Early European Books

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first hand accounts, and unparallelled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

The trials will run from Jan 24 – Feb 23 2013. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback please send to ereport at yorku dot ca

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years.

Each week The Current Digest of the Chinese Press presents a collection of articles from Chinese newspapers on such topics as politics, international relations, security, economics, business, public health, environment, education, culture and more. Articles in the Current Digest are selected from a wide variety of sources in China, all of which are explicitly targeted on a domestic – not foreign – audience. Each article is translated into English.

Please send your comments to ereport at yorku dot ca. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

You can access the trial here: http://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin.html

The trial will run until Nov 21.

The following modules are included in this trial:

• Anatomy & Physiology Online Extended
• Primal Pictures Manual Therapy
• Primal Pictures 3D Real-Time Viewer
• Primal Pictures Pelvic Floor Disorders
• Primal Pictures Yoga

You can access the trial here: http://oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/

If you have any questions about the trial you can email ereport at yorku dot ca

The New York Review of Books is now available electronically at York University Libraries. Beginning in the 1960s, The New York Review’s early issues included articles by such writers as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Robert Penn Warren, Lilian Hellman, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell, Truman Capote, William Styron, and Mary McCarthy. Today, every two weeks the Review publishes essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film—from Woody Allen’s Manhattan to Kurosawa’s version of King Lear.

The documents of Confidential Print: Latin America cover the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Covering revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples, amongst other topics, the files in this title are designed for any scholar of Latin American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Academic Charts Online contains tools that allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions. You can also listen to audio samples for each track and album.

We recently added Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 to our collection of Adam Matthew Digital products.

Spanning the full era of the modern European colonisation of Africa, from the occupation of Algeria by France, through increasing British presence on the west African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Berlin Conference which set off the ‘Scramble for Africa’, the high-water mark of economic exploitation of Africans in the Congo Free State, rivalries amongst European powers and the era of withdrawal that followed the Second World War, Confidential Print: Africa serves as a resource for academics, students and researchers studying modern Africa and its recent history.