Find the best library databases for your research.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
User-friendly, powerful cloud-based mapping software for creating web maps and performing analysis. Includes access to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and premium content, including demographic, environmental, and imagery data.
Published since 1949, The Current Digest of the Russian Press (formerly The Current Digest of the Soviet Press) is a key resource in Soviet/Russian area studies. It offers weekly translations of Russian-language press materials, covering diverse issues from a range of sources, including pro-government and opposition voices. Used for teaching and research, it presents views of original authors, documenting history from the Soviet atomic bomb tests to present-day events.
Digitized materials from The Bancroft Library concerning over 400 years (ca. 1500-1920) of Mexican history. Drawing from the world-class Latin Americana Collection at The Bancroft Library, the documents cover a wealth of research interests, including Indigenous linguistic studies, records of the Mexican Inquisition, church and mission documents and sermons, administrative and land records, and a variety of manuscript and photographic records of the Revolution.
MGG Online 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.
My China Roots is a family history database for the Chinese diaspora that includes millions of searchable ancestors in America and Southeast Asia.
Pharos provides hazard, use, and exposure information on chemicals and building products. NOTE: You must first register for an account using the link here and your Berkeley email address.
Tabloids recorded what broadsheet newspapers missed, and spoke what cannot be expressed by broadsheet newspapers. This resource would be a great complement of regular news resources published in the same time period. It would also provide much needed primary sources to academic programs in the area of history/art history, sociology, cultural/popular cultural studies, journalism studies and film studies.
VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) is a legal research platform that provides access to statutes, cases, administrative agency materials, as well as treatises, reporters, newsletters, and blogs.
