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U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015

U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015

This collection focuses on two series of international negotiations that dominated U.S. climate policy during this period: the 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement. It is unrivaled in its scope and primary-source content, with newly declassified documents showing how each administration framed its goals for the negotiations and how they navigated the complex interplay of diplomacy and domestic policy. Included materials address negotiations in detail, assessments of other governments’ positions, briefing materials, and more. – Publisher

Platino Educa

Platino Educa

Platino Educa is a film platform providing access to hundreds of Spanish and Ibero-American movies, classified by subjects and covering themes across the Environment, Social Studies, Language and Literature, Arts, and Social Justice. The selection of audiovisual works and the elaboration of the pedagogical material that Platino EDUCA offers are developed in collaboration with renowned institutions in the field of cinema and education.

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, Fifteen Volume Set is the market-leading resource covering all areas of this critical sub-discipline of chemistry. Divided into 15 clear sections, it provides expert coverage of the synthesis, structures, bonding and reactivity of all organometallic compounds, including the mechanisms of the reactions. Applications of organometallic chemistry, such as the role of these compounds as reagents and catalysts for organometallic transformations, and their participation in bioorganometallic chemistry, is then covered. – Publisher

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

This is a biannual journal featuring critical research on Chinese literature and culture, from the avant-garde to the popular, encompassing film, drama, art, performance, media history, print culture, and more. Started in 1975, the journal has become essential in its field and is today a key publication in Chinese studies. – Publisher

Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part II

Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part 2

In addition to part 1, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part II.

Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882–1986 provides a near complete record of the efforts of the first organization to address Native American interests and rights. This collection includes the contains incoming and outgoing correspondence; organizational records; printed material (including early pamphlets and publications both by the Indian Rights Association and other American Indian and Indian-related organizations); Indian Rights Association annual reports; draft legislation; administrative files, the papers of Indian Rights Association founder Herbert Welsh, photographs (often from Western field trips), materials from the Council on Indian Affairs, and manuscripts and research notes regarding social and cultural Indian traditions. – Publisher

al-Manẓūmah / المنظومة

al-Manẓūmah / المنظومة

Dar al-Manẓūmah provides access to a series of databases with full-text content of Arabic scientific conferences, dissertations, and academic journals from 1921 to present.

This database is a comprehensive online full text database for Arabic scholarly output. It provides access to close-to one million Arabic items (1/3 in abstract), including 65K items mainly in English and other languages. It consists of 6 specialized databases which are: AraBase for language and literature, IslamicInfo for Islamic studies and Islamic law, HumanIndex for humanities, EcoLink for economic and management studies, EduSearch for education, and Mandumah Dissertations and Thesis which includes full text and abstracts for about 200,000 (1/2 in abstracts) from 170 schools across the Arab world. – Publisher

Journal of Chinese History

Journal of Chinese History

The Journal of Chinese History / 中國歷史學刊 publishes research articles, review essays, and book reviews on all periods of Chinese history and all sub-specialties of history—social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual. The journal aims to keep its readers abreast of important trends in historical scholarship and welcomes inquiries about review essays and special issues on focused topics. – Publisher

Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

Journal of Mathematics and the Arts focuses on connections between mathematics and the arts. It publishes articles of interest for readers who are engaged in using mathematics in the creation of works of art, who seek to understand art arising from mathematical or scientific endeavors, or who strive to explore the mathematical implications of artistic works. – Publisher

 

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Asian History

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Asian History

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History is a dynamic, innovative, comprehensive, self-reflexive online research encyclopedia, which provides access to state-of-the-art research and also connects readers to the full range of internet resources for research and teaching, including audio, visual, video materials, digitized archives, and other primary sources. – Publisher

Southeast Asian Newspapers and South Asian Newspapers

Southeast Asian Newspapers

The Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during this period, and the challenges of early statehood. Covering several countries from the region, including Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese, the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection incorporates a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Open access to the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

 

South Asian Newspapers

The South Asian Newspapers collection chronicles these conflicts as well as contemporary perspectives on independence movements, early statehood, and the extensive economic and social growth taking place in the region during this time. The collection covers several countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and features multiple languages such as Bengali, Dari, English, Nepali, and more. With reportage dating as far back as the 1850s, the South Asian Newspapers collection provides a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Open access to the South Asian Newspapers collection is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.