Human Rights Studies Online

Provides comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Using a case study approach, this resource provides primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event.

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Trial expires on Sunday, February 8, 2015.

World Biographical Information System

The Baylor Libraries have added the following collections to this resource:

• African Biographical Archive Online
• Arab-Islamic Biographical Archive
• Australasia Biographical Archive
• Biographical Archive of the Middle Ages
• Canadian Biographical Archive
• French Biographical Archive
• Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Biographical Archive Online

Oxford Bibliographies. African Studies

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on African culture, history, and society. Introductory essay provides a review of current research trends and issues. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a “My OBO” function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.

Oxford Bibliographies. Chinese Studies

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on Chinese culture history, and society. Introductory essay provides a review of current research trends and issues. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a “My OBO” function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies. Military History

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on military history.Introductory essay provides a review of current research trends and issues. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a “My OBO” function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.

The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry

The papers, letters, and family plantation records of this mother-daughter pair from South Carolina span colonial-era America to the early Jacksonian era of the United States. This collection includes the surviving documents – letters, travel notebooks, and the recipe (receipt) books of these women, and legal and business documents relevant to their families’ plantations. Gathered together, these documents witness to nearly a century of domestic and political life, the role of women in the management of plantations and agriculture, travel, and to the changes that occurred in social life as America moved from a colony to a nation. Material may be browsed by topic (documents, travel journals, recipe books) or searched by keyword, person, place, or document type. Excellent introductions to the collection and its sections. UVA-Rotunda.

Who’s Who in Public International Law

This database is an authoritative and esteemed source of information on all the countries of the world, including territories and federal states; all significant international and national organizations, from the United Nations to economic and trade organizations; comprehensive biographical profiles of the most important people in the world today.

NBC Learn Higher Ed

This resource was on trial and has been acquired by the Baylor University Libraries.

Biography Reference Center

This is a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. Users can locate biographies of interest by browsing genre categories, including actors, authors, composers, explorers, figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world leaders and many others.  This resource replaces Wilson Biographies Illustrated.

NBC Learn

NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News, makes the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities. This website consists of NBC News Archives on demand for both K-12 and higher education. The Implementation Toolkit can provide tips on incorporating NBC Learn into the classroom. This trial has also been integrated into Baylor’s Blackboard system. Refer to this guide for information on using the NBC Learn Building Block.

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Trial expires: Friday, April 13, 2012