DATABASE: King George III's topographical collection, 18 000 maps (British Library/Flickr)

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The British Library has most generously put King George III's topographical collection at the public's disposal. 18 000 digitized maps are now accessible.

See more on Flickr.

(source: British Library)

ONLINE DATABASES: Freely Available Research Databases (Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations)

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Description:

The SHAFR Task Force on Freely Available Research Databases has compiled this bibliography of electronic resources to aid research in U.S. foreign relations history.  This project depends on regular updates and suggestions of additional collections to be included in this bibliography.

Consult this wonderful list here.

DATABASE and CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: Kund HAAKONSSEN, Frank GUNERT & Diethelm KLIPPEL (eds)., Natural Law 1625-1850 (University of Erfurt/University of Jena)

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Description:

The Natural Law Database is an open-ended, collaborative biographical and bibliographical knowledge reservoir of early modern natural law scholars from Europe and beyond. All contributions are peer-reviewed. The database is a part of the international research network Natural Law 1625-1850: An International Project and has the purpose of creating a knowledge hub, where any researcher or student easily can access and explore the world of early modern - mainly academic - natural law.
The Natural Law Database is based on the principle of collaboration and open-endedness. This means that the database project does not have a defined end-date since it is continuously expanding with new information, digitisations and expert commentaries. Since the project covers Europe (and beyond) for more than two centuries, the database also relies upon an active participation from the research community in order to grow. The populating of the database is a collaborative and international enterprise, in the sense that anyone anywhere can contribute and is encouraged to do so.

Call for contributors:

In other words, we need your help to develop the database and keep it up-to-date. For further information see How to contribute?

Full database presentation here.

(source: Uni Jena)

FREE ACCESS: Cambridge University Press Textbooks (until end of MAY 2020)

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Cambridge University press published the following announcement:

Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. Over 700 textbooks, published and currently available, on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. Free access is available until the end of May 2020.

More information here.

DATABASE: Les essentiels de la philosophie française, 16thC-Present (Gallica/BnF)

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Description:

Cette sélection documentaire des Essentiels de la philosophie française se présente sous la forme d’un corpus chronologique de textes de référence, structuré par auteur. En donnant accès à des textes qui ne sont parfois plus publiés et qui sont difficilement consultables en bibliothèque, cet ensemble constitue une introduction à la richesse du patrimoine documentaire disponible sur Gallica. Pour chacun des auteurs présentés, une courte notice biographique rappelle le contexte de rédaction des œuvres phares, et le cas échéant, la singularité du positionnement de l’auteur dans les réflexions propres à son époque. Les œuvres fondatrices sont présentées dans leur édition originale, aux côtés des éditions de référence qui ont servi de base aux éditions modernes. La liste des auteurs sélectionnés est appelée à s’étoffer régulièrement, notamment d’auteurs moins classiques, ou au fil de l’entrée dans le domaine public de nouvelles œuvres pour la section contemporaine.

(source: Gallica)

DATABASE: Grotius Collection online (Printed Works)

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Brill announced an OCR and thus text-searchable version of the Grotius Collection (Printed Works).

More information here.

DATABASE: OUP International Law – Documents on the Rwandan Genocide

(Source: OPIL)

This year marks 25 years since the Rwandan Genocide. OUP has made materials on its history and impact available free to read and share for a 100 day period, starting from 7 April (day of the commemoration of the start of the genocide). The materials can be found here

(source: ESCLH Blog)

NEW SUBDATABASE: History of International Law in HeinOnline

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The blog of the Graduate Institute's library announces a new section in HeinOnline: a subdatabase on History of International Law.

More information here.