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Hunter Library News
Friday, August 10, 2007
Thursday, August 09, 2007
New Database: ebrary
ebrary
Hunter Library’s ebrary collection contains approximately 35,000 full-text ebooks spanning most academic disciplines, including specially selected titles supporting Western Carolina University’s distance education programs. The database is full-text searchable; allows the creation of personalized bookshelves, notes, and highlights; and includes an interactive suite of reference tools.
Hunter Library’s ebrary collection contains approximately 35,000 full-text ebooks spanning most academic disciplines, including specially selected titles supporting Western Carolina University’s distance education programs. The database is full-text searchable; allows the creation of personalized bookshelves, notes, and highlights; and includes an interactive suite of reference tools.
Friday, June 22, 2007
New Database: Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare , this collection contains reproductions, dating from 1473-1700, of the original printing of about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Subject areas represented include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare , this collection contains reproductions, dating from 1473-1700, of the original printing of about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Subject areas represented include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
New Database: CHEMnetBase
CHEMnetBase provides full-text access to eight major chemical reference works including the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Drugs, and the Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds. Choose any one of the reference sources to search (they cannot be searched all together). Substructure searching is available for the majority of the titles.
Monday, June 18, 2007
New Databases
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,350 Oxford University Press books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter levels. Also, the library’s full content is searchable at both the book and chapter levels.
Early American Imprints - Series I: Evans 1638 - 1800
The definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. Includes advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.
Early American Imprints - Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801 - 1819
A comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. Also includes published reports, works of many European authors reprinted for the American public, state papers and early government materials.
United Nations Common Database
United Nations Common Database (UNCDB) provides key human development indicators for the countries of the world. Statistics are derived from 20 international data sources and include statistics on topics such as agriculture, communication and culture, education and learning, environment, finances, health, international trade, science and technology, and much more.
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,350 Oxford University Press books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter levels. Also, the library’s full content is searchable at both the book and chapter levels.
Early American Imprints - Series I: Evans 1638 - 1800
The definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. Includes advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.
Early American Imprints - Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801 - 1819
A comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. Also includes published reports, works of many European authors reprinted for the American public, state papers and early government materials.
United Nations Common Database
United Nations Common Database (UNCDB) provides key human development indicators for the countries of the world. Statistics are derived from 20 international data sources and include statistics on topics such as agriculture, communication and culture, education and learning, environment, finances, health, international trade, science and technology, and much more.
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