Wiley Digital Archives

UofA Libraries now provides access to three new Wiley Digital Archives collections:

          New York Academy of Sciences
          Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 

          Royal College of Physicians

Wiley Digital Archives is an on-going initiative to partner with the world’s leading societies, libraries and archives to digitize unique and rare primary sources.

This Quick User Guide will provide an overview of how to navigate the platform.

Oxford Handbooks Online

The Oxford Handbooks Online series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.

The UofA Libraries now provide access to five of the Handbook collections on this Oxford University Press platform:

               History Collection (47 Handbooks)
               Philosophy Collection (86 Handbooks)
               Psychology Collection (184 Handbooks)
               Political Science Collection (96 Handbooks)
               Sociology Collection (10 Handbooks)

Springer Materials

Springer Materials is the world’s largest database for the identification of physical and chemical properties in Materials Science. It covers data from Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Engineering and other related fields. It supports research in the fields of bulk and fine chemical manufacturing, petroleum and petrochemicals, semiconductors and electronic materials, optical metals, ceramics, polymer synthesis and processing, and materials for fuels and energy application.

The latest addition to this platform, SpringerMaterials Interactive, is a set of advanced functionalities for visualizing and analyzing data. Examples of these functionalities include interactive graphs, dynamic data tables, and side-by- side comparisons of materials/properties. See this product overview for more information.

Adam Matthew: Primary Sources for Teaching and Research

Over 50 unique collections from Adam Matthew provide access to a wealth of primary source material from archives around the world:

• African American Communities
• Age of Exploration
• American Consumer Culture
• American History, 1493-1945
• American Indian Histories and Cultures
• American West
• Archives Direct
• China Studies
• China, America and the Pacific
• China: Culture and Society
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture
• Church Missionary Society Periodicals
• Colonial America
• Defining Gender
• East India Company
• Eighteenth Century Drama
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• Empire Online
• Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920
• First World War
• Frontier Life
• Global Commodities
• Grand Tour
• India, Raj & Empire
• J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
• Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
• Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds
• Literary Print Culture
• London Low Life
• Market Research and American Business
• Mass Observation Online
• Medical Services And Warfare
• Medieval Family Life
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Meiji Japan
• Migration to New Worlds
• Perdita Manuscripts
• Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
• Race Relations in America
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
• Service Newspapers of World War Two
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
• Socialism on Film
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home
• Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
• Victorian Popular Culture
• Virginia Company Archives
• World's Fairs

BrowZine

BrowZine is an app that allows for the page-by-page browsing of selected Open Access and UofA Libraries subscription-based scholarly journals. You can create your own bookshelf of favourite journals, and save individual articles for later reading.

BrowZine can be used on desktop or laptop computers, and on smartphones and tablets. The BrowZine Library lists the journals available for viewing. Click on the tablet icon in Browzine to download the app and set up your own account.

NFB CAMPUS

NFB CAMPUS is a collection of quality Canadian documentary, animation and fiction films in English and French. Content is organized around three key themes: environment and sustainability, Indigenous voices and reconciliation, and diversity and inclusion. It includes titles that are not free from the National Film Board.

CAMPUS includes a wide selection of study guides, a chaptering tool, and learning bundles for educational use.

PLEASE NOTE: To access the subscribed content on NFB Campus, you must register for an account and login to your account each time you use the database. To view the subscribed content after you login, you must click on EDUCATION with the CAMPUS logo:

WGSN Fashion

WGSN Fashion is a leading online trend forecasting, analysis and research service. It’s a key resource for students and researchers in Clothing, Textiles & Material Culture, and in Fashion Business Management. It provides creative content, tools and business intelligence to the apparel, style, beauty, design and retail industries.

This database covers 14 fashion-related product categories, and contains over 22 million images with a range of filters for searching. 

PLEASE NOTE: The publisher's license for this database is quite restrictive. UofA users must register for a personal account that is active for 90 days, and then requires reactivation from on campus to ensure that the user is still affiliated with the university.