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17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

Database trials end 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

An extraordinary full-text archive representing the largest single collection of English news media from the period.
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19th Century British Library Newspapers

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

This full-text‚ fully searchable digital archive includes 46 papers originating in England‚ Scotland and Ireland.
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19th Century U.S. Newspapers

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

Provides full-text content from a range of urban and rural 19th-century U.S. newspapers.
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19th Century UK Periodicals

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

Includes more than 600 titles, providing invaluable insight into the major issues of 19th century life in the United Kingdom.
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Archives Unbound

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Peter Stern, 413-545-3967.

A vast new resource of topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support research and study needs of scholars and students.
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British Literary Manuscripts Online

Database trials ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

British Literary Manuscripts Online, now a two-part series, brings together manuscripts from Medieval times to the end of the 19th century.
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British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

This extensive digital archive includes hundreds of thousands of pages of material from the Restoration through the Victorian era.
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British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

This digital archive features manuscripts dating from roughly 1120 to 1660 – preceding and broadening the scope of the first series.
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CAB eBooks

Database trial ends 11/30/12. Please send comments to Nake Ishii, 413-545-1656.

CAB eBooks are indexed and retrievable as chapters. They cover agriculture and plant sciences, animal and veterinary science, environmental sciences, human health, food and nutrition, and leisure and tourism. This trial covers the entire collection from 2000 to present.
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Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945.

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

An archive of full-text primary sources from the British Foreign Office from 1940-1945.
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Declassified Documents Reference System

Database trial ends 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

Includes more than 100,000 documents covering U.S. post-World War II domestic policy.
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Guangming Ribao

Database trial ends 01/31/13. Please send comments to Sharon Domier, 413-577-2633.

The Guangming Daily was launched on June 16, 1949 by the China Democratic League, and is a nationwide comprehensive newspaper based in Beijing. Now run by the CPC Central Committee, it is now a daily paper targeting intellectuals.
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Renmin Ribao (Green Apple version)

Database trial ends 01/31/13. Please send comments to Sharon Domier, 413-577-2633.

The People's Daily is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. Started in 1946 and continues.

Also known as:

http://rmrb.egreenapple.com

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Shen Bao

Database trial ends 01/31/13. Please send comments to Sharon Domier, 413-577-2633.

Shen Bao, known in English as Shanghai News, was a newspaper published from April 30, 1872 to May 27, 1949 in Shanghai, China. The influence of the newspaper in early 20th century Shanghai was such that Shen Bao zhi, literally "Shen-pao paper", became a generic term for newspaper or newsprint.
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