New database: 中国方志库 (Zhongguo fang zhi ku, Database of Chinese Local Records). An e-book collection and a searchable database of Chinese local gazetteers. The collection has 4,000 titles of rare and special edition local gazetteers printed in China from ancient time up to 1949. (To access the dat...
WU Libraries recently acquired several new e-resources. We’re excited to share info about these new subscriptions. Read on for details. Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees : Global Perspectives, 1941-1996: This database contains news and analysis from reports gathered daily between the ea...
The Libraries now subscribe to the online version of the London Review of Books (LRB). “The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – f...
Washington University Libraries was not able to participate financially in unlatching the 2016 packages, but readers will soon be able to fully enjoy access to these unlatched monographs. Records will be added to our catalog over the next 3 months or so. Press release with more information Also a...
The WU Libraries now have online access to the Historical dictionary of postmodernist literature and theater / Fran Mason. 2nd. ed. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. SUMMARY: “The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, c...
WU Libraries recently purchased the JSTOR Hebrew Journals collection. Here is the title list. If you search the WU catalog, you will see if WU has both retrospective and current access to a specific title.
Historical dictionary of contemporary Germany / Derek Lewis and Ulrike Zitzlsperger. 2nd edition. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. SUMMARY: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive b...
The Libraries have added World Newspaper Archive: South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922 to our database resources. This fully searchable collection of English, Gujarati, and Bengali language papers gives access to local coverage of regions of the subcontinent that now comprise of India, Pakist...
The Libraries now have access to DigiZeitschriften, a full-text database of over 700 German academic journals in 19 Humanities, Social Science and Science disciplines with 8 million pages. This includes 37 journals in Mathematics, 87 in Philology, 203 in Education, 185 in the Sciences, and 9 in G...
Enjoy Harper’s Magazine Archive–from the very magazine in 1850 all the way to the current newsstand issue. Harper’s Magazine has changed ownership and format over the years, but it is the oldest, continuously published, general-interest monthly publication in the United States....
