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A comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes that includes documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
A digital collection of primary source materials related to the liberation of Southern African and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime. The materials include periodicals, pamphlets, personal papers, correspondence books, photographs, speeches and interviews with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
A versatile collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites. The materials in the collection serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning.
is a unified interface that provides students, educators, researchers, and the public with access to NASA’s historical technical literature, including conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias provide a seamless pathway to the following subject areas: African History, American History, International Studies, and Politics
Offers high-definition recordings of William Shakespeare’s plays featuring the world’s best Shakespearean actors, like David Tennant, Sir Antony Sher and Simon Russell Beale, and directors like Robin Lough and Dewi Humphrey, including famous performances such as The Tempest, King Lear, Hamlet, along with supplemental teaching materials to help students engage more deeply with the material and enhance the overall learning experience.
Scopus is a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database that finds relevant and authoritative research, identifies experts and provides access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tool across a wide variety of disciplines.