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江戸川乱歩「貼雑年譜」; (Edogawa Ranpo Harimaze Nenpu: A Chronicle of His Life in Clippings); J-DAC
The database offers online access to "Harimaze nenpu" or a scrapbook (in 9 volumes) covering the period from 1894 to 1964, created by Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965), who is considered the first modern mystery writer in Japan
The database offers online access to "Harimaze nenpu" or a scrapbook (in 9 volumes) covering the period from 1894 to 1964, created by Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965), who is considered the first modern mystery writer in Japan. The "Harimaze nenpu," which is currently held by the Edogawa Rampo Memorial Center for Popular Culture Studies, contains more than 2,600 original documents, including Rampo's own notes, diaries, manuscripts, letters from writers and publishers, movie and theater pamphlets, press sheets, and clippings from domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines. Provided by Maruzen-Yushodo Co., Ltd. in Japan Digital Archives Center (J-DAC).
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day.
This resource contains the most significant British pamplets held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.
User-friendly, powerful cloud-based mapping software for creating web maps and performing analysis. Includes access to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and premium content, including demographic, environmental, and imagery data.
ArcGIS Online enables users to build interactive maps, create web-based apps, and perform spatial analysis in browser-based software. UC Berkeley users have access to a wide range of content including imagery, basemaps, demographics and lifestyle, landscape, boundaries and places, transportation, earth observations, urban systems, oceans, and historical maps that can be combined with users' own data to create maps, scenes, and apps and perform analysis. ArcGIS Online also includes tools for geocoding, geoenrichment, network analysis, and spatial analysis. UC Berkeley affiliates may log in with their Calnet credentials for full access at https://cal.maps.arcgis.com
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People of India; Aspirational India; Income Pyramids; Consumption Pyramids
* User registration and agreement with the terms of use is required before access is granted. Anonymized responses to a continuous survey of 178,500 households in India, covering demographics, religion, caste, migration, health, financial inclusion, employment, income, wealth, consumer sentiment, time use, consumer expenditure and more. 2014 - present
World's largest household panel survey, with three waves per year. Four components: People of India; Aspirational India; Income Pyramids; and Consumption Pyramids. Coverage is for large, medium and small towns and thousands of villages with geographic coverage at the state and district levels. Codebook with variable descriptions and the survey methodology is listed under the "how we do it" tab.
The Encyclopedia includes ~300 entries of interest to biologists, astrophysicists, biochemists, geoscientists, and space scientists, including the topics such as exoplanets, the diversity and hardiness of life, and the chances for its emergence.
Informed by the Biopsychosocial Model, this encyclopedia examines multiple aspects of child and adolescent development and physical and mental health. Entries include discussion of prevention or intervention efforts that can inform health.
Entries are in 3 sections: Biological Development and Physical Health; Psychological and Behavioral Factors; and Social and Environmental Influences.
Provides a comprehensive overview on sensors and biosensors, covering "innovations in materials, designs, devices and software that find their way into new types of sensors."
The Encyclopedia introduces the multifaceted aspects of Taiwan’s past and present, focusing on Taiwan's history, society, culture, economy, politics, and international relations.
1911- 1983. Indexes journals, books, reports, and more on the topics such as environmental and occupational health, food safety and hygiene, infectious diseases, medical microbiology, nutrition, public health, toxicology, and zoonoses.
Consists approximately 41,000 Japanese historical documents from the Heian period (794-1185) and Kamakura period (1185-1333)
The database containing approximately 41,000 Japanese historical documents from the Heian period (794-1185) and Kamakura period (1185-1333) is available in JapanKnowledge. The texts arranged in chronological order were compiled by Rizō Takeuchi (1907-1977).
L2 Voter Data is a continuously updated database of all registered voters in the United States. It provides detailed demographic profiles, historical voting records, party affiliation data, and geospatial analysis tools. 2001 - Present. Requires account
L2 Voter Data is licensed for anyone affiliated with UC Berkeley, including LBNL users. Prior to accessing the data, the user must have permission from a UC Berkeley PI. The user will also need to set up a Savio account with Research IT.
Alternatively, if you are interested in using the L2 Voter Data but do not have a PI, you can request access for the DataMapping Tool. Please note that there are a limited number of seats for the DataMapping Tool. We ask that you request access only if you have an active research project in progress.
The Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers collection covers this era up to the Orange Revolution (2004–2005), offering insights from over 900 newspapers across 340 cities, reflecting regional and ethnic dynamics. 1990 - 2001
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The shared source for design material collections
Co-founded by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design, Material Order is the leading resource for design materials collections at academic and cultural institutions.
Images of physical materials used in design and held by other educational institutions. The Material Order consortium provides a community-based approach to the management of design material collections with federated search access among participating institutions.
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Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
MGG Online builds on the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG, 1994–2008), offering new and substantially updated content as well as continuous updates, revisions, and additions.
Municode Library provides access to current municipal codes and ordinances from all U.S. states and many tribal nations. Search or browse by state and municipality.
Off campus access via VPN only. My China Roots is a family history database for the Chinese diaspora that includes millions of searchable ancestors in America and Southeast Asia.
The database includes thousands of clan books (zupus), immigration registers, burial and obituary records, and overseas Chinese business directories and association records. Surnames or village names are searchable. Most Chinese documents are full-text viewable online.
Reference work providing a comprehensive overview of this field, combining "the science behind nuclear medicine with the clinical aspects of diagnostic imaging."
Topics include basic concepts, radiopharmacy, and instrumentation; single photon diagnostic studies; positron emission tomography studies; and nuclear medicine therapy.
A survey of rhetoric in 150 entries, by leading scholars with expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications in a comprehensive treatment o the art of persuasion.
Library of evidence-based pediatric nutrition education materials and resources. Note: Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Includes a pediatric diet manual, a client education library of more than 150 handouts (including translations), pediatric calculators, and infant formula and feeding recipe tables.
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PHAROS online chemical hazard, use and exposure data
Pharos provides hazard, use, and exposure information on chemicals and building products. NOTE: You must first register for an account using the link here and your Berkeley email address.
Search by chemical name/CAS RN, or use (for example: flooring, solvent, etc.). Pharos also includes Hazard Lists (authoritative scientific lists for health and environmental hazards and restricted substance lists), as well as Common Products (common contents and hazards of different kinds of building products).
Founded in 1951, Prensa Libre is a leading newspaper published in Guatemala City and distributed nationwide.
Prensa Libre has covered critical moments in Guatemalan and Latin American history, including political upheaval, assassinations, and coups; peace treaties and elections; natural disasters; economic and technological developments; Guatemalans on the international stage; Garífuna and Pueblos Originarios communities, immigratiion and much more.
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Royal Institute of British Architects Library
Citations to over 2000 periodicals and 135,000 books held by the Royal Institute of British Architects Library. In addition to architecture, subject areas include civil engineering, landscape architecture, interior design, and town planning. 1972 - Present.
Consists of important Japanese historical primary source materials of a wide range of genres and from different eras, from ancient to early-modern times, in modern type-set scripts. 794 - 1334.
Shiryō Sanshū consists of important Japanese historical primary source materials of a wide range of genres and from different eras, from ancient to early-modern times, as well as diaries of court nobles, warriors, and Buddhist and Shinto priests in modern type-set scripts. It is available in JapanKnowledge.
1939- The Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers (SEUN) collection traces the history of Ukraine during this tumultuous era—covering these and events leading up to WWII.
Comprising over 50,000 pages and five titles, SEUN includes newspapers from three cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv.
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This database contains more than 400 titles of tabloids from the Shanghai Library. The tabloids emphasize on leisure and entertainment, including novels, essays, and trends in film, theater, dance, etc.
Tabloids recorded what broadsheet newspapers missed, and spoke what cannot be expressed by broadsheet newspapers. This resource would be a great complement of regular news resources published in the same time period. It would also provide much needed primary sources to academic programs in the area of history/art history, sociology, cultural/popular cultural studies, journalism studies and film studies.
VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) is a legal research platform that provides access to statutes, cases, administrative agency materials, as well as treatises, reporters, newsletters, and blogs.
Practice areas covered include Antitrust, Banking & Consumer Finance, Energy & Environment, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, Labor Law, Securities, Taxation, and Corporate Law. Funded via partnership with Berkeley Law Library
Archival collections (documents, images, data, maps, and photographs) from multiple global sources that focus on aspects of environmental science, history, and anthropogenic change.
"Sources include the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), The National Archives (UK), Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew), the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Royal Entomological Society, and Ecological Society of America.
Topics covered include agriculture, biodiversity, botany, climate change,
deforestation, entomology, fisheries, hydrology, irrigation, livestock, water sources, and wetlands. "
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横溝正史旧蔵資料; Collection of Seishi Yokomizo; J-DAC
The database offers online access to the collection of materials originally owned by Yokomizo Seishi (1902-1981), one of Japan's leading postwar mystery novelists
The database offers online access to the collection of materials in more than 14,000 pieces comprising manuscripts, drafts, writing notes, memos, scenarios for books made into films, etc., originally collected by Yokomizo Seishi (1902-1981), one of Japan's leading postwar mystery novelists, which are currently held by Nishogakusha University. Provided by Maruzen-Yushodo Co., Ltd. in Japan Digital Archives Center (J-DAC).
The comprehensive archive of Znamia (Знамя, Banner), an esteemed Soviet/Russian “thick journal” (tolstyi zhurnal) spans over nine decades and serves as a treasure trove of intellectual and artistic contributions.
Originally launched in January 1931 under the name LOKAF (Локаф), an acronym for the Literary Association of the Red Army and Navy, the journal was officially rebranded as Znamia—which translates to ‘Banner’ in English—in 1933. Throughout its history, Znamia has been a pivotal venue for showcasing the works of preeminent authors such as Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Tvardovsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Konstantin Paustovsky, Yuri Kazakov, and Yuri Trifonov.