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This summer the UCF Libraries purchased a large bundle of primary source databases as a result of deeply discounted pricing and negotiations with the vendor. The databases cover an extensive variety of fields, from advertising to American Indian newspapers to World War I. This was a one-time purchase to which the Libraries have perpetual access.

The vendor, Adam Matthew Digital, is an academic publisher based in the United Kingdom The company publishes collections of digitized primary source materials from different historical eras and has collaborated with various source archives and institutions including the Amistad Research Center, British National Archives, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Hoover Institution, Newberry Library, and the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, among others.

Here are the 28 databases that have been purchased:

• African American Communities- www.aac.amdigital.co.uk
• Age of Exploration – www.exploration.amdigital.co.uk
• American History – www.americanhistory.amdigital.co.uk
• American Indian Newspapers – www.americanindiannewspapers.amdigital.co.uk
• Apartheid South Africa – www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/Apartheid
• Confidential Print: Africa – www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/CP_Africa
• Foreign Office Files for Japan – www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/FO_Japan
• China, America and the Pacific – www.cap.amdigital.co.uk       
• China: Culture and Society – www.chinacultureandsociety.amdigital.co.uk  
• Church Missionary Society Periodicals -www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk
• Colonial America: www.colonialamerica.amdigital.co.uk  
• East India Company – www.eastindiacompany.amdigital.co.uk
• Eighteenth Century Drama – www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk
• The First World War: A Global Conflict – www.firstworldwar.amdigital.co.uk
• Gender: Identity and Social Change – www.genderidentityandsocialchange.amdigital.co.uk
• Global Commodities – www.globalcommodities.amdigital.co.uk
• J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America – www.jwtadvertisingamerica.amdigital.co.uk
• Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism – www.masstourism.amdigital.co.uk
• Literary Print Culture – www.literaryprintculture.amdigital.co.uk
• Market Research – www.marketresearch.amdigital.co.uk
• Medical Services and Warfare – www.medicalservicesandwarfare.amdigital.co.uk
• Migration to New Worlds – www.migration.amdigital.co.uk
• Popular Medicine – www.popularmedicine.amdigital.co.uk
• Race Relations in America – www.racerelations.amdigital.co.uk
• Shakespeare in Performance – www.shakespeareinperformance.amdigital.co.uk
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice – www.slavery.amdigital.co.uk
• Socialism on Film – www.socialismonfilm.amdigital.co.uk
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home – www.tradecatalogues.amdigital.co.uk

Each database is available on the Libraries’ A-Z listing at https://guides.ucf.edu/databases.

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