Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), initiated in 1999 by Tsinghua University and Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd., is both the largest institutional repository in China and a near-monopoly provider of for-pay academic databases with a higher profit margin than Elsevier or Wiley, among other services. With promotion and support from the government, CNKI keeps developing its track towards open access. CNKI offers free access to millions of documents ranging from dissertations and academic articles to popular and party journals. The COAA, Chinese Open Access Aggregator, launched in 2019, makes available more than 10,000 open access journals, although foreign scholars may find it difficult to benefit from this due to the language. CNKI has played an important role in making works on COVID-19 freely available, as well as in expanding access to subscribers at home during lock-down.
Environmental Issues Online brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more.
Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material and 300 audio recordings, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
Lives of Literature is a collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. When complete, Lives of Literature will include approximately 100 journals that are all new to JSTOR. Key thematic topics include: Medieval Authors & Texts; Modernist Authors; Victorian, Edwardian & Gothic Authors; Literary Theorists.
MGG Online is the preeminent digital encyclopedia for music researchers worldwide. It builds on the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG, 1994 2008), offering new and substantially updated content as well as continuous updates, revisions, and additions. With over 19,000 articles written by more than 3,500 of the world authorities in all areas of music MGG Online is a comprehensive publication that covers a substantial array of topics not only in music but also in related fields. Dynamic both in content and functionality, MGG Online is being developed by Brenreiter and J. B. Metzler in partnership with RILM.
Naxos Music Library World offers music from over 150 countries representing over 1,500 cultural groups through recordings of more than 32,000 artists. This streaming service also includes the complete ARC Music and Smithsonian Folkways catalogs.
A-R Editions has published Recent Researches in Music—critical performing editions of music in seven series—since its inception in 1962. The series fall into two basic categories: editions that span the history of Western music, and editions with ties to specific cultural milieus. Most editions in Recent Researches in Music are devoted to works by a single composer or in a single genre. The series Collegium Musicum: Yale University was founded in 1955 by the Yale University Department of Music and has been published by A-R Editions from 1969 to 2017. It presents a diverse selection of works suitable for performance by early music ensembles.
Providing students and researchers with tools to study political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements, this collection examines the most studied and important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the early 21st century.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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Security Issues Online explores international issues such as terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, ethnic conflicts and resolution, nuclear threats, epidemics, biological weapons, and transnational organized crime. The collection integrates documentaries and news footage, archival materials, reports, government documents, and contextualizing essays, giving students the empirical evidence for deep and comprehensive analyses of today’s most challenging threats to human security and well-being.
Taylor & Francis Sustainable Development Goals Online collection is a carefully curated interdisciplinary collection of digital content mapped to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). TheSDGs Online collection includes more than 12,000 of the most important and relevant book chapters and journal articles, published under the Routledge and CRC Press imprints, in an online library covering all 17 SDGs. The collection also features new multi-format teaching and learning resources, including core essays, presentations, videos, case studies, teaching guides, and lesson plans.
