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New Electronic Resources Available

By WashU Libraries

University Libraries has recently purchased a number of new electronic resources for our users across the Danforth campus, including:

  • AtoZdatabases (replacing ReferenceUSA) – includes 30 million business and executive profiles and 240 million residents, and ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, and employment opportunities
  • Al-Ahram Digital Archive (1875-2018) – searchable digital archive of the longest running newspaper in Egypt
  • Black Abolitionist Papers – covering the period 1830-1865, the collection contains documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists.
  • China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 – a collection of documents that encompass events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic that provides an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period
  • Ethnologue: Languages of the World – this comprehensive reference work catalogs all of the world’s known living languages, including alternate names, dialects, number of speakers, multilingualism, and other demographic and sociolinguistic information
  • Nikkei Asia – delivers unique and exclusive coverage of regional economic, political, business, and technology news in English and provides data on financial markets and top companies in Asia
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global – our subscription was expanded from Abstracting and Indexing to full text access to dissertations
  • SAGE Research Methods – subscribed to additional modules through December 2022, including: cases, datasets, video, and data visualization

We have also acquired some additional years of access to the following news outlets:

Check out more of the Libraries’ extensive resources in our full list of A-Z Databases available.