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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Africa Commons: Black South African Magazines This link opens in a new window
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Trial available through April 30, 2023. Black South African Magazines brings together over 50,000 pages of popular magazines written for Black African audiences and published between 1937 and 1973. Much of the content, which includes investigative journalism, photography, fiction, reviews, biographies, advertisements, and more, was created by a new generation of Black journalists, writers and artists. Many of the titles were syndicated across the continent and contained content specifically developed for the African English-speaking world, so they provide a view of Black society across all of Africa.

Black South African Magazines was developed in partnership with Sabinet, a leading publisher of African materials for libraries, the materials were sourced from African libraries and digitized in Africa.
Trial
Citations to scholarly and research material exploring the contributions and lived experiences of North America's Indigenous peoples. Contains over 350,000 citations to newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. Available as a trial through May 21, 2023.
Broadcasting America This link opens in a new window
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Discover how the expansion of radio and television technology, and the rise of mass media empires, transformed America into a consumer-based society, through the lens of pioneer David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and other industry papers.
Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks This link opens in a new window
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Trial through April 30, 2023. A collection of research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.
Policy Commons: North American City Reports This link opens in a new window
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Trial through April 30, 2023. Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.
SAGE Skills: Business This link opens in a new window
Trial
Alternate Name(s): SAGE Skills SAGE Business Skills
Trial through May 20, 2023. A resource for developing and practicing real-world skills necessary for success in the modern workplace. SAGE Skills: Business's flexible learning tracks feature both academic and practitioner experts. Content includes interactive self-assessments, virtual scenarios, downloadable data, and expert insights.
SAGE Skills: Student Success This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): SAGE Skills SAGE Skills Student Success
Trial through May 20, 2023. SAGE Skills: Student Success empowers students to learn the practical academic and personal skills needed to thrive during their time in higher education and beyond. With more than 1,100 topics across 10 comprehensive modules, this resource provides a flexible learning journey through interactive scenarios, self-assessments, downloadable exercises, videos, and more.
Scite This link opens in a new window
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Trial through May 12, 2023. Scite is a tool for cited reference searching that allows users to see how a publication has been cited. Scite displays the context of the cited work within the full text of the work citing it, and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim. Scite was developed in part to help researchers gauge the reproducibility of scientific research through the context of publication and citation.
South Asia Archive This link opens in a new window
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Trial available through April 30, 2023. The South Asia Archive is a collection of 4.5 million pages of documents from across the Indian subcontinent from 1700 to 1953, originally collected by the South Asian Research Foundation (SARF). It’s the largest digital collection of books, journals and documents from the region, covering India, Pakistan, Myanmar (Burma), Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Documents are in a mix of English and vernacular languages, with fifteen percent of the archive’s content comprising material written primarily in Bengali and also including some content in Sanskrit.
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