Age of Exploration focuses on the history of European maritime exploration from c.1420-1920, and includes rare manuscripts, early printed material, highly illustrated maps and documents, diaries, and ships' logs.

American West contains original manuscripts, ephemeral material , maps, and rare printed works from the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

China, America and the Pacific focuses on trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries, and includes manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps.

Church Missionary Society Periodicals encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the South American Missionary Society. The periodicals include news, journals and reports from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

East India Company includes India Office Records from the British Library, London, and contains royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions. Temple U access includes two of the five available full-text modules: Trade, Governance and Empire (1600-1947); Factory Records for South Asia and South-East Asia (1613-1830).