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Multidisciplinary databases are a great place to begin your exploration because they cover many areas of study.
A database is a repository of materials, usually curated around a subject or format. NYU Libraries subscribes to over 1400 databases for you to search within.
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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy uses fresh, unembalmed specimens that retain the color, texture, mobility of the living human body. A concise synchronized narration runs throughout the program.
The primary source collections hosted by British Online Archives (BOA) are rich in documentation relating to the expansion, methods, and impact of colonial rule throughout a wide range of geographical and historical contexts. They are particularly valuable for the study of the British empire, which was at its largest in 1919. BOA’s extensive collections of British government reports reveal the reality of colonial rule in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania.
Many of the archival collections published by British Online Archives (BOA) can be grouped under the broad theme of “Culture and Society”. These terms are interrelated. They are also difficult to define. It may be said, however, that “Culture” denotes a set of practices, beliefs, and traditions, whilst “Society” can be understood as a group of people who occupy a shared space.
The collections grouped here chart the development of civil society across the globe (such as the rise of Black nationalism in South Africa and the consequent dismantling of Apartheid). These collections can inform our understanding of everyday life in differing forms of society—capitalist, socialist, fascist, colonial, and post-colonial.
Economics is one of 11 themes that includes 26 primary source collections published by British Online Archives. Put simply, "Economics" refers to the distribution of resources within and between human populations. Competing ideologies have led to the creation of very different economic systems, from free-market capitalism to state socialism.
The Global Census Archive contains official data and publications issued by national census authorities from the early 19th century to the present. The database includes original census publications in e-book format, modern tabular data in Excel, and GIS datasets.
NYU’s subscription covers 47 countries across Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America.
A key theme in history, “International Relations” is a broad term encapsulating the typically complex strains of diplomacy, cooperation, and conflict that occur between states.
The collections grouped in this theme likewise demonstrate how the Allied nations, particularly America and Britain, co-operated during the Second World War. Indeed, they illustrate how the Allies co-operated in order to establish and maintain a watertight system of postal and telegraph censorship. You can also explore the influential experiments in international co-operation that emerged in the aftermath of both world wars, such as the formation of the United Nations, the European Economic Community, and the World Trade Organization.
Many of the British Online Archives' primary source collections relate to the theme of “Media and Communications”. Indeed, this theme serves to illuminate one of BOA’s many archival strengths: a range of collections containing the back catalogues of major periodicals that were owned by The Illustrated London News—Britannia and Eve, London Life, The Bystander, The Graphic, The Illustrated War News, The Sporting and Dramatic News, The Sketch, The Sphere, and The Tatler.
British Online Archives offers several fascinating collections that can be grouped under the broad theme of “Medicine”.
These collections are extensive in terms of chronological scope, the archival material that they contain, and the historical trends that they illuminate. For example, you can explore the course and consequences of pandemics in the UK over five centuries, from the first state mandated quarantines to guard against plague in the early sixteenth century, to the invention of the first vaccine against smallpox in the 1790s. These sources evidence attempts to eradicate cholera via urban planning and regeneration during the nineteenth century, as well as the effects of the devastating influenza pandemic that followed the First World War.
