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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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.
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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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RDA Toolkit
Username and password required for access. See Reference Department 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
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
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 collections.
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ReaxysResource 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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Reference Solutions
Detailed information on more than 14 million US businesses, 210 million US residents, 855,000 US health care providers as well as 12 million Canadian businesses. Please note: If unable to access Reference Solutions remotely using Google Chrome, please try using a different internet browser. The most recent version of Chrome has been known to cause access issues.
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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.
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Research Methods Primary Sources
Online tool designed to support students of the humanities and social sciences. Introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence, as well as the methodologies and practicalities of visiting archives, evaluating sources and writing up research.
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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 LiteraturzeitschriftenThis project aims to digitally recreate the corpus of German Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment journals and review sources.
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RevolutionWeekly 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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Rhizome.org
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
Full-text content from more than 200 periodicals from 50 countries in 40 languages, published from the early 20th century to the present. In addition to scholarly articles and reviews, the database includes obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, news items, and more. Also includes the complete RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Index.
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RILM Music Encyclopedias
ACCESS TO THIS TITLE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER JULY 31, 2022. Full-text compilation of music reference works including 41 seminal titles published from 1775 to the present.
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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 TextRIPM (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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RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
ACCESS TO THIS TITLE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER JUNE 30, 2022. Citations of music manuscripts written 1600 to ca. 1850. Includes information about composers and information about libraries worldwide with RISM-relevant holdings.
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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 Center for Public Opinion Research
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. 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.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, comprehensive resource for the study of philosophy.
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Royal Society of Chemistry EBooks Collection, 1968-2011
Access to e-books in the chemical sciences and related areas.
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Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Russian language monographs, articles, etc. covering economics, demography, philosophy, sociology, history, archeology, ethnography, law, political science, linguistics, literary criticism, religion, and international relations.
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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 Census Online
A bilingual online version of the 2002 All-Russia Population Census. Fully searchable in Cyrillic and Roman transliteration.
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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-Ottoman Relations Part 1
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 Part 2Collection 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 Part 3Collection 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 Part 4Collection of monographs originally published in Western Europe provides insights on the military ebb and flow of Russian-Ottoman relations (1600-1914)