A-Z Databases

Searches contemporary core newspapers in the Chinese language, including major nationwide titles such as People's Daily and PLA Daily, as well as most provincial and departmental newspapers. The database makes newspapers accessible as soon as published in China. 

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. 

Film Atlas is an international visual guide to every motion picture film format, soundtrack and color process ever invented. This resource is still under development with new essays being published, and is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the George Eastman Museum. Searchable by geographic region and date range. 

Forbes Magazine Archive is the world’s only complete digital version of the Forbes backfile. With coverage starting at the magazine’s first issue in 1917 and ending in December 2010, the archive offers 90 years’ worth of content.

Heian Ibun is a collection of more than 5,500 ancient texts of the Heian period (794-1185), arranged in chronological order, which was compiled into 11 volumes by the late Dr. Rizo Takeuchi (1907-1977), former director of the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo. While the original edition of Heian Ibun began publishing in 1947, this Web edition reproduces all 11 volumes of the newly revised edition published between 1974 and 1998 and it reflects the corrections made by the Historiographical Institute on the texts afterwards. 

Captures and preserves activist voices from the 1980s to the present, with a special focus on content at risk of disappearing, particularly in oppressive countries. Covers blogs, magazines, videos, podcasts, tweets, zines, and other new media. 

Includes personal narrative content drawn from podcasts, blogs, digital magazines, interviews, and video. Coverage spans 1980 to the present, and includes content from NGOs, nonprofits, religious support groups, and government refugee boards.

Records of War Crime Tribunals: Mainly Related to Tokyo Trials, from the Former Archives of the Ministry of Justice. This collection includes over 360 volumes of compilations and related materials, investigation documents, collected materials, such as historical overviews produced by the Ministry of Justice, from Judicial System and Research Department research on war crimes trial material transferred from the Ministry of Justice to the National Archives.

Explores the layered and multidimensional nature of racism through its structure of linked articles, each of which focuses on racism in a particular sphere (e.g. politics and government, labour and economy, education, the arts and culture, health and welfare), each interdisciplinary in its content. New in entries are still being added to this database.

Each market research handbook is updated annually in January. Titles: Business Management Services 2025; Clean Energy 2025; Engineering & Construction Business 2025; Environmental & Sustainability Business 2025; Healthcare Business 2025; Megaprojects 2025; Net Zero Transportation 2025; Net-Zero United States 2025; The Digital Economy 2025; and The Gig Economy 2025

Shiryō Sanshū consists of important historical primary source materials of a wide range of genres and from different eras, from ancient to early-modern times, as well as diaries of court nobles, warriors, and Buddhist and Shinto priests in modern type-set scripts. Phase one and two together reproduce 23 titles in 104 volumes from the Heian (794-1185) through Sengoku (1467-1573) periods from the historical records section. Phase 3 includes additional content from the Muromachi and Sengoku periods. 

Tenno Kozoku Jitsuroku, which was originally compiled by the Imperial Household Ministry in the pre-war period, offers the highest level historical materials for research into the Emperor and the Imperial Family of Japan, covering from the legendary first emperor Jinmu to the 121st Emperor Komei (1831-1867), as well as the five emperors of the Northern Court, including the empresses and consorts, relatives of the emperors, and imperial princesses (with the exception of the four families of the imperial princes of Fushimi no Miya, Katsura no Miya, Arisugawa no Miya, and Kan’in no Miya). Authoritative historical sources are also displayed together with the original documents. 

Phase 1 includes: Vol.1 Emperor Jinmu to Vol.49 Emperor Antoku .Phase 2 includes: Vol.50 Emperor Gotoba to Vol.98 Emperor Gonara. Phase 3 includes: Vol.99 Emperor Ogimachi to Vol.135 and the supplementary volume Emperor Komei.