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 | Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) Provides access to family history via documents from North America, the U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and more. Contains census information, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, and maps. |
 | Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) Historical coverage of the world from 1450+ (excluding US & Canada). Leading bibliography for historical study in the world with 2,000+ international journals. |
| JSTOR Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, and the Ireland Collection. |
| Project MUSE Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers. |
| World History in Context A database of information on hundreds of significant people, events and topics in World History. Provides access to full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. |
History - additional resources
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| Academic OneFile Provides indexing/abstracting for over 12,500 journals and reference sources; over 5,000 in full-text and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. |
| Academic Video Online: VAST (Alexander Street Press) Academic Video Online cross-searches a package of video collections in 21 disciplines. The VAST content is growing steadily and will include access to 20,000 videos. |
| American History in Video (Alexander Street Press) A collection of video available online for the study of American history. The collection includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. |
 | Archway (Archives New Zealand) Over 1.5 million records. Please note that Archway does not yet provide on-line access to the text of the records themselves. It contains descriptive information of records, most of which can then be ordered from an Archives NZ office. |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Knowledge) A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. |
| Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century. Topics covered include British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection, the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and missionary activities in Asia. Documents were sourced from The National Archives, Kew, The National Archives, United States, and other international collections. |
| Australian Newspapers: Historic Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 An online service that enables full-text searching of newspaper articles. The service includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies. The first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the service. |
| Bibliography of British and Irish History Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. |
| Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records New Zealand Government records for births, deaths and marriages. The historic data is limited to protect people who might still be alive. Information available includes: Births that occurred at least 100 years ago; Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago; Marriages that occurred 80 years ago; Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago. |
| Brill Online Books and Journals Full text of 400 recent e-books in the humanities and social sciences in the following collections: Asian Studies; Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity; Classical Studies; European History and Culture; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy; Social Sciences. Also over 100 journals covering the Humanities, International Law and Biology and access to the Brill Journal Archive back to the earliest issues. |
| British Parliamentary Papers. Colonies : New Zealand This collection contains digitised despatches and reports relating to New Zealand from selected volumes of the British Parliamentary Papers. |
| British Politics and Society (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, British Politics and Society includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the 19th century. Topics covered include British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure. Consisting of more than 1.7 million pages, collections are from a variety of institutions, including the British Library, Oxford University and The National Archives, Kew. |
| British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, this archive covers a range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. It includes such topics as Victorian popular culture, street literature, social history, music, bloods and penny dreadfuls, the history of the English stage, the Royal Literary Fund, and British dramatic works. Totalling approximately 1 million pages, it was sourced from the British Library and other institutions. |
| Cambridge Histories Online Full text online access to the complete volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. |
| Catalogue of Early American Imprints Catalogue of early American imprints 1640-1800 compiled by the American Antiquarian Society & READEX. |
| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. |
| Current Contents Connect (Web of Knowledge) Multidisciplinary, current awareness database of articles as they are published. Provides access to the table of contents and bibliographic data from 8000+ leading scholarly research journals and book. |
| Dictionary of Irish Biography A reference work covering 9,000 lives of Irish men and women (deceased prior to 31 Dec. 2002) who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland. |
| Digital National Security Archive Declassified government documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. 38 collections, each focused on a single topic, consisting of over 94,000 indexed documents, with more than 650,000 total pages. Each collection covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. |
| Discovering Collection Reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. |
| Early New Zealand Books Provides the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century. Illustrations and maps in the books have also been digitised. |
| ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800. |
| EEBO (Early English Books Online) 100,000+ texts printed in English before 1700. Covers STCs by Pollard and Redgrave 1475-1640 and Wing 1641-1700 |
| Eighteenth Century Journals Portal (Adam Matthew) Collections of rare journals printed between 1693 and 1835 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. They offer coverage of the important issues of the period, and are invaluable to the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century, including crime, sport, advertising, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; social issues and society life. |
| Empire Online This database is a collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. |
| eTV Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register: select University of Otago, use University staff or student email address (otago.ac.nz) only, username/password will be sent to your email. Thereafter, login requires that username/password. Note: It is recommended that eTV is accessed using Firefox. |
| Europa World Plus Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Europa World Plus brings the renowned The Europa World Year Book and the nine Europa Regional Surveys of the World to the Web as a dynamic online database. |
| European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Corvey Collection includes the full text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles from Castle Corvey in Germany. This is one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing - including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more. Topics covered include Romantic literary genres; mutual influences of British, French and German Romanticism; literary culture; women writers of the period; the canon and Romantic aesthetics. |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 A bibliographic database for European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. |
| FamilySearch FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. For over 100 years, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide. |
| Guardian and The Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The complete digital archive of The Guardian, 1821 - 8 years ago, and The Observer, 1791 - 8 years ago. |
| Hocken Collections Photographs Database A national collection with a particular responsibility for collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of Otago. The scope of the collection is wide, focusing specifically on New Zealand and Pacific material, including a number of studio collections by Otago and Dunedin photographers. The range of material collected includes: prints, negatives (both glass and film), slides, lantern slides, albums, postcards and panoramas. |
| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Full-text access to House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. |
| Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost) Provides full-text of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. The database includes full-text for more than 1030 journals and all data from the Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records). |
| Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology. Content sources include peer reviewed journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials sourced and indexed by RMIT Publishing. |
| International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) Over 300,000 articles in thirty different languages - indexing articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Citations classified by date, subject and location. |
| Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The complete digital archive of The Irish Times (1859 - 4 years ago) and The Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958). |
| Iter Bibliography A bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues). |
| Iter Italicum The online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes, between 1963 and 1992, it is a tool for classical, medieval and Renaissance studies. |
| Iwidex: index of tribal history, tikanga and whakapapa An index of tribal history, tikanga and whakapapa held in the Heritage and Research Collections of Auckland City Libraries. |
| JSTOR Ireland Collection An interdisciplinary collection including journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years and ceased journals from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Over 200 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages are also included. Coverage is across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. The content is international in scope, while also providing a rich focus on Ireland. |
| March of Time (Alexander Street Press) An American newsreel series produced from 1935-1967 by Time Inc. Available in online streaming video in a single, cross-searchable collection designed to meet the needs of researchers, teaching staff, and students. |
| National Archives The UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. They provide detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archives. |
| National Library of New Zealand Discovery Search Simultaneously searches the National Library Catalogue, TAPUHI, Timeframes, Publications NZ, Index NZ, Te Puna Web Directory, Matapihi and findNZarticles. Extended sources option also available. |
| New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The complete digital archive of the New York Times from 1851 - 4 years ago. |
| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection, in two parts, contains 70 newspapers selected by the British Library to provide a broad yet detailed view of British life in the 19th century. The collection is made up of daily and weekly newspapers, national and regional, as well as from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. |
| Nineteenth Century Collections Online: NCCO NCCO is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Collections are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. The first four collections released are Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection. |
| Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition An online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers: Monthly Repository (1806-1837); Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833); Northern Star (1838-1852); Leader (1850-1860); English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864); Tomahawk (1867-1870); Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890). |
| Observer and The Guardian (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The complete digital archive of The Observer, 1791 - 8 years ago and, The Guardian, 1821 - 8 years ago. |
| Otago Nominal Index An index to names in documents held by the Hocken Library, including electoral rolls and street directories. |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. |
| Oxford Scholarship Online Cross-searchable library containing full text of over 1,900 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level. |
| Papers Past Papers Past contains more than two million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 77 publications from all regions of New Zealand. Browse by region, title, or date. Some titles are searchable. |
| Parliamentary Papers Contains Parliamentary papers presented to the House & ordered to be published during this Parliament. |
| Periodicals Archive Online Foundation Collection (ProQuest) The PAO Foundation Collection is an archive of 215 digitised academic journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from first issue to the end of 2000, or final issue (whichever is first). |
| Periodicals Index Online: PIO (ProQuest) PIO is an international index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Currently it indexes over 20 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages. |
| ProQuest Central A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion. |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I A collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1743 to the present day. Where available, the database includes a 24-page preview. Dissertations published since July 1980 include a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. |
| ProQuest Military Collection Covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. |
| ProQuest Research Library Provides access to full-text periodicals from a broad general reference database. Search from a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. |
| RIAN: Pathways to Irish Research A freely accessible database of Irish research material harvested from the institutional repositories of seven Irish university libraries. |
| Scotsman (1817-1950) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The complete digital archive of The Scotsman from 1817-1950. |
| Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. |
| Taylor & Francis Online Collection of full text journals (1400+) in humanities, social sciences, science and technology from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press, including access to back issues from 1997 where available. |
| Te Puna Search the National Bibliographic Database for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand. |
| Times Digital Archive Searchable full-text archive of the Times (London) newspaper and its predecessor, the Daily Universal Register. The database contains facsimile images of every issue published 1785-2006, including articles, photographs, letters, advertisements. |
| Trove A discovery service focused on Australia, Australians, and items found in Australian collecting institutions. It will provide a single point of access to resources currently discoverable via the National Library of Australia's multiple discovery services, and to digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world. |
| UPCC Book Collections (Project MUSE) Project MUSE ebooks cover a variety of subjects from noted university presses and scholarly publishers on an annual basis. 2012 collections available are Archaeology and Anthropology; Film, Theater and Performing Arts; Global Cultural Studies; Higher Education; History; Literature; Philosophy and Religion; Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction; Political Science and Policy Studies. |
| VAST: Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) A package of video collections in 21 disciplines accessible through the Academic Video Online cross-search. VAST is growing steadily and will include access to 20,000 videos. |
| Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The complete digital archive of the Wall Street Journal from 1889 - 18 years ago. |
| Wiley-Blackwell journals Full text of 1500 leading scientific, technical, medical, social science and business journals published by Wiley. |
| Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present (Alexander Street Press) A collection of primary materials from more than 300 repositories. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. |
| World Digital Library Contains significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. |
| World History in Video (Alexander Street Press) A wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. |
