19th Century American Women Writers Online

Poetry, biographical sketches and other writings by 19th Century American Women Writers, including Constance Fenimore Woolson, Lydia Maria Child and others. Produced by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle

Includes nearly 300 electronic French texts by over 90 author, including several French dictionaries.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader.

al-Tafsīr

Produced by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan. Provides online access to over 100 Islamic texts in the original Arabic, focussing on works of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) from all the major schools of Islamic jurisprudence as well as other theological and mystical streams. Also includes three English language tafsir collections, full text translations of the Qur'an in eighteen languages (including English) plus Arabic, and audio files of Qur'anic recitations.

Alcohol History Database

Collection of over 500 monographs, pamphlets and journals on the Temperance and Prohibition movements. Includes images in the form of drawings, engravings, photographs, and portraits, in addition to samples of temperance regalia and banners. The dates of works range from the 1700s to 1960s, concentrating on the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 “classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Alternative Press Index

Alternative Press Index covers about 450 alternative, radical and leftist publications from North America. All articles of 5 or more paragraphs are indexed, including editorials, columns, essays, fiction, speeches, interviews, obituaries, reviews and more.

Alouette Canada

Canadian digitization project. Find digital collections from libraries, archives, galleries, museums and historical societies in a range of formats including sound, video, maps, images, diaries, posters, books and public records.

American Memory - Religion (Library of Congress)

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience, including topics about religion. Collections include the Hannah Arendt papers, eighteenth-century Virginian religious petitions, the eighteenth- through twentieth-century history of the Church in the Southern Black Community, and nineteenth-century sunday school books.

American Film Institute Catalogue of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States

Provides comprehensive filmographic information on over 45,000 films, including more than 17,500 made in the early years of film from 1893 to 1910.

American Film Scripts Online

A bibliographic and biographical database of directors, writers, and the full text of the movies themselves. American Film Scripts is growing and will contain 1,000 film scripts, opening an exploration into American culture though the decades. Contains authorized versions of the texts.

American Journeys - Eyewitness accounts of Early American Exploration

Includes more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to nineteenth-century diaries of settlers in the Rockies.

American Women (Library of Congress)

Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States. Find maps, moving images, sound recordings, manuscripts, photographs and other primary documents.

Andrew McCormick Collection: UBC Library - Rare Books and Special Collections

Diverse collection of historical maps and illustrations dating from 1503 to 1910. Many of the maps pertain to the settling of North America and the development of the west. This collection also has local significance, for many maps included in the collection feature British Columbia, the rest of Canada, and the arctic regions. In particular, several maps illustrate the supposed 'discovery' of the fictional Northwest Passage, exploratory sea routes mapping the Canadian Arctic, and the documentation of trade routes in the Hudson Bay region. The collection is not limited to Canada however; this collection's range spans the globe and documents the cartographic perception of the world at the time of their publication. The collection features all four corners of the world in some form, though emphasis lies in the western world. The focus of maps differ as well: there are maps that concentrate on a specific region of the world and some maps which feature the entire world. There are also prints which feature engravings of subjects other than cartographic maps, like an illustrations of armillary spheres, constellations, and a renaissance town.

ANNO: AustriaN Newspapers Online ( Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften Online)

ANNO is the "virtual newspaper reading room" of the Austrian National Library, a digitized collection of Austrian newspapers and journals published between 1716 and 1936. ANNO can be browsed by newspaper title or by date, but does not allow searching for content. The collection has 70 titles with more than 3.5 million pages.

Association of Religion Data Archives

Contains numerous datasets from diverse studies of American religious belief and practice.

Archival records RG-10 from the Department of Indian Affairs

The RG-10 collection includes: Deputy superintendent letterbooks, 1879-1924; Black series registers and indexes to registers, 1881-1923; Field office correspondence and miscellaneous, ca. 1876-1936; Records relating to the Indian peoples of British Columbia; School files, records relating to B.C., 1879-1953, and Central Registry Files, 1868-1970.

The Library collects mainly microfilm material relating to Western Canada, and B.C. in particular.

The index is available online from ArchiviaNet.

Library and Archives Canada has begun to digitize the Red Series and the Black Series.

Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance

This database is structured around the 2 Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists" (1550 and 1568). The database is a collection of treatises on art and architecture from the period of 1470 to 1775. The entire text including images of each work is included. English translations are given where available.

ARTFL - American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language

A collaboration between the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the University of Chicago. Contains nearly 2000 texts (in the FRANTEXT database) covering mainly 18th-20th century works, but also including some medieval, renaissance and 17th century texts.

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of art images, information about the images, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. ARTstor contains approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. The images in ARTstor come from a wide range of civilizations, with initial strengths in European, American, and Asian cultures.

Asian American Drama

Asian American Drama represents the various ethnicities within the Asian American community. Along with many works by writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent, the collection includes plays by writers of Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry.

Asian Classics Input Project

Dedicated to locating, cataloging, digitally preserving, and disseminating rapidly disappearing Tibetan and Sanskrit manuscripts that hold the philosophical, cultural, and religious heritage of endangered cultures dating back more than 2000 years.

ATLA : cooperative digital resources initiative (CDRI)

The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries for the study of religion. The database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

The Avalon Project

The Yale Law School's digital library of document collections in law, history and diplomacy. Includes the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, the United States Bill of Rights, and other lesser known documents associated with important moments in the legal history.

Bank of Canada

The Bank of Canada is the nation's central bank. It is not a commercial bank and does not offer banking services to the public. Rather, it has responsibilities for Canada's monetary policy, bank notes, financial system, funds management. Find speeches, rates, statistics, press releases and reports.

Basic Economics (Formerly Citibase)

The database contains over 9,000 monthly, quarterly, or annual time series ending with the latest available observation and going back to 1946, if available. The data are on a national level, taken from over one hundred U.S. Government and private publications. All revisions (of data, concepts, and coverage) made by source agencies are incorporated into the databank.

B.C. History Digital Collection

This collection consists of an inventory of digital collections about British Columbia history. The inventory currently includes approximately 100 digital historical resources in a variety of formats and content types. The types of content include photographs, letters, newspapers, diaries, books, and ephemera. Most of the collections are developed and maintained by BC museums, libraries, and archives.

B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range

Find provincial reports and publications on topics related to B.C.'s forests and range.

The Bible in English

Ranges from the 10th to the 20th centuries. Includes twenty-one versions of the English Bible (thirteen complete Bibles, five New Testament works, two Gospel works, and Tyndale's translations).

Black Drama - 1850 to Present

Brings together the full text of 1,200 plays, written from the mid-1800s to the present. Includes the complete works of more than 150 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia , and other locations. Presents the writings together with biographies, playbills, images, production notes, performance information, and much more.

Black Thought and Culture

More than 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders from earliest times to 1975 illustrate the evolution of what it means to "be black." Includes letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals.

Books Online - Find religious and theological texts online from the UPenn, organized by Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• BL-BX: Religion
• BL: Religion: General, Miscellaneous, and Atheism
• BM: Religion: Judaism
• BP: Religion: Islam, Baha'i, and New Religions
• BQ: Religion: Buddhism
• BR-BX: Religion: Christianity

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

Contains personal writings of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, spanning more than 400 years from 1500 to World War II. Researchers can explore the thoughts, observations, and experiences of both famous and ordinary women on all subjects. View history in the context of women's thoughts - their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires.

British Columbia Archives

The provincial archives of British Columbia are located in Victoria, B.C. Collections include: government documents and records; private historical manuscripts and papers; maps, charts and architectural plans; photographs; paintings, drawings and prints; audio and video tapes; film; newspapers; and an extensive library of publications with a strong emphasis on the social and political history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.

British Columbia Newspaper Index

Selective index of The Province, Vancouver Sun and Times-Colonist
These newspapers are available in microfilm format in Koerner Library.

This index is a continuation of the B.C. Newspaper Index (1900-1990) AW1 R5065 Koerner Microformsand BCARS (British Columbia Archives and Records Services) Newspaper Index (1858-1900) AW5 P76 B33 Koerner Microforms.

The British Columbia Reports

A law report series first published in 1884, with judgments dating back to 1867, and which ceased publication in 1948. The British Columbia Reports is an important resource for legal researchers, historians, genealogists, and British Columbians in general, as it provides a collection of unique primary information on society and individuals living in British Columbia in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

British Columbia Sheet Music

Database of sheet music about British Columbia, representing segments of the music, social and local history of the province.

Includes images, sound files and the music reproduced in Finale notation saved as pdfs when items are in the public domain or permission has been granted by the copyright owner. Biographical information for each composer and how each piece fits into the music, local and social history of British Columbia is given when that information is available. Each item has been catalogued. Titles, composers, subjects, lyricists and collections are indexed.

British Columbia Statistics

BC Stats is the central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia. It contains the provincial government's largest concentration of statistical products, services and expertise. Find a wide range of statistics about the province of British Columbia as well as current issues of publications including Current Statistics, Business Indicators, Consumer Price Index, Exports, Tourism Sector Monitor, Earnings & Employment Trends, Labour Force Statistics, Migration & Immigration Highlights, Small Business Quarterly and Quarterly Regional Statistics.

British Columbia Statute Service

All consolidated British Columbia Statutes and regulations plus all new acts and regulations; British Columbia Statute Citator; annotations of B.C. and Supreme Court of Canada decisions reported in the British Columbia Decisions Statute Citator; and complete amendment history.

Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval (BUDSIR)

The Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval project (BUDSIR) has now digitised the 45 volumes of the Pali Tipitaka (the collected sayings of the Buddha), and the 70 volumes of the Atthakatha commentaries. These texts are available in Thai and Roman script, as well as Devanagari, Singhalese, Burmese, and Khmer. Access to the texts is free, although registration is required.

CCRI / IRCS - Historical Canadian Census Resources

Canadian Century Research Infrastructure website. Contains resources for researchers interested in Canadian social history, censuses and the enumeration process. Includes documents such as enumerator instructions, schedules, links to microdata repositories and research data centers, and the Canadian Familes Project 1901 census database. Covers censuses dating back to 1852, emphasizing the period from 1911-1951.

Canadian Election Study

Datasets available for the 1997, 2000, 2004 Canadian Election Studies. "The primary mandate of the study is to provide a thorough account of the election, to underline the main reasons why people vote the way they do, to indicate what does and does not change during the campaign and from one election to another, and to highlight similarities and differences between voting and elections in Canada and in other democratic countries."

Canadian Government Electronic Publications

Internet publications provided by the Canadian government's Depository Services Program. Includes titles from Statistics Canada, Dept. of Finance, Industry Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the NAFTA Secretariat, the Geological Survey of Canada, Library of Parliament, and the Translation Bureau.

Canadian Illustrated News

The Canadian Illustrated News is Library and Archives Canada's collection of 4000 images of people, places and events across Canada and around the world taken from the popular 19th-century magazine. Canadian Illustrated News was published in Montreal, Quebec by George Desbarats from 1869 to 1883 and was notable for its innovative use of half-tone photographs.

Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800

The collection is based on Tremaine's bibliography, with the material identified and arranged by Tremaine numbers. It includes everything published during the period, arranged to show each year's output from all the provinces' presses. Includes books, pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, handbills, and some pictorial publications.

Canadian Newsstand

Full text of major Canadian daily newspapers, including national and leading regional papers, plus regional British Columbia papers.

Canadian Poetry Archive

The Canadian Poetry Archive features selected poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets. Digitized from public domain anthologies found in the National Library of Canada's rich literature collection, the poems represent some of Canada's most notable poetry from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Canadian Poetry Archive database is searchable by poet, title, keywords and date. Author, title and date indexes can also be browsed.

Canadian Public Policy Collection

Online collection of public policy documents from government, public policy institutes, research institutions.

Canadian Research Index

Canadian Research Index is a catalogue of Canadian federal, provincial, territorial, regional, and local government publications. All titles are filmed and available in the Microlog microfiche collection, Koerner Library Microforms (floor 2). CRI now links to online copies of reports as well.

Canadian Statute Service

All consolidated federal statutes and regulations plus all new acts and regulations (excludes the Income Tax Act), Canada Statute Citator, and complete amendment history.

CANSIM

A comprehensive database from Statistics Canada containing more than 38 million numeric time series. Covers Canadian economic, demographic and social statistics. CANSIM hosted by CHASS/University of Toronto is updated weekly. E-Stat from Statistics Canada has a user friendly version of CANSIM, updated once a year in summer.

Capilano Timber Company Collection

The University of British Columbia Library's Rare Books and Special Collections has digitized photographs from the Capilano Timber Company Collection in order to make the images available to researchers on the World Wide Web. The images are originally from a single photograph album and depict Capilano Timber Company operations, including loggers, logging camps, and views of the Capilano Valley and the Capilano Suspension Bridge.

CBC Archives

An online collection of archival CBC television and radio clips. The archives focus primarily on interviews, news and current affairs programs to which they hold or have obtained copyright, dating from the 1930s to the present.

Census

Census of Canada Profiles

Subject and profile tables for the 2001-2006 censuses, for Canada, provinces and territories, municipalities, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, federal electoral districts, census tracts, and forward sortation areas.

2001 Census of Canada - Vancouver local areas

Census profile for Vancouver local areas (neighbourhoods): age and sex, families and households, dwellings, language, ethnic origin, immigration, education, labour force, and income.

Census of the United States

U.S. Census Bureau website. Find statistical data and profiles for various segments of the population of the United States. Includes selected census tables back to 1790.

The Central Zionist Archives

The official historical archives of the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, Keren Hayesod and the World Jewish Congress. Includes the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, and a gallery that allows you to browse selections of documents, photographs, printed materials, and posters by decade, beginning with the period from 1882-1896.

Charles Darwin Letters

UBC Library's Woodward Biomedical Library holds two collections containing letters to and from Charles Darwin, the well-known evolutionary biologist and originator of the concept of natural selection.

The main group of letters is the Darwin-Burdon-Sanderson Letters, 1873-1881. This collection was part of a purchase of books and manuscripts from Dr Hugh Sinclair, lecturer in physiology and biochemistry, Magdalen College, Oxford in 1966. This group of about 40 letters consists of correspondence between Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) and John Scott Burdon Sanderson (1828 - 1905) during the years from 1873-1881.

The letters deal with the research Darwin and Burdon Sanderson did on the digestive powers and leaf movements of insect-eating plants, notably Drosera and Dionaea. Darwin published the results of this research as part of his Insectivorous Plants (1875).

The second group of letters is part of the Fox/Pearce (Darwin) Collection – 1821-1884. This group of approximately 80 items was acquired in 1970 from Captain Christopher Pearce, a descendant of the Fox family.

CHILDES  (Child Language Data Exchange System)

Contains transcript and media data collected from conversations between young children and their playmates and caretakers.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980

Wide range of original materials covering interactions between China and the West from Macartney's first embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. Provides multiple perspectives including politicians, diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists, and documents many of the key events during this period. Based on collections held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library in London.

Chinese Buddhist Electronic Texts Association

Provides information about the work of CBETA in making available the scriptures of Chinese Buddhism in electronic form, and links to related sites, as well as access to an electronic version of the Taisho Tripitaka (the Chinese canon of Buddhist scriptures). Some introductory sections are in English, but most pages and the electronic Tripitaka itself require Chinese fonts.

Chinese Cultural Revolution Database

The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database (1960-1988) contains historical materials related to the Revolution: Chinese Communist Party documents, speeches and writings by major party leaders and media commentaries. This Chinese language database comprises 10,000 documents in 30 million characters. Users can browse by subject categories and date. It is also searchable by author, keyword and organization.

Chinese Philosophical Etext Collection

Based at Wesleyan University, the Chinese Etext collection contains a broad collection of Chinese Confucian and other texts inspired by Confucian writings dating from the eleventh century onward. Includes Confucius' 'Analects', 'Xunzi', and 'Doctrine of the Mean', as well as some writings by later authors including Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming and Tan Sitong. Texts are in Chinese.

CIHM: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions

Index to the CIHM Early Canadiana Research Collection on microfiche. Books and pamphlets printed in Canada before 1901 (along with material printed elsewhere written by Canadians or with Canadian content). Canadian annuals and periodicals to 1900. Books and pamphlets printed in Canada 1901-1920. Continued by Early Canadiana Online.

Clandestine E-Texts from the Eighteenth Century

Selected early Enlightenment French texts. Based at the University of Turin-Vercelli.

Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources

University of Victoria website designed to draw together ancient texts and images available on the Web concerning the major figures of Greek and Roman mythology.

Classics in the History of Psychology

Twenty-five books and about 200 articles and chapters in full text online, comprised of "historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines."

Constitution Finder

This database offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet.

Corpus Resources

Links to language corpora, mostly European and Asian languages plus Pidgin and Creole

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.

Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard, British Columbia)

Available in print and online. Check links for dates of coverage.

Transcripts of debates in the legislature of British Columbia.

Defining Gender - 1450-1910

An exciting collection of original rare primary documents relating to Gender Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. List of topics.

Digital National Security Archive

Collection of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 58,000 of the most important, declassified documents -- totaling more than 450,000 pages -- are included in the database. Contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material.

Duke Papyrus Archive

The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt.

Early Canadiana Online

Books and pamphlets published in Canada before 1920, and government publications to 1900. Topics covered include women's history, English-Canadian literature, history of French Canada, history of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Native studies, along with Colonial government journals and the 'Jesuit relations'. Continues CIHM: Canadian.

Early Encounters in North America

Documents the relationships among peoples from 1534 to 1850. Personal accounts and unique perspectives of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, officials, and others. More than 1400 authors and over 100,000 pages of narratives, letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts. Also includes prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs.

Early English Books Online

Provides digital access to more than one hundred thousand literary and historical classics. Digital facsimile page images in their original printed editions of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Includes works by such authors as Malory, Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo, as well as prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary resources.

Early English Prose Fiction

Over 200 complete works of English prose fiction from the period 1500 to 1700 by writers from the British Isles. Includes novels, stories, tales, jest-books, and satires. Excludes nonfiction, translations (except for Argenis), and medieval survivals.

Early Hebrew Newspapers Project

Provides free and open access to images of the major titles of the early Hebrew press (19th and early 20th century). These newspapers contain a wealth of primary material on Diaspora and Land of Israel history of the period.

Egyptology Resources

This broad research guide for the study of Egyptology includes a collection of links to object, excavation, text and photo databases.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Includes materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century.

Eighteenth Century Fiction

This collection brings together 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700 - 1780 by writers from the British Isles.

Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815

This Portal brings together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years. Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion.

Elizabeth Gaskell and Nineteenth Century Literature

Contains the John Rylands University Library (Manchester) collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's manuscripts and correspondence with other nineteenthcentury writers, including Charles Dickens

Emma Crosby Letters

Emma Crosby (1849-1926) was the wife of Thomas Crosby, a prominent Methodist missionary on the north coast of British Columbia. UBC Library's Rare Books and Special Collections holds 87 letters written by Emma Crosby between 1874 and 1926. The majority of these letters were written from Fort Simpson B.C., to her family in Ontario between 1874 and 1892.

Empire Online

Digital resource providing access to primary documents relating to colonial history, politics, culture and society. Sources span five centuries: from a translation of Columbus's 1492 voyage to 21st Century works on imperialism. Full list of topics. Topics include:

• Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
• Literature and Empire
• The Visible Empire
• Religion and Empire
• Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c.1607-2007

English Drama

The full-text of more than 1800 works by over 500 named authors and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13th century through the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the 19th century. Based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1969-1972), with an aim to provide the complete published corpus of verse drama for writers active before 1900. The entire text of each verse drama is provided. Accompanying text forming an integral part of the work -- such as epigraphs, dramatis personae, commendatory and prefatory poems, footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes -- is generally included.

English Short Title Catalogue

Bibliographic records for works published between 1473 and 1800, principally in Britain and North America. Predominantly English language. Contains almost 460,000 records representing material held in the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.

Enquêtes sur la Condition Ouvrière en France au 19e siècle

Microform collection. Provides of 140 documents dealing with conditions of the laboring classes in France during the nineteenth century. Emphasis on works with statistical basis that employ a social science methodology.

Environment Canada

Find acts, regulations and publications related to environmental issues and policy in Canada.

E-STAT - Statistics Canada

E-STAT is Statistics Canada's "electronic learning package" for students. It contains comprehensive statistical and demographic data about Canada, including detailed census returns from 1986-2006 and the historical censuses from 1665 to 1871; the 1991 and 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Surveys; CANSIM time series; 1997 and 2000 Canadian federal election returns; data on the environment; and teachers' handbooks and lesson plans.

Factiva

National and international newspapers full-text.

Films in the UBC Library collection

Search the catalogue by title or keywords, and set limits to Videos/Films.

Fisherman Publishing Society Collection

The University of British Columbia Library's Rare Books and Special Collections has digitized photographs from the Fisherman Publishing Society Collection in order to make the images available to researchers on the World Wide Web. The Fisherman Publishing Society published The Fisherman for the Salmon Purse Seiners Union and the Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union. The images document all aspects of the fishing industry, as well as non-fishing labour events in B.C.'s Lower Mainland.

Florence Nightingale Letters

Woodward Library acquired most of this collection of letters written by and to Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) from a Boston book dealer in the 1960s. The first were obtained in 1966 and are a memorial to Jean McCash Fleming Moore, RN, whose parents donated money toward their purchase. Many of this group of letters were written by Nightingale to Mme Julius Mohl (nee Mary Clarke) her long-time friend. A second purchase of about 80 letters was made also in the 1960s. A few other items have been received as individual gifts and seven letters were acquired from Hugh M. Sinclair with books and papers purchased from him.

Forster-Dyce Collection of Dickens Manuscripts

Microform collection. Annotated proofs, manuscripts, and other papers of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) from collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and Dickens House, London.

French Revolutionary Pamphlets

Microform collection. Based on the Saricks and Hayden bibliographies, the bulk of this collection covers the years 1787-1800. Many facets of the revolutionary era are illuminated -- political, religious, cultural, and financial. Includes both "official" and "unofficial" documents.

Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France Online Digital Library

Digital library of often rare, unusual, out-of-print and hard-to-find printed materials (books, journals, newspapers, printed music, and other documents), graphic materials (engravings, maps, photographs, and others), and sound recordings. Includes more than 75,000 volumes of digitized texts, 70,000 still images, and 30 hours of sound recordings.

The Gay Rights Movement: International Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters

Microform collection for the study of the history of the gay rights movement in post-World War II America. This collection of periodicals focuses on newsletters issued by gay and lesbian political and social activist organizations throughout the country and on periodicals devoted to gay and lesbian political and social activist agendas.

Printed guide available in Koerner Reference: HQ76.25.G39 2006

General Social Surveys, Canada and the United States

Available through the UBC Library data library as either General Social Surveys or NORC-GSS.

Main areas covered in the American GSS include socioeconomic status, social mobility, social control, the family, race relations, sex relations, civil liberties, and morality. The Canadian GSS cover topics such as social support, time use, family, personal risk and victimization in repeating cycles.

Genizah Online Database (GOLD)

This Cambridge University Library Collection contains Hebrew manuscript fragments and Judaica found in the Geniza Chamber of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo in 1896/97.

German Baroque Literature

Microform collection. The main body of 3169 clearly Baroque (1615-1745) works is supplemented by 317 from the Renaissance and 144 later works. Along with works of primarily literary importance, there is a large representation of prose works of a scientific, political, religious, and ethnographic nature.

German Books Before 1601

Based primarily on titles listed in the Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German Speaking Countries and of German Books Printed in Other Countries from 1455 to 1600, Now in the British Museum.

Gita Supersite

Part of a larger Indian Institute of Technology's (IIT) project to develop a repository of Indian Philosophical texts on the internet. Focuses on the sacred Sancrit text, the Bhagavad Gita ('Song of the Lord'). Offers text and commentaries in Sanskrit, as well as translations and commentaries (classical and contemporary) in English and Hindi. Also presents Sanskrit verses and commentaries in Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Onya, Punjabi, Roman, Tamil and Telegu.

Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage From 1844

"Canada's Heritage From 1844" is the electronic full-page newspaper archive of all the editions and versions of The Globe from June 1844 to The Globe and Mail until December 2001. In recent years, it is the Metro edition of which the National Edition is a subset. Coverage includes all the stories, plus thousands of images, advertisements, classifieds, political cartoons, births and deaths from more than 1.4 million pages of Canada's national newspaper, dating back to the pre-confederation era.

Goldsmiths' Kress Library of Economic Literature - Koerner Microfilm AW1 R5346

The most comprehensive and valuable collection in existence for researching the literature of economics and business dating from the last half of the 15th century to the early 20th century. Comprises almost 60,000 pre-1850 titles and 466 pre-1906 serials. Individual works are listed by author and title in the library catalogue.

Goodspeed New Testament Manuscript Collection

Comprises 65 early Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts ranging in date from the 7th to the 19th centuries. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Building Digital Resources program, the University of Chicago Library is creating a unique digital resource based on this collection. All 65 New Testament manuscripts and an additional 114 papyri fragments will be digitized in their entirety and presented with high-quality zoomable images through an interface that supports browsing within individual manuscripts and across the collection.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Index to House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

British House of Commons Sessional Papers or Parliamentary Papers are documents which inform Parliament on matters under consideration. They do not include the agenda or debates of the House, but do include committee proceedings and reports, bills, House of Commons Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers. Discussion papers, reports of royal commissions, treaties, and collections of correspondence are prominent. It is an excellent source for the study of Canadian colonial and British history as well as contemporary legislation and policy.

The index covers the microfiche collection in Koerner Library.

The H. Colin Slim Stravinsky Collection

The H. Colin Slim Stravinsky Collection, named for its donor, includes more than 130 items documenting the work and life of Igor Stravinsky. The Collection includes a signed edition of his ballet Petrushka, an inscribed book of his Poetics of Music, and numerous autographed items. Among the signed items are musical quotations, sketches of Divertimento, sketches for player piano of Les Noces, and an autograph manuscript of Scherzo à la Russe arranged for 2 pianos.

Herstory

Microform collection. Organized into three sections: newspapers, journals, and newsletters published by or about women's liberation. The collection makes available the only comprehensive record of the ideas and events of the modern North American women's movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Himalayan Art Resources

Virtual gallery of Tibetan art online. Includes contributions from around 34 concrete institutions ranging from the Musée Guimet to the Tsering Art School in Kathmandu, and includes over 17000 items. Includes interpretive essays by specialists in Tibetan art history and philosophy. Browse the collection by period, style and region.

Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia Database

Includes over 11,000 records from over 11 archives, museums and libraries. Contains Chinese language materials in a variety of formats, including: newspapers, correspondence, genealogical and family records, business transaction records, association records, certificates, receipts, government bonds, Chinese government directives, textbooks, photographs with Chinese captions, books and journals on Chinese-Canadian history, catalogues and other artifacts with Chinese characters.

Historical Maps Online

The intent of the Historical Maps Online project is to electronically publish the images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory. Designed to appeal both to map aficionados and to educational institutions, the project aims to provide a broad spectrum of content, from expert scholarship of mapmakers and mapmaking to general knowledge about cartography and history. This project is a collaborative effort between the University of Illinois Library and the University of Illinois Press. Also included is a selection of maps from the Newberry Library.

Historical Map Society of British Columbia Database

This is a database of all historical maps covering the area of what is now British Columbia up to joining Confederation in 1871. Originally compiled by Bruce I. Ward and R.C. (Bob) Harris with the assistance and input of many members of the society, the compilation was partially funded by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Historical Statistics of the United States

The standard source for statistical indicators of American history, from Colonial times to the present.

Holocaust - Primary Documents

Full text collections of primary documents, letters, interviews, transcripts and photographs compiled by the University of Toronto and included in its Academic Guide to Jewish History.

Holocaust History Project

The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.

Holy Land Maps

Collection of digital images of ancient maps of the Biblical Holy Lands as defined by the Old and New Testaments. Part of a much larger collection that includes ancient maps of the world, early printed atlases and travel books. Collection was donated by its renowned owner, Eran Laor in 1975 to the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. Searchable by date, site or person. Produced by the Jewish National and University Library.

Human Relations Area Files and eHRAF

eHRAF World Cultures (formerly the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography) is a full-text, fully-indexed cultural database. It focuses on mostly pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups. The documents covered are indexed at the paragraph level with over 700 codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials. As of January 2004, eHRAF contains cultural information on 137 selected cultures from around the world, including information on all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF online is an extension of the HRAF collection on microfiche. Combined they cover nearly 400 cultures altogether.

I Ching on the Net

Portal to I Ching internet resources. Provides access to translations, original Chinese versions of the texts, background information, commentaries, and even software useful for reading electronic texts.

ICPSR

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research archives and distributes machine-readable social science data on social phenomena occurring in over 130 countries. Includes the Eurobarometer survey series.

Images Canada

Database of Canadian images on many themes drawn from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and universities across Canada.

Index of Native American Electronic Text Resources on the Internet

Links to digital collections in textual, photographic, audio formats, including maps, music, genealogy, history, books and journal articles, speeches and interviews, contemporary writing, and newspaper articles.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: Publications of Historical Interest

Includes Indian Affairs Annual Reports from 1864-1990, Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy (The White Paper, 1969), A Survey of the Contemporary Indians of Canada, 1966 & 1967, and nineteenth-century historical legislation.

Indian Education Newsletter

The Indian Education Newsletter was published from 1970 to 1977 by the Indian Education Resource Center, a precursor of the Xwi7xwa Library. It has been digitized as part of a Xwi7xwa memory project that supports the UBC First Nations House of Learning mandate to make the resources of the University more accessible to Aboriginal people.

Industry Canada

Search the Canadian Copyrights Database, the Canadian Patents Index, the Canadian Trade-marks Database and the Canadian Industrial Designs Database.

International Dialects of English Archive

Sound recordings of English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages.
The recordings consist of a standard reading and some unscripted speech, about four minutes in all.

International Financial Statistics

Annual, monthly, and quarterly financial and economic time series for more than 200 countries and over 40 regional and special groups of countries.

International Humanitarian Law - Treaties & Documents

From the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), this database includes 100 treaties and other texts including law protecting victims of war and law governing the conduct of hostilities from 1856 - the present. Also includes commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions and their two additional protocols of 1977.

International Labour Organization Statistics

A portal to statistics collected by this UN agency. Data from 1945 to current on employment, wages, CPI, labour force surveys, and more. Sources include LABORSTA and with labour statistics for 200 countries, and Labour Force statistics. The Yearbook of Labour Statistics is also available in print at Koerner Library.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in  modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Hosted by Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies, the Internet Medieval Sourcebook contains links to full texts and excerpts from medieval writings.

Internet Sacred Text Archives

Full text online of major sacred texts from religions around the world.

Ipperwash Inquiry

(Government of Ontario). Includes the Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry released May 31, 2007, submissions, legal information, transcripts, policy and research.

Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection

Part of the Japanese Canadian Research Collection, assembled by the UBC Library from various donors beginning in the 1970s. The collection documents a wide range of the experiences of Canadians of Japanese descent in British Columbia, but is particularly strong in chronicling their treatment during World War II.

Japanese Maps of the Tukogawa Era

Digitized maps from one of the world's largest collections of maps and guidebooks of the Japanese Tokugawa period, ca. 1600-1867. The collection varies in both format and size: items range from small single-sheet maps to more than thirty square feet, and also include a ceramic plate, a woodblock, and maps in scroll format.

Laboratory of Archaeology (LOA) Archaeological collections

Collection includes artifacts, archaeological site records, specimen catalogues, field notes, and photographic records. The Laboratory of Archaeology collections are stored at the Museum of Anthropology and are largely the result of research investigations carried out by present and past archaeological faculty and graduate students. Almost all of the materials added since 1962 were obtained under provincial archaeological permits. Some collections resulted from Professor Charles Borden's research carried out prior to existence of the permit system (i.e., 1961).

Language Grammars & Dictionaries in the UBC Library Catalogue

To search the UBC Library catalogue for language grammars and dictionaries on a specific language, use the following pattern to do a Subject Heading search:

[language name] - Dictionaries
         e.g. Polish language - Dictionaries
or
[language name] - Grammar
        e.g. Salish language--Grammar

Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection Harvard Library

"More than 5,000 titles including many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are the countries most heavily represented in this collection."

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction

The majority of Latino Literature is in English, with selected works of particular importance (approximately 25% of the collection) presented in Spanish. The three major components deliver approximately 200 novels and many hundreds of short stories; 20,000 pages of poetry; and 400 plays. Authors such as Rudolfo Anaya, Cherrie Moraga, Carlos Morton, Alurista, Virgil Suarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Ivan Acosta, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Rolando Hinojosa, Tato Laviera, Lucha Corpi, Luis Valdez, and others are included, along with many others.

The collection begins with the works of those in the Southwest who became citizens of the United States in 1850, covering the body of early Chicano writers who began to create a distinctive literature in the early 19th century, such as Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Maria Cristina Mena, Josefina Niggli and Daniel Venegas. Much of this work has long been out of print and unavailable. The collection includes major writers from the Chicano Renaissance and current writers as well. The works of some Teatros created in the late '60s and early '70s are targeted for inclusion, such as El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers Theater) and El Teatro de la Esperanza.

Social historians will find much of value in Latino Literature. The works of Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Dominicans, and other Central and South American writers address the social upheaval in their countries. Cubans write of exile. Chicanos write of the social oppression they experience and their efforts to gain political and economic advancement.

Learning about the Holocaust through Art

The Beit Lohamei Haghetaot Museum has one of the foremost collections of art relating to the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, including 3000 drawings, paintings and sculptures. This online collection of photographed artwork is accompanied by biographies, articles and other educational materials.

LexisNexis Academic

Full text of thousands of newspaper sources from around the world.

Full text of US and international treaties from 1776 to current. Search in 'Sources' U.S. Treaties; select 'Search this title', then add in the name of the treaty.

Library and Archives Canada

Library and Archives Canada's website contains several online exhibits on topics relevant to various aspects of Canadian history, culture and society. Search by topic for exhibits such as the Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail Manuscripts online, Tales from the Vault: Canadian Pulp Fiction, Index to the Federal Royal Commissions of Canada, and the Prime Ministers Fonds. Find photographs, diaries, manuscripts, reports, treaties, maps and other primary documents online via these exhibits.

Library and Archives Canada - Aboriginal Peoples

Databases, resources and exhibits about the history of aboriginal peoples in Canada. Includes treaties, surrenders, agreements, land grants, Indian Affairs Annual Reports - 1864-1990, Métis Land Claims, Naskapi lexicon, and other documents.

Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Poetry Archive

Contains selected poems from more than 100 early English and French Canadian poets.

Library of Congress - American Memory

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

LinguistList : Texts & Corpora

Links to language corpora worldwide. A good place to search for National Corpora of languages.  Browse by  Language name, Linguistic Subfield, Language Family

List of Canadian Archives - by province and type

From Archives Canada.

Literature in the UBC Library Catalogue

Search the catalogue by author, title, or keyword. You can also use precise subject headings to find works in a particular genre. Here are some examples of literature-related subject headings:

• American literature
• Canadian literature -- 18th century
• Canadian literature -- 19th century
• English literature -- 18th century
• English literature -- 19th century

MacMillan Bloedel Photographs

MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. ("MacBlo") was one of the largest forest products companies in the world. The collection documents the history of MacMillan Bloedel and its predecessor companies (Powell River Company, Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, H.R. MacMillan Export Company, Ltd., MacMillan & Bloedel, and MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Company).

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926

Provides digital images for all pages of 22,000 American and British legal treatises published between 1800 through 1926. With full-text searching capabilities, provides access to over 10 million pages from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more. Searches may also be limited to a few legal topics, ranging from Accounting to Unincorporated Associations.

Mandragore: Bibliothek nationale de France Digital Catalog of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

Database of iconographic materials from BnF's Department of Manuscripts (Département des Manuscrits). It gives access to the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts, a true visual encyclopedia of the Middle Ages.

Mass Observation Online

Mass Observation Online offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. This digital project is a multi-faceted resource, offering integrated access to the new online material, existing microfilm series, and the Mass-Observation Archive itself, allowing the user options to search across the entire Archive or by material available digitally. Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. The material at the Mass Observation Archive, and now on Mass Observation Online, offers an unparalled insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940s.

The digital content of this collection comprises:

• A complete set of the File Reports, 1937-1972, with full text searching ability
• Access to all of the Day Surveys, Directives and Diaries, 1937-1940
• Seven previously unpublished Topic collections covering Famous Persons, Household Budgeting, Juvenile Delinquency, Korea, Peace & the Public, Radio Listening and World Outlook
• Nine contextual essays by leading scholars describing the archive and suggesting research and teaching strategies
• Photographs by Humphrey Spender, interactive maps, and much valuable supporting material

Medieval Travel Writing

Medieval Travel Writing provides an extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The core of the material is a magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world and dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. The manuscripts have been reproduced in colour where appropriate and are augmented by an array of fully searchable translations and supporting materials plus interactive maps showing the routes of the travellers.Medieval Travel Writing provides an extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The core of the material is a magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world and dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. The manuscripts have been reproduced in colour where appropriate and are augmented by an array of fully searchable translations and supporting materials plus interactive maps showing the routes of the travellers.

Memorial

Shuswap Nation Tribal Council) Letter to Sir Wilfrid Laurier from the Shuswap Nation 1910.

Microform Collections at the UBC Library - Government Publication Title List

This is a title list of government publications held in microform at the UBC Library. Includes Canadian, American, British, and International publications.

Microform Collections of Historical Interest at the UBC Library

This guide provides descriptions for the large microform sets held by the University of British Columbia Library. Any one of these sets may contain hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of titles. In many cases these titles are not listed individually in our general catalogues. These sets are of particular interest for studies in history and literature. Further detail on these and other sets may be found in: Microform Research Collections : A Guide Z 1033 M5 D64 1984 Koerner Microforms Reference.

The descriptions for all of the sets may be browsed directly, or through the Complete Alphabetic List or the Complete Chronological List.

Microform Collections of Literary Interest at UBC

This guide provides descriptions for the large microform sets held by the University of British Columbia Library. Any one of these sets may contain hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of titles. In many cases these titles are not listed individually in our general catalogues. These sets are of particular interest for studies in history and literature. Further detail on these and other sets may be found in: Microform Research Collections : A Guide Z 1033 M5 D64 1984 Koerner Microforms Reference

The descriptions for all of the sets may be browsed directly, or through the Complete Alphabetic List or the Complete Chronological List.

Microform Collections at UBC Library - Women's Studies Title List

This is a title list of microform collections of interest to Women's Studies held at the UBC Library. Includes, for example, the collected writings of Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880), Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) and others.

Multiculturalism Canada

Digitization project led by Simon Fraser University. Highlights diversity in Canada. "Browse Collections" for full-page digital images of newspapers such as Ami du Peuple (French Canadian), Canadian India Times (Indian), Chinese Times (Chinese), Voice of Pakistan (Pakistani) and others.

Museum of Anthropology Archives

The Museum of Anthropology Archive is the repository for records of the museum, including staff and administrative records. Archival records include those generated by the Museum and those acquired from private individuals. In addition, the Museum acquires records of direct contextual relevance to its artifact collections. Prominent among these is the papers, maps, photographs and audiocassettes of the anthropologist Wilson Duff. Also important are the records of the museum's first curator, Audrey Hawthorn.

The National Archives (United States)

Official website for the National Archives of the United States. Search for locations by state here.

National Film Board - CineRoute

Over 600 films from the National Film Board of Canada are available for viewing over the internet. Access is limited to one computer station in Koerner Library. Ask at the Koerner Reference desk for help in locating it.

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.

Natural Resources Canada: Aboriginal Resources

Find maps, geological surveys, statistics, reports and other documents relating to historical treaties, Indian Reserve boundaries, First Nations populations, place names, government programs, mining, forestry and other topics.

New York Public Library Picture Collection Online

Includes more than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

A union catalog of all books in English in eight British and U.S. Libraries (British Library, Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, Trinity College (Dublin), Newcastle University Library, Harvard University Library, and the Library of Congress). Indexed by author, title, subject, series, publisher, place of publication, country, date, language, location, classification and reference number.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada . Brings together more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives beginning around 1840 and extending to the present. Includes letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories.

North American Indian Biographical Database

Contains more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, firsthand accounts of Indian and Canadian First People experiences. Includes autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.

North American Theatre Online

The database features in-depth detail records for more than 10,000 plays, including many previously unpublished works by major authors. In contrast to existing reference works, North American Theatre Online lists partial works, works that have never been performed, and works that were believed lost, providing researchers with unique and never-before-seen information. More than 20 fields allow the material to be searched by location, date, format, number of characters, theatre style, production company, and a rich choice of other search criteria.

North American Women's Drama

This full-text resources contains materials dating from the colonial era. It includes a rich collection of nineteenth-century melodramas exploring topics from domestic entrapment to life on the frontier to the Underground Railroad. The database covers the campaign for voting rights, including propaganda plays, as well as the growing crusade for women's access to higher education and inclusion in various professions. The collection covers contemporary drama, including the works of performance artists.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

The largest electronic collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it presents the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Includes approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts.

Official Report of Debates, House of Commons

Available in print and online. Check links for dates of coverage.

Transcripts of debates in the House of Commons in Canada.

OLAC: Open Language Archives Community

List of language archives worldwide

Online Greek Bible

Searchable New Testament Bible passages.

Online Treasure of Talmudic Manuscripts

Contains images of major Talmudic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world enabling one to view and read the actual manuscripts as they were written.

Oral History Online

Makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. Provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Includes Ellis Island oral histories.

Our Homes Are Bleeding

The digital collection draws together several types of primary materials. The records of the McKenna McBride Royal Commission (1913 - 1916) include transcripts of testimonies given to the Commission, photographs and maps. Additional historical records, including maps, documents, newspaper articles, photographs, audio and video clips, show the continual assertion of aboriginal title and rights. Resource lists, narrative essays, a student webquest and teacher's resources have been developed to support the use of the collection.

Pacific Explorations Site

UBC Library's Pacific Explorations Site is part of the Pacific Explorations Archive, a project of the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance, of which UBC Library is a founding member. Records of early voyages of discovery and the exploration of the Pacific Coast are held at the UBC Library, Special Collections.

Parliament of Canada

The Parliament of Canada Web site provides a wealth of information on the business and proceedings of the Senate and the House of Commons and their committees. Use this site to find, for example, the official text of House of Commons and Senate Bills, and Committee Business including evidence, reports, proceedings, news releases and debates.

Past Masters

Comprised of 117 full-text humanities databases that make available cohesive collections of editions, in both original language and in English translation, of seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences. Much of the content is licensed from Oxford University Press, with significant collections from other major scholarly publishers including Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press and Pickering & Chatto. Major university initiatives included in the series are the Connaught Descartes Project from the University of Toronto, John Dewey's works and correspondence from the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Gesamtbriefwechsel from the Brenner Archive at the University of Innsbruck.

Patralogia Latina

The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).

People's Daily

Online version of the major state newspaper of the People's Republic of China. Provides browsing by date, full text searching, full text of articles, and full-image reproductions of the original newspapers. Direct access to the full text database is available on UBC computers. No usernames or passwords are necessary.

Perseus 2.0

Over 24,000 images, a collection of site plans, an atlas, a lexicon, and 420+ works by 31 authors in Greek and English.

Peter B. Anderson Photograph Collection

Peter Anderson emigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1885 and worked in the forest industry in Wisconsin and Washington. After moving to British Columbia he started a new logging company. The photographs document Anderson's experiences in the forest industry as well as early logging operations in B.C.

Point Grey Site Selection and Early Development

Although originally selected as the site for the University of British Columbia well before its opening in 1915, the University did not open its doors at Point Grey until September 1925. These select documents outline the processes for selecting the University site and the competition for the design of the campus, opening ceremonies and a description of the early campus buildings.

Polling the Nations

Polling the Nations has collected more than 500,000 questions from Gallup, Harris, Roper, as well as more than 700 other organizations. Full text of the questions and responses covering a broad range of issues.

Prelinger Archives

Collection of over 2,000 films available online from the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Includes advertising, educational, industrial and amateur films of historical significance.

Primary Sources by Genre in the UBC Library Catalogue

Search the catalogue by keyword or subject heading contains keyword. Use keywords that describe a particular type of primary source, such as diaries, manuscripts, letters, pamphlets etc.

Project Gutenberg

Database of mainly public domain texts available electronically. Contains around 25,000 e-texts. Browse/search by language as well as author and title.

Proquest Historical Newspapers

Full text of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor from earliest days of publication to within last 5 years.

Pseudoepigrapha, Apocrypha, and Sacred Writings

• Apocrypha: taken here to mean sacred Jewish books not included in the Hebrew Bible
• Pseudoepigrapha: taken here to mean noncanonical writings attributed to biblical characters. Refers to ancient Jewish literature outside the canon and apocrypha
• Also includes the Book of Mormon

Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the Presidents - ASRS storage J80 A283

The library has the years 1929-1933 and 1945-current in the print collection.

Qur'an al-Islam

Produced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Islamic Affairs. Provides information on thematic topics related to Islam, with links to the Qur'anic verses in which these themes are explored. Includes searchable full text of the Qur'an in Arabic and in six other languages. Also includes complete works of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis).

Rare Books and Special Collections Bookplates

The University of British Columbia Library's Rare Books and Special Collections has digitized examples of bookplates from books and book collections held by RBSC. The bookplates from the Thomas Murray Collection are also featured in a virtual display.

Ready 'Net Go! Archival Internet Resources

International index of archives and archival search engines.

Regent College: Special Collections at the John Richard Allison Library

Collections include the Houston Packer Puritan Collection, which includes a 17th century edition of John Bunyan's Grace Abounding, the E. B. Heaven Collection, which includes 17th-18th century original Anglican texts, the Wilberforce Collection of 19th century pamphlets dealing with sermons and other religious topics, the Jacques Ellul Collection, and the John S. Conway Collection of books, articles, offprints, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers relating to the twentieth century history of the church, mainly in Europe.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Public opinion polling datasets and documentation. The Roper Center holds the most complete collection of public opinion information in existence, from the United States and international sources.

Rosetta Project

Archive of 1,000 languages in three different media.

Rosetti Studios Stanley Park Collection

Part of the University of British Columbia Archives' Haweis Family fonds, this small collection of glass plate negatives documents Vancouver's Stanley Park in 1912.

Saga Document Collection

Photographs, manuscripts, and audio-visual materials from the SAGA Centre for Studies in Autobiography, Gender, and Age.

Sessional Papers of Canada

Reports tabled in the House of Commons and published as a set of volumes for each parliamentary session. The reports cover agriculture, banking, trade and commerce, Indian affairs, public lands, railways, and other matters of national concern. Includes annual reports of departments, estimates and public accounts, early census reports, and reports of royal commissions. To access the collection, see UBC Library Guide to Sessional Papers of Canada.

Sexual Politics in Britain (1967-1974)

Microform collection. Papers, minutes, and publications from the major British organizations of the period which campaigned under the auspices of the gay rights and women's liberation movements. Also includes runs of important periodicals such as Spare Rib, Red Rag, and Gay News.

Shakespeare: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare

Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66; 24 original printings of individual plays; selected apocryphal plays; over 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques

Shakespeare's Complete Plays

The complete works of Shakespeare, available online, from Google Books.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. Includes manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images.

Source OECD

SourceOECD provides online access to books, journals, statistical series and databases originating from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. UBC has access to the International Energy Agency's IEA Databases as well as to OECD.Stat, which has replaced the OECD Statistical Compendium.

OECD publications cover economic and social issues including trade, education, labour, social policy, health, finance, development, energy, environment, and science and innovation.

Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers

For more than a century, newspapers have produced special colour supplements to mark important events. This site presents a selection of these special items from the collection of the National Library of Canada.

Speech Accent Archive

Recordings of people speaking English with various foreign accents

Sri Granth

A resource for studying the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib. View parallel passages in any chosen combination of Gurmukhi, Hindi, Punjabi, and English, plus a transliteration and two Punjabi teekas (commentaries).

State Archives Collections Online

Directory of digital collections, virtual exhibits, and state memory projects across the United States. Organized by state. Collections include historical photographs, oral histories, moving images, and other types of documents.

Statistics Canada

Canada's national statistical agency. Find statistical data about the Canadian population, resources, economy, society and culture.

Tests in Microfiche/ ETS Test Collection - Education Library Microforms: AW5 T48

Provides access to the complete text of unpublished research measures reported in the educational and psychological literature. Tests cover a broad range of variables and populations. Over 1000 instruments are currently available, and annual supplements add 20-25 new items each year. In fiche format.

Textes de français ancien

Includes texts from the 13th to the 17th century. Established by Pierre Kunstmann of the University of Ottawa, and runs on the ARTFL server.

Theatre Ephemera

This site offers a rich collection of theatre history ephemera from playbills and posters to photographic and hand drawn images of actors, performances, and theatres in the United States prior to 1900. An excellent source for students of Theatre History.

Theatre in Video

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video. This first release contains over 50 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Hamlet, Long Day's Journey Into Night and also features such notable actors as Laurence Olivier, Richard Dreyfuss, Meryl Streep, and more. Researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: TLG

Literary texts written in Greek, from Homer until the fall of Byzantium.

THOMAS

U.S. legislative information on the web. Includes bills, congressional records, treaties, roll call votes, and more.

Travel Literature - Original descriptions of the Northwest and Canada by early traders, explorers and settlers

Search the UBC Catalogue by subject for Northwest, Canadian--Description and Travel to find nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journals, papers, reports and other observations describing early traders, settlers, and explorers' impressions of northern North America.

Twentieth-century Latin American pamphlets

Contains pamphlets, grey literature and ephemera related to political, economic, and social conditions in Latin America during the 20th century. The most important subjects are human rights, land reform, the labor movement, foreign policy, industrialization, and political parties.

Part I covers the Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay). An online index for Part 1 is available at http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/pamphlets/index.php
Part 2 covers Central America and the Caribbean (Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Small West Indies Islands.)

Twentieth Century North American Drama

Contains 2,000 plays from the United States and Canada. In addition to providing a comprehensive full-text resource for students in the performing arts, the collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries.

UBC Archives Audio-Visual Collection

A selection of digitized tapes and films from the Archives' extensive collection of sound and moving image material.

UBC Digitized Publications

Provides online access to the Alumni Chronicle (and its successor, Trek), The Ubyssey, UBC Reports - the University's three primary periodicals - the Science Undergraduate Society's The 432, and UBC Medicine Magazine. Collectively, these publications comprise more than 60,000 pages that chronicle the history of the University.

UBC Historical Photograph Database

The database includes descriptive records and scanned images for both the University Archives photographic holdings as well as the B.C. Historical Photograph Collection. There are currently approximately 28,000 scanned images available online.

UBC Library Data Services

UBC Library Framed Work Collection

The University of British Columbia Library's Archives and Rare Books and Special Collections have digitized their collection of framed visual works in order to make the images available to researchers via the World Wide Web. The framed works include prints, photographs, charters, and documentary artworks that originate from diverse sources. Some of the works form part of a larger collection or fonds held by the Archives or Rare Books and Special Collections. Some items are interesting examples of a particular artistic medium or technique. Others provide valuable visual documentation of scenes from British Columbia's history.

UBC Library Guide to Finding Film Reviews

UBC Presidents' Reports

Beginning in 1929, UBC presidents issued annual reports that provided an overview of major developments at the University of British Columbia. The annual reports continued until 1985, when they were replaced for a period by documents that focussed on specific and strategic areas. The more general reports were reintroduced in 1998.

UBC Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscripts

The manuscript collections are particularly strong in the areas of fishing,forestry, and mining, with important business records such as J.H. Todd & Sons, the Council of Forest Industries, MacMillan Bloedel, the Howe Sound Company - Britannia Division, the United Fishermen & Allied Workers' Union, and the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (Canada).

UBC Rare Books and Special Collections Map Collections

The main focus of this historical map collection is British Columbia. Printed and manuscript holdings include historical maps, charts, engineering and architectural drawings, atlases and globes. Geographical coverage includes maps and charts of pre-1900 British Columbia, North America, the Canadian Arctic and the Pacific Rim, pre-1800 world/hemispheres, and Japanese maps of the Tokugawa era.

UBC Rare Books and Special Collections Photograph Collections

Includes photographs from the Manuscripts Collection, BC Historical Photographs Collection, and the UBC Library Digital Collections.

UBC Senate Minutes

The University of British Columbia Senate oversees the academic governance of the University. Minutes of the UBC Senate meetings for the period 1915-1991 are available in PDF form.

UBC Student Yearbook Photograph Collection

Approximately 1,750 images drawn from the forty-nine volumes of student yearbooks The Annual and The Totem (1916-1966).

UBC Visual Resource Library

The film collection housed in the UBC Visual Resources Centre recently past the magic number 5000 – over five thousand films on DVD, videotape, laser disk and 16mm film. With movies from thirty-eight countries from around the world and with a special interest in the motion pictures of Canada (one-fifth of the films are Canadian), this unique collection offers a viewing and study service for students and faculty from across the campus, and occasionally from beyond. Search the catalogue here.

UN Data

Tables are taken from databases and sources published in the extended United Nations system, including the ILO'S Yearbook of Labour Statistics and Key Indicators of the Labour Market; the World Bank's World Development Indicators; the IMF's International Financial Statistics; the WHO's World Health Statistics Annual; various UNICEF and UNESCO publications; the Demographic Yearbook, Energy Statistics Yearbook, National Accounts Statistics: Main Aggregates and Detailed Tables, and many more.

The Unbound Bible

Searchable bibles in multiple translations, from Biola University.

UNESCO Documents and Publications

Database containing UNESCO "resolutions and decisions", "speeches," General Conference proceedings, and more.

United Nations Treaty Collection

Full text of United Nations treaties and more.

University Librarians' Report to Senate

Since 1920, the UBC University Librarian has prepared an annual report for Senate that chronicles the major developments and challenges within the organization.

University of Virginia: French Language Resources

Includes around 270 French texts.

University of Washington Special Collections - Photograph Collections

The Photograph Collections include over 1,000,000 documentary images covering an extensive geographical area, in particular western Washington, Alaska, and the Yukon. Such topics as Native Americans, fishing and logging industries, mountaineering, the Klondike gold rush, Jewish life and history, and theatre and vaudeville are well represented in this extensive research collection. Included are the works of early notable Washington Territory and regional photographers such as Edward S. Curtis, Asahel Curtis, Eric. A. Hegg, and Clark Kinsey. Their images chronicle the events and daily lives of the people who contributed to the development and character of this region.

U.S. Serial Set

A collection of U.S. government publications compiled under the direction of Congress, capturing every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress.

U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics

An excellent source of economic and labour statistics and survey data for the US.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Find speeches, testimony and public service announcements related to environmental policy in the USA.

Vancouver City Archives - Online Exhibits and Collections

Find photographs, images, and documents online. Current exhibits at the City of Vancouver Archives include: photographs of Hogan's Alley before its demolition in the 1960's; scenes of past snowstorms in Vancouver; personal documents of Captain George Vancouver; images of Vancouver in its year of incorporation; Black History in Vancouver; World Wars I and II, and others.

Victorian Web: Sermons

Find the full text to Victorian-era sermons by preachers such as Thomas Arnold, George Clayton, John Cumming, Henry Melvill and others.

Victorian Web: Victorian Texts Online

Links to electronic versions of texts by Victorian-era authors including Matthew Arnold, Charles Babbage, Robert Browning, Charles Darwin, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson and others.

The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection

Valued at more than $5 million, the 25,000 item Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection is a designated national treasure that provides new perspectives on Canada’s colourful and sometimes troubled history, and the profound experiences of Chinese immigrants. The collection includes documents, rare books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass, ceramic ware and other artefacts relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Asian experience in North America, and West Coast history and exploration.

Women Advising Women

Microform collection. Focuses on prescriptive literature and conduct books (including household manuals); letter writing manuals; guidance books on marriage and bringing up children; advice books on diet, health, and law; guides to the education of young women; descriptions of correct moral behavior. Includes runs of journals and magazines aimed at women.

• pt. 1. Early women’s journals, c1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford (17 reels).
• pt.2. Advice books, manuals, almanacs, and journals, c1625-1837 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
• pt.3. Lady’s magazine, 1770-1800 (reels 1-15).
• pt.4. Lady’s magazine, 1801-1832 (reels 16-32)
• pt.5. Women’s writing and advice, c1450-1720 (reels 1-22)

Women and Social Movements in the United States : 1600 to 2000

Examines perspectives on women's social movements and reform organizations from colonial times to the present . Includes tens of thousands of primary documents. Covers the women's suffrage movement, female anti-slavery societies, annual reports of the WCTU, and more.

Women Writers Online

Covers time period from 1400-1850. The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. WWP supports research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.

Womens Studies 100 Wiki: Guide to Finding Primary Sources

Created by the Women's Studies Liaison Librarian at HSS - Koerner Library, this guide explains how and where to locate diaries, letters, literature, newspapers and other primary source documents related to women's studies topics.

WordNet

Lexical database for the English language. From the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University

World News Connection

Online news service that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.

World Values Survey

These data sets are designed to enable a crossnational comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe.

World War I Photograph Collection

A sampling of images depicting multi-faceted views of World War I, originally distributed by the British government during the war to diplomats overseas for use in official projects.

Credits

SLAIS practicum student Ying Zhang wrote some of the annotations during the spring of 2006, and the remainder of this guide was created by Christina Nilsen, SLAIS student, in collaboration with librarians at HSS, during the autumn of 2008. Suggestions and comments may be sent to Ellen George.

Footnotes

1. Eamon, M. (2004). Defining Primary and Secondary Sources. Retrieved from Library and Archives Canada: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/education/008-3010-e.html
2. Primary Sources: Definitions. (n.d.) Retrieved from Lafayette College Library: http://library.lafayette.edu/help/primary/finding