Collection Development and Management

Walker Library is offering trial access to several East Asia information resources provided by East View Information Services. These resources include current and historical content from mainland China, Japan and Taiwan. Individual resources can be accessed using the links below. For any resource, click on the "more..." link to see additional details.  

After you explore these resources, please tell us what you think by completing the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary digital resource with a global perspective which will open up the medieval world for students and scholars. It brings together high-quality secondary content with visual primary sources, a brand new reference work and material culture images into one cross-searchable platform, to support this rich field of study. Content highlights include:

• The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, a new and exclusive reference work written by an international group of scholars which combines thematic overviews, regional overviews and core case studies
• Over 150 scholarly books including primary texts, research monographs, companions and more from Bloomsbury and other top publishers in the field
• Exceptional visual sources, including newly-digitized and rare incunabula from Senate House Library, high-resolution medieval maps from the British Library, and 1000 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Interactive timeline with a global focus, placing image and text content from across the resource within their time and geographical region

See About Bloomsbury Medieval Studies for more information.

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This comprehensive collection of full-text news sources provides extensive coverage at every level—local, state, regional, national and international. A fully searchable online resource, Access World News features many major U.S. news sources, plus many hard-to-find local and regional titles that are unavailable elsewhere. Additionally, Access World News offers more than 5,900 U.S. and international news sources from 172 countries on six continents. Use the map-based search interface to easily limit a search or look up source titles for a particular country or state.

After you explore this resource, please tell us what you think by completing the Database Trial Evaluation Form.