New e-Resources January - April 2025

Databases and Streaming Media

• Africa Commons: Papers, newspapers, magazines and films from and about Africa from collections worldwide. Includes the modules Africa History and Culture and Archive; Black South African Magazines; Southern African Films and Documentaries; West African Magazines; and East African Magazines, Newspapers, and Films: The Hilary Ng'weno Archive.
• Chatham House Online, 1920-2008: Papers, reports, pamphlets, books, and transcripts and audio recordings of speeches and meetings at Chatham House, a policy research center and think tank on international affairs. Includes speeches by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats, military personnel, academics and journalists from countries around the world.
• Gartner Core IT Research: Analysis, forecasting and reports on information technology products and services. (Note: resource requires login setup.)
• Latin America Commons: Books, magazines, photographs, maps, letters, diaries, ephemera, videos and audio files on Latin American and Latinx culture. Includes the module Latin American History and Culture.
• LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture: Reports, videos, blog posts, podcasts, zines and other publications covering the voices and achievements of the LGBTQ+ movement from the 1980s to today.
• Platino Educa: Spanish and Ibero-American documentaries, educational shorts, feature films and animations covering themes across the environment, social sciences, languages and literature, arts and social justice. Most videos have English subtitles.
• Policy Commons: Public Health and Social Care: Papers from think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, local governments and research organizations around the world including papers from dissolved organizations.
• Reaxys Academic Edition upgrade: Chemical literature, chemical compounds and reactions, including content from the Beilstein Database, Gmelin Database and Patent Chemistry Database and the Reaxys Target and Bioactivity and Reaxys Retrosynthesis modules.

Digital Archives

• African American Newspapers of the South: U.S. newspapers published and written by African Americans for African Americans in the South, from Reconstruction through the Jim Crow period (1870-1926).
• American County Histories: Mid Atlantic: Collection of digitized volumes of county histories from the United States. Includes Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
• Archives Unbound New collections:
  • The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
  • FBI File: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • FBI File on Robert F. Kennedy
  • Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
  • Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
  • National Security and FBI Surveillance Enemy Aliens
  • Official and Confidential Files of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
  • Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial
• British Society 1939-1951: Documents on life in Britain during World War II on food, morale, crime, life in bomb shelters, trauma after air raids, racism and economic hardships.
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1946-1982: Documents from the British Foreign Office related to political, economic, cultural, social and dissident life in Eastern Europe from The National Archives (UK).
• Colonial Newspapers: Newspapers from colonial America including The Virginia Gazette (1732-1775), The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1815), The Charlestown Gazette (1779–1780), The Gazette of the State of South-Carolina (1777–1780), The South-Carolina and American General Gazette (1764–1775); The South Carolina Gazette (1732-1775), and The South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (1765–1775).
• County and Regional Histories & Atlases for New York: Local atlases from New York State documenting land use, settlement patterns and early town and city plans. Also includes tables and lists of vital statistics, military service records, municipal and county officers, chronologies, photographs and other materials documenting rural and urban life in New York State in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Declassified Documents Online: United States: Description: Correspondence, field reports, cabinet meeting minutes, intelligence, briefing documents and other previously classified United States government documents. Content comes from the CIA, FBI, State Department, Department of Defense, National Security Council, White House and other government agencies. Updated annually, curated from documents declassified the previous year.
• Frank Leslie’s Weekly: Full-page image scans of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslie's Weekly (1855 to 1922).
• History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century: Books, pamphlets, personal memoirs, medical treatments, policies, education materials and organizational reports demonstrating how society has presented, classified and treated individuals with disabilities. Content is digitized from the New York Academy of Medicine and mostly from North American and European sources.
• Latino Social and Political Culture and History: Perspectives on the Chicano Movement: Papers, correspondence, and other archival materials from prominent figures in the 20th Century American Chicano movement. Includes papers from César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, United Farm Workers of America, labor union lobbyists and a collection on Mexican guest workers during World War II.
• Secret Files from World Wars to Cold Wars: Documents from British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files (1936 - 1953) from the National Archives (UK).
• Weimar and Nazi Germany: Documents, reports, correspondence, transcripts in English about Germany (1918 to 1939) from the UK Foreign Office and British Embassy.
• Women's Studies Archive Part 2, Vision and Voice: Female-authored literature, women’s periodicals, correspondence and other materials on women’s political activism, suffrage, birth control, civil rights and socialism. Documents have representation from North and South America, Europe, East and South Asia, and Africa.
• Women’s Magazines and Newspapers: Newspapers and magazines published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focused on Women’s Rights and Woman Suffrage. Titles include Godey's Lady's Book, The Lily (1849-1856), National Citizen and Ballot Box (1878-1881), The National Standard: A Women’s Suffrage and Temperance Journal (1870-1872), The New Citizen (1909-1912), The Revolution (1868-1872), The Remonstrance (1890-1913), The 19th Amendment Victory (1762-1923), The Western Woman Voter (1911-1913) and The Woman’s Tribune.
• World War 1 Military Camp Newspapers: U.S. newspapers from World War I, covers social insights into the war, attitudes among military personnel, politics of the time, training and news about the enemy.

E-books

• Springer Protocols Handbooks, full archive and frontlist: Step-by-step laboratory methods and protocols from across the life and biomedical sciences, on SpringerLink
• Springer and Palgrave Macmillan Social Sciences and Humanities Reference, full archive and frontlist, on SpringerLink

Journals

• International Philosophical Bibliography, 1997 through current
• Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1986 through current
• Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, 1992 through current
• Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, 2020 through current
• Soft Robotics, 2014 through current

Open Access Support

• PLOS Mental Health
• Foucault Studies, funded through the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program
• Libraries Signs Three New Read and Publish Agreements
  • Taylor & Francis: SU-affiliated authors can publish their work open in hybrid and fully open access journals, including Routledge titles
  • Elsevier: SU-affiliated authors can publish openly in all eligible Core Hybrid journals.
  • DeGruyter: SU-affiliated authors can publish openly in hybrid, gold open access and Subscribe to Open titles.

Research Impact and AI Tools

• Altmetric Explorer: Provides access to alternative metrics (altmetrics) for publications, beyond traditional citation metrics. It tracks attention to or mentions of research outputs in policy documents, mainstream news outlets, social media, blogs, Wikipedia, online reference managers and more.
• Scopus AI: Artificial intelligence research assistant added to the Scopus search interface

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