International and Area Studies Resources

Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1994. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation.

Complete volumes of all British Government Confidential Print for Africa, from the Colonial, Dominion, Foreign and War Offices.

Complete volumes of all British Colonial Office and Foreign Office Confidential Print for the Middle East.

Provides an overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, eds. Macmillan Reference USA, 22 vols.

This multi-archive collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand from 1650-1920.

Western-language database for research on East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers a broad range of subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.

Publication of humanities and social sciences conferences in China.

Full-text access (pdf and html) to nearly 7,000 journals published in China in business/economics (over 800 titles), arts/humanities (over 700 titles), law/politics (550 titles) and social sciences (over 1350 titles), health/medicine and biology (nearly 1200 titles), science and technology (nearly 2800 titles), and agriculture (over 500 titles).

Spanning three centuries, China: Culture and Society provides access to the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia, from Cornell University Library collection in its entirety. Mostly in English and published between c.1750 and 1929, these pamphlets focus on literature on China and the Chinese in the Western world, and address a wide variety of research interests and topics surrounding Chinese history, religion, culture and everyday life.

The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This program builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources.

This multi-archive collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand from 1650-1920.

The South Asian manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland range from the papers of key East India Company representatives and colonial officials to records of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras.

Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925). Morse was one of the first Americans to live in Japan – teaching science at the Imperial University of Tokyo – and he devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization.

Established in 1968 by the Muslim Religious Board for Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Muslims of the Soviet East was the only Islamic periodical carrying the official seal of approval of the Soviet government. Published originally in Uzbek, the journal expanded its linguistic base in the following years, adding Arabic (1969), French and English (1974), Farsi (1980), and Dari (1984). A Russian version would come along surprisingly late, only in 1990, one year before its closure. East View offers the English edition only.

Complete runs of all British Government Confidential Print volumes relating to the nations of South and Central America.

Provides access to scientific resources in Ibero-American languages, including journal articles, articles in edited volumes, monographs, dissertations and theses, and governmental publications. While UK does not have a paid subscription to Dialnet, Dialnet provides full-text access to many open-access titles.

Online version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Provides citations to articles in hundreds of social science and humanities journals worldwide that cover Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Specific topics include current political, economic, and social issues and coverage of Latin American arts and letters. Contains bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, and original literary works.

Formerly ABSEES Online (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies). Covers a wide range of subject in journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada.

Provides access to scientific resources in Ibero-American languages, including journal articles, articles in edited volumes, monographs, dissertations and theses, and governmental publications. While UK does not have a paid subscription to Dialnet, Dialnet provides full-text access to many open-access titles.

Links to historical documents (transcriptions, facsimiles and translations) for European countries compiled by the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.

Indexes the journal literature (some 4,500 periodicals) covering the European middle ages (c. 300-1500). Please note: Limited to three simultaneous users.

Contains both primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Includes Greek and Latin literature in original and in translation, art and architecture images from museum collections, and digitized reference books.

Official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Includes virtual keyboard for searching using English, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian and Uzbek.

Over 600,000 titles held at CRL are searchable through the catalog, including collections of newspapers, microform, journals, and dissertations. Coverage for all formats is international. Holdings are often unique and hard to find elsewhere.

Alphabetical guide to Internet resources of all countries of the world, including official government sites.

Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world from a series of books published between 1988 and 1998.

Provides access to primary sources that focus on 15 significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine, and spirits.

Cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on aspects of cultural and social life. Organized into cultures and ethnic groups. Full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Produced by The American Association of Law Libraries. Provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering foreign (non-Anglo-American) law. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law.

Materials include international relations, business, area studies, human rights, security and military studies. Updated daily. Based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Offers access to the Modern Language Association's essential database, as well as a deep full-text collection that includes backfiles to the first issue for dozens of full-text journals and free online teaching tools. This database includes all content from the MLA International Bibliography, which has over 3 million citations from the late 19th century to the present, and more than 6,000 actively indexed journals and book series.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a virtual collection of the world's musical and aural traditions. Comprised of thousands tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds, this streaming encyclopedia provides listeners with a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

Annual compilation of data about development, with access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups.

Provides summary information on the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 267 U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world.

This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America.

This multi-archive collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand from 1650-1920.

This digital resource provides access to material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection, and spans four centuries and covers North and Central America.

This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers.