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11/27/07 -
Produced by the renowned Cornell Ornithological Laboratory, Birds of North America is an online database of all known species of birds found in Canada and the United States. It updates the multivolume print set that was a classic in the field.
The BNA website states that: "Now as an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BNA is poised to become a living resource...
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11/6/07 -
The Bibliography of Native North Americans(BNNA) is currently on trial, through Jan. 4, 2008, for the UCR community. It is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.
This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, lege...
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11/2/07 -
Empire Online is a full text database with original primary source documents and images, as well as scholarly essays covering the British Empire from 1492 to 1969. The Empire includes Africa, the Americas, Australia, Oceania, and South Asia.
The material is divided into 5 sections : 1) Cultura...
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9/11/07 -
An essential tool for anthropologists, ethnologists and historians conducting research in Native American studies, the Papers of John Peabody Harrington are a rich, extensive collection of field notes on the cultures of Native American tribes. Educated at Stanford and the University of California, Mr. Harrington worked for the Smithsonian Institute American Bureau of Ethnography. While...
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7/24/07 -
The Encyclopedia of Taiwan, also known as Taiwan Literature Series (Chinese name:台灣文獻叢刊), edited by Chou, Hsien-Wen, former Dean of Law School, National Taiwan University, is an online database of Taiwan's history. It contains 595 books divided into 309 categories with total 48 million Chinese characters.
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7/1/07 -
Whether you're writing a critical essay, researching a paper, or you just want to be better informed, you'll find a variety of information in Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Questions like the ones listed below are addressed in this handy new resource available from UCR Libraries.
Should professional athletes be held up as role models?
Will same sex marriage harm society...
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6/18/07 -
The UCR Libraries and the California Digital Library are pleased to announce that the backfile for the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences is now available via Blackwell Synergy.
UCSF purchased this backfile for the entire UC system with end-of-year funds. The backfile begins with Volume 1, Issue 1 (December 1879). The range of scientific ...
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6/6/07 -
The Qur'ān is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world’s population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'ānic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire ...
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5/1/07 -
Researchers now can search through the back issues of one of the best known newspapers in the world, Times Digital Archive, 1785 - 1985.
Considered as the "world's newspaper of record, " the Times has covered all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. And the entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements, birth/death notices, and ...
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4/2/07 -
Medievalist rejoice!
The Middle English Compendium, the electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography of Middle English and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse is now available.
The Middle English Dictionary's 15,000 pages which covers the period from 1100-1500 is now searchable in ways that a print dictionary (Rivera Reference PE679...
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