French Studies

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You have access to the following collections
African American Communities. (Uncover the everyday lives of African Americans spanning two turbulent centuries)
Age of Exploration. (Discover the changing shape of exploration throughout the ages)
America in World War Two. (Explore extensive collections sourced from The National WWII Museum, New Orleans)
American Consumer Culture. (Cross-searchable access to primary sources for market research, consumerism, business and advertising in America.)
American History, 1493-1945. (From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York)
American Indian Histories and Cultures. (Sources from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago)
American Indian Newspapers. (Two centuries of North American Indigenous journalism)
American West. (Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago)
Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia. (Research Source - Area Studies: India)
Area Studies: Japan. (Research Source - Business, Economic and Labour History)
Children’s Literature & Culture. (Explore the golden age of children’s literature and chart the evolution from chapbooks to the ‘book )
China, America and the Pacific. (Explore the trading and cultural relationships between China, America and the Pacific region)
China: Culture and Society. (Rare pamphlets from the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at Cornell University Library)
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980. (Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London)
Church Missionary Society Periodicals. (Research Source - Church Missionary Society Archive)
Colonial America. (Periodicals published by the Church Missionary Society and South American Missionary Society)
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966. (Fully searchable manuscript documents from The National Archives, UK with handwritten text recognition technology)
Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Defining Gender. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Early Modern England. (A gendered perspective on conduct, domesticity, the family, consumption, education and the body)
East India Company. (Explore the lived experiences of Early Modern English society, from ordinary people to prominent families.)
Eighteenth Century Drama. (India Office Records from the British Library, 1599-1947)
Eighteenth Century Journals. (Delve into the theatrical world of eighteenth-century society)
Empire Online. (Rare literary, political, religious and social journals for the long eighteenth century)
Empire Studies. (Manuscript and rare printed sources charting the rise and fall of empires around the world)
Ethnomusicology. (Delve into the cultural study of music and explore the rise of Ethnomusicology)
Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920. (From Duke University and the New York Public Library)
First World War Portal. (Essential access to the experiences of many nations - their civilians, government and military - during the Great War)
Food and Drink in History. (Explore five centuries of primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history.)
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952. (Sources from The National Archives, UK)
Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981. (Sources from The National Archives, UK)
Frontier Life. (Journey to the far reaches of settler frontiers across the globe)
Gender: Identity and Social Change. (Explore the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations)
Global Commodities. (Explore the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world)
India Raj and Empire. (Manuscript collections from the National Library of Scotland)
J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America. (The history of advertising and global consumer culture revealed through an industry giant)
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954. (Sources from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York)
Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture. (Nineteenth and twentieth century leisure travel and the growth of tourism for the masses)
Literary Manuscripts Berg. (Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library)
Literary Manuscripts Leeds. (17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds)
Literary Print Culture. (The history of printing and publishing, sourced from The Stationers' Company Archive, London)
Literary Studies. (London Low Life)
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963. (Sources highlighting Victorian London across the nineteenth century)
Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965. (Official British documents from The National Archives, UK)
Mass Observation Online. (Unique insights into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century)
Mass Observation Project. (Award-winning collection of materials from the celebrated Mass-Observation Archive)
Medical Services and Warfare. (Explore the history of Britain through three turbulent decades, written by those living through it.)
Medieval and Early Modern Studies. (Medicine and disease on the front lines of North America and Europe during the nineteenth century)
Medieval Family Life. (Five major family letter collections from the Medieval period)
Medieval Travel Writing. (Sources from the British Library, Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library and others)
Meiji Japan. (Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem)
Migration to New Worlds. (The emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia)
Missionary Studies. (Research Source - Missionary Studies)
Nineteenth Century Literary Society. (An unparalleled resource for nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.)
Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700. (Original manuscripts from Early Modern women writers)
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975. (Discover the social and political changes that accompanied the Rock 'n' Roll revolution)
Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900. (The history of popular medicine in America during the nineteenth century)
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain. (Discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain, and explore the social reform ...)
Race Relations in America. (Explore three pivotal decades in the struggle for civil rights in America)
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape. (Sources from The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage)
Service Newspapers of World War Two. (Rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world)
Sex & Sexuality. (Explore changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender and sexual behaviours throughout the 20th century)
Shakespeare in Performance. (Prompt Books from The Folger Shakespeare Library)
Shakespeare's Globe Archive. (Explore two decades of pioneering theatrical experiment from the archives of Shakespeare's Globe.)
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice. (An essential resource covering the variety, legacy and continued existence of slavery)
Socialism on Film. (A collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI))
The Grand Tour. (The British response to travel on the European continent for pleasure, business and diplomacy, c1550-c1850)
The Nixon Years, 1969-1974. (British and Commonwealth analysis of the successes and failures of the Nixon administration)
Trade Catalogues and the American Home. (Domestic life, leisure and material culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America)
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History. (Unique writings from 20th century American women travellers)
Victorian Popular Culture. (Popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe, c1779 to 1930)
Virginia Company Archives. (An essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period)
Women in The National Archives. (Original documents and data on the Suffrage Question in Britain)
Women's Studies. (Research Source - World War Two Studies)
World's Fairs. (Explore two centuries of innovation, entertainment and international relations through the rich history of world's fairs)

OpenEdition is a French open access interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences portal with four complementary platforms: OpenEdition Books (ebooks), OpenEdition Journals (scholarly journals), Calenda (academic announcements), and Hypothèses (research blogs). Most of the 20,000 ebooks are available as open access in html format.
"While the publishers who make their journals and ebooks OA through OpenEdition normally limit to html, for this period of confinement they now are making PDFs and epub files available to all and not just Freemium subscribers/partners.
Nearly 10,000 ebooks and 535 journals mostly in French but also in Spanish, Italian, German and English.
See announcement in French: https://leo.hypotheses.org/16941"

"...The Internet Archive announces: As of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later, to meet students’ and readers’ needs while schools and libraries are closed at global scale.
This library brings together all the books from Phillips Academy Andover and Marygrove College, and much of Trent University’s collections, along with over a million other books donated from other libraries to readers worldwide that are locked out of their libraries
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News from JSTOR
"We continue to see incredible support from our participating publishers. To date, 44 publishers have agreed to make more than 30,000 books freely available to libraries through June 30th. Publishers that joined this week include Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, and the African Books Collective" .

To support this urgent need, ProQuest has partnered with more than 150 publishers to support libraries in providing unlimited access to Ebook Central holdings for all patrons – at no extra charge.
ProQuest Ebook Central customers impacted by COVID-19 get unlimited access to all owned titles from these publishers through mid-June. This means that all licenses – including single-user and three-user models – have automatically converted to unlimited access for that period, helping librarians bridge the gap for their patrons in this rapidly changing environment. The unlimited access also applies to additional titles purchased through mid-June.
No action is required by librarians to switch on unlimited access – this will be done automatically, and the transition will be seamless for users.
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