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Digital Sanborn Maps available

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The Sanborn Company began making fire insurance maps in 1867. Sanborn maps are valuable tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1867 – 1970 has been expanded from just Vermont to all fifty states, plus the District of Columbia.

Sanborn Maps Geo Edition allows searching by GPS coordinates and includes tools that layer maps from different years on top of each other and over modern street, satellite, and hybrid layers via a Google map interface.  This enhanced version of the Sanborn maps database currently includes maps from a dozen states and will grow with time.

Both are available on the trials page at go/trials.

Middlebury College, detail from 1927 Sanborn

New library acquisitions for the study of China

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China Academic Journals (CAJ) and Century Journals Project
The China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database is a cross-searchable full-text database of the China Academic Journal (CAJ) project containing more than 7,200 journals paired with the Century Journals Project, an archive of the most important academic journals published in China, dating back to 1887. Middlebury’s current collections focus on economics, education and social sciences, literature, philosophy, history, politics, military affairs, and law. A Chinese search is also available.

China Data Online (China Data Center)
Access to Chinese census data and city, provincial, and national data. Also new GIS data and downloadable Esri-compliant shapefiles.


Shen Bao, Shanghai News 1872–1949

Shen Bao, formerly transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao (申報). Full-text access (1872–1949) covering politics, military, economy, culture and society from the later Qing Dynasty to the Republican Period.
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Cambridge Histories Online now available!

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The Middlebury College community now has full access to all 303 online historical publications from Cambridge University Press.

From Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period

to Vijayanagara (part of The New Cambridge History of India),

browse or search the entire Cambridge Histories Collection.

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New Library acquisitions for Latin America, the Caribbean, South and East Asia, & African history

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World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean
A collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean plus current academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video.

Shen Bao, Shanghai News 1872–1949
Shen Bao, formerly transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao (申報). Full-text access (1872–1949) covering politics, military, economy, culture and society from the later Qing Dynasty to the Republican Period.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
Three archival collections drawn from the British Foreign Office files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
Online archive to the United Kingdom’s Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices’ confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966.

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
Digized archives based on ‘Confidential Print’ documents issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office and detailing the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 19th century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, upwards to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Journal of Eastern African Studies  
A cross-disciplinary journal including archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international relations, literatures and languages, political economy, politics, social policy and sociology.

National Geographic Magazine 
The archive (1888-1994) features keyword searching and a Graphing Tool (enter a word or phrase to view a graph of how frequently your search terms have been used in National Geographic Magazine across time)A wonderful complement to those stacks and boxes of past issues in your basements and attics.

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 
A humanities and social sciences journal focusing on the history, society, economy, culture and international relations of the South Asian region.

 

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New library collections for American history

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American West
Original manuscripts, maps, ephemera, and printed sources from the Newberry Library, Chicago detailing frontier life, Native Americans, the growth of urban centres, the environmental impact of westward expansion, and life in the borderlands.

Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920
An archival research collection documenting the social and cultural forces that shaped the lives of Americans from 1800 to 1920 including the study of families and home life in the South and in the North, religion, race, education, employment, politics, marriage, sexuality, health, childhood, fashion, travel, and entertainment.

Lily: A Temperance and Abolitionist Newspaper
The first newspaper for women, The Lily was published in Seneca Falls, New York from 1849 until 1853.  The Lily originated as a temperance journal for the Seneca Falls Ladies Temperance Society and was edited by Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894).

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
Original material from 30 libraries and archives including the British Library, Duke University, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL. Close attention has been given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

 

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New to the Library: National Geographic online archive (1888-1994)

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Visit National Geographic Magazine online archive (1888-1994).

This comprehensive digital archive will grow over time as new issues are added.
Every page. Every photo. Every advertisement. Every map. The archive features keyword searching and a Graphing Tool: enter a word or phrase to view a graph of how frequently your terms have been used in National Geographic Magazine across timeA wonderful complement to those stacks and boxes of past issues in your basements and attics.

Visit our New & Trial Resources page to find these and other newly added acquisitions. 

New Library acquisitions for the Sciences

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Annual Reviews
Access to 37 Annual Reviews volumes within the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences. From its inception in 1932 to the current year.

Birds of North America Online
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BNA Online provides life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada along with image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, and recordings of songs and calls.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (2006 – current)
An interdisciplinary journal providing a definitive source of research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging.

Fertility and Sterility (1997 – current)
Articles in clinical and laboratory research relevant to reproductive endocrinology, urology, andrology, physiology, immunology, genetics, contraception, and menopause.

JSTOR Life Sciences Collection (go/jstor)
Four hundred years (1665-2007) of published journals of science history and research in the sciences including aquatic science, botany, developmental & cell biology, ecology, paleontology, zoology, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, and public health.

SpringerLink (go/springer)
Over 2,000 journals and 53,000 ebooks in the fields of science, technology, and medicine.

 

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New to the library: statistics and GIS data

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Statista
A quantitative statistics portal with over 60,000 topics on agriculture, finance, politics, and many more. Search in either German or English

 

China Data Online (China Data Center)

*Now with census data and GIS spatial data including Esri shapefiles.

(*GIS spatial data through China Geo-Explorer II works best with Internet Explorer.)

A statistical database with the following datasets:

  • Monthly Statistics
  • National Statistics
  • Provincial Statistics
  • City Statistics
  • County Statistics
  • Monthly Industrial Data
  • Monthly Industrial Data 1999-2002
  • Yearly Industrial Data
  • Yearly Industrial Data 1999-2002
  • Statistics on Map
  • Provincial Yearbook (2002 – )
  • Provincial Yearbook ( – 2001)
  • City Yearbook
  • National Yearbook

China Data Center offers some freebies on its website, including a list of geo-spatial vector data including lakes, rivers, canals, and other landforms and a separate listing of free, two-dimensional maps including traffic noise in major citiescoal production, and energy consumption, to name only a few.