Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [info]

Coverage:  1760-1900

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries brings together more than 400 diaries, letters, and memoirs written by Northerners, Southerners, and foreign observers that reveal thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. [info]

When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists from the colonial period to the present day. [info]

Coverage:  From Colonial Period to Present

The American Poetry database brings together, in a single database, the complete poetic works of more than 200 American writers from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century, along with “six landmark anthologies of American poetry.” It contains more than 40,000 poems, including the works of major poets such as Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and John Greenleaf Whittier. [info]

Coverage:  From Colonial Period to early 20th century

This is a collection of nearly 4,000 interviews with former slaves in the United States. [info]

Note(s): 
Updated:  Complete

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Coverage:  1997 - present

Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. [info]

The database is a collection of treatises on art and architecture printed and published between 1470 and 1775. [info]

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Coverage:  1470-1775
Language:  English,Italian

The ARTFL Project In 1957 the French government initiated the creation of a new dictionary of the French language, the Tresor de la Langue Francaise. [info]

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Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays representing the various ethnicities within the Asian American community. [info]

Coverage:  Nineteenth century to present

Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. [info]

Coverage:  Mid 1800s to present

Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. [info]

Coverage:  To 1975

Full text access to 20 selected medical texts. [info]

Directories of publishing opportunities in economics and finance. [info]

Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection currently contains the full text of more than 12,000 poems by 142 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, and Archibald Lampman, and will soon offer a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth. [info]

Coverage:  17th - Early 20th Centuries

This database consists of reports and monographs on major security and defense issues of interest to the European Union. [info]

Coverage:  1991 -
Updated:  Continuous

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most complete source for theory and research in international affairs. [info]

Coverage:  1991-present
Updated:  Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.

This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. [info]

Coverage:  Varies for each country
Updated:  Irregularly

The full-text Czech Electronic Library - 19th Century Poetry database is a collection of poetry published during the 19th century with minor overlapping on the chronological axis (i.e. [info]

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Coverage:  End 18th Century - Beginning 20th Century
Language:  Czech

The Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text. [info]

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Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 42 published works by 19th-century black women writers. [info]

Coverage:  circa 1800-1920

Digitized texts in a variety of subjects relating to the South. [info]

Early American Fiction includes first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. [info]

Coverage:  1774-1850
Updated:  Completed set of works, no updates planned

Evans is the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. [info]

Note(s): 
Coverage:  1639 - 1800

Based on the noted "American Bibliography, 1801-1819" by Ralph B. [info]

Note(s): 
Coverage:  1801 - 1819

Early English Books Online [EEBO] includes the total surviving published record of the English-speaking world for 227 years in digital format. [info]

Note(s): 
Coverage:  1475-1700
Language:  Primarily English

Early English Prose Fiction contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700. [info]

Coverage:  1500-1700

Academic Complete includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers. [info]

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ebrary has specific technical requirements and requires installation of the ebrary Reader. Visit http://site.ebrary.com/lib/anysite/Download for details.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. [info]

Note(s): 
Coverage:  1591-1911

The Eighteenth Century Collections Online [ECCO] provides remote access to 33 million full-text images and text-searchable pages of nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800. [info]

Coverage:  18th Century
Language:  Primarily English

Development of law in the British Empire between 1701 and 1800. [info]

Coverage:  18th Century

Eighteenth-Century Fiction contains 76 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1700 to 1780. [info]

Coverage:  1700-1780

Quarterly, EIU Country Reports provide comprehensive updates on the latest economic, political, and market conditions in almost 200 countries worldwide. [info]

Coverage:  1996-present
Updated:  Each Country Report Updated Quarterly

English Drama contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. [info]

Coverage:  1280-1915

English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of its ground-breaking predecessor with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. [info]

Coverage:  8th-20th Centuries

The Faber Poetry Library provides access to the works of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. [info]

Coverage:  20th century

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format. [info]

Coverage:  1999 -

Greenwood Digital Collection provides access to hundreds of e-books, mainly covering literature and history. [info]

Hein_On-Line is a comprehensive, ever-expanding, image-based collection of legal research material that currently provides "full-text" searching for a growing database of legal periodicals. [info]

Coverage:  Varies. Files are being added retrospectively and through the most recent volume for which permission is granted.
Updated:  Varies. Files may be updated, daily, weekly, monthly or annually, or as material becomes available.

HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. [info]

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Internet Archive Texts searches the full text of books digitized by Project Gutenberg and by various libraries around the world. [info]

Updated:  Continuously updated

JapanKnowledge contains a number of reference sources in Japan including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Progressive Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionaries, Gendai Yogo No Kiso Chishiki, Nihon Jinmei Daijiten, recent issues of the Economist Japanese edition, and other full-text and partial full-text resources. [info]

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Language:  Japanese

The Library of Latin Texts offers full text electronic access to the rich resources of Latin literature, from Classical Antiquity to as recent as 1965. [info]

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Coverage:  Classical Antiquity - 1965
Updated:  2 times per annum
Language:  Latin

The criteria for the inclusion of works in Literary Theory seek to reflect the diverse material and interests encompassed by the history of literary theory and criticism. [info]

The Making of America project is a collaborative effort by the libraries of Cornell University and the University of Michigan to present digital copies of primary source materials published in the United States from before the American Civil War to the 1920s. [info]

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Coverage:  19th and Early 20th Centuries
Updated:  Regularly

The Making of America project is a collaborative effort by the libraries of Cornell University and the University of Michigan to present digital copies of primary source materials published in the United States from before the American Civil War to the 1920s. [info]

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Coverage:  19th and Early 20th Centuries
Updated:  Regularly

Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. [info]

Coverage:  1800-1926

Full text searching and access to over 50 core texts covering various medical specialties. [info]

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Coverage:  1955 -
Updated:  Irregular

The Middle English Compendium covers 'three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources, including a large collection of Middle English texts.' The Middle English Dictionary was completed in 2001. [info]

Note(s): 
Coverage:  1100-1500
Updated:  Irregularly.

The NCBI Bookshelf has a number of genetics and molecular biology textbooks that may contain information on pharmacogenetics/genomics, drug design and discovery, and other topics of interest. [info]

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NetLibrary contains a number of ebooks. [info]

Coverage:  Titles published primarily 1963- with most of the titles from the 1990-
Updated:  Continuous.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction represents the great achievements of the Victorian canon and reflects the landmarks of the period, portraying the genre in all its energy and variety, from Gothic horror to social satire, from moral earnestness to aestheticism, from masculine adventure to feminist polemic. [info]

Coverage:  1782-1903

The database contains 1581 vernacular texts (19.1+ million words, 447,675 unique forms, 165 MB of textual data) the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. [info]

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Coverage:  Italian texts published prior to 1375
Language:  Italian

Oxford Reference Online allows searching over 150 basic reference sources, covering subjects such as art and architecture, biology, classics, computing, economics & business, environment, history, language, literature, law, medicine, mythology & folklore, performing arts, physics and math, politics, social sciences, religion & philosophy, and science in general. [info]

Coverage:  Mainly current publications
Updated:  Regularly

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A collection of searchable texts from the works of major philosophers. [info]

The searchable full-text database of the Latin Fathers' writings. [info]

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Coverage:  200 AD.-1216 AD

PsychiatryOnline is an online collection of resources for mental health. [info]

R2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform. [info]

Note(s):  Access is activated for titles marked

The RAND research organization publishes many papers and reports on topics of current public policy interest, including such areas as criminal justice, education, health, national security and international affairs, energy, environment, and science and technology. [info]

Coverage:  1963 to date
Updated:  Regularly

Safari Tech Books Online is an electronic reference library for programming and IT. [info]

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Restricted to 3 users at a time.

This collection contains over sixty volumes of lyric poetry written by fifty Scottish women between 1789 and 1832. [info]

The Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Branches of Literature) was compiled during the years 1773-1782 under an edict from Emperor Qianlong. [info]

Note(s):  Must be viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or above. Please log out of this resource when finished.
Language:  Chinese

SourceOECD is the Online Library of Statistical Databases, eBooks, Periodicals, and Working Papers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [info]

Note(s):  Works best with Internet Explorer.
Coverage:  1960 - present
Updated:  regularly

SpringerLink is a gateway to e-journals and e-books published by Springer Verlag, the world's largest academic publisher. [info]

Coverage:  Varies by title
Updated:  Continuously

Full text access to over 30 selected medical, chemical and pharmacological texts, dictionaries and indexes. [info]

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This comprehensive database offers the latest college and graduate entrance exams, as well as college and vocational school information, financial aid sources, and requirements. [info]

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The Thesaurus Linguae Gracae is a collection of digitized literary texts in Greek from the time of the poet Homer in the 8th Century B.C.E. [info]

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Coverage:  700 B.C.E. - 1453 C.E.
Updated:  Quarterly
Language:  Greek

The full text of 12,000 poems by more than 100 poets. [info]

Coverage:  20th century

Twentieth-Century American Poetry is a growing collection of the poetry of twentieth-century America and will ultimately form part of the largest electronic collection of American poetry of this century. [info]

Coverage:  1919-present

Twentieth Century English Poetry contains the poetry of over 285 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. [info]

Coverage:  From 1900 to Present

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). [info]

Coverage:  19th century literary texts

The W.B. [info]

Note(s): 
Coverage:  1885-1995

This database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document the multiplicity of women's activism in American public life. [info]

Coverage:  1600 - 2000
Updated:  continuous

Wright American Fiction: Two Collections in OneThis is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. [info]

Coverage:  1851-1875
Updated:  Continuously