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- 17th -18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Searchable full-text access to the British Library’s collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)–the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
Formerly known as the History e-book project, the Humanities e-book project (HEB) now includes access to electronic versions of about 1,500 books in most humanities disciplines and area studies. Titles are cataloged individually in NUcat.
- Aristoteles
Latinus Database
Available for in-library use in the
Main Library Reference Department, Call
Number 881A8 JL CD. This electronic edition comprises the complete
corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle
as published in the printed version of the work, which the Library
owns currently only in part.
- ARTFL,
Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the
French Language (University of Chicago)
Includes numerous projects, such as a full-text
version of Diderot's Encyclopedie, and a set of digitized Pamphlets
and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848, done in collaboration
with the University of Chicago and the Center for Research Libraries.
- Corpus
des Oeuvres de Philosophie en Langue Francaise
- Defining Gender, 1450 to 1910
Images of original documents relating
to gender studies, with a core of materials from the Bodelian Library,
Oxford. An ongoing project, currently the material focuses on Great
Britain.
- Digitale
Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker
129 volumes are
now fully cataloged and available via NUcat. You
can search for "digitale
bibliothek" as a title in NUcat to get a sense
of the scope of this resource.
- Early
English Books Online (EEBO)
EEBO contains
the full text of 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's
Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
- ECCO:
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world's
largest microfilm library of the printed book. ECCO includes
digital versions of nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published
between 1701 and 1800 and allows full-text searching of over 33
million pages of English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the
United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Eighteenth
Century Journals II [electronic resource] : newspapers & periodicals
1699-1812 from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University
of Texas.
- English Reports
Consists of decisions of the English courts through
1867. Digital version of The English Reports (Edinburgh: W. Green;
London: Stevens, 1900-1932.)
- French Revolution Research Collection
The library owns Parts 5,
9, and 12 of the microfiche set of this name, and the printed guides
to sections 1-9, and 11-12 (guides available in Newspaper/Periodical
room, L 944.04
F873). The collection has now been digitized, and is
available via Gallica. To search the digital collection, go to http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Under "recherche libre", type in "French Revolution
Research Collection," or you can search by a specific document
title.
- Gallica: Digital
Library from the Bibliotheque Nationale
de France
- Gerritsen
Women's History Online
The Gerritsen Collection, compiled beginning
in the late 19th century by Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs
Gerritsen and completed by her successors in 1945, consists of over
4,700 periodicals, monographs, and pamphlets on topics in women's
history. The publications werre gathered from continental Europe,
the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and New Zealand. Note that the complete Gerritsen Collection is available
in microfilm, though not at Northwestern. To locate film collections,
search on WorldCat.
- Hemeroteca digital,
for the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
The collection
consists of 143 titles (500,000 pages) from a variety of the Spanish
press. Dates range from 1772 to 1933.
- Japan Knowledge
Includes dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English and English-English); a full text 30 vol. encyclopedia; two dictionaries of current words: a dictionary of scientific terms; a biographical dictionary; the JK Who’s Who; the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan; a news database (NNA) that covers Asia and the European Union; a full-text journal; chronologies (world history, Japan by period, Japan by prefecture, science, culture, society, daily life, social movements, economics and for individuals); a database of video (TV, news) recordings from 1908 to 2005; database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; URL database; books in print database; sound library; music library, etc. In Japanese and English.
- Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
This site includes 12 topical essays, 250
images, 350 text documents, 13 songs, 13 maps, a timeline, and a glossary.
The site is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George
Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University
of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT
CLCLT is the world’s leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions.
- Making
of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic
Literature 1450-1850
This database provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000
works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through
1850. Full-text
searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access
to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions,
politics, trade and transport. Formerly known as Making of the Modern Economy.
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica on CD-ROM
MAIN Reference (Electronic
ref. center) (Non-circulating); Call number: None; Library has: 2004:4
(plus user guide).
- Oxford Digital Library
Access
to digital collections at Oxford.
- Oxford
Digital Library, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
- Oxford Scholarship Online: Religion
The subjects covered by the books selected for Oxford Scholarship Online - Religion module include: Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Church History, Early Christian Studies, Hinduism, History of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Literature, Religion and Society, Religion in the Ancient World, Sikhism, Theology, and World Religions
- Past
Masters
Includes the works of Calvin, Hume, Locke,
Luther, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and many others. Click on the link above
for a full listing of available works in the Past
Masters series, but note that it is important to explore the
groups such as Continental Rationalists, which contains the works of
Descartes and Leibniz; British Philosophy, 1600-1900, which contains
Bacon and Adam Smith, among others; and Political Philosophy: Machiavelli
to Mill.
- Patrologia
Latina database
Final release. Alexandria, VA: Cadwick-Healey
Inc., 1995. CD-ROM available at Main Reference (Electronic Ref. Center).
- Vesalius: On the Fabric of the Human Body
This web site illustrates aspects of Andreas Vesalius' anatomical
atlas On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543, 1555) and explains the
work in progress at Northwestern University to translate and annotate this
historic
work.
For further information, contact:
Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library
Research Guides A-Z -> Directory of Subject Specialists
Last updated: 06/05/08
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