Gyldendal ordbøger ‘Engelsk PRO’ is an essential and authoritative online dictionary resource for the Danish language. The Ordbogen.com platform itself has a large variety of language dictionaries. Our subscription gives us access to the following three Danish-English / English-Danish dictionaries:
When you perform a search on the platform, it returns search results automatically from these three dictionaries instead of searching all the dictionaries individually.
KinoDen is a Japanese academic e-book service for libraries from KinoKuniya.
Use 検索 to search for e-books by keyword. To view the collection of KinoDen e-books held by the University of Edinburgh Library, select the ‘holdings only’ (所蔵のみ) in the ‘holdings’ (所蔵形態) drop-down menu on the search results page.
You can also preview unpurchased titles by selecting ‘include unheld’ (未所蔵を含める). If you see the 未所蔵 label on an e-book, then the Library does not have access to the full text. Students can request KinoDen e-books by using the Request a Book service for students. When completing the Student Request a Book purchase request form, please indicate in the additional comments text box that you are requesting a KinoDen e-book and please provide the e-book’s Product ID from its record on KinoDen.
If you have any questions about requesting KinoDen e-books, please contact the Academic Support Librarian for East Asian Studies.
Nineteenth Century Literary Society offers unprecedented digital access to the peerless archive of the historic John Murray publishing company, and is an unparalleled resource for nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.
Held by the National Library of Scotland since 2006 and added to the UNESCO Register of World Memory in 2011, the Murray collection comprises one of the world’s most important literary archives.
This digital resource enables researchers to discover the golden age of the company that published genre-defining titles including Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Emma, and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels.
Key figures who feature in the Archive include, Jane Austen, Isabella Bird, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Eastlake, William Gladstone, David Livingstone, and Sir Walter Scott.
Noor Digital Library (Noorlib) is a full-text e-book database administered by the Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences in Iran. It contains thousands of digitised book volumes from within the humanities, mostly in Arabic and Persian, with a particular focus on Islamic Studies.
The Miras Maktoob Persian e-book collection consists of 249 volumes (189 works) originally published by the Written Heritage Research Institute (Miras Maktoob), a non-governmental organisation in Tehran. These e-books, which are exclusively available from Brill, include works in both Persian and Arabic on Islamic history and culture in the broadest sense.
Pragda Stream is the film streaming platform from Pragda, a leading educational film distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. Pragda Stream provides access to hundreds of films, in Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous languages, and more, representing 30+ countries, and covering over 50 important subjects. Films are provided with English subtitles and/or captions.
The Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
This link opens in a new windowThe Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024. The oldest continuously published daily black newspaper in the U.S., The Philadelphia Tribune was founded by Christopher James Perry. His paper conveyed ideas and opinions about local and national issues affecting blacks in the post-emancipation period, and today continues to serve the country’s fourth largest African-American community. The Philadelphia Tribune campaigned to appoint black citizens to the board of education, city council, and, judiciary. It actively supported the growth of the United Way fund and launched a “clean block” program, promoting the health, safety, and well-being of the city’s residents. The newspaper fought against segregation and rallied against the race riots in Chester, Pennsylvania.
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The World of Archie Comics Archive
This link opens in a new windowThe Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2023. The World of Archie Comics Archive offers access to the backfiles of 100+ publications from Archie Comics, spanning the early 1940s to 2020. As well as Archie, this collection includes other major titles such as Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Betty & Veronica, and Jughead.