New Electronic Resources

The American Civil War Research Database is an online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually.

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Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media.

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Collection of full-text literature, citations and excerpts, and sources that provide context to authors and their works.

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History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history.

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This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. This database replaces our subscription to Art Index.

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The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The core content includes:

• Africana
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
• Black Women in America
• African American National Biography
• Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Available through August, 2008.

American Book Prices Current cumulates auction records for books and manuscripts to facilitate searching.

Available only in Thomas Cooper Library - Rare Books and Special Collections.

American Book Prices Current cumulates auction records for books and manuscripts to facilitate searching.

Available only in Thomas Cooper Library - Rare Books and Special Collections.

ITER brings together a significant body of materials for the study of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance (400-1700). The online bibliography includes more than 862,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews, collected from almost 6,000 publications, including 1,500 journals produced. The 1984 revised and expanded edition of John Shawcross’s Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700: Revised and For the Years 1701-1799 is also included.

Available only in Thomas Cooper Library - Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from 1473 through 1800, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. Subject headings appear in records for items published in 1700 or earlier.

This resource is now freely available online from the British Library.  This title is also available on CD-ROM in Thomas Cooper Library - Reference Department.