Gale Primary Sources

Available at : Online Access
Off-campus Access Rights : P - PolyU Staff/Students only
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Gale Primary Sources covers a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more. The Library's subscription covers the following collections:

Please access National Geographic Magazine, 1888-2020 here.

The following 5 resources will be accessible until 15 Aug 2025:
1. State Papers Online: Colonial Asia, Part 2: Singapore, East Malaysia, and Brunei 
2. British Library Newspapers, Part V and VI
3. History of Disabilities: 1. Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
4. Environmental History 1: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980
5. Environmental History 2: Colonial Policy and Global Development: 1896-1993


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