Electronic resources for History

  • Britannica Original Sources
  • Britannica's Omega Sources (previously Original Sources) is a primary source documents in many subject areas. *Merriam-webster and original sources are both accessible/available through Britannica online platform.

  • Economist Historical Archive 1843-2015 (Gale Primary Sources)
  • The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015. Full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week offering a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.

  • European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
  • European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 is a free archive of indexed publications related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. It includes thousands of valuable primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

  • Foreign Office Files For The Middle East (1971-1974)
  • An invaluable tool for understanding the modern Middle East, students and researchers can use these detailed documents to explore historical relationships between Middle East nations and superpowers. Users will discover how the Cold War impacted on regional politics, study policies dictating the international arms trade, and observe how the newly gained oil wealth in the Persian Gulf changed the oil market forever. With many documents created by diplomats and civil servants working in the regions’ most politically sensitive regions, users can delve into the resources’ in-depth analyses, annual reviews and diplomatic correspondence to examine key conflicts, such as the Arab-Israel war.

  • Gale Ebooks (GVRL)
  • Gale eBooks not only provides the top titles covering the most studied subject areas, it complements other eBook platforms. Offering more than 23,000 (and counting!) academic eBooks from most prestige 85 different publishers, optimized for search, discovery, and integrated with tools, such as G-Suite for Education and Microsoft Office365 – allowing students to spend less time looking for credible information, and more time diving into it.

  • Humanities E-Book
  • Full text books considered to be of major importance to historical studies. (10-year purchase agreement through AMICAL (2011-2020).

  • JSTOR
  • JSTOR is a full-text archival database consisting of the complete backfiles of important scholarly journals. It does NOT include publications within the last 2 to 5 years. AUC library acquired JSTOR EBA, provided access to all backlist ebook publication prior to 2019.

  • Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974*
  • British Government files covering the period from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the new state, to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.

  • Oxford Handbooks Online
  • AUC Library is subscribing to Oxford Handbooks Online (Literature, Classical Studies, History & Religion packages), including 86 ebooks for free as AMICAL members. Oxford Handbooks Online brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate.

  • Oxford Journals
  • Full text journals covering law, social sciences, and arts & humanities.

  • Oxford Scholarship Online
  • Oxford Scholarship Online currently provides AUC with unlimited access to over 20,000 Oxford University Press books, including some of their latest published titles and prestigious series. These titles cover all subjects and disciplines due to the EBA subscription in 2022. Oxford Scholarship Online is a searchable, full-text database of classic scholarly books from Oxford University Press online up to and including Jan 2009. AUC Libraries provide access to the collections Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology. In addition AUC Library has access to Biology (to 2018),Economics and Finance (to 2018) plus Apr.2019-Mar.2021 updates, Law Top Up 2018-19 (105 titles) plus 2019-20 & 2020-21 updates, Literature Apr 2018- Mar 2021 updates, History top up 2017-19 (232 titles), Psychology April 2019-Mar.2021 updates and Religion (to 2016) & top up 2017-19(270 titles), Social Work (to 2018). *Availability online is based on the year of Oxford Scholarship online publication and not the print publication.