Databases - E

Access to over 1000 electronic books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences, including its full backlist of titles currently available as electronic books. Approximately 100 titles are added annually.
Access Note: To access added ebrary functionality, you must self-register (free) and sign-in. To browse a list of ebooks by Duke University Press, select Advanced search and the Publisher filter and search on the publisher name. [details]

Comprehensive bibliography on the topic of e-journals

Articles, data and statistics pertaining to Canadian census, elections and the environment

A collection of over 43,000 primary documents in English and French, covering colonial, federal, and provincial government publications, including books, annuals, and periodicals, documenting Canadian history from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century. [details]

A full text collection of English printed works for the period 1475-1700 listed in the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing Short Title Catalogues, also known as STC I and STC II, as well as in the Thomason Tracts. Titles are included in the Library Catalogue. [details]

A platform hosting a growing (over 8,190 in 02/10) multidisciplinary collection of electronic books acquired individually or as a collection from a range of publishers.
Access Note: To access added functionality, you must self-register (free) and sign-in. To default to display book covers in search results, make https://site.ebrary.com a trusted site in IE, under Tools / Internet Options / Security / Trusted Site. [details]

A bibliographic index and abstract database, covering ecology and related topics. It "focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment." [details]

A suite of Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) products delivering current country intelligence for 200 countries. [details]

A cross-cultural database containing information on the world's prehistory and organized by archaeological traditions. The full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. It is a unique resource designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies. [details]

A cross-cultural database containing information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. [details]

Digital image collection of over 136,000 titles covering "every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas." Collection is based on the English Short Title Catalogue [details]

A collection of over 250 handbooks and monographs covering electrical engineering and related topics. A sub-set of ENGnetBASE. [details]

Provides access to "the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers." [details]

A "major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation." [details]

A digitzed collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It covers: cultural contact, empire writing and literature of empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, race, class & colonialism [details]

A reference work providing "an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures." [details]

Reference work, edited by Paul Finkelman, documenting the full range of the African American experience during period from 1619 to 1895—from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass. [details]

A full text reference covering agricultural, food, and biological engineering, especially the "processes used to produce raw agricultural materials, and convert the raw materials into consumer products for distribution." [details]

An encyclopedia covering the science of biodiversity. "Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity." [details]

A full-text resource. Html and PDF versions of articles on many areas of pharmacy.

A reference work and "comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology," including entries by leading experts. [details]

An extensively revised, expanded and updated online version of the successful eight-volume Encyclopedia of Food Science, Food Technology and Nutrition (1993). This new edition provides a comprehensive coverage of the fields of food science, food technology, and nutrition. [details]

Reference work edited by David P. Forsythe, offering "comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history in over 300 entries signed by leading scholars and human rights experts. The coverage includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms." [details]

A comprehensive reference covering the life sciences. The addition of the contents of the Encyclopedia of the Human Genome will be completed by the end of 2006. [details]