Bezi Publishing Services – October 2014 What’s New in Online Resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences Presented by Louise Valier-D’Abate, Bezi

Bezi Publishing Services – October 2014

What’s New in Online Resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Presented by Louise Valier-D’Abate, Bezi Publishing ServicesMonday 13 October 2014


What’s New in Local SupportBezi Publishing Services

Bezi Publishing Services offers local representation for international academic publishers in the

humanities, social sciences, law and other areas

Types of resources Publishers represented

Ebook collections Brill, Readex

Ejournal collections Brill

Online reference works Brill

Primary source databases Brill, Readex

News information databases NewsBank, Readex


What’s New in HistoryReadex: South Asian Newspapers, 1864–1922

• Full-text access to ten historical newspapers from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

• Covers British Colonial rule, the start of Gandhi’s independence movement, and more

• Includes eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, death notices, shipping information, and more


What’s New in ClassicsBrill: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek

Language and Linguistics Online

• Newly released in 2014• Over 500 entries on the history

and study of Ancient Greek• All Greek has been transcribed

from the original characters• Full-text searchable• Hyperlinked cross-references• Useful research tool for those studying Ancient

Greek, linguistics, Biblical studies and classical studies

• Also available from Brill: Hebrew and Arabic• Coming soon in 2015 from Brill: Chinese


What’s New in LinguisticsBrill: Linguistic Bibliography Online

• The most comprehensive bibliography in the field for over 65 years

• Comprises over 300,000 records, with 20,000 new records added each year

• Published under the auspices of UNESCO

• Special attention paid to endangered and extinct languages

• Coverage includes Austronesian, Papuan and Australian Languages


What’s New in International LawBrill: Foreign Law Guide

• Now available from Brill• Long considered the standard research tool for

foreign and comparative law• Edited and updated systematically• Offers information on sources of foreign law in

190 jurisdictions worldwide, such as the legal system, sources of legal information, links to major online sources, and more


What’s New in Maritime LawBrill: International Maritime Boundaries Online

• Offers expert analysis of all international maritime boundaries, zones and agreementsworldwide, including:• every modern maritime boundary treaty

from 1942 to the present;• analysis of international maritime boundaries established by

bodies such as the International Court of Justice; • full-colour regional maps, updated annually; • expert essays on the theory and practice of maritime law; and • a country-by-country index.

• Also available from Brill: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Online


What’s New in Maritime LawBrill: International Maritime Boundaries Online


What’s New in News InformationNewsBank: Access World News

• The world’s largest full-text news information database

• Now includes 33 newspapers from NZ, including The New Zealand Herald

• User tools: save searches/articles, set up email alerts, generate citations


What’s New in PoliticsBrill: US Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945–2009

• Now available• Covers more than six decades of

conflict from the end of WWII to 2009 (inc. Obama administration)

• Time period includes the Middle East Wars; the recognition of Israel; the nuclear ambitions of Israel, Iraq and Iran; WMDs in Iraq; the PLO and Hezbollah; the Iran-Iraq War; Lebanon; Syria; Libya and Muammar Qaddafi; 9/11; the War on Terror; and more

• Includes 2,740 documents on the Middle East and North Africa (19,500 pages)


What’s New in PoliticsBrill: US Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945–2009


Coming Soon in 2015 from Brill

Arkyves Database for the history of art and culture, comprising 500,000 images and typography

Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Online

Niermeyer OnlineDictionary of Medieval Latin, covering the period 550–1250 AD and comprising 17,000 Latin terms

Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Online IISecond set of Brill’s acclaimed series

U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945–1995Declassified CIA documents on Europe during the Cold War


For more information…

Please contact:Louise Valier-D’Abate, DirectorBezi Publishing Services+61 455 864 [email protected]

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Bezi Publishing Services – October 2014 What’s New in Online Resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences Presented by Louise Valier-D’Abate, Bezi