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Europa World Year Book Online 

Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs.  First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

Theatre in Video



Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays and over 100 film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions.

ACM Digital Library

Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the library together with works published by affiliated organizations. All material associated with an article is provided: bibliographic reference, index terms, abstracts, reviews, full-text.

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Gutenberg-e Collection:

The SPU Library has added the Gutenberg-e collection to the Library Catalog which contains about 50 records including e-books, videos, audio recordings, and images.  Click here to check out the records in the SPU Library Catalog.

Gutenberg-e, a program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press, is a collection of award winning monographs, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories. The collection covers the following topics: Africa, colonial Latin America, and South Asia; Europe before 1800; Military history and history of foreign relations; History of North America before 1900; and Women's History or History of Gender.  Read more