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Trial access will be available from 27 October to 25 November 2025

Al-Ahram Digital Archive (DA-ALA)
Founded in 1875, Al-Ahram (الأهرام‎, “The Pyramids”) is one of the most prominent Arabic newspapers in the Middle East, including its legacy as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential national daily. It is one of the most important newspapers in the Arab world with a circulation of over 1 million, having established itself as a high-quality journalistic venture during the mid-20th century.

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Archive Editions – East & Southeast Asia Collection: Annual Reports of the Straits Settlements, 1855–1941
This 12 volume set covers the years 1855 to 1941 and includes all the annual reviews ever produced of the colony as a whole. The reports are arranged in chronological order establishing, for the first time, an integral series gathered together from scattered Government files.

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Egypt and the Rise of Nationalism (AE-ERN)
The collection depicts the ultimate consensus in British government policy as a response to movements and events in Egypt. Due to the official nature of the documents included, there is an inevitable bias against Egyptian nationalist sentiments for its inherent negative implications to British interests.

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Kotobarabia Arab Leaders, Historians and Philosophers Collection (EB-KALHP)
With approximately 5,000 titles, the Arab Leaders, Historians and Philosophers Collection includes never before seen works of many great Arab scientists and teachers. Access contributions covering a millennium of canonical Arab thought from nearly 1,000 important, highly valued Arab thinkers, philosophers, historians, politicians, and theologians.

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Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance Collection (EB-KAMAR)
The Modern Arab Renaissance Collection is an exclusive electronic archive of books published from 1820-1914 from across the Islamic World, with special focus on Egypt and Syria.

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South China Sea Island Disputes: 1877-1988 (AE-SCS)
This collection consists of archival materials from the earliest days of colonial exploitation and European flag-hoisting in the late 19th century, to armed clashes between the militaries of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the People’s Republic of China at the close of the 20th century.

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Taiwan and Asia's Select HSS Journals
Built on 370+ core, high-quality Taiwan humanities and social sciences journals (1958–present), TAC adds 40 newly digitized Asian Studies titles (with more to come), spanning key academic publications from 10 Asia-Pacific and 5 European countries. TAC offers exclusive multilingual metadata search and a pure-text reading mode. Users can switch between multiple languages—including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French—and the article’s original language.

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Zhuanji Wenxue (Biographical Literature) Digital Archive
Zhuanji Wenxue is considered as the paragon of unofficial historical record and the excellent supplement to authoritative history of China and Taiwan. It not only collects biographies of political leaders, military figures, eminent intellectuals, but also compiles a variety of voices from social celebrities, chiefs of secret societies, spies, renowned actors, actresses and common people who witnessed at that time.

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