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National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile

The database National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933–1945 starts the series of 20th century German history online. The database provides fundamental primary sources on the following topics:

• National Socialist state and policy, ideology and propaganda
• National Socialist justice and legislation
• History of the NSDAP
• Holocaust
• Resistance and persecution in the “Third Reich”
• Annihilation and expulsion
• Deportation and exile

This database represents the first online research centre for extensive academic studies of the “Third Reich” with unique collections of primary sources including:

• Administration files and correspondence from the highest authorities of the “Third Reich”, especially from the party chancellery of the NSDAP
• Situation and status reports of the secret state police authorities from the Reich and the annexed and occupied territories
• Indictments and judgements from NS courts at which thousands of cases of high treason against the opponents of the regime were heard
• Adolf Hitler’s speeches, writings and orders from 1925 to 1945
• Joseph Goebbels’ diaries from 1923 to 1945
• Expatriation and deportation lists

This database can be searched in both English and German.

Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more.

This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 3,100 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years.

Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe

Based in Luxembourg, the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) is an interdisciplinary research and documentation centre dedicated to the European integration process.

Its mission is to create, share and valorise knowledge in an innovative digital environment.  As such, the CVCE’s digital collections contain a wide range of previously unpublished documents, oral accounts, contemporary film footage, analytical material and scholarly articles that document the European integration process.

America: History & Life

America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.

America: History and Life also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

In cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, EBSCO Publishing created European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750, a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. The database contains more than 32,000 records, and covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

The authoritative bibliography is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide, and a valuable index for libraries, researchers and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. It was co-developed by John Alden and the Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library, Dennis Landis. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a centre for advanced research in history and the humanities.

Credo Reference History

Credo Reference provides authoritative content that covers every major subject – from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. The award-winning titles in Credo Reference are from over eighty of the world’s leading academic publishers. Proposed content undergoes a highly-selective process before being chosen for the Credo platform and is selected from a range of reference types – including general and subject encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more. Credo’s collections are continuously updated to reflect the most relevant, up-to-date content.

Credo Reference’s technology enhances the content by adding millions of cross-reference links – related entries – that cut across topics, titles and publishers to deliver accurate, contextual results from across the entire collection. The Concept Map, a data visualization tool, is ideal for visual learners for brainstorming and the discovery of related content.

Some of the titles provided in Credo Reference’s History Collection are:

• The 9/11 Encyclopaedia
• Chambers Dictionary of World History
• Dictionary of British History
• A Guide to the Ancient World
• Who Was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle

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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online offers a liberal and scholarly overview of the whole sphere of economic thought.  It is a dynamic resource tailored for researchers in economics.  The dictionary also offers non-economists the opportunity to find more information on issues that impact on them or to enhance their knowledge of a particular subject area from an economic perspective. Historians, for example, will find the biographies of key figures particularly interesting, and people in the field of international relations will find the economic look at terrorism, world trade and foreign aid an excellent addition to current literature.

The dictionary is a dynamic resource which:

• offers excellent search and browse facilities, both full text and advanced;
• contains hyper-linked cross-references within articles, making it an indispensable tool for researchers and students;
• features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites, sources of further information and bibliographical citations;
• enables users to bookmark searches and articles, along with their own notes, in My Dictionary, or add links to articles on social bookmarking sites;

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EconLit

As the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature, EconLit —the American Economic Association’s electronic database—adheres to the high-quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides links to articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

EconLit indexes six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. These sources bring the total records available on the database to more than one million.

OECD iLibrary

As one of the most comprehensive online resources on the world economy, society, education and environment, OECD iLibrary is a powerful tool for people working at academic institutions, in the private sector and at governmental or non-governmental organisations.

OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, The International Energy Agency (IEA), The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), The OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and The International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 – over 1 200 journal issues, 3 300 working papers, 2 900 multi-lingual summaries, 7 700 e-book titles, 16 000 tables and graphs, 25 000 chapters and articles, and 480 complete databases with more than 4.5 billion data points.

Emerald Management Plus

Emerald Management Plus offers a growing collection of high quality, peer reviewed articles from over 230 online business and management journals, spanning 24 subject areas. New titles in the field of management are automatically available as soon as they are published.

In the Economics arena, Emerald Management Plus provides full-text access to the following journals:

Agricultural Finance Review

• China Agricultural Economic Review
• Humanomics
• Indian Growth and Development Review
• International Journal of Development Issues
• International Journal of Manpower
• International Journal of Social Economics
• Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies
• Journal of Economic Studies
• Journal of Financial Economic Policy

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