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A+T Architecture Publishers This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): A plus T A + T
The digital collection of A+T Architecture Publishers, consisting of monographs and series on design, architecture, and other topics related to the built environment. A+T was founded in 1992 in Spain. All content is in both English and Spanish. Trial through October 11, 2023.
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Alternate Name(s): Civil Rights Movement
A digital collection of primary source materials from the histories of civil rights activism in the United States. Initially focused on the African American experience, the collections will include the activism of other groups as they grow. Document types include correspondence, demonstration plan outlines, transportation logs and plans, meeting minutes, programs from worship services, photographs, audio and video.
Classic Mexican Cinema Online This link opens in a new window
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A database of five historic film periodicals illuminating the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1930s-1960s). The database also gives access to the personal scrapbook of pioneering filmmaker Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), as well as to a collection of fifty rare lobby cards.
Critical Collective This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): criticalcollective.in
Critical Collective is an organization dedicated to preserving and disseminating writing about the visual arts in India. The organization's website includes both lesser-known histories of Indian visual arts as well as new writing about the recent history and developments in the visual arts in India.
Cumhuriyet Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): The Republic
Established in May 1924, Cumhuriyet (“The Republic”) is the oldest secular Turkish daily newspaper and is widely considered one of the last remaining opposition newspapers in Turkey. It was the first newspaper of the Turkish Republic and promoted a belief in democracy, secularism and the rule of law. The Cumhuriyet Digital Archive includes the paper's issues from May 7, 1924 to December 31, 2022.
Gale Digital Scholar Lab This link opens in a new window
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Gale Digital Scholar Lab equips students and scholars with text and data mining resources, visualization tools, and methodology suggestions. The incremental process of Build, Clean, and Analyze supports newcomers and experienced users alike as they interpret both Gale Primary Sources and their own documents.
Global Census Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Global Census Archive collects official data and publications issued by the national census authorities of more than 175 countries, from the early 19th century to the present day. UIUC has purchased one collection on the online platform: Japan (2015). A number of other downloadable datasets are also owned; click on "more" below to view the full list. Email ertech@library.illinois.edu for access to the downloadable files.
Isvestiia RAN. Seriia Literatury i Iazyka This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Series: Literature and Language Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk
Izvestiia RAN: Seriia Literatury i Iazyka is a highly respected academic journal that has been published by the Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences since 1940. The journal's focus is on research in the fields of literature, linguistics, and philology. This digital archive covers 1940-2022.
Music Online: The Qwest TV Collection This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Qwest
Music Online: The Qwest TV Collection preserves diverse live performances, covering the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres. Co-created by Quincy Jones & Reza Ackbaraly, this unique collection of highly curated 150 titles makes timeless concerts and global music accessible for research, teaching and learning.
Musical Theater Songs This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Musical Theatre Songs
This tool is designed to help users find the perfect song for auditions, voice lessons, coachings, competitions, juries and more. Users can enter up to 20 parameters such as character age, ease for accompanist, popularity, tempo, vocal range with interactive keyboard, year, etc., to generate a list of songs from a database of over 11,000 songs from 150 years of musical theater repertoire. The database also contains descriptive tags and search fields for Women/Nonbinary and Global Majority composers and lyricists.

Songs range from well-known standards to rare finds to the latest works from today’s new creators. The database also includes links to locate sheet music and recordings. Users can share saved searches via e-mail and social media links.
Nowy Dziennik Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): New Daily
Nowy Dziennik (The New Daily) is the largest independent Polish-language newspaper in the United States, serving as a key source of information for the Polish émigré community. Established in 1971 in New Jersey, it later moved to New York City and ran daily until 2016, at which point it became a weekly. Issues in the archive span from March 5, 1971-December 25, 2021.
Pidgeon Digital This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): PidgeonDigital, Pigeon
Digitized audio and images for a series of talks about architecture and design given by leading practitioners including Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson, Zaha Hadid, and many more. The series was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon, who edited the journal Architectural Design from the 1940s to the 1970s. Trial through November 7, 2023.
Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks This link opens in a new window
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A collection of research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.
Turkmenskaia Iskra Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s): Turkmen Spark
Founded in 1924 in Ashgabat, Turkmenskaia iskra (The Turkmen Spark, a derivative of the Vladimir Lenin founded newspaper Iskra) was a broadsheet newspaper and the official party organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan published in the Russian language. As a republican newspaper of record, it was responsible for proliferating Soviet central government’s as well as the local administration’s public announcements and pronouncements, party deliberations, policy initiatives, etc., reflecting the government’s positions on a wide variety of issues. As one of the most widely circulated and influential Turkmen newspapers of its time, it also regularly featured columns dedicated to sports, local culture, literature, and the arts. The digital archive includes content from January 3, 1927-December 13, 1995.
World of Archie Comics Archive This link opens in a new window
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An unprecedented digital collection offering access to the runs of more than 100 publications from Archie Comics. It’s one of the longest-running, best-known comic staples, spanning the early 1940s to 2020. Alongside the flagship title, Archie, other prominent titles, which have pervaded wider popular culture, include Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Betty & Veronica, and Jughead.
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