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Active trials
British Mercantile Trade Statistics, 1662-1809 (British Online Archives) 14 October - 14 November 2024
Completed trials
19th and 20th Century Philosophy in Perspective (British Online Archives) 4 May - 2 June 2023
Africa Commons 22 September - 31 October 2023
AIAA meeting papers (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) 5 October - 31 December 2018
Al-Ahram (East View Information Services) 28 January - 17 February 2020
Al Manhal 4 June - 31 July 2024
Aluka : Struggles for Freedom (JSTOR) 12 November - 12 December 2018
Aluka : World Heritage Sites (JSTOR) 12 November - 12 December 2018
Anthropology Resource Centre - until 2 December 2020
Area studies: China & Southeast Asia (Adam Matthew Digital) 1 - 31 October 2018
Area studies: India (Adam Matthew) 5 - 30 November 2018
Area studies: Japan (Adam Matthew Digital) 1 - 31 October 2018
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Online (Liverpool University Press) 22 January - 22 February 2024
Art & Architecture ePortal (Yale University Press) 25 March - 23 June 2020
AustLit (AustLit (University of Queensland)) 11 March - 11 April 2020
BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts 10 March - 10 April 2023
BFI collections on Screen Studies Online (Bloomsbury) 13th January - 13th March 2020
Bloomsbury Architecture Library (Bloomsbury) 15 October - 31 December 2019
Bloomsbury Medieval History (Bloomsbury) 15 October - 31 December 2019
Books of Modern China (1840-1949) 中国近代图书全文数据库 (CNBKSY) 9 January - 5 April 2024 (Access is restricted to 5 simultaneous users, so please remember to log out at the end of your session.)
Building Types Online 10 Februrary - 10 March 2023
Cambridge Archive Editions: Near and Middle East Collection (Eastview) 29 May - 18 June 2023
China and the Modern World - until 1 December 2022
China Historical Biography Resources (National Library of China Publishing House) 10 October - 10 December 2018
China Rare Book Reprinted Collection (National Library of China Publishing House) 10 October - 10 December 2018
Chinese and English Newspaper of Modern China 中国近代中文报纸全文数据库 (CNBKSY) 9 January - 5 April 2024 (Access is restricted to 5 simultaneous users, so please remember to log out at the end of your session.)
Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) 民国时期期刊全文数据库 - until 4 Februrary 2023
Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection (Drama Online/Bloomsbury) 15 October - 31 December 2019
Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection (Drama Online) 17 November - 31 December 2023
Collection of Chinese Literature and History database 中国文史资料集粹 - until 31 December 2022
Communisms and the Cold War, 1944-1986 13 March - 10 April 2023
criticalcollective.in (Critical Collective) - 14 January 2020
Cumhuriyet Digital Archive - until 26 February 2021
Donmar Warehouse Shakespeare Trilogy (Drama Online/Bloomsbury) 15 October - 31 December 2019
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 (Newsbank) 6 October - 10 November 2023
Early Twentieth Century Book in China, 1912-1949 (National Library of China Publishing House) 10 October - 10 December 2018
Ebony magazine archive (EBSCOHost) 29 January - 30 March 2020
Emerald Library & Information Sciences eJournal Collection (Emerald Insight) 24 March - 23 April 2020
Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) 5 - 31 October 2018
Europresse 22 January 2019 - 31 January 2019
Enzymes Online (De Gruyter) 11 October - 15 December 2018
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 (Adam Matthew Digital) 12 May - 9 June 2023
Gale Digital Scholar Lab (Gale Cengage) 1 October 2018 - 31 December 2018 -- See the Getting Started on GDSL
Handbook of Translation Studies (Benjamins) 21 February - 31 March 2019
Harper's Bazaar (ProQuest) 1 November - 29 November 2019
History of Feminism (Routledge Historical Resources) 26 March - 30 April 2019
Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941-1996 (Readex) 1 - 31 March 2019
Inspec Analytics 20 January - 14 March 2023
Inspec & Compendex on Engineering Village platform 20 January - 17 March 2023
Inspec Direct on IET platform 20 January - 14 March 2023
Joint Publications Research Services (JPRS) 31 May 2024
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments 1 February - 25 February 2019
JSTOR Lives of Literature Collection 17 January - 29 February 2020
Knovel 20 January - 17 March 2023
Late Qing Full-text Database (1833~1911) 晚清期刊全文数据库 - until 4 Februrary 2023
The Law Trove Collection (OUP) 25 March - 31 May 2020
LGBT Magazine Archive 31 January - 2 March 2019
Life at Sea (Adam Matthews Digital) 6 October - 3 November 2023
Literature Online (LION) Premium (ProQuest) 1 - 30 November 2018
Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926 (Gale Cengage) 1 November - 28 November 2019
Manuel du Libraire, Brunet (Classiques Garnier) 24 September - 24 October 2018
Missionary Studies (Adam Matthew Digital) 16 January - 13 February 2024
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOHost) 29 August 2018 - 30 April 2019
Music Online Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press) 12 November - 12 December 2018
Music Online: Classical Scores Library (Proquest) 20 March - 19 June 2020
Muteferriqa 17 May - 12 July 2024
Nation Digital Archive (EBSCOHost) 25 March - 30 April 2019
National Theatre Collection (Drama Online/Bloomsbury) 15 October - 31 December 2019
Nineteenth Century Collections Online - until 1 December 2022
Oxford Bibliographies in Music (OUP) 18 February - 31 March 2020
Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Education (Oxford University Press) 23 September - 30 November 2019
Patrologia Orientalis (Brepolis) 30 July - 28 August 2019
Perdita Manuscripts (Adam Matthew Digital) 27 May - 21 June 2019
Political Extremism and Radicalism (Gale) 5 October - 4 November 2023
The Politics Trove Collection (OUP) 25 March - 31 May 2020
Policy Commons 18 October - 30 November 2023
ProQuest One Literature (Proquest) 4 March - 31 March 2020
Public Information Online - until 31 December 2022
Public Petitions to Parliament & House of Lords Parliamentary Papers (ProQuest) 17 January - 14 February 2024
RetroNews - until 30 November 2022
RRIMO : Recent Researches in Music Online (A R Editions) 19 November - 19 December 2018
SAGE research methods online: video, cases, and datasets - until 28 February 2021
Sage Research Methods Video 10 June - 7 July 2023
Sage Research Methods Video Practical Research & Academic Skills 10 June - 7 July 2023
Security Studies (JSTOR) 2 April - 30 April 2019
Society Digimap (Edina) 22 February - 31 July 2019
Soviet Woman digital archive - until 26 February 2021
State Papers Online Colonial (Gale Primary Sources) 13 October - 10 November 2023
Translations of the Peking Gazette Online (Brill) 10 January 2019 - 8 February 2019
Vetlexicon (Vetstream Ltd) 5 November 2019 - 9 February 2020
Visible Body 10 January - 15 February 2024
World Christian Database (Brill) 12 November - 12 December 2018 -- See the video explaining the database
World Trade Organization WTO iLibrary (OECD) 22 February - 31 March 2019