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Essay & General Literature Index [WilsonWeb]
- search for chapters of books
Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
WorldCat [OCLC FirstSearch]
- find books in other libraries
Is the OCLC Online Union Catalog. It contains more than 40million records describing items owned by your library or libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. It is produced by the OCLC Online Computer Library Center and describes these types of items: books*; computer data files; computer programs; films and slides; journals*; magazines*; manuscripts; maps; musical scores; newspapers*; sound recordings; and videotapes.(Note: * Does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.)
Databases
ACLS Humanities E-Book [ACLS]
- 450+ full text scholarly history books
Dissertation Abstracts [OCLC FirstSearch]
Covers dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861 and includes the full range of academic subjects found in dissertations. It selectively covers masters theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations. Abstracts for doctoral dissertations are included beginning July 1980 and for masters theses beginning spring 1988. New records are added monthly. It is produced by UMI.
GPO Monthly Catalog (US Government Documents) [OCLC FirstSearch]
Contains more than 450,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government.
It covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
Each record contains a bibliographic citation.
Knovel
- full text reference books on chemistry, biochemistry, environmental studies and other sciences
PapersFirst [OCLC FirstSearch]
Contains citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia that have been received at the British Library, as well as records for the meetings relating to the papers.
It includes a wide variety of subjects.
ProceedingsFirst [OCLC FirstSearch]
Contains citations from worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia.
It provides an overview of the event's activities by listing the papers presented. (Note: The PapersFirst database contains a separate record for each paper listed in a ProceedingsFirst database record.)
It covers published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center and includes a wide variety of subjects discussed at various meetings, conferences, symposia, etc.
Project Gutenberg
- 6000+ full text ebooks of classic books and historic documents
covers over 6000 full-text ebooks. Titles are presented in ASCII format or are available for download using FTP.
There are three portions of the Project Gutenberg Library, basically be described as:
Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.
References; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of encyclopedia, dictionaries, etc.
There texts are taken from books published pre-1923. (It's more complicated than that, as the Copyright Page explains, but 1923 is a good first rule-of-thumb for the U.S.A.)
USAGov
- a finding aid to government web resources and online publications
Women's Resources International [EBSCOhost]
Includes over 489,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases.
Databases covered include:
- Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present)
- Women's Studies Database (1972-present)
- New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-present)
- WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies (1985-90)
- Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-90)
- The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines (1970-95 - selective coverage)
- European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography (1610 - present)
- POPLINE Subset on Women (1964 and earlier-present)
- Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research.
- Women of Color (1975- 1995)
- Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography. Women's Health (1995).