Aeronautics and Space Flight: Global Origins of Modern Aviation and Rocketry is a fully searchable, digitized collection of primary source documents on aerospace engineering, rocketry, and aviation from 1957 to 1995. The collection supports a wide range of STEM and humanities disciplines. Thus, researchers can easily explore topics such as satellite communications, astrophysics, and wartime technology.

The collection also includes the Global Origins of Modern Science and Technology series, which includes related collections on bioethics, computing, climate science, and nuclear energy. Moreover, the collection offers unique international sources, including tens of thousands of journal articles, government publications, newspapers, magazines, and translated television and radio broadcasts collected by the CIA.

This archive captures the remarkable pace of aeronautics during the Cold War era—from the military impact of B52 bombers to the Apollo 11 moon landing and the rise of commercial aviation.

Expiry date: 8 May 2026

The Library is excited to announce the launch of our new high-performance AI computing facilities. These resources provide a dedicated environment for everyone—from beginners to advanced users—to explore, develop, and implement AI technologies.

Whether you are learning to use AI, developing custom AI applications, or completing AI coursework, the AI workstations and notebooks are fully equipped to support your needs:

Ready-to-Use Environments: Pre-installed with Python, Jupyter Notebook, for coding and data cleaning tasks.

Advanced Capabilities: Pre-installed LLM and API endpoint, making it easy to incorporate LLM functionalities into your applications and workflows.

High-End Hardware: Optimised for AI development and research.

Please click here for detailed information on available software and hardware specifications.

The AI notebooks are available for walk-in use at i-Space (4/F, North Wing) inside the Digital Visualisation Room.

Step into the future of AI innovation today!

The Global & International Studies Collection is an interdisciplinary resource that explores critical political, social, and historical issues from both historical and contemporary perspectives, offering over 3.9 million pages of primary and secondary materials including government documents, archival records, periodicals, news transcripts, and video footage alongside 670 periodicals and magazines, more than 260 peer-reviewed academic journals across disciplines such as sociology, economics, and political science, and 2,250 video titles featuring documentaries, interviews, and lectures that provide compelling cultural, political, and historical insights.

The collection is organized into curated thematic areas such as Aging in the Modern World, Border and Migration Studies Online, Colonial Legacies, Disability in the Modern World, Human Rights Studies Online, Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies Online, Revolution and Protest Online, Trade and Globalization Studies Online, and over twenty other focused collections. The collection is designed to support in-depth research by connecting past and present global challenges.

Expiry date: 22 Apr 2026

Launched with more than 200,000 items from over 500 organizations worldwide, the database delivers current, evidence‑informed resources essential for research, teaching, clinical education, fieldwork, skills‑based learning, and applied research across nursing and allied health disciplines such as exercise science, nutrition, physical and occupational therapy, radiology, speech‑language pathology, audiology, behavioural and mental health, and more.

The database features timely blogs for classroom discussion and current awareness, podcasts for bringing real-world perspectives and current issues into the classroom, high-quality instructional videos for demonstrations, case studies, and skills mastery, and reports and articles for delivering guidance, surveillance, outcomes, and applied evidence, etc. 

Expiry date: 6 April 2026