Electronic Indexes and Databases by Document Type
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Title and Description |
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| 18th-Century Fiction (LION) |  |
1700-1780 |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780. | ||
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| 19th-Century Fiction (LION) | |
1782-1903 |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
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| 20th Century African-American Poetry (LION) | |
Early 20th century - current |
| Poems by 20th-Century African-American poets. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
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| 20th Century American Poetry (LION) | |
1900-1999 |
| Poems from the colonial period to the early 20th century. Includes dedications, notes, arguments, and epigraphs, texts of individual poems, and complete texts of four major anthologies published before 1840. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
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| 20th Century English Poetry (LION) | |
1901-2000 |
| Poetry of over 285 poets from 1900 to the present, from Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers, as well as the Faber Poetry Library. Includes poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles as well as significant translations of non-English poetry. | ||
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
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| African-American Poetry (LION) | |
1750-1900 |
| Full text of nearly 3,000 poems by 18th and 19th century African-American poets. First edition texts used whenever possible. Contents based upon the bibliography of William French, "Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources" (Gale Research, 1979). | ||
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| American Drama (LION) | |
18th and 19th centuries |
| American drama from the colonial period through the 19th century. | ||
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| American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press) | |
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| Contains 1008 scripts together with information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. | ||
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| American Poetry (LION) | |
1600-2000 |
| Poems from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. | ||
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| ARTFL (University of Chicago) | |
1300-2000 |
| Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) at the University of Chicago. Includes 2000 texts covering literature, philosophy, arts, and sciences from the 13th to the 20th centuries and also dictionaries. | ||
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| AustLit | 1780-current | |
| Indexes and describes Australian literature published in print and electronic sources. Includes selected critical articles and creative writing in full text. | ||
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| Bibliography of American Literature (LION) | ||
| Describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. | ||
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| Black Drama (Alexander Street Press) | |
1850-current |
| Full-text of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. | ||
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| Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975 (Alexander Street Press) | |
Earliest times to 1975 |
| Non-fiction published works of leading African Americans: monographs, essays, speeches, interviews, journal articles, letters, biographical essays by leading scholars and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. | ||
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| Canadian Poetry (LION) | ||
| Full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth. | ||
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| Caribbean Literature (Alexander Street Press) | 19th-20th centuries | |
| Collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. | ||
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| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry | |
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| Contains the contents of the following works: Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies (eds. 8-11), Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies (2nd ed.), Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations, Classic Hundred Poems, as well as new content not published previously | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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). | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Eighteenth-Century Fiction (LION) | 1700-1780 | |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780 | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
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| Faber Poetry Library (LION) | |
20th century |
| The Faber Poetry Library is comprised of 140 volumes of poetry containing the works of 50 poets. | ||
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| France in America/La France en Amerique | |
Early 16th-early 19th centuries |
| History of the French presence in North America and interactions between the French and American peoples from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries. Digital versions of rare books, manuscripts, maps and material from the print collections of the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque nationale de France. | ||
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale) | |
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| Reference titles focusing on health, history and business | ||
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| History E-Book Project (now ACLS Humanities E-Book) | |
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| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
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| Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
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| Literature Online (LION) | |
Dates vary |
| English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Limited to 4 simultaneous users | ||
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| LitFinder (Gale) | Antiquity-current | |
| Includes fulltext of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from antiquity to the present. | ||
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| Making of America (Cornell) | |
1840-1900 |
| Contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. | ||
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| Making of America (University of Michigan) | |
Antebellum period through reconstruction |
| Contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Currently contains books and journal articles with 19th century imprints. | ||
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| NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers | |
November 1994-current |
| Includes abstracts and full-text of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in all areas of economics. Working papers have not been reviewed by NBER Board of Directors. | ||
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| Nineteenth-Century Fiction (LION) | |
1782-1903 |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1700 to 1780. | ||
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| Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck Healey) | |
200 AD-1216 |
| Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Contains the complete first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855) including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes (1862-1865) | ||
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| Perseus Digital Library | |
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| Evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Includes Greek and Roman texts and tools and primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature (Renaissance) | ||
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| RePEc (Research papers in Economics)/IDEAS | |
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| Free abstracts for journal articles, working papers, books, book chapters, and software; many links to fulltext. | ||
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| Story Finder | |
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| Contains short stories, from classic to contemporary with explanations, biographies, pictures and more. | ||
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| Twentieth Century English Poetry (LION) | 1900-current | |
| Contains poetry of over 285 British poets from 1900 to the present day.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
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| Women Writers Online (Brown Univ.) | |
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| Includes texts by pre-Victorian women writers. | ||
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