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American Indian Experience
Ever-growing full-text database on the "histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States," covering over 150 volumes of reference content, plus hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images.
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Bartleby.com
Eclectic collection of over one hundred texts in reference, classic literature, and verse. Includes the entire 50-volume Harvard classics set.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
EEBO provides digital access to over 125,000+ literary and historical classics. All works are in full image format, meaning that images accurately reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions. Besides literary and historical works, the database also includes musical exercises, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary resources.
Funding was made possible by a gift from William Buice, Class of 1961.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, ECCO allows researchers new methods of access to publications in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
This is a database comprised of the content in over 100 reference sources (mostly encyclopedias) published through the Gale Virtual Reference Library available at W&L. You can see the list of available titles by clicking on the "Title List" option, next the upper-right corner of the page.
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Google Books
Access to thousands of online books -- some available in full, some only display selected pages or only citations and snippets of text, depending on copyright status. Book content is provided by publishers or scanned from large library collections.
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Gutenberg-e
A project intended to support and enhance scholarly writing by publishing a small handful (5 or 6 each year) of prize-winning dissertations as state-of-the-art electronic books. "While these digital monographs can be printed out and read in the traditional way, the electronic versions offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print: extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links..."
You can see the titles in W&L's collection by viewing the list in Annie.
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Humanities E-Book Project
This database (formerly called the History E-book Project) includes the complete contents of 1,700 high-quality humanities books from over 90 publishers and a working group of learned societies. About 500 works are to be added each year.
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Internet Archive -- Text Archive
Contains nearly 1.5 million texts (books, etc.), many freely-available for sharing on the Web.
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OAIster
OAIster (Open Archives Initiative) "harvests" collections of digital resources from nearly 300 academic and research-related institutions, now totaling over 3 million items.
It focuses on materials (reports, studies, other documents) created at respected academic and research institutions. Much of this material is not retrieved by more "general" search engines.
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Online Books Page
Texts of over 20,000 books.
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Oxford Reference Online
A fully-indexed, cross-searchable compilation of over 100 reference books -- large encyclopedias and subject-specific dictionaries -- published by Oxford University Press. You can search an entire category ("History") or one book at a time.
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Project Gutenberg
Texts of over 10,000 books, mostly older literary works in the public domain in the U.S.
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Routledge Religion Resources Online
Consists of the contents of about 30 reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical sources) on many aspects of religious studies. A browseable list of entries is here.
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Safari Tech Books Online
SafariŽ Tech Books Online provides reference sources from many of the leading technology publishers, including: Adobe, Microsoft, O'Reilly, QUE, Sams, and more. Featuring over 5,800 titles, it covers the technologies most essential to users including certification, enterprise computing, graphics, Java, Web development, Windows, XML, Linus/Unix, and more.
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Ultimate Accountants' Reference Including GAAP, IRS & SEC Regulations, Leases, And More
The Ultimate Accountants' Reference Including GAAP, IRS & SEC Regulations, Leases, and More, Second Edition covers accounting regulations for all aspects of the financial statements, accounting management reports, and management of the accounting department including best practices, control systems, and the fast close. It also addresses financing options, pension plans, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, options, and taxation topics.
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