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19th Century UK Periodicals Part 1 This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 20th April 2023: Part I covers the advent of commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain, drawn from the remarkable collections of the British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Australia, and National Library of South Africa. The series acts as a barometer of literacy and social mobility in the 1800s, with a particular focus on the rarely documented aspects of women, children, humour, and leisure activity in the Victorian age.
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha This link opens in a new window
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84000 is a global non-profit initiative to translate all of the Buddha’s words into modern languages and provide free and open access to over 230,000 pages.
Access to Insight This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Readings in Therāvāda Buddhism
Access to Insight is an HTML website dedicated to providing accurate, reliable, and useful information concerning the practice and study of Theravada Buddhism, as it has been handed down to us through both the written word of the Pali canon and the living example of the Sangha.

Ammianus Marcellinus Online This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 31st May 2023: Philological and Historical Commentary to Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae.
Ancestry This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Ancestry Library Edition
Free access until 7th April: One of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada, Europe, Australia and other areas of the world! This collection, with thousands of databases and billions of indexed names, is essential to having a broad genealogy collection.
Apuleius Online This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 31st May 2023: This online publication offers the text of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, along with the acclaimed Groningen Commentary Series to this text. Additionally, the texts of Pro se de Magia and Florida are included, as well as commentaries for both works by Vincent Hunink.
Brill Polyglot Bible This link opens in a new window
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The aim is to collect the books of the Bible in the major languages of the ancient world and to publish them in CTS compliant TEI XML on Brill Scholarly Editions.
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Free access until 31st May 2023: This online publication offers the complete critical edition of Eustathius’ Commentary on the Iliad by Marchinus van der Valk, printed in 4 volumes by Brill (Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem pertinentes ad fidem Codicis Laurentiani editi, 1971-1987), as well as a new critical edition of Eustathius’ Commentary on the Odyssey, edited by Eric Cullhed (University of Uppsala) and S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota). The latter includes an up-to-date standard text, critical, citation and source apparatus, and English translation. The work is still ongoing, but the preface and the commentary on books 1-4 (α – δ) are now available. Both editions follows the pagination of the sixteenth century edition by Nicolaus Majoranus.

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Free access until 31st May 2023: This online publication offers a new text edition of the Byzantine scholar and rhetorician Eustathius of Thessalonica’s Commentary on the Odyssey, composed during the latter half of the twelfth century CE, and a modern, English translation of the Commentary. The Commentary collects material from a wide range of different sources which explain or expand on words, phrases and ideas in the Homeric epic. Original comments are blended with extracts from earlier commentators, especially the Homeric scholia. The text is an important source for fragments of otherwise lost works of ancient literature, for the history of exegesis and lexicography, and for Byzantine cultural history. This is the first complete critical edition of the text, and the first translation of it into a modern language.
Flavius Josephus Online This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 31st May 2023: This is the first comprehensive literary-historical online commentary on the works of Flavius Josephus in English. The commentary, edited by Steve Mason (University of Groningen), also includes the full Greek texts, edited by Benedikt Niese in the 19th century. At present, the online commentary is about 65% complete, comprising the Life, Against Apion, book 2 of the Judean War, and books 1-11 and 15 of the Judean Antiquities. Further volumes will continue to be added.

Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 31st May 2023: Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online is the editio maior - the authoritative critical edition - of Gregory of Nyssa's works.

Izvestiia This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 23rd April 2023: Among the longest-running Russian newspapers, Izvestiia (Известия, News) was founded in March 1917 and during the Soviet period was the official organ of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Remarkable for its serious and balanced treatment of subject matter, Izvestiia has traditionally been a popular news source within intellectual and academic circles. Continuously published for over 100 years, Izvestiia’s prominence endures today as one of the most subscribed news sources of contemporary Russia, covering domestic and foreign policy, commentary, culture, education, and finance.
Lexicon Gregorianum Online This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 31st May 2023: The result of more than three decades of dedicated scholarly research by the Forschungsstelle Gregor von Nyssa (Münster), the Lexicon Gregorianum constitutes the most comprehensive Greek-German dictionary ever of the language used by Gregory of Nyssa. It is, and will be for the foreseeable future, the only dictionary available specifically addressing the vocabulary of late Classical Greek.




Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
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The Psychotherapy.net Streaming Service is a convenient streaming subscription service that offers anywhere anytime access to the best training in the fields of Psychotherapy, Counseling and Social Work.
It provides access to 50 online videos.
Radical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Sacred Texts This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Internet Sacred Text Archive
This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, where possible, in the original language.
Scotland's History Online This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): SHO
Free access until 30th April: All Birlinn's newest history titles along with the complete backlist of the John Donald and Tuckwell Press imprints. Also includes the complete Scatichronicon. Example titles: Within Political History: The Stewart Monarchy in Scotland Series; The Wars of the Bruces; Within Primary Sources: Walter Bower's Scotichronicles, Jordan Fantosme's Chronicle; Within The Highlands and Islands: The Vikings in Islay, A Dance called America; Within Modern History: The Broken Journey, A Life of Scotland 1975-1999.
Statista This link opens in a new window
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Trial access until 30th April 2023: Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online This link opens in a new window
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Free access until 31st May 2023: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online is an annual publication collecting newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents. It covers the entire Greek world from the early Greek texts up to the 8th century A.D.

The Red Book of Scotland This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): RBS
Free access until 30th April: The Red Book of Scotland online seeks to fill an enormous void that exists in Scotland's genealogical history. Based on thousands of primary resources records, Gordon McGregor has accurately complied comprehensive accounts of Scotland's principal families. An essential reference work for anybody interested in Scotland's past.
The Scottish Record Society Online This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): SRS
Free resource until 30th April: This new database collection brings all SRS's titles from its foundation in 1897 to the present day together in a digital format for the first time. Example titles: The Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, 1560-1618, Duncan Shaw.
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Free access until 10th April 2023: This archive focuses on critical aspects of anthropogenic change, with unique and rare archival collections from multiple, global sources. To date, we have collections from: Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens), The National Archives (UK), The Commonwealth Forestry Institute, CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International).

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Alternate Name(s): RGS
Free access until 10th April 2023: The Archive includes Maps, Atlases, Charts and Plans; Expedition Reports; Fieldnotes, Correspondence and Diaries; Grey Literature; Photographs, Artwork and Illustrations; Journal Manuscripts; Photographs; Proceedings, Lectures, and Ephemera. The collection spans a wide variety of interdisciplinary research areas, and supports educational needs in Anthropology, Area Studies; Cartography and Visualizations, Colonial, Post-Colonial & Decolonisation Studies; Development Studies; Environmental Degradation; Historical & Cultural Geography; Historical Sociology; Human Geography; Identity, Gender & Ethnic Studies; Geology; International Relations; Trade and Commerce, and Law and Policy relating to Colonization.
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