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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 Afghan Serials Collection: Partisan Publications from the Wahdat Library (DA-ASC) contains individual issues of newspapers and journals from Afghanistan published in Persian, Pushto, Arabic, Urdu, and English from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. These publications cover the use of the press by many groups that sought to shape Afghanistan’s social and intellectual landscape during this turbulent time. Various ideologies are represented in these publications, published by opposing factions from the Taliban to anti-Taliban groups, to anti- Soviet jihadi and mujaheddin groups to the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. The Wahdat Library was founded by Afghan scholar and journalist Ahmad Shah Wahdat and collected over a nearly 30-year period.
Art Song Transpositions offers professionally crafted scores of public domain art songs, arias, and musical theatre titles in any key, edited by professional musicians. The institutional version of the website includes PDF access to scores which have already been transposed by AST as well as the ability to request new transpositions.
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.
Since it was first published in Leipzig in 1868, Johannes Overbeck's Ancient Literary Sources for the History of the Visual Arts of the Greeks has been a standard work, not just for all classical disciplines, but also for art history and related studies. This completely revised new edition goes far beyond a simple revision and addition of new sources, it also takes into account the results of archaeological research since Overbeck, as well as changes in the knowledge and needs of future users of the handbook.
Numerous students from all over the world - among them personalities who were later to become famous - developed their intellectual foundations at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin during the first half of the 19th century. The "Matrikel"--The register of the members of what is now the Humboldt-Universität - provides unique insights into fascinating cultural-historical details of that period. The original wording of the entries for over 30,000 students reveals a wealth of biographical information: details of family background, previously visited universities and subjects studied, as well as information such as duels fought, involvement in criminal offences and military service, offer extensive possibilities for history of science and prosopographical analyses
In its third edition, revised and updated with a large number of new entries, this encyclopedic dictionary provides the most complete and informative semiotics research tool of its kind in existence. The work includes entries written by some of the greatest theorists in the field, including Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok. The original entries have been updated with the latest bibliographic references, supplementing each entry with invaluable resources on current literature. The new entries cover areas of interest which have evolved over the last two decades, such as the internet and virtual reality, bringing this classic reference work into the 21st century.
The online edition of “Paintings in Museums” presents a systematic index of the entire holdings of works, both on display and in deposits, owned by 645 museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The portal for German History offers a comprehensive collection of online resources on topics such as National Socialism, antisemitism, and resistance to the Nazi regime. The cross-searchable databases include Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels Online, Hitler. Quellen 1924-45 Online, Tarnschriften 1933 bis 1945 and many more.
The Handbook of Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy presents a comprehensive scholarly account of present-day political philosophy and social philosophy. It is a lexical reference work arranged alphabetically by headwords. Concepts, topics and problems are dealt with encyclopaedically in their systematic context under each headword.
The International Directory of Arts (IDA) contains about 143,000 addresses from all over the world: from museums and public galleries, universities, academies and schools, associations, the art trade, galleries, auctioneers, restorers, art publishers, art journals, antiquarians as well as art and antiquity fairs. The names of curators and senior academic museum staff as well as indexes of companies and persons are included.
The portal for Jewish Studies includes online resources on Judaism as a religion, on German-Jewish history and on antisemitism and the Holocaust. The cross-searchable databases include The Bibliographia Judaica Archive, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations, Handbuch des Antisemitismus and others.
First published in the period 1988 to 1993, the Killy has since achieved the status of a well-known and acclaimed reference work that includes bio-bibliographical entries on all important German-language authors from the Middle Ages to the present. It contains almost 8,000 easy-to-read articles which provide an extensive introduction to the featured authors, combining a synopsis of biographies, contemporary context and oeuvre that is unique in the field of German literature lexicons.
The portal for Literary Studies brings together all De Gruyter Brill resources in the field of literary studies including Germanistik Online, the Verfasser-Lexicon, the Deutsche-Literatur-Lexicon and the Enzyklopädie des Märchens.
Museums of the World covers more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries, listed hierarchically by country and place, and within places alphabetically by name. A separate chapter records some 500 museum associations in 132 countries.
Muteferriqa is a primary source research portal with visual discovery features containing Ottoman Turkish printed books and periodicals. The database is searchable in Ottoman, Turkish, and English. It contains printed materials published in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to mid-20th century.
The CSE Manual Online, previously titled Scientific Style and Format Online, provides access to current and previous editions of the publication The CSE Manual. The CSE Manual Online is a reference for scientific nomenclature, symbols, and style issues.
Theology and Religion Portal brings together resources related to Theology, Bible Studies, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies in one cross-searchable database. Available resources include Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik, Images of the Biblical World Online and others.
Treasury of Linguistic Maps brings together linguistic maps from various atlases and other publications that have been published over the years by De Gruyter Mouton and other De Gruyter imprints in one searchable database.
