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African American Poetry (1750-1900)
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Description: Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 is an invaluable resource, not only for literary scholars, but for researchers in black studies, linguistics, women's studies, the black literary heritage and comparative studies.

The collection offers unique insights into the creative mind and reflects the conditions of early America and the role of black Americans during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poetry explores a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice and slavery.

The poets are among those included in the William French et al. bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975, from such widely known figures as Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar to those who only gained recognition many years after their deaths. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  1760-1900
Language:  English

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
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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. For the first time, users can see and compare the writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies. These first-person accounts were written for private consumption, and they provide detailed descriptions of historical characters, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, and tales of sufferings at home. Due to their private nature, they contain an immediacy and a richness that are unmatched in public sources. This collection includes over 100,000 pages of text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material.

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Language:  English

American Drama
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Description: When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists from the colonial period to the present day. At present (early 2001), American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists including Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson, as well as such works as Thomas Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia, the first American play performed on an American stage, and George Aiken's stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular stage production of the nineteenth century. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  From Colonial Period to Present
Language:  English

American Poetry (1600-1900)
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Description: 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. It also covers the works of many less familiar authors.

The database principally includes American poetry from its beginnings through 1900, although the poetry of some poets active after 1900 is also included. The primary bibliographic source for the database is Bibliography of American Literature, Yale University Press, 1955-1991. This selection has been supplemented with additional poets to provide a more thorough and rounded collection. The complete text of each poem is included. Any accompanying text written by the original quthor and forming an integral part of the work, such as notes, dedications and prefaces to individual poems, is also generally included. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  From Colonial Period to early 20th century
Language:  English

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
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Description: This is a collection of nearly 4,000 interviews with former slaves in the United States. The interviews were mainly conducted in the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration Writers' Project, though some were conducted in the 1920s.

The print counterpart is titled The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, and is held in Davis Library, E 444 .A45, and in the North Carolina Collection, C326.4 A51r.

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Updated:  Complete
Language:  English

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
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Coverage:  1997 - present
Language:  English

Annual Reviews
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Description: Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

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Language:  English

Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance
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Description: The database is a collection of treatises on art and architecture printed and published between 1470 and 1775. It is structured around, but not limited to, the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. The entire text of each work is included and the complete database contains approximately 4,000 images.

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Coverage:  1470-1775
Language:  English,Italian

ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
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Description: 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. In order to provide access to a large body of word samples, it was decided to transcribe an extensive selection of French texts for use with a computer. Twenty years later, a corpus totaling some 150 million words had been created, reresenting a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It soon became apparent that this corpus of French texts was an important resource not only for lexicographers, but also for many other types of humanists and social scientists engaged in French studies - on both sides of the Atlantic. The result of this realization was American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) -- a cooperative project established in 1981 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. The ARTFL project has focused on three objectives over the past eight years: to include a variety of texts so as to make the database as versatile as possible; to create a system that would be easily accessible to the research community; to provide researchers with an easy-to-use but effective tool.

The Database: At present the corpus consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. We have also recently added a Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. New Opportunities for Research: The ARTFL database is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The number, variety and historical range of its texts allow researchers to go well beyond the usual narrow focus on single works or single authors. The database permits both the rapid exploration of single texts, and the inter-textual research of a kind virtually impossible without the aid of a computer. (Source: vendor website.)

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Asian American Drama
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Description: Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays representing the various ethnicities within the Asian American community. Along with many works by writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent, the collection includes plays by writers of Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins in the late nineteenth century and continues to the writings of contemporary playwrights. Some 50% of the plays have never been published before.

The plays have relevance well beyond the study of literature, drama, and Asian American studies. They present views of important historical events, such as the construction of the railroads in the nineteenth century, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Vietnam conflict. The plays also address sociological issues, such as assimilation, integration, and cultural identity in a Western context. By reenacting experiences familiar to audiences, these plays provide opportunities for viewers to examine their own reactions to racism and other experiences of their ethnicity.

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Coverage:  Nineteenth century to present
Language:  English

Black Drama
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Description: 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. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project's editorial advisor. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

A current list of authors is found at http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/products/bldr-playwrights.htm.

Each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images. The result is an exceptionally deep and unified collection that illustrates the many purposes that black theater has served: to give testimony to the ancient foundations of black culture; to protest injustices; to project emerging images of the Black; and to give voice to the many and varied expressions of black creativity.

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Coverage:  Mid 1800s to present
Language:  English

Black Thought and Culture
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Description: 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. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures form the corpus. Unlike their white counterparts, black leaders have had to wrestle with the issues of their race alongside the issues of leadership in their chosen professions. They have been forced to defend positions, justify actions, correct perceptions, protest injustice, celebrate cultural achievement, and confront the agenda of a white-dominated society. The collection includes the ideas of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Sidney Bechet, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Dorothy Height, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Constance Baker Motley, J. Saunders Redding, Sojourner Truth, Walter F. White, Amiri Baraka, and dozens more. Targeted for inclusion are the written and spoken words of Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, Rosa Parks, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others.

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Coverage:  To 1975
Language:  English

Books@Ovid
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Description: Full text access to 20 selected medical texts. For a list of subscribed titles see Books@Ovid web page.

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Cabells Directories of Publishing Opportunities in Business
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Description: Directories of publishing opportunities in economics and finance. Each journal entry includes submission guidelines, circulation data, review and contact information, and acceptance/rejection rates for select journals.

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Canadian Poetry
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Description: 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.

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Coverage:  17th - Early 20th Centuries
Language:  English

Chaillot Papers
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Description: This database consists of reports and monographs on major security and defense issues of interest to the European Union. Some of these titles are also available in print and can be found by searching the libraries' online catalog under the Chaillot Papers series title.

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Coverage:  1991 -
Updated:  Continuous
Language:  English

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
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Description: Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most complete source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, tables of contents of selected journals, and proceedings from conferences.

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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.
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Country Studies/Area Handbooks (Library of Congress)
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Description: 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. Department of Army. Because the original intent of the Series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered. Notable omissions include Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations. The date of information for each country appears on the title page of each country and at the end of each secion of text.

The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.

The books represent the analysis of the authors and should not be construed as an expression of an official United States Government position, policy, or decision. The authors have sought to adhere to accepted standards of scholarly objectivity. Corrections, additions, and suggestions for changes from readers will be welcomed for use in future hard copy editions (E-mail frds@loc.gov).

Information contained in the Country Studies On-Line is not copyrighted and thus is available for free and unrestricted use by researchers. As a courtesy, however, appropriate credit should be given to the series. (Source: Vendor website)

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Coverage:  Varies for each country
Updated:  Irregularly
Language:  English

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Czech Electronic Library - 19th Century Poetry
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Description: 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. both into the 18th century [Stach] and the 20th century, the basic guideline being a debut by 1900). It carries on from the previous output (from the Thám School to the Lumír School; CD-ROM 2002; published by the ASCR Institute of Czech Literature; contains 600 titles). As the nature of the material required a connection with the previous output, the presented full-text database - Czech Electronic Library - 19th Century Poetry makes 1,200 poetry collections available in a freely accessible internet form.

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

Daily Life Through History

Dictionary of Old English Corpus
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Description: The Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date. As such, the DOEC represents about three million words of Old English and another two million words of Latin, or about six times the collected works of Shakespeare. These texts fall into several categories: prose, poetry, glosses to Latin texts and inscriptions.

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Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
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Description: 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. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader. Documents are browsable by title, author, or genre (fiction, poetry, biography, or essays); browse lists can be further searched by keywords.

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Coverage:  circa 1800-1920
Language:  English

Documenting the American South
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Description: Digitized texts in a variety of subjects relating to the South. Documenting the American South (DAS), an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.

Currently, DAS includes seven digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana. (Source: DAS website)

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Language:  English

Early American Fiction
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Description: Early American Fiction includes first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. In total, 422 titles in 559 volumes by eighty-one authors make up the database. It includes well-known works by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper and many works by lesser-known writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, which have seldom been republished in modern editions. The time between the publication of the first American novel, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) and the mid-point of the nineteenth century defined American literature and helped to forge a cultural identity for the nation. Users interested in topics such as the literary tastes of the times, how books were packaged, what women were reading, and how the literary canon is formed will benefit greatly from the digitization of these texts. Two standard bibliographies, Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) and Lyle H. Wright's American Fiction 1774-1850 have been used to define the project.

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

Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
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Description: Evans is the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. These span agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, the collection was first published by Readex in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society. When completed it will contain all titles in Evans microform editions, for a total of 36,000 items, plus 1,200 new titles. The 2,400,000 images also have OCR-created ASCII text.

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Coverage:  1639 - 1800
Language:  English

Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
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Description: Based on the noted "American Bibliography, 1801-1819" by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) provides a comprehensive set of American imprints published in the early part of the 19th century. Shaw-Shoemaker includes many materials that chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation. Researchers can study the westward expansion, the development of American arts (literature, music, painting, etc.), the progression of American political thought, and so much more. In addition to books, broadsides and pamphlets, the collection includes many published reports; presidential letters and messages; congressional, state, and territorial resolutions; and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public.

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Coverage:  1801 - 1819
Language:  English

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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Description: Early English Books Online [EEBO] includes the total surviving published record of the English-speaking world for 227 years in digital format. It reproduces images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England and her colonies in any language between 1475 and 1700, and in English worldwide for this period. When complete, EEBO will contain all the works--more than twenty-two million pages--represented in the microfilm series, Early English Books I & II, which includes the titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue of printed materials published in the English language from 1475 to 1640; Wing's Short-Title Catalogue of works dating from 1641 to 1700; and the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661. It also will include 25,000 searchable texts. These accurately keyboarded and SGML/XML-tagged editions, created in a partnership called the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, will link to the corresponding ProQuest image files. In combination, the text and image editions of these works provide a powerful research and instructional tool of unquestioned enduring value.

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Coverage:  1475-1700
Language:  Primarily English

Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)
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Description: Early English Prose Fiction contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700. The authors and works were selected under the guidance of the Editorial Board to meet the needs of academic teaching and research, and provide a representative view of the prose fiction of the period. A single edition of each work, usually the first, has been included. The Early English Prose Fiction Database is the result of a collaboration between Chadwyck-Healey and the Salzburg Centre for Research on the Early English Novel (SCREEN) who made the choice of texts and editions. The entire text of each individual work has been included, with all prefatory matter and annotation by the original author. All accompanying material, such as illustrations, contents pages, appendices, lists of subscribers, dedications, errata lists, etc. also appears. Publisher's advertisements for other texts have been excluded. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  1500-1700
Language:  English

ebrary : Academic Complete Collection
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Description: Academic Complete includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers. It spans all subjects, including business and economics (4,500 titles); computers and information technology (3,000 titles); education (2,100 titles); engineering and technical fields (2,400 titles); health and biomedical sciences (2,100 titles); history and the humanities (6,300 titles); life and physical sciences (2,400 titles); social and behavioral sciences (5,100 titles); and reference books and maps (2,100 titles).

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Language:  English

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
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Description: 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. In addition it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).

No attempt has been made to standardise the different conventions adopted by the various editors of Shakespeare's texts. The user should refer to the editors' own introductions for explanations (more or less full) of their particular practices. Act and scene numbering follows the source texts throughout; the user will inevitably encounter irregularities, particularly in early editions, where attributions to Shakespeare may be found to be at variance with modern consensus.

The contents have been chosen under the guidance of two Executive Editors with further advice from an international Editorial Advisory Board of Shakespeare scholars to provide a balanced collection of editions and adaptations from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many of the adaptations included in the database will be unfamiliar even to Shakespearean scholars and in order to provide some guidance as to the provenance and stage history of these works brief notes have been included at the beginning of each play, for which we are indebted to Professor Michael Dobson of the Roehampton Institute.

In the great majority of cases texts have been captured entire, with all introductions, prefaces, appendices, indices, notes editorial and authorial, essays, tables, figures, illustrations etc. reproduced in full. Half title pages, publisher's advertisements and decorations have not been captured. Hypertext links have been created to connect editorial matter to the texts whenever possible. Where omissions have been made they are noted in the relevant bibliographic entry. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  1591-1911
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
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Description: The Eighteenth Century Collections Online [ECCO] provides remote access to 40 million full-text images and text-searchable pages of nearly 180,000 English-language titles and editions (200,000 volumes) published between 1701-1800. It is based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library and more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide. The most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO offers not only full-text searching, but also many levels of meta-data.

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Coverage:  18th Century
Language:  Primarily English

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Law)
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Description: Development of law in the British Empire between 1701 and 1800. Topics include acts, criminal and international law, appellants cases and more.

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Coverage:  18th Century
Language:  English

Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)
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Description: Eighteenth-Century Fiction contains 76 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1700 to 1780.

The authors and works were selected under the guidance of the Editorial Board to meet the needs of academic teaching and research, and provide a representative and cross-sectional view of the prose fiction of the period.

A single edition of each work, usually the first, has been included. In some cases, where, in the opinion of the Editorial Board, significant authorial revision has occurred, more than one edition is provided.

The entire text of each individual work has been included, with all prefatory matter and annotation by the original author. All accompanying material, such as illustrations, contents pages, appendices, lists of subscribers, dedications, errata lists, etc. also appears. Only material having no bearing on the work in question or its author (such as a publisher's advertisements for other texts) has been excluded. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  1700-1780
Language:  English

EIU Country Reports
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Description: Quarterly, EIU Country Reports provide comprehensive updates on the latest economic, political, and market conditions in almost 200 countries worldwide. These series highlight major business events, analyze recent political and economic developments, provide economic and trade data, and give a political and economic outlook for the next 18 - 24 months.

For additional information, see the EIU Country Profiles, produced annually.

Countries are divided into four regions: Africa and the Middle East, the Americas, Asia - Pacific, and Europe and the former Soviet Union. These full text databases include tables and data.

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

English Drama (1280-1915)
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Description: English Drama contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Editorial policy

The bibliographic basis of English Drama is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1969-72). Annals of English Drama 975-1700, by Alfred Harbage (Routledge, 3rd ed. 1989), was used to confirm genre classification and dates for all pre-1700 plays. The database contains works acted on or intended for the stage. It includes masques, interludes, short dramatic pieces, translations and adaptations, closet dramas, and works written for children. Unpublished manuscript works and works in languages other than English have been excluded.

A single edition of each play has been included. Generally, this is the first authorized edition. If a contemporary edition was considered unreliable, a later edition may have been used; authorial revision or enlargement may also, in the opinion of the Editorial Board, render a later edition preferable. Where the majority of plays by an author have been taken from a later collection, the collected edition may be used for all works. It has been a general principle not to use modernised editions. In the case of every work, the edition selected is stated and full bibliographic details are given.

Each text is reproduced in full, as is accompanying text written by the playwright and forming an integral part of the play, such as epigraphs, castlists, and notes. Commendatory and prefatory poems by the playwright and others have also been included. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  1280-1915
Language:  English

English Poetry, Second Edition
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Description: 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. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.

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Coverage:  8th-20th Centuries
Language:  English

Faber Poetry Library
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Description: The Faber Poetry Library provides access to the works of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. It contains the works of many of the greatest poets currently read and studied. This is the first time Faber and Faber's most popular writers have been published in electronic form. Students and scholars can now search the full-text of more than four thousand poems by over 40 British, Irish and post-colonial poets. The Faber list includes some of the greatest modern poets from T.S. Eliot (a Faber director and the firm's first poetry editor) to Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

This collection will give students, researchers and teachers the opportunity to search by Keyword, Author, First Line/Title Keyword or Date of Publication across the corpus of Faber poetry.

The first release will contain 99 volumes by thirty-one of this country's leading poets. The second release is expected to take the total number to over forty key writers and is likely to include James Joyce and Christopher Logue. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  20th century
Language:  English

Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Description: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format. The titles cover a wide range of subjects, from the arts to medicine, and from multicultural studies to social science. You can search one title at a time, up to 10 titles that you select, or by broad grouping such as biography, education, or history.

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  1999 -
Language:  English

Greenwood Digital Collection
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Description: Greenwood Digital Collection provides access to hundreds of e-books, mainly covering literature and history. The collection includes:

• American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography, a collection of nearly 4,000 interviews with former slaves in the United States.
• Daily Life Through History, portrayals of daily life for ordinary people from ancient Greeks to Aztecs to 20th century Americans.
• Historic Events of the 20th Century, overviews of major events such as the civil rights movements and two world wars.
• Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors, in-depth analysis of the work of about 50 current, best-selling authors.
• Literature in Context, a collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary to help students understand the historical, social, and cultural settings of about 20 major literary works.




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Language:  English




HeinOnline
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Description: 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. One of the primary goals for Hein-On-Line is to include all of the indexed legal periodicals, from their inception to the most current volumes for which permission can be obtained. Future plans are already underway to include other important research collections, such as U.S. Reports, Classics of International Law, and the Nuremberg Trials.

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Updated:  Varies. Files may be updated, daily, weekly, monthly or annually, or as material becomes available.
Language:  English




HeritageQuest
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Description: HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Beginning or professional genealogists can use this online library, with original page images for all documents. With over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI™, and other expanding collections, HeritageQuest Online provides the chance to tap in to one of the largest collections of genealogy material in the country.

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Internet Archive: Text Archive
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Description: Internet Archive Texts searches the full text of books digitized by Project Gutenberg and by various libraries around the world. It provides online access to the full text of public domain and out-of-copyright books reproduced either from the texts produced by libraries, other organizations, or individuals.

The Internet Archive is a member of the Open Content Alliance (OCA), a consortium of non-profit and for-profit groups dedicated to building a free archive of digital text and multimedia. Though the books that it contains from Microsoft cannot be included in commercial search engines other than Microsoft's, other search engines such as Google are free to point users to the material but not provide the actual full text.

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Updated:  Continuously updated
Language:  English




JapanKnowledge
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Description: 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. Language is primarily Japanese. Some English.

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Language:  Japanese




Library of Latin Texts
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Description: 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. The original library focused on the writings of early Christian Church thinkers such as Augustine, Cyprian, and Gregory the Great. More recent additions have reached not only back in time to Classical Rome and writers such as Cicero, Ovid, and the two Plinys, but also forward to the Middle Ages and writers such as Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Abelard. Many texts also come from the Neo-Latin literature produced between 1500 and 1965. Texts have been edited according to the best contemporary scholarly practices, and come from series such as the Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Romanorum Teubneriana, Sources Chretiennes, Patrologia Latina and the Acta Sanctorum. The database also includes the Vulgate and the Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, as well as the complete texts of ecumenical Church council decrees from Nicaea to Vatican II.

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




Literary Theory
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Description: 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. In addition to works written in English, the database includes works which were originally written in other languages but which have had a significant bearing on English and American traditions of theory and criticism, or which have influenced contemporary theoretical debate in the English-speaking world. All works in the database appear in English.

Among its contents, the database includes:



• formal treatises on criticism and aesthetics
• discourses on the character or practice of specific genres
• theories of imagination, genius and taste
• literary biography, criticism and literary history that expresses important general arguments and precepts
• literary prefaces and dedications
• rhetorical treatises
• poetry which expresses or implies rules of composition or standards of judgement
• theoretical works in disciplines other than English literature which have had a major influence on literary theory
The principles guiding the choice of editions are as follows:


• For out-of-copyright material, early printed texts, mainly first editions, are generally used. Where texts have been revised by their author after their first appearance in print and later republished, the last revised edition is generally used. Where the quality of early editions or translations has been deemed unacceptable by the editorial board later editions have been preferred.
• Where no early out-of-copyright edition of an essential work exists, a modern text will be used
• For copyright works, the best available edition will be chosen.
• Images and notes that are integral to the text have been included.
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Language:  English




Making of America - Cornell University Library
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Description: 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. Journals and other periodicals are the principal publications available, as well as some book titles. The fields of education, American history, religion, sociology, psychology, religion, and science and technology are especially well represented.

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




Making of America - University of Michigan Library
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Description: 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. Journals and other periodicals are the principal publications available, as well as some book titles. The fields of education, American history, religion, sociology, psychology, religion, and science and technology are especially well represented.

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Coverage:  19th and Early 20th Centuries
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Language:  English




Making of Modern Law
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Description: Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history.

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Coverage:  1800-1926
Language:  English




MD Consult Reference Books
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Description: Full text searching and access to over 50 core texts covering various medical specialties.

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Methods in Enzymology
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Coverage:  1955 -
Updated:  Irregular
Language:  English




Middle English Compendium
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Description: 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. 'Its 15,000 odd pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available.' 'The HyperBibliography of Middle English includes all the Middle English materials which are cited in the Middle English Dictionary.' The Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse now contains about 150 texts. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  1100-1500
Updated:  Irregularly.
Language:  English




NCBI Bookshelf
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Description: 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. Search using keywords.

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netLibrary
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Description: NetLibrary contains a number of ebooks. It has the full text of over 22,000 English-language books from U.S. publishers. These e-books cover all subjects and most were published in the 1990s. This collection also includes older literary classics in the public domain. The full list of titles is available for download in Excel at http://www.nclive.org/datafiles/netLibTitles.xls from NCLive. Note: The e-book titles are shared with others in a multi-state consortium and at present there is only one copy for the consortium. Mechanisms are in place to get extra copies of works in demand. If another user is viewing a title it will be listed as unavailable. When a user ends a session, or after 15 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. To access netLibrary from home you first need to set up a netLibrary account. The NetLibrary accounts are for individuals, not libraries. Each patron should set up his/her own account.

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




Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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Description: 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. Nineteenth-Century Fiction also contains examples of other genres or sub-genres such as the 'Silver Fork' school, historical fiction, the 'novel of ideas', children's stories and the 'New Woman' novel. In addition to the better-known novels, the collection covers many neglected or little-known works, most of them out of print or difficult to find. The first release of Nineteenth-Century Fiction contained 86 novels, concentrating on works published between the years 1786 and 1839. Among the major authors represented were Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott. Many well-known examples of Gothic and Romantic fiction were included, among them works by Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Thomas Love Peacock and Mary Shelley.

In the second release we completed the collection, adding the full text of novels by Dickens, Trollope, Disraeli, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy and many others. Alongside the classic fiction of the Victorian period are many examples of popular novels of the day by authors such as Mary Braddon, Charles Kingsley, Anna Sewell and H. Rider Haggard.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction contains 250 complete works of prose fiction by 102 authors from the period 1782 to 1903. Each text is reproduced in full, including all prefatory matter and annotation by the original author. Bibliographic details are included from each of the editions used along with illustrations where available.

The principles guiding the choice of editions are as follows:



• In general, the first editions to be published in volume form have been adopted.
• Prior magazine serialisations and corrected second editions have occasionally been preferred.
• Later lifetime editions have been used in a few cases where extensive authorial revision has made them the standard versions. The text of Frankenstein is given twice in different states, to represent the wide variations between different editions.
• In all cases in which serialisation of a work preceded publication in volume form, details of the vehicle and dates of first publication are given.
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Coverage:  1782-1903
Language:  English




OECD iLibrary
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Description: OECDiLibrary is the Online Library of Statistical Databases, eBooks, Periodicals, and Working Papers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

OECDiLibrary eBooks cover a variety of economic and social issues including: agriculture and food; development; education and skills; emerging economies; employment; energy; environment and sustainable development; finance and investment; general economics and future studies; governance; industry services and trade; national accounts; nuclear energy; science and information technology; social issues, migration, health; statistics sources and methods; taxation; transition economies; transport; urban, rural and regional development.

Statistical databases cover: Agriculture and Food, Bank Profitability; Economic Outlook; Education Statistics; Employment; Globalization; Health Data; ITCS International Trade by Commodity; Indicators for Industry and Services; Institutional Investors; Insurance; International Development; International Direct Investment; International Migration; International Trade and Competitiveness; Main Economic Indicators; Monthly International Trade; National Accounts; Revenue; STAN Industry Structural Analysis; Science and Technology; Services; Social Expenditure; Statistical Compendium; Structural and Demographic Business Statistics; Taxing Wages; Telecommunications.

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Updated:  Regularly
Language:  English




Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
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Description: 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. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers.

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Coverage:  Italian texts published prior to 1375
Language:  Italian




Oxford Reference Online Premium
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Description: 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. Bilingual dictionaries for French, German, Spanish, and Italian are included, as are several books of quotations. This database also provides many of the famed Oxford Companions online, maps and diagrams, and links to external Web sites.

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Coverage:  Mainly current publications
Updated:  Regularly
Language:  English




Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Electronic Collection
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Past Masters
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Description: A collection of searchable texts from the works of major philosophers. InteLex Corporation's Past Masters series represents the largest collection of philosophy texts in electronic format in the world. InteLex licenses the best editions from leading publishers and organizations, including Athlone, Blackwell, California, Cambridge, Hackett, Harvard, Indiana, International Publishers, Lawrence & Wishart, Marquette, MIT, New City Press, Oxford, Southern Illinois, and Walter deGruyter, where possible. If major editions are not available, InteLex works with prominent scholars to create new editions. These works serve the needs of the scholarly community in philosophy by providing cohesive digital collections of excellent editions, in both original language and in English translation, using meticulous text conversion processes. They provide scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to classic texts by Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, J. L. Austin, A. J. Ayer, Bentham, Berkeley, Collingwood, Darwin, Davidson, Descartes, Dewey, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Nietzsche, Ockham, Pierce, Plato, Sidgwick, and Wittgenstein.

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Language:  English




Patrologia Latina Database
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Description: The searchable full-text database of the Latin Fathers' writings. The Patrologia Latina Database [PLD] is the searchable full-text database of the Patrologia Latina, which, with the Patrologia Graeco-Latina, make up the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, one of the most important collections of Western philosophical and theological writing. Compiled and edited by the extraordinary nineteenth-century scholar and priest, Jacques-Paul Migne, the Patrologia Latina covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian (around 200 AD) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. In 221 volumes it includes most major and minor Latin authors and the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history and literature. The Patrologia Latina Database contains all the prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus, indexes and illustrations in the Patrologia Latina and makes them available remotely.

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Coverage:  200 AD.-1216 AD
Language:  English




PsychiatryOnline
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Description: PsychiatryOnline is an online collection of resources for mental health. The package includes the DSM-IV-TR, the DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and the DSM-IV-TR Casebook and Treatment Companion; plus archival access to the DSM-I, DSM-II, DSM-III, DSM-III-R and DSM-IV. Also included are APA Practice Guidelines, the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology (2nd ed.), Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and current access to the journals Academic Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatric Services, Psychosomatics, and Psychiatric News.

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Language:  English




R2 Digital Library
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Description: R2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform. This service is available exclusively through hospital, academic, and institutional libraries. (Source: vendor's website)

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Language:  English




RAND Publication Database
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Description: 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. The RAND Publication Database contains indexing records for all of RAND's publicly available documents. In many cases, the index record links to the full text of the report.

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  1963 to date
Updated:  Regularly
Language:  English




Safari Tech Books Online
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Description: Safari Tech Books Online is an electronic reference library for programming and IT. It contains full-text versions of many technical titles. O'Reilly & Associates and The Pearson Technology Group joined forces to create this joint venture. O'Reilly and Pearson imprints include Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams. (Source: Vendor website)

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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
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Description: This collection contains over sixty volumes of lyric poetry written by fifty Scottish women between 1789 and 1832. It includes works by women from every social, economic, political, and religious stratum and represents traditions that range from conventional devout Calvinist moralism to rollicking bawdiness; from sentimental lyric verse to socially and politically committed poetry. The works are accompanied by biographical sketches about the authors and bibliographies of their primary works, criticism, and reviews.

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Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition)
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Description: The Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Branches of Literature) was compiled during the years 1773-1782 under an edict from Emperor Qianlong. It includes 3,460 works, with a total of more than 36,000 volumes. It covers a wide range of subjects including the classics, history, literature, philosophy, geography, politics, governmental rules and regulations, economics, society, astronomy, science, technology, medicine, and more. It is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of Chinese scholarship from antiquity to the 18th century. Seven copies of the Siku Quanshu, all written by hand, were originally created. Due to wars and civil upheavals throughout Chinese history, only three complete sets of the original copies exist today. The Wenyuange edition is the first copy, produced in 1782, and is now kept in Taiwan.

The Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange edition) electronic database, developed by Digital Heritage in Hong Kong, is a full-text retrieval system that contains texts of the entire Siku Collection, with approximately 800 million characters.

The database provides special features including searches by title, author, caption title, special indices, subject divisions, name and dynasty of the author, special reference tools, book marking, and note taking.

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Medium:  web
Language:  Chinese




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SpringerLink
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Description: SpringerLink is a gateway to e-journals and e-books published by Springer Verlag, the world's largest academic publisher. It provides access to most Springer e-journals from 1997 forward, the complete web backfiles of all its journals through 1996, and nearly all its e-books from 2005.

The online catalog lists all the Springer journals and books individually (including both electronic and print holdings). The E-Journal Finder also lists each e-journal individually with its web holdings.



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Medium:  web
Coverage:  Varies by title
Updated:  Continuously
Language:  English




STAT!Ref Online Medical Database
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Description: Full text access to over 30 selected medical, chemical and pharmacological texts, dictionaries and indexes. For a list of subscribed titles see STAT!Ref web page.

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Language:  English




Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
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Description: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is edited by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina. The series will publish 50- to 100-page publications on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management.

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Medium:  web
Updated:  Irregular
Language:  English




Testing and Education Reference Center
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Description: This comprehensive database offers the latest college and graduate entrance exams, as well as college and vocational school information, financial aid sources, and requirements. Users can prepare for specialized tests using online practice exams for college, graduate school, the military, or trade school.

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Medium:  web
Language:  English




Thesaurus linguae Graecae
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Description: 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. to the fall of Byzantine Empire in 1453. It currently includes over 3700 authors and 12,000 works. Ultimately, the goal is to create a digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present.

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




Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
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Description: The full text of 12,000 poems by more than 100 poets.

The Database of Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry documents the unique voices of this century's critically acclaimed African-American poets. The collection opens the door to literary scholarship by providing access to the full text of 12,000 poems by more than 100 poets.

Works by poets like Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes and Rita Dove enrich the collection, as well as emerging poets who will shape a new era of poetry. Biographical profiles accompany each poet's work, and the complete database can be searched by a number of fields, including keyword, first line or title keyword, and poet name. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  20th century
Language:  English




Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Description: 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.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes the works of most major poets of the twentieth century, beginning with the traditionalists, continuing through the American modernists represented by such poets as Wallace Stevens, and moving onward to the contemporary poetry of America's 1990s. The broad coverage of Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes collected works and individual volumes of poetry from all of the major movements and schools of twentieth-century American poetry, including the modern movement, the New School, the Chicago School, the Southern School, the Confessionals, the Beats and the Black Mountain poets.

Among the poets included are Michael Anania, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Robert Frost, Michael S. Harper, Edwin Honig, David Ignatow, Robinson Jeffers, Weldon Kees, Philip Levine, Josephine Miles, Charles Olson, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Dave Smith, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale and James Wright.Twentieth-Century American Poetry will cover the works of over 100 poets including more than 20,000 poems. (Source: vendor website.)

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  1919-present
Language:  English




Twentieth-Century English Poetry
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Description: Twentieth Century English Poetry contains the poetry of over 285 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah, Isaac Rosenberg, D.H. Lawrence and Carol Ann Duffyand and many others from the lists of Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers. It also incorporates works by poets such as Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice and Siegfried Sassoon from The Faber Poetry Library.

The collection includes poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles, as well as significant translations of non-English poetry. (Source: vendor website.)

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Coverage:  From 1900 to Present
Language:  English




Victorian Women Writers Project
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Description: 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). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them. Texts will be encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, using the TEILite.DTD (version 1.6) We will include with each text a header describing fully the source text, the editorial decisions, and the resulting computer file. The texts will be made freely available through the World Wide Web. (Vendor Website.)

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  19th century literary texts
Language:  English




W. B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995)
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Description: The W.B. Yeats Collection contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, collected in 22 volumes.

A single edition of each work, usually the last known to have been approved by Yeats, has been included. However, both of the widely different versions of A Vision (1925 and 1937) have been included.

Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/Macmillan Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, General Editors) have been used. For works excluded from or not yet published in the Collected Edition, the best available text has been used, including other scholarly editions, such as The Specked Bird (William H. O'Donnell, editor), as well as texts prepared after Yeats's death with the assistance of his widow, George Yeats.

The entire text of each work has been included. Any accompanying text written by the author and forming an integral part of the work has been keyed. Indexes of titles and first lines have been excluded. Any images appearing in the text have been included.

The collection contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism, and fiction, including: Autobiographies, Collected plays (1934), Collected plays (1952), Discoveries, Essays and introductions, Explorations, John Sherman and Dhoya, Later essays, Letters to the new island, Memoirs, Mythologies, Prefaces and introductions, The poems, The secret rose, The senate speeches, The speckled bird, Uncollected prose Vol. I, Uncollected prose Vol. II, Under the moon: the unpublished early poetry, The variorum edition of the plays, A vision (1925), and A vision (1937).

The W.B. Yeats Collection enjoys the active support of the Yeats Estate. Chadwyck-Healey protects both the rights of the Yeats Estate and the integrity of Yeats's texts in electronic form. (Source: vendor website.)

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  1885-1995
Language:  English




Women & Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
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Description:

This database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document the multiplicity of women's activism in American public life. Thousands of pages of materials provide scholars and students with in-depth access to the published histories and records of women's organizations throughout the United States. It also has documented projects on a broad range of topics of interest to today's students, each including footnotes to introductory material, annotations of primary documents, a bibliography, and a list of related Web links. This database has a powerful full-text search engine that provides in-depth access to its content.

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  1600 - 2000
Updated:  continuous
Language:  English




Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
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Description: Wright American Fiction: Two Collections in One

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,239 unedited, 648 fully edited and encoded) by 1,383 authors (May 2003).

The Wright American Fiction online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time.

The online collection actually consists of two rather different groups of texts. The larger is a group of electronic texts created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. These texts are available for searching and browsing, using the digital page images. The text files have not been proofread or corrected, and still contain errors.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is working through this group, correcting errors and adding SGML encoding. This group of fully edited texts allows you to view both the electronic text as well as the page images. In addition to being corrected, these files allow for better navigation by identifying chapter or story divisions within each work and having a hypertext linked "Table of Contents". CIC plans to eventually work through the entire collection, but until they are done, each of these two groups will remain somewhat different collections that can be searched together.

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Medium:  web
Coverage:  1851-1875
Updated:  Continuously
Language:  English