A-Z Databases

Trial runs until 11.02.2020. Founded in Britain in 1937 by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, film-maker Humphrey Jennings and poet Charles Madge. The team of observers and a panel of volunteer writers studied the everyday lives of ordinary people. This resource covers the original project, the bulk of which was carried out from 1937 until the mid-1950s.

Trial runs until 15th December 2019. Long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars. Each of the twenty-five distinct encyclopedias cover both foundational and cutting-edge topics in order to develop, over time, an anchoring knowledge base for major areas of research across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Trial until 23rd January 2020. The trial gives access to 100 titles within this collection. Click on the "my library" link on the left hand column to browse books on all aspects of the Enlightenment, including history, cultural studies, literature, biography, religious studies, philosophy, and gender studies.

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Resources in English covering the development of contemporary Chinese society.
1,083 statistical yearbooks from all provincial divisions of Chinese mainland. Trial Ends 30.11.19: