Bodleian Libraries users now have access to the Texas State Historical Association Digital Library. The TSHA Digital Library includes more than 100 volumes of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly journal, 60 editions of the biennial Texas Almanac, and several digital copies of out-of-print titles from TSHA Press.
An extra username and password are required for this resource. Please see the Username and password webpage for details.
Bodleian Libraries users now have access to the Global Health Archive (1910-1999) from CABI, hosted on the Ovid platform. This can also be searched alongside current content in the Global Health database.
The Global Health Archive is a bibliographic database covers public health and biomedical research from the 20th century. It includes more than 800,000 records on public health from six out-of-print journals published from 1910 to 1983:
Subjects include past epidemics, from rates and patterns of transmission, duration of pandemics, timing of epidemiological peaks, geographic distribution of diseases, government preparedness and quarantine provisions; through to effects on different age and social groups, severity in developing vs. developed countries, symptoms, causes of mortality (such as secondary problems like pneumonia) and mortality rates.
Records have been indexed and classified to make them relevant to a modern audience. Current terminology has been added to abstract and index fields to aid retrieval. Descriptors and CABICodes may be used alongside free text searching.
Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism.
This online research tool covers the subject of feminism over the long 19th Century (1776-1928). It contains a rich and extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as newly commissioned thematic essays and an image gallery for use as a teaching or study aid. Materials are made available across 8 structural themes: politics and law; religion and belief; education; literature and writings; women at home; society and culture; Empire; movements and ideologies.
The resource has a broad geographical scope with a particular focus on Europe and the Americas, but also Asia, Oceania and Africa and is intended for lecturers, scholars, researchers and students across different disciplines.
Bodleian Libraries users now have access via Readex to BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts: Essential Global Media, 1939-2001.
This is a primary source collection featuring nearly 70,000 multi-page reports. BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings.
Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Carter Administration and Foreign Affairs, one of the Archives Unbound collections of digitised archival documents from Gale.
This archive contains documents from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, with a date range of 1972–1981. It treats U.S. foreign affairs during Carter’s presidency. Notable subjects include the Arab-Israeli Conflict; the Camp David Accords; China; Panama Canal treaties; Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT); the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and U.S. responses to the intervention; the Iran Hostage Crisis; human rights; among other topics.