New Research Resources @ Your Library!

The Emory libraries - including Oxford - constantly search for new resources to help students and faculty find the best information for their research. Below is a list of the newest databases added to our collection. You may access the databases directly or from the library web page. [read more]


Database Title: India, Raj and Empire  
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=indraj
Dates of Coverage: 1615-1947
Database Description:
Manuscript Collections from the National Library of Scotland documenting this history from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947.  Sources range from the papers of key East India Company representatives and colonial officials to records of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras. There are original Indian manuscripts containing histories and literary works, as well as accounts of wars, discussions of Indian Nationalism and papers of tea and coffee planters.

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Database Title: Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=perdmn
Dates of Coverage: 1500-1700
Database Description:
This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the purpose of the project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form.  Over 230 entries have been selected and digitized.  In addition to the digital facsimiles, the site includes biographical and bibliographical information and essays by specialists in the field.

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Database Title: China: Trade, Politics & Culture 1793-1980
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=chntpc
Dates of Coverage: 1793-1980
Database Description:
This database provides English-language sources relating to China and the West from 1793 to 1980.  It covers almost any aspect of Chinese history during the two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power.  From this database you can find manuscripts encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic.  Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service, from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze are accessible and searchable alongside original reports of the Amherst and Macartney embassies.  There are letters relating to the first Opium War, survivors descriptions of the Boxer War.  There are also significant sources describing the lives and work of missionaries in China from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable runs of missionary periodicals, such as The Chinese Recorder, Light and Life Magazine and The Land of Sinim: the North China Mission Quarterly Paper.

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Database Title: Eighteenth Century Journals
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=ecjo
Dates of Coverage: c. 1685-1815
Database Description:
This portal to newspapers and periodicals provides full-text access to rare British newspapers and periodicals from the 17th and 18th centuries. These materials have been carefully screened and selected to avoid overlap with the collections in Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Newspapers. Included are materials from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University; The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London; and Cambridge University Library.

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Database Title: Victorian Popular Culture, I and II
Dates of Coverage: 1779-1930  
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=vicpop
Database Description:
Victorian Popular Culture describes popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930 and shows how interconnected these worlds were.  The first section, ‘Sensation, Magic & Spiritualism’, explores the relationship between the popularity of Victorian magic shows and conjuring tricks and the emergence of séances and psychic phenomena in Britain and America .The second section, ‘Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks’ focuses on the world of travelling entertainment, which brought
spectacle to vast audiences across Britain, America and Europe in the 19th and early 20th century.

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Database Title: 19th Century British Pamphlets
Dates of Coverage: 1603-1898 (Mostly 19th Cent.)
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=britpam
Database Description:
This collection contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. More than 20,000 pamphlets from seven UK institutions provide an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain.

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Database Title: World Bank eLibrary
Dates of Coverage: 1990-present
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=wbelib
Database Description:
The World Bank eLibrary is a collection of the World Bank’s numerous publications, reports, working papers and other related documents.  All texts are searchable by both topic and region, and available in full-text.  Currently, over 4,500 documents are indexed in the database.  The World Bank’s areas of focus include economic and social development, education, environmental issues, health, and finance.

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Database Title:  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Dates of Coverage:  Ancient to Contemporary
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=litguide
Database Description:
This full-text searchable database is a historical survey of literary theory and criticism.  It includes articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. The scope is international with an emphasis is on Western critical theory. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.

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Database Title:  African-American newspapers, 1827-1998
Dates of Coverage: 1827-1998
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=afamn
Database Description:
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998  is being created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States—those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress.  Full-text access to these newspapers provide primary sources material about life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; the growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; the rise of the N.A.A.C.P.; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment and more.

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Database Name: Central and Eastern European Online Library (C.E.E.O.L.)
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=ceeol
Database Description:
C.E.E.O.L. (Central and East European Online Library)  is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 220 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

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Database Title:  International Monetary Fund Balance of Payments Statistics
Dates of Coverage: 1970-onwards
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=bop
Database Description:
The IMF’s Balance of Payments Statistics contained detailed data on countries’ international economic transactions in their current accounts, capital accounts, and financial accounts.  Topics covered include trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment, portfolio investment, and holdings of reserve assets.

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Database Title:  International Monetary Fund Direction of Trade Statistics
Dates of Coverage: 1980-onwards
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=dot
Database Description:
The IMF’s Direction of Trade Statistics contains monthly, quarterly, and yearly data on countries’ exports and imports, broken down by individual trade partners.

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Database Title:  International Monetary Fund Government Finance Statistics
Dates of Coverage: 1990-onwards
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=gfs
Database Description:
The IMF’s Direction of Trade Statistics contains yearly data on government expenditures and sources of government revenue.

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Dissertations and Theses FULL TEXT
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=pquest
Database Description: 
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT - Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Please note that some dissertations are unavailable as full-text due to author restrictions.

(The Galileo “abstracts only” access will continue to be available in Databases@Emory and is labeled as such.)

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Database Title:   Jazz Music Library
http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=jazzlib
Database Description:
Listen to jazz and blues recordings online via audio streaming. Dozens of labels including Verve, GRP Records, Fantasy, Concord Jazz, Impulse, and Jazzology.    The streaming rate varies depending on the track selected.