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Electronic Books and Text
Listed are eBook collections to which the FAU Libraries subscribe or otherwise recommend. You may search for individual titles using the FAU Libraries catalog.
ABC-CLIO eBook Collection |
Full Text | Vendor: ABC-CLIO
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A collection of electronic books
from ABC-CLIO.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
| Full Text | Vendor: ACLS
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: An online, fully searchable collection of high-quality
books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
African American Music Reference
| Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: African American Music Reference will bring together
50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images,
lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and
culture of the African American experience through music.
American Civil War: Letters and
Diaries | Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
American Civil War Research Database
| Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
The Arabidopsis Book
| Full Text | Vendor: BioOne
Open Access
Contents/Info: A compilation of over 100 invited chapters, each reviewing
in detail an important and interesting aspect of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana,
with reference to what is known in other plants and in other kingdoms.
ARBA Online
| 1997-present | Full Text | Vendor: Libraries Unlimited
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides reviews of the best reference materials including electronic products,
and information on the most current resources available.
Asian American Drama |
Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: he database also includes selected playbills,
production photographs and other ephemera related to the play.
ASM Materials Information
| Full Text | Vendor: ASM International
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: ASM Materials Information consists of two main content
areas: ASM Handbooks Online, featuring the complete content of twenty one ASM
Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions and ASM Alloy Center Online,
featuring ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for
specific metals and alloys. [Due to state budget
cuts, this resource will no longer be available after November 30, 2009.]
Open Access
Contents/Info:
Thousands of free online classics of
reference, literature and nonfiction.
Birds of North America
| Full Text | Vendor: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of
North American birds. This resource will provide access to image and video
galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more.
Black Drama
| Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays
by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related
productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also
includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related
to the plays.
Black Drama
-
Second Edition
| Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This initial release of Black Drama, Second Edition
contains approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed,
fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and
more.
Black Short Fiction
and Folklore from
Africa and the African Diaspora
|
Mid-1900s - Present | Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The most comprehensive collection of African and
African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the
English-language literature of more than 15 countries, along with francophone
authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, the collection will include
literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are
still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South
Carolina.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource provides access to the published works of
numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the
collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and
never-before-published materials. Subjects indexed include colonialism,
socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation,
poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the
World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon
trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights,
apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth
control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and
demonstration, and hundreds more.
Black Women Writers
| Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and
essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa
and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism
and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own
identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its
earliest beginnings. Presenting works from many different countries in three
continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of
black women’s struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues
that are, together, unique to this literature.
Blackwell Reference Online: Business
& Economics |
Full Text | Vendor: Blackwell Publishing
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides access to Business, Management and
Economics reference books.
Books at Ovid | Some
Full Text | Vendor: Ovid
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource provides access to electronic books in Medicine
and Nursing.
British and Irish Women's Letters and
Diaries | Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in
over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection now includes primary
materials spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies
and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Business Directories | Full Text | Vendor: Cabell Pub.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Cabell's Directory helps
authors determine which journal will most likely accept their manuscript by
comparing the characteristics of the manuscript and the needs of each journal.
The following Business directories are included in this subscription:
Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, and Marketing.
Caribbean Literature | 19th-20th
Centuries | Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the
region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected by our
editors are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French,
Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature
journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers.
City of Boca Raton Buildings and Building Regulations
| Full Text | Vendor: City of Boca Raton Open Access
Contents/Info: This site provides access to the building regulations of the
City of Boca Raton.
Classical Music Reference
Library | Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Classical Music Reference Library brings together more
than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history
of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the
authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's
Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of
Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form. This
release includes 26,774 essays and images from 22 sources, over 15,010 pages.
Classical Scores Library
| Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of
the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and
analysis of more than 15,000 scores. This release includes 11,987 scores and
209,140 pages.
Classics
Archive | Full Text |
Vendor: MIT
Open Access
Contents/Info: Works of classical literature.
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
| Full Text |
Vendor: Blackwell Publishing &
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Open Access
Contents/Info: A major collection of essays dealing
with texts and the humanities in the digital world.
Complete Works of
Shakespeare | Full Text |
Vendor: MIT
Open Access
Contents/Info: Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William
Shakespeare. (Poetry and other services not available at this time.)
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts,
Client Narratives, and Reference Works | Full Text | Vendor: Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client
Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real
transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives
illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as
reference works to contextualize the primary material. When complete, the
database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of
client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The
database currently includes approximately 53,200 pages of material, including
more than 13,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 21,000 pages of client
narratives, and more than 18,000 pages of secondary reference material.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
| Full Text | Vendor: CRC Press LLC
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The most widely used source of data for
chemists, physicists, and professionals in related fields of science. The
Handbook provides broad coverage of all types of data commonly encountered by
physical scientists and engineers.
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
| Full Text | Vendor: Center for Medieval Studies, University of
Toronto
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A complete record of surviving Old English except for some
variant manuscripts of individual texts. [Due to state
budget cuts, this resource will no longer be available after December 15, 2009.]
Early
American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 |
1639-1800 | Full Text |
Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans.
The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century
America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy,
literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and
just about any other topic imaginable.
Early
American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 |
1801-1819 | Full Text |
Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the
distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
Early Encounters in North America |
Full Text |Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters,
diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
| Full Text | Vendor: Proquest Direct
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile
page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700
- from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of
Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
Early English Books Online Text Creation
Partnership (EEBO-TCP) | Full Text | Vendor: Proquest Direct
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This is a text version of EEBO with multiple search
capabilities.
ebrary | Vendor:
ebrary, inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Collection of electronic books purchased by the FAU
Libraries.
Eighteenth
Century Collections Online | 1701-1800 | Full Text | Vendor:
Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Online access to the digital images of books published
between 1701 and 1800.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online | Full Text | Vendor:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus, and the
Britannica Book of the Year.
ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online
| Full Text | Vendor: CRC Press LLC
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Consists of a compilation of essential engineering
information, including data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations,
and charts.
Florida Building Code |
Full Text | Vendor: State of Florida Open Access
Contents/Info: This site provides access to the Florida Building Code.
Gale Directory Library |
Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Gale
Virtual Reference Library |
Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of
encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library,
but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Gilded Age
| Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Open Access
Contents/Info: Links to new electronic titles available from the GPO.Greenwood Digital Collection
see ABC-CLIO
eBook Collection |
Full Text | Vendor: ABC-CLIO.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Grove Art Online see
Oxford Art Online |
1996-present | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource comprises the full text of The
Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford
Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001).
Grove Music Online see
Oxford Music Online
| Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University
Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource comprises the full text of The New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley
Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera,
edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,
second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).
Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
| Full Text | Vendor: Knovel Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This handbook has been designed to provide scientific
investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the
mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems. Open Access
Contents/Info: The Guide to Jewish Life on Campus offers information
on hundreds of colleges and universities around the world. Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The standard source for the quantitative facts of American
history.
In the First Person: An index to
letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives |
Vendor:
Street Press
Open Access
Contents/Info: In the First Person is a new library index that lets users
perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral
histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are
freely available on the Web and
Street databases. The search returns citation information and
links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Every imaginable topic,
historical event, and person is covered, from World War I and II to popular
culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th.
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
| Full Text | Vendor: Knovel Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This classic and well-known reference was originally
published from 1926 - 1930 for the National Research Council in 7 volumes. It
contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds,
and pure substances.
|
Full Text | Vendor: Knovel Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) Contents/Info:
Includes tables covering Heat Capacity and Thermal Conductivity, Reaction
Thermodynamics and Equilibrium Constants, Density and Compressibility,
Vaporization and Vapor Pressure, Thermal Expansion, Transport and Flow, and
Electrical Properties data.
Latin American Women
Writers | Colonial
period-present | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300
plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the difficult task of bringing
together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of
the principal feminists, in one single collection. Starting in the colonial
period and moving through to the present, the literary works, memoirs, feminist
essays, and other materials will give researchers the feminine perspective of
the development of an entire continent. The writings will also reveal the
personal struggles and histories of the authors themselves.
Latino Literature |
Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000
pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds
of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in
the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems,
novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also
find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. It
currently contains over 106,000 pages of poetry.
Local and Regional History Online: A
History of American Life in Images and Texts
| Full Text | Vendor:
Alexander Street Press
Added: 06/15/09
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Local and Regional Histories Online contains
historical images and texts from Arcadia Publishing's series of local history
books, covering thousands of towns and cultural groups in all 50 states. All of
the images and texts have been indexed, enabling users to explore the depth of a
town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic
groups, architectural features, and more.
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
| Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This collection from the holdings of the
American Antiquarian Society brings together 100,000 pages of the personal
writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as
high-quality images of the original manuscripts.
Mathematics Books
Online | Full Text |
Vendor: American Mathematical Society
Open Access
Contents/Info: Links to Mathematics books online.
Mental Measurements Yearbook |
Volume 9 - present | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Contains full text information about and reviews of all
English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality,
vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.
MIT Cognet | Vendor: MIT
Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The CogNet Library is a growing collection of searchable
electronic texts for cognitive and brain sciences.
NetLibrary | Full Text | Vendor: OCLC
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Well over 10,000 E-Books covering a full range of subjects.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of
information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate
to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters
and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the
series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In
selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the
immigrants.
North American Indian Thought and Culture
| Full Text | Vendor: Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal
narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.
|
Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the
Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference
materials, together with records to approximately 30,000 plays, 57,000 people,
5,400 theatres, 22,000 productions, and 2,500 production companies.
|
Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with
detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production
companies, and more. More than 30% of the plays in the collection have never
been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production
photographs and other ephemera related to the play.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
| Full Text | Vendor: Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000
pages of diaries and letters. The materials have been carefully chosen using
leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000
pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes
biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the
database.
On the Fabric of the Human Body
| Full Text | Vendor: Northwestern University Open Access
Contents/Info:
An annotated translation of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Andreas Vesalius' De
Humani Corporis Fabrica.
| Full Text | Vendor: OBP Open Access
Contents/Info: Listing over 30,000
free books on the Web.
Original
Sources | Full Text|
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This site includes original source documents, critical
selections, and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature,
Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion,
Philosophy, and Language.
Oxford Art Online |
Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford
Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED
Online) | Full Text |
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on
the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an
unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a
million words, both present and past.
Oxford Music Online |
Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music,
Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference Online
| Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A comprehensive resource that contains over 100
dictionaries and reference titles covering general reference, language, science,
medicine, humanities, the social sciences, business and professional.
Oxford Scholarship Online |
Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly
expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the
full text of Oxford books in the following subjects areas: History, Philosophy,
Religion, Economics & Finance, and Political Science.
Past Masters | 1989-present | Full Text | Vendor: InteLex
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Past Masters is a collection of primary-source full-text
humanities databases.
Political Risk Yearbook Online
| Full Text | Vendor: PRS Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Offers Country Reports on 106 countries providing political
and economic risk analysis. [Due to state budget cuts,
this site will no longer be available after Dec. 31, 2008. For continued access
to this resource, choose "Country Reports" in
Business Source Premier and select "prs group, inc." under the "Publisher"
tab.]
Open Access
Contents/Info: Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection
of free electronic books, or eBooks.
R2Library | Full Text | Vendor: Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource provides access to 73 titles in the "Nursing
Library."
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(REP Online) | Full Text | Vendor: Routledge
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced dynamic
Web version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP).
[Due to state budget cuts, this resource is no longer
available.]
Safari Tech
Books Online | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: An online, searchable database of top IT books from leading
technology publishers.
SAGE eReference | Full Text
| Vendor: SAGE Publications
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A selection of SAGE's authoritative and award-winning
encyclopedias within the social sciences, psychology and education.
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974
| Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters,
autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos,
government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online |
Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A single cross-searchable platform for the entire family of
letter and diary databases: North American Women's Letters and Diaries;
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries; North American
Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories; The American Civil War:
Letters and Diaries; Black Thought and Culture; and
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries (forthcoming).
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that
explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and
organization. The current release features more than 90,000 pages of content by
such major theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck,
Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman,
Robert Merton, and Talcott Parsons.
SpringerLINK
| Full Text | Vendor: Springer
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Includes a collection of electronic books published by
Springer.
Smithsonian Physical
Tables
|
Full Text | Vendor: Knovel
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This classic reference source comprises 901
tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular
interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
SREB Factbook
on Higher Education
| Full Text | Vendor: Southern Regional Education Board
Open Access
Contents/Info: One of the nation's
most comprehensive collections of data on higher education.
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family
| Full Text | Vendor: Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Brings together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral,
and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions
of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth
century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully
searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books,
instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans
actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.
Twentieth Century North American
Drama |
Full Text | Vendor:
Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Contains 1,530 plays by 223 playwrights, together with
detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production
companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production
photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
More than 150 of the plays are published here for
the first time, including a number by major authors.
Universal Digital Library |
Full Text | Vendor: Carnegie Mellon University & Partners
Open Access
Contents/Info: Free-to-read, searchable collection of digitized books.
Van
Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
|
Tenth Edition | Full Text | Vendor: Wiley InterScience
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The definitive scientific resource with topics ranging across
all scientific disciplines.
Women and Social Movements in the
United States Scholar's Edition |
1600-2000 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social
movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images,
documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the
multiplicity of women’s reform activities. This edition includes the Women's
Commission Reports.
The World of Learning | Full Text | Vendor: Europa Publications
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The World of Learning is a directory of international scope
that provides information on learned societies, research institutions,
libraries, museums, and universities. It provides contact information for more
than 200,000 faculty, staff and officials at these institutions.
[Due to state budget cuts, this resource is no longer
available.]
Wright American Fiction
| 1851-1875 | Full Text | Vendor: Committee on Institutional
Cooperation
Open Access
Contents/Info: A collection of 19th century American fiction with access to
more than 1,700 full-text books.
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