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The Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa collection consists of more than 180,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, books, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches.
SimplyMap
By libraryhacks On January 26, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Database Tip, Duke researchers, Featured Database
SimplyMap lets users create professional quality maps for use in presentations, research reports, business plans, or Websites. Data variables can be viewed at the State, County, ZIP Code, Tract and Block Group levels.
Want to know the top 10 wealthiest ZIP codes in your state? How about the top 25 counties [...]
India, Raj and Empire provides documents pertaining to the History of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
The database includes original manuscript material, comprising diaries and journals, official [...]
The Latinobarómetro is an annual study of public opinion in eighteen Latin American countries.
Latinobarómetro has the goal of providing a representative survey of Latin American public opinion over time and provides annual measures of attitudes toward democracy, civic culture, [...]
China Data Online includes two parts: economic statistics and census data. It includes the economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories; monthly and yearly reports on China’s macroeconomic development; statistical databases about China’s population and economy at the county and city level; and financial indicators of [...]
The Universal Databases provides a unified search engine for several Russian language databases: Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM), Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (UDB-CD), Social Sciences & Humanities (UDB-EDU), Voprosy istorii: Complete Collection (UDB-VI), and Voprosy literatury: Complete Collection (UDB-VL).
The multilingual interface offers transliteration and Russian/English search [...]
PrimateLit provides access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.
Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, [...]
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slave voyages to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This database allows users to search for specific voyages of slaving expeditions. Users can also create listings, tables, charts, and maps using [...]
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
Collections include newspapers, [...]
The library has recently obtained access to Duke University Press Scholarly Books.
Duke University Press Scholarly Books provides easy access to the Library’s electronic Duke University Press titles.
The Collection includes online access to around 100 new scholarly books published by Duke University [...]
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