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• Chicano Database
  The Chicano Database, produced by the University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library, identifies in one place all types of material about Chicanos and provides uniform subject access to this constantly growing body of literature.  Interdisciplinary in nature, this acclaimed database of nearly 60,000 records furthers research, teaching and scholarship for Chicano studies programs and broader ethnic studies curricula.  Coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s.

• Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT
  CLCLT is the world’s leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions. 
  
  
• Oxford Islamic Studies Online
  A growing collection of content, including more than 3,000 reference articles and chapters by leading scholars and specialists in their fields, and much more. Qur’anic studies resources, including two Oxford World’s Classics translations of the Qur’an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur’an by Hanna Kassis. Primary source documents with editorial introductions. Timelines covering major events in the Islamic world and corresponding events in general world history for context. Images provide useful visual perspectives on Islam. Users can refine the rich array of content to search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content, and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur’an and Concordance, and much more. 
  
  
• Oxford Scholarship Online: Religion
  The subjects covered by the books selected for Oxford Scholarship Online - Religion module include: Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Church History, Early Christian Studies, Hinduism, History of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Literature, Religion and Society, Religion in the Ancient World, Sikhism, Theology, and World Religions.
  
  
• Scripta Sinica
  Full-text database for the study of pre-modern China. It has detailed original texts of nearly 300 multi-volume sets containing thousands of titles in first hand sources up to 220,000,000 Chinese characters.  In Chinese. 
  
  
• TLS:  Times Literary Supplment Centenary Archive  
  Fully searchable archive of the TLS in image format and full-page context, with the identities of contributors, who were published anonymously until 1974, disclosed. 
  
  
  

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