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Antiques Trade Gazette serves the art and antiques community through unrivalled news coverage and analysis

Dates covered: 1971-Present
Access note: Reference desk access only.
This resource is not included in catalog search results.
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Thousands of unique and reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography and Biography Today.
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Thousands of unique and reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography and Biography Today. This collection contains resources not included in Biography Reference Source.
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Search the archives of the world's oldest continuously-published fashion magazine. Both the US and UK editions are available in this database, with issues scanned from cover to cover in full color, including all advertisements, illustrations, and photographs.

Types of material covered: Art, culture, design, fashion, and travel.
Dates Covered: 1867 to the present (US edition) 1930 to 2015 (UK edition).
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Includes full-text historical reference books, primary source documents and biographies, plus selective content from more than 140 leading history journals.
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Indexes 1,787 active full-text journals in all aspects of the humanities.
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The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. Entirely full-text searchable with high-quality digital imaging from flat unbound print sets.

Types of material covered: Newspaper articles.
Dates covered: 1842-2003
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Citations and abstracts as well as some full text. Historically significant early Left publications such as the 19th century writings of William Godwin, along with classic texts by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Engels, are covered.
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Indexing and full-text access to law journals for keeping up to date with current legal issues, studies, thoughts, and trends.
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Provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines, newspapers and videos, plus a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus.
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Literary ebooks covering all genres and time periods including thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.
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MasterFILE Complete offers the highest quality collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books, videos and other sources covering virtually every subject area.
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Includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century and contains osver 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.

Individual entries do not display in catalog results.
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Full-text access to ebooks across the world-renowned scholarly list of Oxford University Press (OUP), published between 2018 and June 2021.
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Hundreds of full-text journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy and philosophy of language.
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Single platform for publications from 18 university presses including Cornell, Stanford, and Universities of Chicago, Illinois, Minnesota, New York and The British Academy. Covers titles published between 2018 and June 2021.

This resource is not included in catalog search results.
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Indexing & abstracts covering journals in the fields related to cities and urban planning.
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Collection of Wiley eBooks published between 2017 and 2021 in all academic disciplines.
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Indexing & abstracts covering journals in women’s studies and feminist research plus related disciplines, including sociology, history, international relations and humanities.
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