Primary source archival materials, including letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diariesfrom the University Publications of America (UPA) Collection. Also known as |ProQuest History Vault|.
Primary source collections in the social sciences and humanities. Collections the University of Alberta Library subscribes to are also listed individually in the database lists.
Also known as: |EEBO| Contains both plain text and digital facsimile page images of titles ranging from the first book published in English to the works of Shakespeare. Materials cover research interests in English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Click "Log-In" and select "University of Alberta" from drop-down list. HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. University of Alberta faculty, staff, and students are able to access full-text material that is in the public domain (as determined by the Hathi Trust) or copyright cleared.
vLex Justis contains case law, legislation, and law reports from the U.K., Ireland, Europe, and the European Union. This platform also hosts Irwin Law books.
Also known as: |Index to Legal Periodicals and Books| Legal Source offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment. It includes, but is not limited to, material formerly in Index to Legal Periodicals and Books.
Examples include trials involving Dred Scott, John Peter Zenger, Susan B. Anthony, Oscar Wilde, the Boston Massacre, Lizzie Borden, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the Bounty mutineers, Salem witchcraft, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Aaron Burr, John Brown and Alfred Dreyfus. Includes full text of books and pamphlets and other documents, and subjects covered include adultery, commercial law, conspiracy, constitutional law, crimes against persons, domestic relations, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, libel, military offenses, murder, slavery, theft, torts, treason and wills. In addition to works pertaining to English-speaking jurisdictions such as the United States, Britain, Ireland and Canada, English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions such as France are included. Books encompassing multiple trials are included as well as books about a single trial. Books about general trial procedures, legal doctrines and advocacy methods are excluded, as are books about crimes not resulting in trials.
