Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

From the Indiana University Press website:

“Founded in 1976 (as the Turkish Studies Association Bulletin), each issue of the Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association contains the latest scholarship on the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey, and includes state of the field essays, book reviews and review articles that examine the wide ranging studies that cross disciplinary, national, ethnic, imperial, periodized, religious, geographic, and linguistic boundaries and take as their focus the diversity of peoples, influences, approaches, times, and regions that make up the Turkish and former Ottoman worlds.

“The Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is published semiannually by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2014) to present.

Access the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

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Black Newspaper Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) : access until 21 October 2020

The University of Cambridge now has trial access until 21 October 2020 to the Black Newspaper Collection 

Please send your feedback using the online form.

ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers offer essential primary source content and editorial perspectives of the most distinguished African American newspapers in the U.S. Each of the ten Historical Black Newspapers provides researchers with unprecedented access to perspectives and information that was excluded or marginalized in mainstream sources. The content, including articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more, is easily accessible for scholars in the study of the history of race relations, journalism, local and national politics, education, African American studies, and many multidisciplinary subjects. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, Cleveland Call and Post, and Michigan Chronicle.

Each of the ten Historical Black Newspapers are cross-searchable with all other ProQuest Historical Newspapers–including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times and The Guardian–allowing researchers to evaluate history from multiple points view from various places throughout the world.

The ProQuest platform offers powerful and easy-to-use tools, including complete cover to cover full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format, and the ability to search many different article types.

Michigan Chronicle

Chicago Defender

Pittsburgh Courier

LA Sentinel

Norfolk Journal and Guide

Cleveland Call and Post

New York Amsterdam News

The Baltimore Afro-American

Atlanta Daily World

The Philadelphia Tribune

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

Chinese Literature and Local History Databases : now available until 6th October 2020

University of Cambridge members now have access to three databases on the Erudition platform until 6th October 2020 with our extended trial.

Please send your feedback about any of these eresources using the online form.

When you click on a link to the databases you will need to choose the Ancient Classics option, which includes the three following subject areas.

Chinese Classic Ancient Books (Zhongguo guji ku 中国基本古籍库)

Chinese Local History 1-3 ( Zhongguo fangzhi ku 中国方志库 1-3)

Chinese Popular Literature (Zhongguo suwen ku 中国俗文库)

A guide to accessing the databases is available as a PDF.

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism Online : access until 2nd October 2020

University of Cambridge members now have access to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism Online until 2nd October 2020.

Please send your feedback about any of these eresources using the online form.

Since publication of the first volume, in 2015, Brill’s steadily growing Encyclopedia of Buddhism has been widely acclaimed as the long-awaited authoritative, reliable, and up-to-date reference work.

Illustrated with maps and photographs, and supplemented with extensive online resources, the print version of the thematic encyclopedia presents the latest research on the main aspects of the Buddhist traditions in original essays, all written by the world’s foremost scholars.

Ultimately consisting of six volumes, the Encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of the Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering the most reliable up-to-date accounts of well-known issues. At the same time it fills many gaps in heretofore-neglected areas. Contributions emphasize time and again that Buddhism is simultaneously constituted by a plurality of regional traditions, as well as a far-reaching phenomenon spanning almost all of Asia, and, more recently, far beyond.

The 1000-page first volume (Literature and Languages, publ. 2015)  is available online now.

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

Text taken from the brill platform.

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