Academic Books Available Online

This is a list of databases or sites that provide access to books [thematic documents longer than about 100 pages] purchased or leased by the library. These databases are professionally/commericaly produced publications, similar in content to any scholarly print book purchased by the library. For access to a selected list of freely accessible full-text e-books Click Here.

Legend: ft image means 90%+ full-image files; 9% or less all other formats   More details about legend here.
Reference Titles  Books, Diaries, Film Scripts, and so on 

 

Title Vendor Other Information
Reference Titles or titles which are primarily reference
ft Britannica Online  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Britannica The Encyclopedia Britannica Online online; this standard reference work is updated monthly; each main entry includes the appropriate bibliographic citation for citing the article; also includes access to The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and the Enciclopedia Universal en Espaol
GaleNet titles of particular interest to students of literature
full image Contemporary Authors
full image Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
full image Dictionary of Literary Biography
ft Gale Virtual Reference Desk Thomson-Gale More than 277 reference titles from Gale, including such titles as Contemporary Hispanic Biography, the 17-volume, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Business Plans Handbook (11 volumes), Real Life Math, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, and Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
ft image Maps 101
Click on "Subscriber Login"; the password will be automatically entered		 Maps 101 Maps 101 is an online collection of over 4,000 maps. A large selection of these maps have been optimized for classroom teaching at all levels.
ft image Mergent Online Mergent This database is the electronic equivalent of Moody's full-text company data
ft image Oxford English Dictionary [OED] Online  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Oxford University Press Complete text of the most current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary [OED] i.e. the Second Edition, 1989 with all supplements and for the online version, quarterly updates of new words.
ft image Oxford Premium Reference Online  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Oxford UP single-user license; more than 400 full-image reference titles; at least basic coverage available for most academic disciplines
books
Books, Diaries, Letters, Film Scripts
and so on accessed through UTPB databases (i.e. restricted, commercial)
ft image netLibrary
The single most important access point to full-image traditional book titles supporting academic research.
OCLC/netLibrary/FirstSearch

Provided through the UTSystem Digital Library Initative; provides access to the full-text of more than 40,000 current imprint titles--books, 1990 forward. Approximately 50% of the titles are social sciences (including education and business); about 30% of titles are related to the humanties. Particularly important for humanities researchers netLibrary organizes and gives access to Gutenberg Project texts [historical backfile of classic titles].

Browsing does not have a time limit; checkouts are for two hours, and require that a free account be established. All netLibrary titles are indexed in FirstSearch and accessible through hotlinks in all relevant databases from FirstSearch.

full image Alexander Street: American Film Scripts Online  Alexander Street The full images of 265 scripts written by 334 authors; examples of authors are: Joan Didion, Ruth Gordon, D.W. Griffith, and John Huston
full image Alexander Street: Early Encounters in America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment  Alexander Street The full images of 83,000 pages, authored by 1,076 writers; North America includes a limited number of works from Canada and Mexico
full image Alexander Street: Latin American Women Writers new Alexander Street The full images of 100,000 pages, authored from 1700-present. Authors from the 19th century include: Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru), Juana M. Gorriti (Argentina), Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (Cuba), Delmira Agustini (Argentina), and Julia Lopes Almeida (Brazil), among others. A number of important figures from the early 20th century are also targeted for inclusion, such as Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay), Gabriela Mistral (Chile), and Clarice Lispector (Brazil).
full image Alexander Street: North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories  Alexander Street The full images of 37,500 pages, authored by 342 writers; North America includes Canada and covers the period from 1800 to 1950.
indexAlexander Street: In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives Alexander Street An index to all Alexander Street collections. Note: UTPB does not subscribe to all Alexander Street databases.
full image Alexander Street: North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Alexander Street The full images of more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 1,325 North American women
full image Early English Books Online: EEBO ProQuest The full images of 125,000 early English books from 1475 to 1700 [Malory to Locke].
full image Eighteenth Century Collections Online Gale Group 150,000 books published between 1701 and 1800; 33 million pages of full-text searchable material
ft image The Gerritsen Collection:
Women's History Online		 Chadwyck Healey An international digital library that spans four centuries and documents the lives and experiences of women in public and private arenas; contains more than 2,000,000 page images in 15 languages. The collection is made up of 265 periodical titles and 4,471 book and pamphlet titles.
full image Humanities E-Book Collection
aka History E-Book Collection 		ACLS This began life as the History E-Book Project, but in the summer of 2007 the ACLS American Council of Learned Societies recognized that the project had in fact expanded beyond the confines of history. The name was changed and the holdings were expanded to more than 1,500 titles in history, art, literature, and other humanities areas.
full image LION: Literature Online Chadwyck-Healey A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. FT
ft image National Security Archive Proquest/ Chadwyck-Healey comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Nearly 40,000 of the most important, declassified documents - totaling more than 250,000 pages - are included in the database.
full image TESO: Teatro Espanol del Siglo Oro Chadwyck-Healey TESO is a full-text database which contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. It contains more than 800 plays by 16 dramatists.

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