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ARTFL
Project, University of Chicago
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French
Language (ARTFL) includes technical writing in such subjects as history and
economics. The 18th through 20th centuries are about equally represented, with
a smaller selection of 17th century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance
texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence,
and treatises in English and French. - Books on Demand This service from ProQuest/UMI offers more than 150,000 out-of-print books in a wide range of disciplines that are available for black-and-white reproduction.
- Early
English Books Online (ProQuest) Full images of books
published in English from 1475 to 1700. Searchable by keywords
in the
citation only. To search within the texts, use the EEBO-TCP version.
Over 100,000 works from Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title
Catalog, Wing's Short-Title Catalog, and Thomason Tracts, a compendium
of
broadsides on the English Civil War. Documents may be viewed
online using the Dj Vu Plugin or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.
Users may
search by author keyword, title keyword, subject keyword, or
bibliographic number. In addition, users may choose to search
only within the illustrations,
and may limit searches by originating collection, source library,
language or date.
- Early
English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) Growing
collection of searchable texts published in English between
1475 and 1700. To search all EEBO titles (over 100,000)
by keyword in
citations (as opposed to searching within text) and view
full-page images, use the ProQuest version.
- ebrary This
is a full text database of thousands of e-books. Search by
subject headings such as nonverbal communication or communication
and culture. To access from your office or residence hall:
Click on "Get
ebrary Reader." You need do this only
once (i.e., you do not have to do it again next time you use
ebrary).
- Eighteenth
Century Collection Online (ECCO) Full-text searchable facsimile
page displays of approximately 150,000 books published in Britain
and its
colonies during
the 18th century.
- ESTC:
English Short Title Catalog This is an e-catalogue of books
and ephemera (from 1475 to 1700) and serials (1620-1800), many
of which
are available
in microform (check NUCat).
It provides materials, in any language, printed in Great Britain
and its colonies as well as materials, in English, printed
anywhere in
the world.
. . ."serves
as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of
surviving copies."
- European Library: "...portal which offers access to the combined resources... both digital and non-digital... of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects – some free, some priced." Allows cross-collection searching. A few of the national libraries include: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Russia-St. Peterburg, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and United Kingdom.
- Google Books Full-text of out-of-copyright books and partial text of in-copyright books. Out-of-copyright works are from the library of the Complutense University of Madrid, the libraries of universities of Michigan and California, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, and from the New York Public Library. Limited access to some in-copyright works is also available, with links to options for purchase. (Check NUCat to see if NU owns the title.)
- History E-Book Project A continuously growing database designed by 8 learned societies and 10 university presses. Recent and older books on topics such as race relations, the Paris Peace Conference, political participation in Greece, modern Islamic political thought, equality before the law. "Browse" to search subject fields.
- NetLibrary Thousands
of full text e-books. Search by author, title, keyword, subject,
or in the full text.
- On-Line Books Page An index to and listing of over 25,000 freely-available e-books on the Internet. Searchable directory.
- Past Masters Includes
the complete works, variant editions, selections, and/or
correspondence of the following and many more:
For further information, contact:
Robert Michaelson
Head Librarian
Seeley
G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
Northwestern
University
2233 Tech Drive (formerly 2233 N. Campus Drive)
Evanston, IL 60208-3530
(847)
491-3057
rmichael@northwestern.edu
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