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Bibliography covering publications on the art and architecture, archaeology, inscriptions, coins, and crafts of South and Southeast Asia.
Collection of basic science, clinical rotation, medicine, and post-graduate level cases from the McGraw-Hill Case Files series. Includes anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, anesthesiology, surgery, critical care, etc.
Features hundreds of trusted anesthesiology resources, including books, review questions, cases, videos, study tools, and more.
Contains 14 full-run newspapers recording the African American experience in the 1800s, including Freedom's Journal, The Christian Recorder, and The North Star.
Documents the African American experience in the segregated South from Reconstruction to the Jazz Age. Contains 16 full-run newspapers, including The Bee, The Educator, and The Pioneer Press.
Provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted “American Bibliography, 1801-1819” by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
Includes African History and Culture, 1540-1921: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia; American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I; Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia; Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans; Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the American Antiquarian Society; Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker; Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplements 1-3 from the American Antiquarian Society; Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Contains archival records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). UCLA has licensed Module 1: Liberation Movements, Solidarity and Activism, which focuses on the founder George M. Houser from 1953 to his retirement in 1981, and Module 2: Anti-Apartheid Movements and Democracy, which explores the committee under Jennifer Davis from 1981 to its later years.
More than sixty newspapers, dating 1826-1876, covering urban life, criminal activity, and the underground economy and literature of the 19th century.
Expands the scope of Architecture Design & Practice Online, providing more in-depth coverage in areas of design guidance and technical detail. Part of Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Art Song Transpositions provides access to over 12,000 art songs and Baroque aria pdfs. Users may find transpositions that have been professionally translated into different keys.
Focuses on women artists, artists of color, art and feminism, masculinity, class, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and related topics. Part of Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Digital collection of primary source documents from and about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage. UCLA has licensed Series 1: 1704-1941 and Series 2: 1942-2017.
Transcripts of original radio and television broadcasts, translated into English and summarized by BBC Monitoring. Includes nearly 70,000 individual multi-page reports containing real-time coverage of world events, from the start of WWII to the early 21st century (1939-2001). UCLA has licensed Series 1 through Series 4 (1939-2001).
Includes titles from the BFI Film Classics book series, which covers landmarks of world cinema from the silent era to the 21st century. Titles cover a film's production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, and an account of its technical and aesthetic importance. UCLA has licensed the 2021-2026 BFI Film Classics collections.
A reference covering all aspects of new media art, its history, theory, practice, cultural context, and curation.
Provides comprehensive and authoritative information about the global history of food from pre-history to the present day. It includes collections on Global Food Histories, Global Food Cultures, Food Sustainability and Security, and includes the Bloomsbury Food Library: Core Collection. It contains reference sources, such as encyclopedias and handbooks, monographs, images, and digital content.
Covers women architects and their work, and includes key terms for gender and women’s rights in architecture from 1960 to 2020. Contains over 1,000 entries and 600 images across two volumes.
Provides scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day. Includes Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World and volumes from the 33 1/3 Series. Part of Bloomsbury Music and Sound.
Canadian perspective on California, Los Angeles, the British Commonwealth and beyond. UCLA has licensed the module Canadian History and Culture, Part 2 (1900–1970). Contains over 200,000 pages of digitized literary magazines, activist newspapers, art journals, newspapers, and cultural commentary. Coverage from 1900-1970.
Includes newspaper titles in English, French, Spanish, and Dutch from 1924 to 1952.
Contains all obtainable issues of three newspapers (Prapor peremohy, Tribuna Energetika, and Trybuna pratsi) published in towns in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and its immediate vicinity. Covers 1979-1990.
A selection of documentary and actuality film footage from the British Film Institute from 1900 through 1997, filmed through the eyes of predominantly Western travelers.
Database containing almost 2,500 records spanning 1922 to 1956. Collection of bulletins, letters, telegrams, and other documents originating from the Chinese Soviet Republic, a short-lived communist state founded by Mao Zedong and Zhu De on November 7, 1931.
Tool for managing and streamlining systematic reviews or evidence synthesis projects. Request an invitation at the link above by using your UCLA.edu email address. Sign up for a new account or link your existing account to UCLA Library's Covidence account by accepting the invitation that is emailed to you. If you already have a UCLA Library Covidence account, visit https://www.covidence.org/ to sign in.
An influential newspaper in post-independence Nigeria. Covers 1956 to 1994, with coverage from 1995 to 2001 forthcoming.
Ukrainian newspaper that encouraged journalism valuing democratic ideas and ideals. An important resource in charting the rise of an independent media landscape in Ukraine. Covers 1992 to 2020.
A collection of full-run magazines, newspapers, and films from Kenyan journalist Hilary Ng'weno. Includes The Weekly Review (1975-1999), The Nairobi Times (1977-1983), and The Kenyan Heritage Series.
Provides online, full text access to handbooks published by Elgar Publishing.
Covers music from across the globe and contains in-depth studies of the musical cultures of over 30 nations and regions. Part of Bloomsbury Music & Sound.
This bibliographic database indexes European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains thousands of entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Provides all issues of Food & Wine Magazine from 1978 through 2010. Covers recipes, food trends, the restaurant industry and global culinary news.
Collection of annuals, comics, magazines, and newspapers created to appeal to girls and young women throughout the twentieth century. Focuses on publications produced in the United Kingdom, Australia, and United States. UCLA has licensed Module I and Module II.
Covers developments in disease prevention, outbreak management, sanitation, and public welfare, as well as the spread and treatment of major epidemics and pandemics across the globe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Aggregates hard-to-find scientific, defense, engineering, and R&D reports from national laboratories and government-funded technical institutes around the world. Includes field trials, prototypes, methodological studies, and other content.
Newspaper founded in 1991 focusing on politics, policy, legislative matters, and economic issues affecting Ukraine. Includes all obtainable issues published from 1991 to 2024.
Digital news archive tracing how immigrants have been represented, debated, and understood across U.S. history. UCLA has licensed Series 1: 1705-1992.
Covers the origins of the American book trade through the archival records of US-based presses, bookstores, printers, booksellers, and more from the late eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.
A digital news archive covering Indigenous history. UCLA has licensed Series 1: 1690-1945 and Series 2: 1946-2016.
Covers art, news, politics, entertainment, and other social topics with an African-American focus, 1951-2014.
Newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Covers 1941-1947.
The Kālāpan Islamic Studies Module contains over 6,000 texts focusing on Islamic studies dating back to the 1830's. Texts are in Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Punjabi, and Saraiki languages.
Contains over 1,000 selected periodicals on Modern Buddhism, mainly those not held by the National Diet Library of Japan.
Provides access to records on psychotherapy in Japan left by Kokyo Nakamura, a novelist who studied under Sōseki Natsume and later became a psychiatrist.
Documents the everyday life, culture, and grassroots activism of Latina/o/x/e communities across the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward, with a focus on underrepresented identities including Latinas, LGBTQ+, and Afro-Latina/o/x/e.
Archive of American and global news publications covering the LGBTQ+ experience, from the early 18th century to 2021. UCLA has licensed Series 1: 1705-1992 and Series 2: 1993-2021.
Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. This collection consists of the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation in the 1980s and 1990s and the thousands of responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers.
Includes 90 titles covering global perspectives on Modern Art. Styles covered include Abstract Expressionism, DADA, Avant Garde, Pop Art, and Surrealism. Part of Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
An English-language journal for researchers to gain insight into the inner workings of Russia’s military and defense industry. Contains the complete run of the journal, from 2004 to 2018, with one special issue published in 2019.
Published in Kyiv, this Ukrainian-language publication details the creation, reform, and redevelopment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a particular focus on military training, international military cooperation, and social benefits for servicemen and their family members. Covers 1991 to 2018.
Published in Kyiv, Narodna hazeta was a pro-independence, anti-communist newspaper that provided detailed coverage of the lead-up to the first democratic elections held in the Ukrainian SSR. Covers 1990 to 2009.
One of the most popular newspapers in the early years of Ukrainian independence, Nezavisimost’ covered domestic and international politics, business and economic affairs, and popular culture, becoming a lively outlet for social and political commentary, opinion and analysis. Covers 1991 to 2002.
Provides primary source material from archival collections in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia to reveal the shifting and expanding theatre world of the nineteenth century.
The world’s largest digital library of sheet music, with over 30 million pages of music ready to view, annotate and share. Search content, browse curated playlists and discover new music using unique smart technology. New individual users will need to create an account with nkoda to access content and features.
Captures and preserves the policies, reports, and debates from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Includes over 5 million documents and covers 2000–present.
Contains publications of the Organization of American States, the world's oldest regional organization, whose membership consists of 34 independent countries of the Americas and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Using this resource with a generative artificial intelligence solution is not permitted.
Primarily digitized content from microfiche covered in the Index to Current Urban Documents 1972-2007. More than 5 million pages of previously undigitized documents open a window onto the social history of the second half of the twentieth century. The content comes from more than 900 organizations across North America.
Hard-to-find public health and social care research materials from health providers, hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioners, governments, think tanks, and other organizations.
Documents community action in practice through the everyday work of groups fighting poverty. Captures newsletters, websites, street papers, videos, podcasts, social media campaigns, outreach flyers, and advocacy reports from more than 100 countries.
Newspaper published in Guatemala City. Contains all obtainable published issues from 1951 to 2021.
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database with coverage of scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences literature. Covers 330 disciplines and includes 2.6+ billion cited references dating back to 1970.
An influential film magazine in Russia and the post-Soviet space, covering trends in the industry, film criticism, and film studies. This archive covers issues published from 1990 to 2025.
Includes early Shakespearean cinematic adaptations drawn from the British Film Institute's archives. Covers films made between 1899 and 1927 from Western Europe, the United States, and Australia.
Ebook collection covering all aspects of sound design practice. Part of Bloomsbury Music and Sound.
Covers an array of topics in the study of sound, from sonic theory and technology to natural sound and sound in art and culture. Part of Bloomsbury Music & Sound.
Illustrated magazine spotlighting the life of women in the USSR. Contains all obtainable published issues from 1945 to 1991.
Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified. Covers 1925-2025.
Includes over 60 cornerstone titles in art theory from a range of prominent theorists and movements alongside new, previously unpublished material. Covers topics including art therapy, censorship, art and technology, feminism, art and death, advertising, humor, as well as art and the sciences. Part of Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Comprehensive encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Humanities, organized as a set of interconnected encyclopedias.
The most complete and easy-to-use 3D human body reference and study tool. Explore general anatomy, functional units, cross sections, muscle attachments, bony landmarks, muscle actions and more.
For instructions on setting up an account and using the tool, please visit the Cengage guide to Visible Body.
Over 50 titles covering visual culture and photography across art history, digital media, theory, and representation from Early Modern perspectives to contemporary visual practices. Part of Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Known as the “paper of record” for Washington, D.C. Covers December 16, 1852 to August 7, 1981.
Research platform publishing collaborative volumes on works of philosophy from antiquity to the present.
Founded in July 1990 in L’viv as an outlet of the Regional Council of Workers' Deputies with the stated purpose of uniting national-patriotic forces and Ukrainian ideals. Covers 1990 to 2007.