World newspaper archive Searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world. Begins with Latin American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Forthcoming are African, European, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian newspapers. Can be cross-searched with collection: America’s historical newspapers. ERC: Pamela Graham Access: IP […]
Month: February 2009
New Database: American song
American song American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America’s past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, […]
New Database: World Bank e-Library
World Bank e-Library The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. Searchable by region and topic; documents available as downloadable PDFs. […]
New Database: Contemporary world music
Contemporary world music Contemporary world music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz and other genres such as traditional music – Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, […]
New Database: Global Development Finance
Global Development Finance Global Development Finance Online (GDF) provides access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 129 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. These data run from 1970 to 2016, where available. Access: IP ERC: Kathleen M. Dreyer […]