episodes from the past year of this BBC series are available online.
Added August 2009
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An index to over 14 million articles in more than 4,250 humanities and social science journals from their first issues through 1995. Includes full text of articles for 650 of the journals covered. Covers many older journals not indexed electronically anywhere else.
Added April 2009
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Contains subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. Includes:
• Archäologische Bibliographie (aktualisierte Version des Realkatalogs), 1956 - October 2008.
• Sachkatalog der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission Frankfurt, 1992 - December 2007
• Zugangsverzeichnis des Deutsche Archäologischen Institutes Madrid, 1991 - 2002
• Monographien der Bibliographie zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte Europas (RGK), 1992 - 2006
• Eurasienbibliographie des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
(German only)
Maximum of four simultaneous users.
Added December 2008
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Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in chemistry and chemical engineering published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Added December 2008
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More than 80 authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias in many subject areas.
Added May 2009
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International multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Coverage includes journals, patents, and websites (18,000+ titles) from more than 5,000 publishers. It also searches some of the arts and humanities CSA databases which include:
• ARTBibliographies Modern, back to 1974
• DAAI: Design and Applied Art Index, back to 1973
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, back to 1962
• Sociological Abstracts, back to 1952
• World Wide Political Science Abstracts, back to 1975
• Social Service Abstracts, back to 1979
You can do cited reference searching, citation analysis, get h-factor for authors, journal analyzing, etc.
Added August 2009
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SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that enables non-technical users to quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business, and marketing data.
Added February 2009
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The Sixties brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. The database currently has over 35,000 pages.
Added June 2009
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SME Technical Papers provides online access to more than 17,000 individual papers. Papers report best practices, ongoing advancements and industry trends within manufacturing. New papers are added quarterly.
Added June 2009
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The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing access to more than 275,000 technical papers from the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers journals and conference proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually. Note: eBooks are not available.
Added September 2009
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Synthesis is an innovative information service from Morgan & Claypool Publishers for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science. Synthesis consists of 50- to 100-page electronic books written by experts in the field synthesizing important research or development topics.
Added December 2008
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Tavis Smiley is a PBS television show that covers news, issues, and entertainment, featuring interviews with artists, activists, news makers, politicians, and everyday people. Episodes are available back to 2004.
Added July 2009
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"A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world
- for you to view, listen to, stream or download."
Added August 2009
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Washington Week is the longest-running primetime news & public affairs program on television. The program features a group of journalists participating in roundtable discussion of major news events. The video archive is searchable and includes shows as far back as 2000 while transcripts are available back to 2008.
Added August 2009
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