Primary source documents related to prejudice, segregation and racial tensions in America. Includes survey material, interviews and statistics, as well as educational pamphlets, administrative correspondence, and photographs and speeches from the Annual Race Relations Institutes.
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Race Relations in America
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Rafu Shimpo Digital Archive
The Rafu Shimpo (羅府新報, L.A. Japanese Daily News) is the longest-running Japanese American newspaper in the United States.
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RAMBI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Selective bibliography of academic articles covering all of the fields of Jewish studies as well as the study of Eretz Israel and the State of Israel. RAMBI is based largely on the collections of the National Library of Israel. Includes references to articles in Hebrew, Latin, or Cyrillic letters.
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Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985
Newspaper published daily in Johannesburg, renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall.
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RCL Resources for College Libraries
Covers the 4-year liberal arts and sciences college curriculum, providing a list of core titles for undergraduate teaching and research. Co-published by ACRL’s Choice and ProQuest.
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RDA Toolkit
Username and password required for access. Visit the Scholars' Commons Reference Desk at Wells Library for login information. Allows users to interact with a collection of cataloging-related documents and resources, including RDA: Resource Description and Access. RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media.
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Read It!
Resource for middle and high school students and adults who have a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but need adapted reading material for a variety of subjects. It offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills.
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Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
A database of articles from popular U.S. and Canadian periodicals on current events, news, popular culture and many other topics.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Provides access to citations from 550 of the leading United States periodicals from 1890-1982.
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Readex AllSearch
A streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex primary source collections. Includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, government documents, and more.
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Reaxys
ACCESS TO THIS TITLE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2023. Resource for experimentally validated data for chemical structures, reactions and chemical substances from CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and the Patent Chemistry Database.
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Recent Researches in Music Online
Online access to the seven ongoing Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American (including MUSA), and Oral Traditions. Legacy collection and titles in the series Collegium Musicum: Yale University are also included.
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Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War, 1865-1877
Access to digital primary source documents covering the early Reconstruction period in the American South. Includes the correspondence of the U.S. Army's Office of Civil Affairs, letters, petitions, court proceedings and internal documents related to elections.
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Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969
The Children's Bureau was a federal agencies founded in 1912 as part of the federal government's new commitment to promoting individual and family welfare. Includes access to correspondence, research reports, brochures, court hearings and speeches.
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Reference Solutions
Detailed business and consumer data on businesses in both the U.S. and Canada. Includes directory information, health care, and residential listings. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. In addition to address and phone number, each entry includes officer names and titles, corporate affiliation, business type and size of yellow page advertising. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.
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Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II
Primary source materials chronicling the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950. Includes pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports that recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II.
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Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full text coverage of regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States and Canadian provinces.
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Rehabilitation Therapy in Video
Collection of more than 750 hours of streaming video focused on the physical treatment of patients with congenital disorders, chronic health issues, and traumatic injuries.
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Religion and Philosophy Collection
Full-text database for theology and philosophy research. Includes hundreds of journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy and philosophy of language.
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Religious Magazine Archive
Archive of magazines devoted to religious topics, spanning 19th-21st centuries. Offers insight into the influence of belief systems on public life, the history of popular religious movements and the means used by religions to gain adherents and communicate their ideologies. Includes a variety of religions and denominations, allowing for comparative studies of religions during this period.
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Research Funders' Open Access Policies
Searchable database and single focal point of up-to-date information concerning funders' policies and their requirements on open access, publication and data archiving.
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Researching Brazil/Pesquisa no BrasilA bibliographic database and a gateway to online resources about Brazilian Studies.
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Researching Mexico
A bibliographic database and a gateway to online resources about Mexican Studies.
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Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften
This project aims to digitally recreate the corpus of German Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment journals and review sources.
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Reverend J. H. Jackson and the National Baptist Convention, 1900-1990
Reverend Joseph H. Jackson was president of the National Baptist Convention at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Includes Jackson’s correspondence during his time as the organization’s president, minutes of meetings, Jackson’s annual addresses to the National Baptist Convention, and some of his writings on civil rights and civil disobedience. The collection also includes a major series of Jackson sermons from 1928-1988, and personal records focused on his years as a graduate student from 1925-1945.
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Revolution
Weekly women’s rights newspaper, and the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment.
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Revolution and Protest Online
Primary source documents related to the protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars that have transformed societies and human experience from the 18th century through the present.
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Revolutionary War and Early America: Collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society
Digital access to 26 collections from the holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The focus is on the Colonial Era, the Revolutionary War, and the Early National Period, with some collections extending into the Civil War era.
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Rhizome
Online platform for the global new media art community supporting the creation, presentation and discussion of contemporary art that uses new technologies.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Comprehensive bibliography of writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. Covers nearly one and a half million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects. Also includes full text of over 260 periodicals. New titles are added annually
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RIPM European and North American Music Periodicals (Full Text)
Full-text access to music periodicals from Europe and North America. Includes approximately one hundred titles focused on the musical life Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Brussels, Budapest, Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, New York, Prague, Paris, St. Petersburg and Warsaw.
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RIPM Jazz Periodicals
Full text access to 20th Century American jazz periodicals reproduced from originals in various conditions and formats.
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RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text
RIPM (Répertoire international de la presse musicale) provides full-text access periodical literature focused on music and musical life from approximately 1800 to 1950.
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ROARMAP
Searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.
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Robert Winslow Gordon and American Folk Music
Primary source documents related to Robert Winslow Gordon, the first archivist of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture) at the Library of Congress.
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Roger D. Branigin-Kenneth Dale Owen Collection, 1825-1896
The Roger D. Branigin-Kenneth Dale Owen Manuscripts, 1825-1896 collection from the Working Men's Institute of New Harmony, Indiana contains the correspondence and personal papers of Robert Owen, Robert Dale Owen, and Mary Jane Robinson Owen.
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Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
Access to the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust. Includes the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers.
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Roper iPoll
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, currently located at Cornell University, is an archive of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys.
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Rosetta Stone
PLEASE NOTE: INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ACCESS. First time users will need to register with their IU email address. Provides access to the first level of Rosetta Stone courses for 30 different languages.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
Includes interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period, covering eight subject areas: literature, architecture, visual arts, music, dance, theater, film, and intellectual currents. Users can browse by subject, movement, or place to discover connections between key topics and fields.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Comprehensive resource for the study of philosophy. Includes access to over 2,800 articles and 25,000 cross-references linking themes, concepts and philosophers. Also a reference source for those in subjects related to philosophy, such as politics, psychology, economics, anthropology, religion and literature.
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Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
Digital access to the archives of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Includes access to production records including costume bibles, sheet music, photographs and other materials relating to 53 groundbreaking or otherwise significant productions. Also includes access to prompt books representing the performance of not only the works of William Shakespeare, but also plays dating from classical Greece to the modern day.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Books
Access to e-books in the chemical sciences and related areas, 1968-2011.
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Russian Avant-garde OnlineCollection of about 800 Russian books, periodicals and almanacs produced by the Russian Avant-garde movement between 1910 and 1940.
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Russian Civil Series MapsTopographic map datasets from the Russia 50k Civil Series.
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Russian Military Intelligence on Asia Online: Secret Prints, 1883-1914Russian intelligence on Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Russian Military Intelligence on Asia: Archive series, 1651-1917
Contains 1,942 archival files from the Russian State Military History Archive on Afghanistan, Arabia/Syria, China, Japan, Korea, Palestine, Persia, Turkey from 1651 to 1917.
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Russian National BibliographyUniversal Database of Russian National Bibliography (UDB-BIB) is a database of Russian national bibliographic periodicals (often called "letopisi").
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Russian Regional Newspapers
Access to newspapers from all seven Federal Districts of the Russian Federation. Includes coverage of local issues of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The database represents such noteworthy regions as the troubled Northern Caucasus (Groznenskii rabochii from Chechnya, Severnaia Osetiia from Northern Osetiia-Alania, etc.), oil & gas rich Western Siberia (Tiumenskie izvestiia, etc.), the investment-friendly Volga region (Nizhegorodskie novosti from Nizhnii Novgorod or Samarskie izvestiia from Samara).
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Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 1: The Origins 1600-1800
Collection of monographs originally published in Western Europe provides insights on the military ebb and flow of Russian-Ottoman Relations (1600-1914).
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Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 2: Shifts in the Balance of Power, 1800-1853
Collection of monographs originally published in Western Europe provides insights on the military ebb and flow of Russian-Ottoman Relations (1600-1914).
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Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 3: The Crimean War (1853-1856)
Collection of monographs originally published in Western Europe provides insights on the military ebb and flow of Russian-Ottoman relations (1600-1914).
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Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 4: The End of the Empires, 1857-1914
Collection of monographs originally published in Western Europe provides insights on the military ebb and flow of Russian-Ottoman relations (1600-1914).