Language Resources
- Meiji Japan This link opens in a new window
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1858-1925 The Edward Sylvester Morse papers document the numerous and valuable contributions made by Morse to the areas of malacology, zoology, ethnology, archaeology and art history. The range and depth of his interests are reflected in the complexity of the papers. Included are diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, research files, drawings, manuscripts, publications and teaching materials. Morse was one of the first Americans to live in Japan and n 1882 he turned his attention to ethnology and the documentation of life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization.
Terms of use - Foreign Office Files for Japan This link opens in a new window
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1919-1952 this collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. Each self-contained collection is clustered in a portal for ease of cross-searching and browsing or can be searched as part of the Archives Direct collection.
Terms of use - China Academic Journals - Series F (literature/history/philosophy) and Series H (education and social sciences) This link opens in a new windowChinese Academic journals in full text in the areas of Literature, History, Philosophy, Education and Social Sciences.
Content is primarily in Chinese
Terms of use - China, America and the Pacific This link opens in a new window
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1648-2000 Explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
Terms of use - China: Culture and Society This link opens in a new window
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1750-1929 The core of China: Culture and Society is the pamphlets held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University. Mostly in English and published between c. 1750 and 1929, and amounting to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes, these rare pamphlets form part of one of the deepest and most extensive collections of literature on China and the Chinese.
Terms of use - China: Trade, Politics, and Culture This link opens in a new window
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Covers 1793-1980. This digital collection answers a need for English-language primary sources relating to China and the West with manuscripts encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic,
Terms of use - China Data Online This link opens in a new windowCoverage: current. Provides access to monthly reports, yearbooks, monthly reports, and census data.
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- Pop Culture China!: Media, Arts, and LifestyleSanta Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2007
An introduction to all facets of popular culture in China.
- Foreign Office Files for China This link opens in a new window1919-1980 a collection of all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980: Each self-contained collection is clustered in a portal for ease of cross-searching and browsing or can be searched as part of the Archives Direct collection.
Terms of use - Scripta Sinica This link opens in a new windowThe Scripta Sinica database contains over 1,100 of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history. Interface and text are in Chinese.
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1911-1949 The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection provides access to Chinese newspapers of the period. Content is primarily in Chinese
Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
Terms of use - Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1971-present. Materials on East, Southeast, and South Asia, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
Terms of use - Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowCurrently the collection contains more than 258 digitized volumes from the esteemed Cambridge Histories series covering 15 subject areas. Useful for locating background information in almost any subject in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
Terms of use - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Includes over one thousand leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. For most JSTOR titles, the most recent years of publication are not covered. If you want the most recent scholarship on a topic, you should probably try another database. However, current issues for selected journals are available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
Terms of use - IMF eLibrary This link opens in a new windowThe International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary provides analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. It includes information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.
- World News Connection This link opens in a new window1995-2013 Discover what’s really happening in specific countries and regions of Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe,the Middle East, the Americas, and Oceania. Information is compiled and translated from more than 800 non-U.S. media sources, including news articles, Web sites, broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Earlier content is available from Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996 on the Newsbank platform.
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- ARTFL This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Full text of works representing a broad range of use of the French language, including scholarly editions of literary works (12th - 20th centuries), as well as items from scientific and technical fields. Does not include the full text of ebooks - just allows searching of terms to locate them within the ebook and returns the section the term is located in
Terms of use - CAIRN Journals - Bouquet General This link opens in a new windowCairn offers a comprehensive collection of over 500 French language journals in literature, history, philosophy and general interest. The interface is in French. There is also an International Edition, a package containing Journals which for the first time have had selected articles translated into English.
Terms of use - Gallica This link opens in a new window
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Gallica is the digital library for the Biblioteque Nationale de France. It contains in excess of 1,5 million documents, 300,000 books, and 400,000 images. The default interface is in French with the option to change to English or another language.It includes royalty free collections or whose rights have been negotiated with rights holders, digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, through its programs of mass digitization and / or backup.
Gallica includes copyright free images.
Terms of use - Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ONLINE This link opens in a new windowA collection of ebooks a variety of subjects relating to the Enlightenment including: history, cultural studies, literature, biography, religious studies, philosophy, and gender studies. The 217-volumes in both English and French, from Au prisme de Rousseau to Voltaire and the Parlements of France. Purchase was generously supported by the Malan Fund.
Terms of use - Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1920-present. A library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose; literature journals and other criticism and reference sources. Includes ABELL - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Terms of use - Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new windowIntegrates multiple digital literature collections in a single resources. Contents currently include the Literature Resource Center which contains the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and numerous Literary Criticism sources as well as titles from the Gale Virtual Reference Center. Formerly called Artemis Literary Sources
Terms of use - Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new window
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1880- present The collections represents the works of writers from the entire Caribbean region, including Barbados, Guyana, Belize, Cuba, Suriname, French Guiana, Haiti, and Jamaica. Materials include titles in the numerous languages of the region.
Terms of use - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Includes over one thousand leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. For most JSTOR titles, the most recent years of publication are not covered. If you want the most recent scholarship on a topic, you should probably try another database. However, current issues for selected journals are available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
Terms of use - MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1926-present. The essential database to search for scholarly material in the area of literature and language.
Terms of use - PastMasters This link opens in a new windowIncludes Descartes: Oeuvres Complètes, Montaigne: Complete Works, Continental Rationalists, and The
Montesquieu: Complete Works
- Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) This link opens in a new window1985-present. The most comprehensive bibliography and index of publications on German language and literary studies. Currently there are over 330,000 citations to monographs and to articles and reviews in journals, collected studies, and newspapers. Searching is by author, treated author, treated work, title, publisher, and keyword, with limiting by date, publication type, and up to 18 thematic and chronological categories. Interface and text is in German.
- Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of German Literature and its supplemental series, The Encyclopedia of German Literature: The 20th Century and the Encyclopedia of German Literature: The Middle Ages. Spanning an extended time scale from the early Middle Ages to the recent present, the database is unique for its comprehensive scope, featuring articles on German-language authors from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and other European countries. In addition to profiling the lives and works of literary figures, the database also contains extensive reference information on research publications. The volumes on the Middle Ages cover German-language literature from the 8th to the 15th centuries, and are systematically organized by genre and topic area.
Terms of use - PastMasters This link opens in a new windowIncludes Fichte: Werke, Kant: Hauptwerke, Kierkegaard: Journals and Papers, Nietzsches Werke, Oxford Duden German Dictionary, Schelling: Sämmtliche Werke, and Wittgenstein: Collected Works
- Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1920-present. A library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose; literature journals and other criticism and reference sources. Includes ABELL - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Terms of use - MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1926-present. The essential database to search for scholarly material in the area of literature and language.
Terms of use - Project Muse Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1995-present. Provides access to humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from a number of scholarly publishers. Colgate upgraded to the premium collection in 2019..
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- Pop Culture Germany!: Media, Arts and Lifestyle2006 ed. Explores the exciting world of contemporary German popular culture, from the reality TV show Superstar to Formula One ace Michael Schumacher.
- Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1920-present. A library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose; literature journals and other criticism and reference sources. Includes ABELL - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Terms of use - MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1926-present. The essential database to search for scholarly material in the area of literature and language.
Terms of use - Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Covers biographies, literary criticism and journals in fields of literature, language, linguistics and folklore for all modern languages. Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography along with many other resources.
Terms of use - Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new windowIntegrates multiple digital literature collections in a single resources. Contents currently include the Literature Resource Center which contains the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and numerous Literary Criticism sources as well as titles from the Gale Virtual Reference Center. Formerly called Artemis Literary Sources
Terms of use - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Includes over one thousand leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. For most JSTOR titles, the most recent years of publication are not covered. If you want the most recent scholarship on a topic, you should probably try another database. However, current issues for selected journals are available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
Terms of use - PastMasters This link opens in a new windowIncludes Machiavelli: Works, Giambattista Vico: Opere, and Lombardus: Sententiarum libri IV
- Film and Television Literature Index This link opens in a new windowThis comprehensive bibliographic database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications related to film and television literature. This database includes extensive content for all applicable areas of film and television research.
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- Informe Academico This link opens in a new windowContains a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. It provides quality reference material--not simply translations of English-language materials--on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.
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1880- present The collections represents the works of writers from the entire Caribbean region, including Barbados, Guyana, Belize, Cuba, Suriname, French Guiana, Haiti, and Jamaica. Materials include titles in the numerous languages of the region.
Terms of use - Hapi Online This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1970-present. A source for journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Many articles in Spanish.
Terms of use - Confidential Print: Latin America This link opens in a new window
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1597 - 1969 Part of a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew - the UK government's official archive. This collection is on Latin America and the Caribbean. Each self-contained collection is clustered in a portal for ease of cross-searching and browsing or can be searched as part of the Archives Direct collection.
Terms of use - HLAS Online--Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1935-present. A bibliography of journals and books on Latin America covering topics in both the humanities and social sciences.
Terms of use - Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Covers biographies, literary criticism and journals in fields of literature, language, linguistics and folklore for all modern languages. Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography along with many other resources.
Terms of use - Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1920-present. A library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose; literature journals and other criticism and reference sources. Includes ABELL - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Terms of use - MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1926-present. The essential database to search for scholarly material in the area of literature and language.
Terms of use - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Includes over one thousand leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. For most JSTOR titles, the most recent years of publication are not covered. If you want the most recent scholarship on a topic, you should probably try another database. However, current issues for selected journals are available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
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Streaming Media
VIDEO
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowKanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for libraries and educational institutions that provides access to over 20,000 documentaries and films. The collection is particularly strong in independent films.
Terms of use - Academic Videos Online (AVON) This link opens in a new windowA collection of over 70,000 streaming videos
Authorized Users shall not download or otherwise copy the streaming videos or audio contained in the Service.
Terms of use - Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new windowProvides high-quality full-length films of leading worldwide theater productions plus interviews with the cast, the creative and production teams behind each show.
Terms of use - American Archive of Public Broadcasting This link opens in a new windowThe Library of Congress and WGBH in Boston have embarked on a project to preserve for posterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
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IMAGES
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowNOTICE: ARTstor is moving to the JSTOR platform and the old ARTstor platform will be unavailable as of August 1, 2024. If you have created image groups, you must copy them over to JSTOR before then. To begin using the new platform, click here.
Coverage: varies. A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data, with unique tools to actively use those images for teaching, learning and research.
Terms of use - MDID: Colgate's Image Database This link opens in a new windowColgate's Visual Resources department houses thousands of images pertaining to Art & Art History and Classics departments.
Limited to Colgate Students, Facutly and Staff.
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AUDIO
- Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new windowan extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand!
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Terms of use - Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowA collection of streaming audio classical music with over 130,000 CD length recordings
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