Asian Life in America is the most comprehensive digital collection of primary source documents from and about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage—including Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, Vietnamese, and many others. It provides diverse perspectives from more than 35 million primary source documents in 41 languages and has coverage from 1704 to the present.
Contains primary and secondary texts, videos, and images that provide both personal and institutional perspectives on historical and contemporary borders and migrants. Coverage is interdisciplinary and contains materials related to borders and areas of conflict across the globe.
Cambridge Companions searches across the Companions for Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion, and Culture; and Music.
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs with scholarship ranging from university research institutes, NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conferences proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs.
Documentary video collection on global themes, humanitarian, and environmental issues, such as pollution, child trafficking, refugee camps, LGBTQ+ rights, and indigenous people’s movements.
Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses in America from 1959 to present.
Transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that have been translated into English by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a U.S. government agency. This fully searchable digital edition is the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. The dates of coverage are 1941 to 1996.
Global Think Tanks is a public policy database that contains documents and datasets from think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, and research centers. Some of this content is uniquely found on Policy Commons, and some documents are archived from inactive organizations.
This primary source collection focuses on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media. It spans the early Spanish settlements of the 18th century to the modern era. Articles, blogs, videos, audio recordings and more are sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.
Indexes and abstracts articles in the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Also the study of descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
This online language learning service offers two options per language: Mango Complete, a 100 lesson course designed to provide an understanding of a language and its culture and Mango Basic, which teaches everyday phrases and greetings. More than 40 foreign language courses are available and 16 English as a Second Language courses. You will be required to set up a personal profile and log in to Mango.
This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.
Provides expert commentary. Subject coverage includes: African Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Chinese Studies, Classics, Latino Studies, International Law, Latin American Studies, and Music.
Due to budget constraints, Cinema and media studies and Sociology have been cancelled and are no longer available as of July 1, 2024.
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Contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more about public policy and work affairs. The archive provides a historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies.
Resources document women’s experiences in the conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality since 1820. Material covers the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.
Document archive of feminist activism related to development efforts of women in the Global South and their allies working to balance economic growth and social improvement while navigating equity and fairer allocation of resources. Includes accompanying essays by scholars in the field that outline and critique shifts in approaches to development, including that of a gendered “post-development” perspective. Contains both English and Spanish language materials.
Material covering 1995-2013 from non-U.S. media sources provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by analysts from the Open Source Center's (OSC) domestic and overseas bureaus. Successor to the daily reports from the Foreign Broadcasting Information Service (FBIS) and reports from the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) . Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and is compiled from non-U.S. media sources.
Includes millions of records describing items owned by OCLC member libraries, including the KU Libraries.