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DataCite Metadata Search

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Searchable database of over 14 million (as of March 2019) metadata records for works that have been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), including datasets, texts, and images. (For background information on DOIs, see https://subjectguides.library.american.edu/dois).

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941-1996 and Annexes

New

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports are U.S. government transcriptions and translations of radio broadcasts from foreign countries. Annexes comprise an additional 7,000 transcripts to the Daily Reports. The modern successor to the FBIS Daily Reports is the World News Connection.

L'Année philologique

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A specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics. Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, and science.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Victorian Literature

New

Authoritative guide to the literature and current research in this subject area.

Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

Trial

We have access to part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, part III: The Institution of Slavery, and part IV: The Age of Emancipation. Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
This database contains:
5.4 million cross-searchable pages: 12049 books, 170 serials, 71 manuscript collections, 377 supreme court records and briefs, and 194 reference articles
Please provide an evaluation on the Database Feedback Form. | Collection Manager: Martin Shapiro | Expires: November 30, 2020 https://link.gale.com/apps/SAS?u=wash11212&id=wash11212

Westlaw Campus Research

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Legal research tool for United State law at the federal and state level. Search by jurisdiction or practice area. Focus is on primary legal sources, with treatise and news content for additional context.