Agriculture, Biology, and Ecology
- AgEcon Search
Full text library of agricultural and applied literature.
- CABI E-Book Collection
CABI E-Books covering the applied life-sciences. The collection contains almost 400 titles.
Arts and Humanities
- American Poetry Database
The American Poetry Full-Text Database features the works of more than 200 American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century.
- American Verse Project
The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines, with various forms of access provided through the WWW.
- ARTFL
Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language.
- ChinaMaxx 超星中文电子书
ChinaMaxx contains over 710,000 full-text Chinese e-books from cover to cover on wide range of subject areas. Selected titles also can be found in MNCAT. For accessing the e-books, please follow the brief instructions contained in the login page. ChinaMaxx only works with the Internet Explorer browser. Firefox and Safari are not supported. You will need to install a plug-in to view e-books.
- Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China
Alert: CAC will be unavailable for up to 24 hours starting June 15, 2007 at 5:00 pm Central Daylight Time.
The Collection includes all the most important classics of ancient China through the Qing Dynasty. For example: astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economy, art, education, agriculture, medicine and so on.
- Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
The Humanities Text Initiative intends to develop the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse into an extensive and reliable collection of Middle English electronic texts. HTI wants to include in the corpus all editions of Middle English texts used in the MED, and the more recent scholarly editions which in some cases may have superseded them. Large scale expansion of the Corpus will not take place until the MED and the HyperBibliography are further advanced, but text conversion continues at a modest rate as time and money permit.
- Database of African American Poetry
Covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and, through their writings, provides a unique portrait of early America.
- Dictionary of Old English Corpus
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
- EEBO: Early English Books Online (Book Texts)
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 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). Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
- Early American Imprints Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Digital Edition
Every book, pamphlet, serial, and other printed work of signficance
published in America 1639 - 1800, 36,000 items, 2. 4 million page images when complete. Based on Charles Evans, American Bibliography with additions from Roger Bristol's Supplement. The file allows searching by author, title, key words in titles, publication years and places, and subject and format categories. A sub-group of 6000 works re-keyed and marked up by the Text Creation Partnership will allow full-text searching by all words in the text.
- Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA)
The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) under the general editorship of Professor Ralph Bauer, at the University of Maryland at College Park. Intended as a long-term and inter-disciplinary project in progress committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies, it invites scholars from all disciplines to submit their editions of early American texts for publication on this site.
- Early Modern French Women Writers
Our project to digitize works by Christine de Pizan, Perrette du Guillet, Louise Labé, Marguerite de navarre, Diane de Poitiers, and Madeleine de Scudery.
- English Poetry Database
This database comprises the works of almost 1,350 poets from 600-1900. Certain categories of material have been excluded from the database: translations into English verse after 1800, hymns published after 1800, works in languages other than English, verse drama intended for the stage, and poems never published or only published in contemporary newspapers, journals or miscellanies.
- English Verse Drama
English Verse Drama contains more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes: Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990; Business Plans Handbook; Contemporary Novelists; Contemporary Poets; Dictionary of American History; Encyclopedia of American Industries; Encyclopedia of World Biography; St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture;
Ancient Europe - 8000 BC to 1000 AD: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World; Encyclopedia of European Social History; Encyclopedia of Modern Europe - Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction; Europe - 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World; Europe - 1789 to 1914: An Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
- HarpWeek
HarpWeek contains the scanned images of pages of the magazine Harper's Weekly for the years 1857-1877, together with a series of controlled-vocabulary indexes, which are interactively linked. Includes news and editorials, fiction, illustrations, photos, political cartoons, advertisements.
- History E-Books Project
On September 1, 2002, the American Society of Learned Societies (ACLS) History E-Book Project launched on its website over 500 books of high quality in the field of history. These are works of major importance to historical studies - books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. After this initial launch the History E-Book project will be adding approximately 250 books annually to the collection, as well as publishing 85 completely new electronic titles that have the potential to use new technologies to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways. These history e-books are accessible to students and scholars through subscribing libraries.
- Hyperbibliography of Middle English Prose and Verse
The HyperBibliography includes all the Middle English materials which are cited in the Middle English Dictionary. Although this is not an exhaustive bibliography of Middle English writing, it offers the most comprehensive single list of ME materials at present available in electronic form, and is searchable in multiple ways.
- netLibrary
Through netLibrary, University of Minnesota students, staff, and faculty have access to a variety of currently published books in electronic format with each book listed in MNCAT with a link to its location on the World Wide Web; Note: The publisher of the NetLibrary database, OCLC, allows only one user to view a book at one time (in 15 minute increments, which can be extended). However, one no longer "checks out" a book. If you get a busy signal, try again in a few minutes.
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (IMLD) includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information. The collection provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the collection provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
- Oxford English Dictionary
Full-text of the 2nd ed. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. Also available in print.
• Location(s): WILSON Reference Folio PE1625 .O87 1989 vol. 1-20
Location: WALTER Reference Folio PE1625 .O87 1989 vol. 1-20
Location: MAGRATH Reference (Legal) Folio PE1625 .O87 1989 vol. 1-20
Location: BIOMED Reference oversize PE1625 .O98 1989 vol. 1-20
• Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
- Past Masters
This cluster of full-text databases includes works by Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz), and British philosophers from 1600-1900 (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and others).
- Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
- Poem Finder
Covers poetry from antiquity to the present; it contains 500,000 citations for poems by 70,000 authors from 1,800 anthologies, 2,600 single-author collections, and 4,000 periodicals. Contains the full text of some poems online.
- Women's Travel Writing
Included here are works of women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas. Our project begins in 1830, so as not to conflict with the Women Writers Project at Brown University. Although not limited to the US, our decision to emphasize American travel represents an effort to complement Indiana University's Victorian Women Writers Project (which focuses on British women, 1830-1901).
Engineering and Physical Sciences
- Books24x7
Books24x7 is a web-based, searchable, e-book site that provides users access to the complete contents of nearly 3,000 titles covering a broad range of engineering and technology topics. Contributing publishers include: Cambridge University Press, The MIT Press, IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft Press, Sybex, Wrox Press and many others.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Annually published reference source for chemical & physical property data, nomenclature, structure, & composition of substances. Includes physical constants of organic & inorganic compounds, conversion factors, & much more.
• Location(s): Available online and in print.
QD65 .H236
WALTER Sci/Eng Ref (Desk); BIO-MED Reference;
MAGRATH Ref (Desk); VETERINARY MEDICINE Reference; Ent/Fish/Wild Library Reference; PLANT PATHOLOGY Reference; Wilson Reference
• Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
- EcoSal
EcoSal is the online successor to the print text, "Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology," from American Society for Microbiology Press. It is the premier reference source on the biology of the enteric bacterial cell. The online book encompasses the text of the second print edition, and is now continually expanded, updated, and revised by the editorial board.
- Knovel
Knovel provides online access to reference books, databases, and conference proceedings from a number of publishers that cover all areas of engineering and includes content relevant to related sciences (e.g., chemistry and earth sciences). It includes interactive graphs and tables and is a good starting point when you need a piece of data quickly.
- MATHnetBASE
MATHnetBASE provides full text access to many mathematics reference sources published by CRC Press.
- Myilibrary
Create your own tailored eContent resource library using resources from established Science, Medicine, Legal and Business sources. In order for this resource to work properly, you will need to enable pop-ups in your browser.
University of Minnesota students, staff, and faculty also have access to a variety of current legal titles published by Cambridge University Press and Kluwer Law International in electronic format. Springer ebooks are available through this platform. Each book is separately cataloged in MNCAT with a link to its location on the World Wide Web. MyiLibrary allows four users to view a book at one time.
- Safari Tech Books Online
A collection of IT-related electronic books from several publishers, most notably O'Reilly. The Libraries has licensed 320 titles from among Safari's offering. This content covers Database, Java, Linux/Unix, Networking, Perl, Programming, and Web technologies generally. The titles we have licensed are all listed in MnCat.
• Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
- Treatise on Geochemistry
• Location(s): Print version also available at Walter Library.
TC Walter Sci/Eng Library Reference (Rm 206) Quarto QE515 .T69 2003 Non-Circulating
Health Sciences
- Access Medicine
Electronic book (E-Book) collection of core basic sciences and clinical titles.
- Harrison's Online
Consists of the latest edition of the basic text of Harrison's principles of internal medicine, sections on clinical trials, updates (and their related references, including abstracts) related to the text and an online pretests section. Also included is an online forum where interested participants can post messages, read, or join any discussion threads.
The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again.
- Lippincott manual of nursing practice, 6th ed
Covers the role of the nurse in the health care delivery system. Also discusses medical-surgical nursing, maternity and neonatal nursing, pediatric nursing, and psychiatric nursing.
- Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests
This comprehensive manual provides a foundation for understanding the relatively simple to the most highly complex diagnostic tests that are delivered to varied populations in varied settings.
• Location(s): Bio-Medical Library QY25 F528m 2000
- MD Consult
Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials.
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.
- Merck Manual
-- Online medical textbook that includes descriptions of hundreds of diseases.
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Online version of the Merck Manual that covers numerous diseases and disorders, their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments. Also available in print.
• Location(s): BIO-MED Reference WB100 M555 1999
- Minnesota Health Profiles
Minnesota Health Profiles, based on data from the Department of Health, is organized into five themes: demographic and vital statistics, morbidity and health care utilization data, chemical health indicators, environmental health data, and maternal and child health data. State and county profiles for 1998 are available.
- Myilibrary
Create your own tailored eContent resource library using resources from established Science, Medicine, Legal and Business sources. In order for this resource to work properly, you will need to enable pop-ups in your browser.
University of Minnesota students, staff, and faculty also have access to a variety of current legal titles published by Cambridge University Press and Kluwer Law International in electronic format. Springer ebooks are available through this platform. Each book is separately cataloged in MNCAT with a link to its location on the World Wide Web. MyiLibrary allows four users to view a book at one time.
- R2 Library
Electronic book collection covering the health sciences.
Law
- LLMC Digital
LLMC is a non-profit library cooperative that has filmed more than 6,300 titles, to over 81,000 volumes, of interest to legal researchers and historians. On Sept. 1, 2003, it launched a digital library, LLMC-Digital, through which its entire backfile, and all future filming, eventually will be available on-line to patrons of subscribing libraries. Its backfile comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform. That backfile, and future filming of some 10,000 volumes per year, are being made available for on-line access on this web site.
- Myilibrary
Create your own tailored eContent resource library using resources from established Science, Medicine, Legal and Business sources. In order for this resource to work properly, you will need to enable pop-ups in your browser.
University of Minnesota students, staff, and faculty also have access to a variety of current legal titles published by Cambridge University Press and Kluwer Law International in electronic format. Springer ebooks are available through this platform. Each book is separately cataloged in MNCAT with a link to its location on the World Wide Web. MyiLibrary allows four users to view a book at one time.
Social Sciences
- Europa World Online
Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
--The print version of the Europa World Handbook is available at: TC Wilson Lib Quarto JN1 .E85 --Latest edition is in Wilson Reference
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes: Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990; Business Plans Handbook; Contemporary Novelists; Contemporary Poets; Dictionary of American History; Encyclopedia of American Industries; Encyclopedia of World Biography; St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture;
Ancient Europe - 8000 BC to 1000 AD: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World; Encyclopedia of European Social History; Encyclopedia of Modern Europe - Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction; Europe - 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World; Europe - 1789 to 1914: An Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
- History E-Books Project
On September 1, 2002, the American Society of Learned Societies (ACLS) History E-Book Project launched on its website over 500 books of high quality in the field of history. These are works of major importance to historical studies - books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. After this initial launch the History E-Book project will be adding approximately 250 books annually to the collection, as well as publishing 85 completely new electronic titles that have the potential to use new technologies to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways. These history e-books are accessible to students and scholars through subscribing libraries.
- netLibrary
Through netLibrary, University of Minnesota students, staff, and faculty have access to a variety of currently published books in electronic format with each book listed in MNCAT with a link to its location on the World Wide Web; Note: The publisher of the NetLibrary database, OCLC, allows only one user to view a book at one time (in 15 minute increments, which can be extended). However, one no longer "checks out" a book. If you get a busy signal, try again in a few minutes.
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (IMLD) includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information. The collection provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the collection provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
- PsycBOOKS
A full-text database of APA books, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology. PsycBOOKS is accessed via APA's PsycNET interface.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
This site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.
Page Coordinator: Shane Nackerud snackeru@umn.edu
This URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1299
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