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Dance in Video features streaming videos of 20th century dance performances and documentaries about choreographers and dance training. Includes dance styles ranging from ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental and improvisational dance. Patrons can create personal playlists to highlight specific performance elements or movements, and link to clips created by others. The database is updated regularly, and currently contains over 300 videos, representing over 275 hours of dance footage.

The Digital National Security Archive provides access to a collection of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 55,000 declassified documents (totaling more than 420,000 pages) are included in the database, separated into over 20 subject-specific collections. The database is produced by the National Security Archive, which is a non-profit research institute and library in Washington, D.C. that provides public access to declassified government documents obtained through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text provides access to millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, available from 1861 to the present day. The database offers the full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for many older graduate works. Over a million of these dissertations are available for download in PDF format, and over 2.1 million are available for purchase as printed copies. More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertation publishing partnerships with over 700 academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI's Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution.