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Title and Description |
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| E-PRINT Network (Dept. of Energy) |  |
1998-current |
| Gateway to web sites and databases worldwide containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics, but also in such areas as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines. Included are pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers, technical communications, or similar documents relaying research results among peer groups. | ||
| Early American Fiction (LION) | |
pre-1850 |
| Selected full texts of first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 owned by the University of Virginia library. | ||
| Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker | |
1801-1819 |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819). Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker | ||
| Early American Imprints/Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | 1639-1800 | |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. | ||
| Early Canadiana Online (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions) | |
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| Digital versions of texts of works from Canada's heritage. Includes Canadian Women's History, Champlain Society Publications, Colonial Government Journals, English Canadian Literature, and more. | ||
| Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (Alexander Street Press) | |
dates vary |
| Contains primary texts on the people, cultures, and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The database focuses on personal accounts (published and unpublished) and reflects the relationships among the various cultures as well as the environment. | ||
| Early English Books Online (Proquest) | |
1475-1700 |
| Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). | ||
| Early English Prose Fiction (LION) | |
1500-1700 |
| A single edition of each work, usually the first, has been included. 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. | ||
| EBSCOhost (Ebsco) | |
dates vary |
| Multidisciplinary database provides full text of general reference publications covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Select also includes 37 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. | ||
| EconLit (CSA) | 1969-current | |
| Covers international economic journals. Includes articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, working papers about accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and more. | ||
| Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare (LION) | |
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| Full texts, 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. | ||
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) | |
1701-1800 |
| A project in progress that when completed will contain a digital version of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. VC has a significant number of these titles on microfilm: Microfilm 981 for Eighteenth Century Literature and Language and Microfilm 982 for Eighteenth Century Religion and Philosophy. | ||
| Eighteenth-Century Fiction (LION) | 1700-1780 | |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780 | ||
| EM-DAT: International Disasters Data Base | 1988-current | |
| Essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies. | ||
| Encyclopaedia Judaica (Macmillan) | |
2007 |
| Jewish culture, history, and religion | ||
| Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley) | |
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| Encyclopedia of the biological sciences. Includes biochemistry, cell biology, clinical medicine, ecology, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology ad virology, neuroscience, plant science, sicence and society, and more. | ||
| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale) | |
2nd ed., 2004 |
| Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| English Drama (LION) | |
1280-1915 |
| A unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde. | ||
| English Poetry (LION) | |
600-1900 |
| English Poetry contains over 160,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from 600-1900. Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources, with more than 1,250 poets are represented. | ||
| English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) | To 1801 | |
| Union catalog of holdings in more than 2000 libraries world-wide, including the British Library. Covers monograph and serial letterpress items printed before 1801 in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages and printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars. Includes records for every item in Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 (STC); every item in Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700; every item in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (the predecessor of ESTC), including items catalogued by the American Antiquarian Society as part of the North American Imprints Program (NAIP); and newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. | ||
| Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922 (EPPI) | |
1801-1922 |
| Full-text of some 13,700 British Parliamentary papers. | ||
| Environment Complete (EBSCOHost) | 1940s-current | |
| Environment Complete contains records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s as well as more than 120 monographs. Also contains full text for more than 680 journals. Covers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, and more. | ||
| ERIC (CSA) | 1966-current | |
| National education database containing citations to research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials. Items identified with an ERIC Document (ED) number are available full text through E-Subscribe, a companion resource. | ||
| Ethnic Newswatch (Proquest) | |
1990-current |
| Newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses | ||
| Ethnic Newswatch: A History (ProQuest) | |
1960-1989 |
| Full-text of newspapers of the U.S. ethnic and minority press in both English and Spanish. | ||
| Ethnologue | ||
| Encyclopedia reference work cataloging the world's living languages, published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Organized geographically by country. Also provides links to citations from the SIL Bibliography from 1935-current. | ||
| Europa World Plus (Routledge) | ||
| Historical, political and economic surveys of more than 250 countries and territories. | ||
| Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | |
1639-1800 |
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Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans' American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| Expanded Academic Index (Gale) | |
1980-current |
| Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular English-language periodicals. | ||
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