NEW! Points to the Past Digital Collections

Posted on: December 9, 2014

Nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content are now available to TRU students, faculty and staff through the Points to the Past Digital Collections provided by Gale. This access has been made possible by a unique agreement between Gale, the University of Victoria Libraries, the University of British Columbia Library, and Simon Fraser University Library, with the support of the BC Electronic Library Network. The agreement provides students, faculty, and B.C. residents with permanent access to the Gale Digital Collections products, which will support learning and research in subject disciplines including: History, English, Journalism, Political Studies, First Nations Studies, Nursing/Allied Health, Gender Studies, and Theatre.

Points to the Past collection includes the following collections:

Gale Artemis: Primary Sources – helps scholars find a starting point, search across a wide array of materials and points in time, and discover new ways to analyze information.
Chatham House Online Archive – multi-disciplinary resource on the 20th and 21st centuries containing the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive – an historical archive that embraces the comprehensive, conceptual, and global scholarly study of slavery. Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents selected by a renowned board of scholars.
State Papers Online – digital manuscript archive of 16th- and 17th- century British State Papers. It links these rare historical manuscripts to their fully text-searchable calendars.
Gale NewsVault – provides access to Gale’s growing collection of historical newspapers and periodicals. There are currently more than 12 million digitized pages from newspapers and periodicals around the world.
British Literary Manuscripts Online – includes hundreds of thousands of pages of rare manuscripts, poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence, and other manuscripts from 1100 through the Victorian era.
Declassified Documents Reference System – provides direct information on the critical policies and events of post World War II era, including reports from US Cabinet meeting minutes, National Security Council policy statements, CIA intelligence studies, presidential conferences, State Department political analyses, and Joint Chiefs’ papers.