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The NYU Libraries regularly acquires new databases. Take a look at the new database we added to our collection in September 2019.

• Bibliography of the History of Art combines the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and the Répertoire international de la littérature de l’art (RILA). It indexes published material related to the visual arts from the years 1975-2007. BHA indexes articles within its scope from over 1,200 journals, regardless of the subject focus of a particular journal. Therefore, many of the journals are covered partially, as only some of their articles are within BHA’s scope. BHA is succeeded by the International Bibliography of Art (IBA).
• BiGLI Online: The Bibliografia Generale della Lingua e della Letteratura Italiana (BiGLI) is an annual index of scholarly monographs, journals, book chapters, and reviews in the field of Italian languages and literatures. Entries provide brief abstracts; publications described in reviews are also indexed, though not necessarily abstracted. Includes the entire contents of the print version of BiGLI (1993-2015), with coverage going back to 1991 and limited coverage to 1981 for titles described in reviews.
• The F.A.Z.-Bibliotheksportal database contains reference works and archives of recent history. F.A.Z.-BiblioNet contains digitized articles from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 1993 and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung beginning in 1995; F.A.Z. 49-92 contains digitized articles from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1949-1992 and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from 1990-1992; and Frankfurter Rundschau contains digitized articles from Frankfurter Rundschau since 1995.
• LexisLibrary provides authoritative content for UK and European legal research through access to its four primary databases: Halsbury’s Laws of England, Butterworths Corporate Law Service, Butterworths Company Law Handbook, and Tolley’s Inheritance Tax 2019-20.
• The R2 Digital Library is an eBook platform for health science collections featuring a comprehensive collection of medical, nursing and allied health eBooks.
• Talmud Yerushalmi Citation Database provides access to all quotes or references to Talmud Yerushalmi in medieval rabbinic literature, Geniza fragments, and other commentaries. These references provide rich information about any subject addressed in the Talmud Yerushalmi.
• Trismegistos Texts is a searchable online database of metadata of all published and semi-published texts from Egypt and the Nile valley, between roughly BC 800 and 800 AD, not only in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian in its various scripts (Demotic, hieroglyphic, hieratic and Coptic), but also in Meroitic, Aramaic, Arabic, Nabataean, Carian, and other languages.

The NYU Libraries regularly acquires new databases. Take a look at the new database we added to our collection in August 2019.

• Gudok Digital Archive provides access to issues of Gudok, in continuous publication since 1917. Since its inception it has covered a wide range of topics dealing with the railway industry.  Although its name and more importantly its affiliation with the Soviet Ministry of Transportation may suggest a rather boring undertaking, it could not be further from the truth. And despite the fact that it started as a small newspaper dealing primarily with industry news, over time due to its growing popularity it became a nationally distributed newspaper attracting top talent from the burgeoning Soviet literary scene. Some of the authors and journalists whose works appeared on the pages of Gudok were the famous Soviet journalist and satirist Ilya Ilf, the writers Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Slavin, Sasha Krasny, Alexander Kabakov and many others. At the height of its popularity in 1970s it had a daily circulation of 700,000.
• The Kavkaz Digital Archive is the online version of the newspaper Kavkaz (Caucasus) — published during 1846-1918. It was the first Russian-language newspaper in the Caucasus, published in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia. This Russian-language newspaper published official documents of the Russian Empire, as well as many historical, cultural and archaeological writings by the prominent public and cultural figures of the local intelligentsia.
• The Neues Deutschland Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues of Neues Deutschland from the first issue in 1946 through 2017. The archive will grow with additional years’ worth of content added annually, and to date the online collection holds 23,352 issues, comprising 298,342 pages.
• The Novoe Russkoe Slovo (NRS) digital archive provides access to issues of the most important and influential Russian émigré publication in the United States. Novoe Russkoe Slovo (New Russian Word) was initially published as Russkoe Slovo in 1910 and displayed overt pro-Communist leanings. However, a decade later, in 1920, with the influx of refugees from the Russian revolution, the newspaper underwent nominal and ideological changes. First it changed the name by adding the word “Novoe” (or “New”) to the original title and secondly and perhaps most importantly it shed its pro-Communist sympathies and established itself as the premier newspaper of the Russian émigré community in New York and beyond. Many prominent writers and scholars of the Russian émigré community, both in the USA and Europe, contributed to the paper. In the years of the Cold War, when the freedom of expression was suppressed in the Soviet Union, NRS published the Soviet authors whose work was banned in Russia.