We now have access to Arcanum Newspapers
The Eastern European Newspaper Archive. 56,857,426 pages of newspapers, magazines, scientific journals and more …
Trial – Subculture Archives (until 17 May 2024)
Oxford users have trial access to Subculture Archives from the Museum of Youth Culture until 17 May 2024.
To log in: Click on ‘Log in via your University or Institution’. Select ‘University of Oxford’ and enter your SSO.
This resource provides online access to a multimedia archive of primary sources which documents 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, sounds and signifiers of different youth movements. It contains over 75,000 images and photographs; recorded and transcribed oral histories, podcasts and playlists; 15,000 flyers and ephemera; and many examples of fashion, graphic design and printed publications. It illustrates Britain’s evocative subculture and counterculture, as expressed through Mods, Skins and Punks and the rave scene.
This resource is useful for the study of social and cultural history, visual culture, and more generally, the lived experience of the British youth in the 20th century.
Please send feedback to Isabel Holowaty.
Trial – Al Manhal (until 14 May 2024)
Oxford users have trial access to Al Manhal until 14 May 2024.
Al Manhal is a full-text searchable database of scholarly and scientific publications from the Middle East, Africa and Asia giving access to hundreds of thousands of full-text searchable publications (books, peer-reviewed journals, strategic studies, academic dissertations and educational videos) from the Arab world’s leading publishers, across a diverse range of topics.
Trial- Linguistic Bibliography – Trial until 10-05-2024
We now have access to Linguistic Bibliography online.
Linguistic Bibliography Online contains over 725,000 detailed bibliographical descriptions of linguistic publications on general and applied linguistics. About 150,000 descriptions (of works published before 1993) are available in free access, and about 570,000 descriptions (of works published from 1993 on) are available in the premium edition. The bibliography aims to cover all languages of the world, paying particular attention to publications on endangered and lesser-studied languages. Bibliographical references of publications in any language are collected, analyzed, and annotated by a team of linguists and bibliographers from around the world. With a tradition of over seventy years, and with about 2,000 new references added every month, the Linguistic Bibliography Online remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography for every scholar and student of linguistics. Linguistic Bibliography Online includes all bibliographical references of the printed yearbooks since 1984, as well as additional materials which are exclusive to the online version, such as references to online resources. Annual print volumes of Linguistic Bibliography are also published.
Trial – Baghdad Observer Digital Archive (1967-1996) (until 6 April 2024)
We have trial access to the Baghdad Observer Digital Archive (1967-1996) via East View until 6 April 2024.
The Baghdad Observer was the official English-language newspaper of the Iraqi government from its establishment after the 1963 coup and through the Ba’athist period following 1968, until it ended publication in 2003 due to the Iraq War. It covered significant events in Middle Eastern history, including the Iranian Revolution (1978-1979), the presidency of Saddam Hussein (1979-2003), the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), and the Gulf War (1990-1991).
Please send any feedback to Lydia Wright (lydia.wright@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).