Ongoing trials 2024
Library Services has set up trials to the following resources.
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Bristol University Press EDI Collection: addresses the Equality Act 2010 protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Available until April 2024
Dimensions: easier to find and access information, analyse academic and broader outcomes of research, and gather insights to inform future strategy. A subscription has been financed via QR project funds, partly to understand if it would be a useful resource to have access to in the future. Available until June 24.
Trials running until 31 July 2024
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers: as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America.
The Independent Historical Archive 1986-2016: has enjoyed a reputation for quality and innovation since it's launch in 1986.
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991 : developed as a medium for reproducing broadcast talks, initially on radio, but later television also.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online: access to a range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century: primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.
Associated Press Collections Online: European Bureaus: varied treasures of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive made available to libraries worldwide.
Women's Studies Archive Part 1: Issues & Identities: traces the path of women's issues from past to present, pulling sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more.
The Economist Historical Archive, 2016-2020 Update: complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs, and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.
Daily Mail Supplement (2005-2016): at the heart of British journalism since 1896, regularly changing the course of government policy and setting the national debate.
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, Supplement 2015-2019: every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 to 2019.
British Library Newspapers part 6: Ireland: sources titles published in Ireland in the late eighteenth, across the nineteenth and during the early twentieth centuries.
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories: brings together material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories.
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970: documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more.