Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
The Everyday Lifecollection features texts of rare books, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsides. These documents cover a variety of themes including popular culture, social history, family life, education, race, class, and employment. There is also an emphasis on advice literature, and on both women and men’s issues. The primary sources are supported by thematic areas, an interactive chronology, and four essays written by leading academics in the field.
All the family gather while Papa reads from The Bible Date: 1879
Featuring a range of English-language primary sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, China: Trade, Politics & Culture is designed to give insight into the changes wrought upon China during this period.
With manuscripts encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service and original reports of the Amherst and Macartney embassies. Correspondence relating to the first Opium War, survivors’ descriptions of the Boxer War and diaries and personal photographs of the Bowra family offer glimpses of real life in China. There are also significant sources describing the lives and work of missionaries in China from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable runs of missionary periodicals.
Are you interested in classical music, operas or ballets? Don Giovanni or Swan Lake?
Medici.tv, classical music channel, is available for University of Helsinki until 21.4. Medici.tv’s library features over 1,800 programs (3,000 original works), including:
– concerts and archived historical concerts
– operas
– ballets
– documentaries, artist portraits and educational programs
– master classes
Are you already familiar with the scientific videos of the JoVE Journal?
JoVE Journal of Visualized Experiments offers scientific peer review video articles about the following subject areas in the University of Helsinki: Biology, Immunology and Infection, Medicine and Neuroscience. On trial are Chemistry and Biochemistry till13.3.
Some of the videos have open access. And some of them are made by the researchers of the University of Helsinki.
What is molecular cloning? You will find the answer in JoVE Science Education. Access is available in Basic Biology, Clinical Skills and Chemistry.
Rand Daily Mail is a searchable edition of one of South Africa’s most important newspapers, with deep coverage of the country during the Apartheid Era. Available at the University of Helsinki during February.
The videocollection includes over 2000 lectures about following subjects: biochemistry, microbiology, neurosciences, immunology, pharmaceutical sciences, agriculture and environmental sciences.
Acland’s video atlas of human anatomy is available at the University of Helsinki. The Video Atlas provides an accessible source of knowledge for teachers and students in anatomy classes and individuals who have a need-to-know interest in human structure.