New E-Resources at Northwestern

World History in Video

World history in video is an online collection of streaming video that gives users access to critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. Upon completion the collection will include more than 1750 documentaries that offer a survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall. World history in video covers Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

Theatre in Video

Theatre In Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world’s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video – more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.  This release includes 258 videos, equaling approximately 304 hours.

Silent Film Online

Silent Film Online database brings together more than 500 films which together represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated with ASP’s Video Advisory Board, the database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. High quality versions of films have been selected for the collection from leading distributors such as Kino Lorber, Lobster Films, Flicker Alley, and Image Entertainment.

New World Cinema

The collection includes approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. All films were presented at major film festivals, many were nominated for awards, and many have major awards. Collectively the films in the database have won more than 1,000 awards.

Health and Society in Video

Health and Society in Video defines and explores today’s latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society– with hundreds of premium documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews. This release provides 260 titles, equaling approximately 198 hours, growing regularly.

Black Studies in Video

In partnership with California Newsreel, the oldest non-profit social issue documentary film center in the country, this collection includes cutting-edge racial justice and diversity films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Additionally, Black Studies in Video features access to the SNCC Legacy Video Collection, a series of formal addresses, panel discussions and programs that took place at a conference and reunion unfolding over four days at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

Popular culture in Britain and America II – Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest

Part II includes:

Music: artist files, record company documents, chart lists, fan magazines, photographs and posters from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Press kits and lobby cards for popular movies and television from Bowling Green State University

Full-colour mail order catalogues and advertising proofs

The complete run of Gandalf’s Garden magazine

Original video footage spanning 1950-1975 featuring key personalities from JFK, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe to the Beatles and Rolling Stones

Further photographic material sourced from the Mirrorpix archives

Documents from the Labour Party archive charting social change and important records on the Troubles in Northern Ireland from the National Archives

Important documents from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament archives held at Warwick University and student unrest

LGBT Thought and Culture

(also known as Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture)

LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and, in future releases, archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection includes materials ranging from seminal texts, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community. It features select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers and is seeking to represent the major winners of both the Stonewall Book Awards and Lambda Literary Awards, many of which are no longer in print.

At completion, the collection will offer 500 hours of high quality video content and 150,000 pages of printed works and archival materials essential to students and scholars of cultural studies, history, women’s and gender studies, political science, psychology, anthropology, American studies, social theory, sociology, and literature.

Dictionary of African Biography

From the pharaohs to Frantz Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa’s history.  Subjects are drawn from all walks of life, including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people. – Publisher.

Laboratory Hazards Bulletin

Laboratory Hazards Bulletin online database provides key information on hazards encountered by laboratory workers in all fields including R&D, analytical and hospital laboratories, scanned from the primary scientific and trade literature worldwide. – Publisher.

Analytical Abstracts (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Analytical Abstracts (also known as Analytical WebBase) is the premier current awareness and information retrieval service for analytical scientists. Search the worldwide analytical literature conveniently and rapidly, covering the period from 1980 until the latest update. – Publisher.

Chemical Hazards in Industry

A searchable database containing data from 1978 to date.  Contains: English and foreign-language references to journal articles, books, audiovisuals materials, and conferences; intended for all personnel interested in health and safety management. Sources of references are about 200 journals manually scanned as well as peripheral sources. Arranged according to chemical hazards, biological hazards, precautions and legislation, and general. Each entry gives bibliographical information and abstract. Chemical and subject indexes.

Ecoinvent Database

Ecoinvent v.2 contains over 4000 industrial processes in the following sectors: energy, transport, building materials, chemicals, washing agents, paper & board, agriculture and waste management. Data is presented as both unit processes (raw data) and calculated results (systems).

Stalin Digital Archive

Individual registration required for access.

The result of years of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press, the Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) provides access to primary source materials from Stalin’s personal papers and insightful monographs on communism. In addition, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new ways for scholars and students to interact with this content and collaborate. The SDA collections include:

RGASPI documents from Stalin’s personal papers will eventually number over 400,000 pages. Highlights include: foreign policy with Germany before World War II; communications during the Great Purges; relations with Western intellectuals and leaders; and private notations on many Soviet leaders.

The Annals of Communism series contains 25 volumes of scholarly commentary, annotation, and interpretation of documents from state and party archives selected by teams of Western and Russian editors. These volumes span the history of Soviet and international communism. – Publisher.

Enriching Resource on African Languages Database

Enriching Resource on African Languages Database [ERALD] is a new initiative of Africa Resource Center. It features rich, open-access learning language modules. The database enables individuals to learn African languages using curated resources. – Publisher.