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The University Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of the following new digital resources. Please contact librarysupport@u.library.arizona.edu if you have questions about any of these resources.

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ProQuest Sanborn Maps Geo-Edition
Sanborn Fire Insurance maps with GIS information that enables users to locate data by address or geographic coordinates. It also allows users to layer maps from different years on top of each other and over modern street, satellite, and hybrid layers using an integrated map API or by importing into GIS tools. Covers: Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; New York, New York; Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Seattle, Washington. Time frame varies by the city.

Historical Jerusalem Post
Full page image and full text searchable archive of this newspaper, covering 1932-1988.

Filmakers Library Online
Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 956 titles

Defining Gender, 1450-1910
Defining Gender provides online access to over 60,000 images of primary source documents, including manuscripts, periodicals, diaries, travel journals, and ephemera. Includes introductory essays and is organized in five sections: Conduct & Politeness, Domesticity & the Family, Consumption & Leisure, Education & Sensibility, The Body.

Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
Perdita Manuscripts includes digitized original manuscripts of women's writing in in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts.

Counseling & Therapy in Video (Volumes I & II)
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video (over 500 titles) available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.

World News Connection
World News Connection is an online news service that provides translated and English-language news from around the world, and is particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources. News sources include newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, Websites, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. 

Guide to Reference
Online guide to reference sources, organized by academic discipline, including humanities; social and behavioral sciences; history and area studies; science, technology, and medicine; interdisciplinary fields; and general reference. Includes over 16,000 annotated entries of print and online reference sources.

New Journal Subscriptions from Cell Press and Nature Publishing Group

• Current Biology
• Nature Geoscience
• Nature Photonics
• Nature Physics
• Nature Protocols
• ISME Journal (Intl Soc for Microbial Ecology)

American History in Video
American History in Video provides access to 5,741 videos, including commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Mexico 1:50,000 Scale Vector Data Viewer
Provides access to geospatial data for the Mexican states of Baja California Norte, Sonora, and Chihuahua. You can view and extract 85 map layers (as shapefiles, or AutoCad files) for Baja California Norte, Sonora, and Chihuahua.

JSTOR Ireland Collection
The Ireland Collection, developed in cooperation with Queen's University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. Currently 47 titles in Irish Studies have been added to the JSTOR journal archive.

Pravda Digital Archive 1912-2009
The chief chronicle of Russian and Soviet history, from the beginnings of the Russian Revolution through World War II, the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and everything in between.

Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora and offers fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents.

Reaxys
Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions.

Market Share Reporter
A database of comparative business statistics of companies, products, and services, including market share data.

International Directory of Company Histories
Comprehensive background and histories of over 11,000 companies. Includes information on mergers, key dates, and more.  and acquisitions company histories, and the impact of sales and marketing campaigns.

Oxford Handbooks Online
The complete texts of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509).

Archives Unbound:
Digital collections of unique historical documents, previously only available on microform. The University Libraries has purchased the following:

• Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
  The U.S. State Department Central Classified Files are the definitive source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the twentieth century.
• The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
  These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.
• Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
  Comprised of selections from the microfilm collections Travels in the West and Southwest and the Plains & Rockies, this digital collection provides a unique window on Western History.
• Records of the Persian Gulf War
  This collection contains materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990.
• Women’s Issues and Their Advocacy Within the White House, 1974-1977
  This collection documents the evolution of The Special Assistant to the President for Women as it advised the President on women’s issues, handled White House liaison with women’s organizations and oversaw the work of the Office of Women’s Programs (OWP).