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British Library: EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Services)

EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.

Tokyo War Crimes Trial: A Digital Exhibition

After World War II ended, Allied forces established the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known
informally as the Tokyo War Crimes trial, to prosecute the
Japanese officials involved with launching the war. The
trial took place from April 1946 to November 1948 and
resulted in death sentences for seven of the defendants
and prison terms for the remaining war criminals. The
Tokyo War Crimes Trial is a massive digital exhibition of
historical documents related to the trial, posted by the

Taiwan Colonial Statistics Database

The chief objective of the Taiwan Colonial Statistics
Database lies in the preservation of official statistical
records from the Japanese colonial period. It contains
digitized materials mainly from the National Taiwan
University and National Taiwan Library collections,
including 684 volumes of Japanese colonial statistical
records, 194,075 digital images, and 103,732 sets of
metadata. There are 29 data categories in total, including
law and law-related areas.

Asian Pacific American History in Oregon

Asian Pacific American History in Oregon is part of the Oregon History Project undertaken by Oregon Hisotical Society to collect, preserve, and promote access to, the information about Asian Pacific Americans immigrated to America from the continent of Asia (including India). Included in the scope of the project are the Chinese who started to arrive in the Oregon Territory in the early 1850s.