gender studies—books: e-collections

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These are electronic resources only. For printed books or monographs in other formats, please consult NUcat.

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.
Books- Women's Studies Core Books: Serves as a guide to instructional faculty in selecting available, in-print course readings and to students searching for reliable resources. pre-defined subject groupings under "Search" include age to labor to women of color.
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 database of full text e-books. a simple search of "gender identity and ethnicity" in text retrieves 4,000+ documents; a narrow search of "gender identiy" in text and "ethnicity" as subject retrieves 30+ books. 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: A narrow "advanced search" for "gender identity" retrieves 20+ full text e-books.
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 more:

For further information, contact:

Kathleen E. Bethel
African American Studies Librarian
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
:847.491.2173; fax: 847.491.5678
kbethel@northwestern.edu