The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Looking at the societal impact through multi-media exploration of global aging complexities, offering diverse cultural perspectives, personal narratives, and scholarly insights from 1900 to 2020. Addresses challenges and opportunities, including technological innovations.
Videos describing various engineering failures and aviation safety incidents over the years including the Fukushima Meltdown, Hurricane Katrina, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An essential part of engineering, understanding previous failures enable modern engineers and scholars to learn what not to do and how to create designs with a greater chance of success.
Forensic Nursing in Video offers over 100 video case studies and instructional videos—developed with the Academy of Forensic Nursing—covering trauma-informed care, evidence collection, and documentation for diverse patient populations and scenarios involving abuse, assault, and intentional injury. Upcoming content will include interviews with nurses addressing trauma and mental health in forensic nursing.
Primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats that gives voice to victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Resources include the full scope of the event from historical context to international response, prosecution of perpetrators, and steps towards reconstruction and post-conflict support.
Documents LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century into the present day. Includes selections from The National Archives in Kew and collections from the Kinsey Institute.
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Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 is a robust digital archive comprising approximately 75,000 pages of documents—letters, essays, photos, government papers—from international repositories. It explores women’s organizing and activism across colonial and imperial contexts, highlighting how they challenged and reshaped power structures from the 19th century to the present
Women and Social Movements, International (1840–present) is a landmark, cross-searchable digital archive featuring 150,000 pages of primary sources—letters, diaries, conference proceedings. It reveals how women’s transnational activism shaped modern social, political, and economic life, framed around issues like peace, labor, literacy, health, and gender equality.
Women and Social Movements, Development in the Global South, 1919-2019 highlights individual efforts, organizational initiatives, and socio-cultural projects led by or for women. The database reflects upon how women have negotiated power and status regarding private or public programs centered on economic and social rights and greater inclusion. In doing so, it highlights the historical problem of women’s invisibility within mainstream international development programs, foreign aid regimes, and approaches to technical assistance.
