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Books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other publications from 1639-1876. A combined search of Early American Imprints Series I, Early American Imprints Series II, and Early American Newspapers Series I.
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Full-text to the following journals & publications:
  • ASTM Special Technical Publications (STPs)
  • Journal of ASTM International
  • Journal of Testing and Evaluation
  • Geotechnical Testing Journal
  • Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1972-2005
  • Journal of Composites, Technology and Research
  • Journal of Cement, Concrete and Aggregates
  • ASTM Monographs and Manuals
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Selected works of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in the original German. All texts follow the Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe.
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Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of the Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic, religious, and social history as well as literature about selected countries and topics.
Added November 2009
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A digital edition of the Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Centenary Edition, edited and with notes by Edward Waldo Emerson.
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Contains frequently used data in science, including the periodical table of the elements, basic constants and units, and geophysical data.
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The works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Protestant Reformers, in facsimiles and searchable full-text, in a variety of languages. When complete, it will include more than 1500 works by more than 300 authors from the full range of Protestant traditions.
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The works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Catholic authors, in facsimiles and searchable full-text, in a variety of languages. When complete, will include more than 1500 works, including catechisms, theological treatises, papal documents, and devotional works.
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Based on the print series, this online source contains full-text German-language works by and criticism of German authors in the arts, history, philosophy, politics, and literature, spanning many centuries, from Wolfram von Eschenbach to Immanuel Kant.
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Page images and searchable full-text of most books and pamphlets published in the U.S./American colonies before 1801. Covers every aspect of American life including history, literature, religion, and foreign affairs. Includes 36,000 titles.
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Provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century, covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.
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Digital images of texts from the English Short Title Catalog, which includes English language texts from 1475 to 1700. More than 100,000 texts are available. Though images of the complete texts are available, searching is only on citations.
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ebrary Academic Complete is a collection of nearly 45,000 e-books in a broad range of subjects. Titles are available from more than 150 publishers, including Brill, Cambridge, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Johns Hopkins University Press, MIT, Taylor & Francis, Palgrave-MacMillan, and more. The ebrary QuickView Reader works in a browser, so no software installation or download is required. Features include the ability to add titles to a personal bookshelf, highlight text, take notes, and integrate with RefWorks and EndNote.
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Images of every page of 150,000 books published during the eighteenth century. Covers many subject areas, including literature, fine arts, politics, history, philosophy, religion, and more. When complete, this source will include nearly every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom from 1701-1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
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Engineering handbooks published by the CRC press.
If you have trouble viewing books at the computers in the library, please ask for help in the Library Research Center.
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Search for full-text reference articles about a wide range of topics. Sources include Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary; Countries and Their Cultures; Encyclopedia of Community; Environmental Encyclopedia; Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia; Historical Atlas of the Islamic World; and many others.
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Books and articles reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights, from 1543 to 1945. Includes more than 4,700 publications from Europe, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and New Zealand. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist. Many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time.
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HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790-1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. It also includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI); Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; the Freedman’s Bank Records; and the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions.
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Formerly History E-Book Project - Full-text, high quality books of importance to historical studies, selected and put online in a project organized by the American Council of Learned Societies.
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This collection of reference titles from IGI Global's Information Science Reference contains full-text articles and chapters regarding research, trends, technologies, and challenges in the fields of information science, technology, and management. Reference articles and chapters can be easily searched using basic or advanced searches.
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An electronic version of the critical edition of Franz Kafka's (1883-1924) complete works, Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebücher. (All texts are in the original German.)
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Scientific and technical reference books. Data can be searched, copied, and sorted into interactive tables, or exported to create graphs and charts.
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The complete Weimar Edition of Martin Luther's writings. Consists of more than 117 quarto volumes published in full with the exception of one volume of text and the index to the Schriften section.
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The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 provides digital images of 61,000 works of literature about economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching of this collection on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
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MathSciNet covers Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to the present. The full text of all reviews from 1940 to the present is available on MathSciNet. It also includes Current Mathematical Publications, a subject index of bibliographic data for recent and forthcoming publications. Help
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Search collections of digitized historical mathematics texts. Includes the Mathematics Collection from Cornell, the Mathematics Collection from Göttingen, and the University of Michigan's Historical Math Collection.
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Read reports and books from the National Academy Press online for free. NAP provides the full text of reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
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NetLibrary includes about 9,000 eBooks, which are recent scholarly, general interest and reference books that have been converted into a digital format. You can preview the book or check it out to read on your computer.
Mac OS X users: NetLibrary has known problems with Mac, especially OS X. You should download the Subert|it PDF Browser Plugin; read more information and get download links.
Occupational Outlook Handbook  
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For hundreds of different types of jobs, the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you:
• the training and education needed
• earnings
• expected job prospects
• what workers do on the job
• working conditions
In addition, the Handbook gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each State, and more.
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Technical books, mostly about computer science and business topics. Complete text of the book is available for titles from the last 2 years; earlier titles have only a preview of the book.
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More than 80 authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias in many subject areas.
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Includes full text of some 60 volumes of poetry from 47 poets. Also includes biographical sketches of most authors, a bibliography of essays and critical works, and a guide to web resources.
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The Sixties brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. The database currently has over 35,000 pages.
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A collection of thousands of searchable books published by Springer. Full-text is only available for:
Books published since 2005 and
Computer Science books published since 1997.
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Synthesis is an innovative information service from Morgan & Claypool Publishers for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science. Synthesis consists of 50- to 100-page electronic books written by experts in the field synthesizing important research or development topics.
Added December 2008
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A collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century books selected and digitized from the University of Michigan Library's mathematical collections.
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Digital images of text from Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Contains 2,887 volumes: 1,124 completely edited and encoded, 1,763 unedited, by 1,456 authors.

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