Humanities

The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (EJIW) covers an area of Jewish history, religion, and culture which until now has lacked its own cohesive/discreet reference work. The Encyclopedia aims to fill the gap in academic reference literature on the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods. EJIW Online will be updated twice yearly with newly commissioned articles, illustrations, multimedia, and primary source material. The Outright Purchase price includes substantial additions of material in 2011 and 2012 (photographs, audio files, primary sources).

Images from the History of Medicine provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the U.S National Library of Medicine, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine from the Middle Ages to the present.

Provides accessible, informative articles that provide overviews of current research in eight different academic subject areas: Geography, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, and Social & Personality Psychology. Each of the eight Compass journals publishes state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline it covers. Six of the Compass titles also feature a related blog covering their discipline.

Includes all articles from all issues and volumes for all eight Compass journals. 2003 / 2007 - (start date varies by title)

Online version of Kokushi daijiten, published by Yoshikawa Kobunkan.

Provides electronic access to all published editions of the Bibliotheca Teubnerina Latina, including Latin texts from Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and medieval and modern eras. The database includes more than 1,100 texts by 600 authors, and totals approximately 13 million word forms.

Apabi Digital Library is an online collection of Chinese e-books.

The database collects all title data of the literature on the history of East Central Europe since 1998. The database collects monographs, article in refereed journals and edited volumes and online-publications that are of importance for research on East Central Europe, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary.

The average growth is about 40,000 records/year.

The Talmudic Encyclopedia includes and explains more than 1500 values regarding Halachic laws and terms, Jewish customs and more - from the days of the Mishnah until the present. The concise values that are taken from the Talmudic literature, are written in a clear and focused way, and include the specific source references in detail.

Contains numerous works from the Jewish Responsa literature - rabbinic case-law rulings which represent the historical-sociological milieu of real-life situations. In addition, the database includes the Bible, the Talmud,and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law and customs; major codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with its principal commentaries; midrashim, Zohar, etc. Jewish knowledge, law, and lore across thousands of years is encompassed. Also includes the Entsiklopedyah Talmudit [Talmudic Encyclopedia].

The Bibliography of British and Irish History Online provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

As well as providing details of publications, the bibliography offers links to online catalogues to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries in Britain and Ireland. It also provides links to online text where available. The bibliography is a guide to the work of historians - it does not contain original sources, unless they have been edited and republished by historians (except for a selection of key sources published before 1901).

The bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals. Over 600 journals are regularly checked Material is included irrespective of place or language of publication, although coverage is best for works published in Britain (and in Ireland during 1936-2005, the dates of publication so far comprehensively covered by Irish History Online).