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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries | Other Reference Books | Collections of Electronic Books
The list below is not a comprehensive list of all the electronic books available on the Web. For additional resources, consult the appropriate InfoSurf subject page. Items available only on the UCSB campus are labeled  . Current UCSB students faculty and staff may obtain access off campus by using the campus proxy server.
(alphabetical order)
- Bartleby.com Reference Works
The Bartleby.com site, originally created at Columbia University, includes a host of e-texts, all browsable and searchable, including such reference works as:
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1917)
The first major encyclopedia of the Catholic Church in English, the Catholic Encyclopedia was written from 1905 to 1914. Besides describing "the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine" of its era, it includes "what Catholic artists, educators, poets, scientists and men of action have achieved in their several provinces." The printed work, available in the UCSB Main Library and Arts Library at BX 841 .C33, was transcribed into digital form by volunteers for the New Advent organization.
- Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com provides searchable access to several dictionaries, most notably, the American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1996,1992) (in print at PE 1628 .A623 1992), plus Roget's Thesaurus, and links to a number of other dictionary sites on the Web.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
This online version of the classic encyclopedia also includes the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary (see also below) and links to a variety of websites.
Also available in print at AE 5 .E363 1997 (Reference)
- Encyclopedia.com
Contains 14,000 brief entries from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., linked to over 170,000 related sites on the Internet.
- Encyclopedia of Associations
Also available in print at HS17 .E5 (Reference)
- Encyclopedia of Immunology
A searchable and browsable version of the four volume reference work from Academic Press. Contains authoritative articles with good cross-referencing and bibliographies. Also available in print at QR 180.4 .E53 1998 in the SEL Reference Area.
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
This publication of the Nature Publishing Group is the largest single reference work ever published in the biological sciences. Its core subjects include Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Evolution, Genetics & Molecular Biology, Immunology, Microbiology & Virology, Neuroscience, Plant Science, and Structural Biology. Its 3000 articles are peer-reviewed and regularly updated; some are aimed at the general reader and some at researchers in the field and the level is clearly designated. The Encyclopedia may be browsed by article title, subject or contributing author, or searched by keywords.
- Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
A searchable and browsable version of the three volume reference work from Academic Press. Contains authoritative articles on the history, theory, instrumentation and applications of atomic, electronic, high energy, mass, nuclear magnetic resonance, and vibrational/rotational spectroscopy, with good cross-referencing and bibliographies. Also available in print at QD 95 .E55 2000 in the SEL Reference Area.
- Encyclopedia of Virology
A searchable and browsable version of the three volume reference work from Academic Press. Contains authoritative articles with good cross-referencing and bibliographies. Also available in print at QR 358 .E53 1999 in the SEL Reference Area.
- The Grove Dictionary of Art
An encyclopedic online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s. Includes 30,000 searchable art images. Also available in the 34 volume print set at N 31 .D5 1996 in the Arts Library Reference Room Blue.
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
The Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology is a wide-ranging, authoritative source of information on chemicals and chemical processes, with detailed references for each article. The online version includes the current Fourth Edition, with some articels updated each year. The print version is available in the SEL Reference Area at TP 9 .E658 1991.
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
This online version is based on the 10th edition (1993), with continuous updating. Earlier editions are available in print at PE 1628 .W5638 Also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus.
- MITECS: The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
MITECS contains 471 articles by leading researchers on all facets of cognitive science within the six broad areas of Philosophy, Psychology, Neurosciences, Computational Intelligence, Linguistics and Language, and Culture, Cognition and Evolution. It is searchable and browsable by author or topic.
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition
The "New Grove" is the unchallenged authority on all aspects of music, renowned for its coverage, authority and accuracy. Its numerous articles (over 25 million words) are browsable and searchable, and include links to selected Web sites. The 29-volume print edition is in the Music Reference area of the Arts Library at ML100 .N48 2001.  Now includes the complete New Grove Dictionary of Opera. (print version: 4 volumes, Music Reference ML 102 .O6 N5 1992)
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
Created by Joan M. Reitz of Western Connecticut State University, ODLIS is an 1800 term browsable glossary of library and information terminology. It is planned to expand to 2,000 terms and be converted to a searchable database.
- Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Produced at Athabasca University, this social science dictionary has 1000 entries covering the disciplines of sociology, criminology, political science and women's study with a commitment to Canadian examples, events and names.
- Online Slang Dictionary
This is a collaborative project, created by Walter Rader, documenting English slang from around the world.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The online version includes the entire Second Edition, and is continually updated with new words for the New Edition.
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. The print version of the Second Edition is available in the Reference area at PE 1625 .O87 1989.
- Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. Dictionaries cover a wide range of subjects, plus quotations, first names, place names, and more.
- Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a state-of-the-art reference work detailing the science and technology in all areas of industrial chemistry, including pharaceuticals, biotechnology, plymers and plastics, advanced materials, environmental protection and analytical methods. The online version is the 6th Edition; the 5th Edition is available in print in the SEL Refernve Area at TP 9 .U5 1985.
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (1993 ed.)
Webster's Unabridged is America's premier lexicographical work. This electronic version comprises the text of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and subsequent updates which take account of current usage. The source data for this electronic version of Webster's Unabridged was obtained in 1996 and so includes additional material and addenda included since publication of both the original 1961 edition and the updated 1993 edition. This version appears in electronic form for the first time.
- Xipolis.net - German Reference Database
Xipolis.net is an electronic collection of some of the premier German language reference works, including the 30 volume Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, the Duden Wörterbuch, the Fischer Weltalmanach, and a host of specialty dictionaries, in areas including theatre, music, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, medicine, physics and psychology. All the text is in German, and works may be searched individually or collectively.
- yourDictionary.com
A successor to the site, "A Web of Dictionaries", yourDictionary.com provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages including some extinct (e.g. Gothic) and some fanciful (e.g. Klingon and Sindarin.))
(alphabetical order)
- Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer
Worldwide digital gazetteer searchable by place name, geographic location, type category and identifier. Search engine and interface developed by the Alexandria Digital Library of the UCSB Library.
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Almanac of American Politics
The Almanac of American Politics, by author Michael Barone, profiles every
senator, representative and governor, as well as the people and politics of every state and congressional district. The Almanac also provides interest group ratings, Census data, key votes, campaign expenditures, election results and much more. The Web edition is updated with key votes of each Congress, results from special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more. Available in print at UCSB call number: JK 271 .A44. The current edition is kept at the Reference Desk.
- American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog
The online AFI Catalog draws its content from six printed volumes that document every American film from 1893 to 1970 (except 1951 to 1960). Each
film record has been meticulously compiled by the experienced editors and
filmographers at the American Film Institute (AFI). Search records by keywords; film titles; cast, crew, and character names; subject; genre; release year and more. Most records include extensive plot summaries.
Also available in print at PN 1998 .A57 (Reference)
- Books in Print
Produced by R.R. Bowker, Books in Print contains records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers. The database is browsable and searchable by author, title, subject, publisher and more. It also contains links to lists of bestsellers, book awards, and, where available, book reviews and capsule author biographies. The latest edition of the print version is available on the Reference Index Tables at Z1215 .P81.
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Butterflies of North America
The Butterflies of North America Web site is a "work in progress," by the by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, consisting primarily of the following information:
- Distribution maps showing the counties in which occurrence of a particular species has been verified,
- Photos of the adult and caterpillar (when available),
- Species accounts containing information on size, identifying characteristics, life history, flight, caterpillar hosts, adult food, habitat, species range,
conservation status, and management needs,
- Species checklists for each county in the U. S. and state in northern Mexico
See also "Moths of North America" below.
- CHEMnetBASE
CHEMnetBASE is an electronic collection of several major reference works for chemistry and related sciences from Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. Each work is searchable separately. They include:
The Combined Chemical Dictionary is fully sub-structure searchable as is Properties of Organic Compounds. (Note: Structure searching requires a free browser plug-in, which may not yet be installed on UCSB Library workstations.) The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics and Polymers, A Property Database are fully searchable and offer the ability to
produce tables customized to the user's preferences.
- CollegeSource Online
CollegeSource Online features over 10,700 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools.
- Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over
165,000 places in the world. Users can search all the information—
not just place-names—and segment it. The Gazetteer includes:
- The political world—major geographic regions, counties, provinces, regions, states, districts, capitals, cities, town, villages, neighborhoods, special districts.
- The physical world—continents, oceans, seas, gulfs, lakes, lagoons, rivers, bays, inlets, channels, streams, islands, archipelagos, peninsulas, atolls, mountains, mountain ranges, canyons, deserts, valleys, glaciers, volcanoes.
- Special places—national parks, reserves and monuments, historic and archeological sites, resorts, airports, ports, dams, nuclear plants, mines, canals, shopping malls, theme parks, stadia, military bases, fortified lines, mythic places.
The print version is available in the Map & Imagery Laboratory reference collection and in the Main Reference collection at G 103.5 .C645 1998.
- Current Protocols
Research institutions around the world have made Current Protocols laboratory manuals the benchmark for scientific research methods. With their regular updates, these publications constantly evolve and change to meet the needs of the scientific research community. They include:
- Step-by-step protocols with annotations that alert you to special considerations,tips, and optional procedures.
- Alternate and support protocols to accommodate different equipment and desired results.
- Materials lists for each protocol to ensure you have everything you need before you start work.
- Detailed recipes for reagents, solutions, and culture media.
- Expert commentaries filled with scientific insight, including general background, troubleshooting instructions, and planning considerations.
- Tables and figures to clarify complex procedures.
- Appendices filled with useful reference material.
The online version includes Current Protocols in Cell Biology, Cytometry, Food Analytical Chemistry, Human Genetics, Immunology (UCSB print: QR 183 .C87 1994), Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Molecular Biology (UCSB print: QH 506 .C87 1994), Neuroscience, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Pharmacology, Protein Science, and Toxicology. The protocols are browsable by Table of contents or keyword searchable with stemming (truncation) and a subject thesaurus.
- Current World Information Knowledgebase
Current World Information Knowledgebase (CWIK) is an electronic form of the Current World Leaders (UCSB call no: CT 100 .A45), produced by the International Academy of Santa Barbara. It contains key demographic, economic, geographic, and political information for 193 countries, 30 dependent territories, and 39 international organizations. Clicking on "Login" will take you to the search page. From there, you can search the database, or click on "CWIK Facts" to browse by name of country, territory or organization.
- The Digital Tradition (DigiTrad) at the Mudcat Cafe
The Digital Tradition is a database containing the words and music to over 7800 folk songs. These songs have been collected since 1988 by Dick Greenhaus and friends and the database is browsable by title and searchable by keyword (includes song words, author and copyright holder if any, and some assigned category terms.) The Internet version of the database is hosted at the Mudcat Cafe, a site with many features devoted to blues and folk music.
- Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists
This publication of the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) lists over 3,900 peer-reviewed electronic journals, and all kinds of academic discussion lists (including newsgroups, bulletin boards, e-mail lists, etc.) Both lists are searchable, and browsable by title or subject. Each record gives URL's or other contact information and a brief description of the journal or forum.
- Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database
The UCSB Library subscribes to the North American edition (only) of Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database. It provides the interested user with information on approximately 1,600,000 U.S. and Canadian leading public and private businesses. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. Please note that we only purchased access for one (1) user at a time. So, if you can't log it, please try again later, and when you finish searching, please log off. The corresponding print resource, the D&B Million Dollar Directory is available at Ref HC 102 .M54.
- ENGnetBASE
CRC Press is one of the world's leading publishers of Engineering Handbooks. Now the handbooks are available online in ENGnetBASE. Currently, about 125 handbooks from a wide range of engineering areas are available, with more being added regularly. The handbooks are browsable by table of contents, or keyword searchable, either individually or combined.
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Extensive resource on the families and distributions of the languages of the world. Searchable and browsable by language name, language family, country and area. Includes language maps of continents, nations and regions as they become available.
- Flora of North America Online Volumes
Flora of North America (FNA)is a project undertaken by North American botanists to provide authoritative, up-to-date information on the names, relationships, characteristics, and distributions of the approximately 21,000 species of plants that grow outside of cultivation in North America north of Mexico. It is a work in progress, with new volumes published simultaneously on the Web and in print by Oxford University Press. The print version is available in the UCSB Library at QK 110 .F55 1993.
- Gale's Ready Reference Shelf
Gale's Ready Reference Shelf provides the following coverage: U.S. national associations, International associations, U.S. regional, state, and local associations, Publishers, Libraries and information centers, Research centers, Governmental Advisory Organization, Religious organizations, Broadcast media organizations, Database Producers, Database Vendors, Directories, Newsletters, Newspapers, Periodicals and Databases. Records contain contact information and other details, taken from 14 different Gale print reference works (see database for list.)
- Handbook
of the Center for Research Libraries.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. CRL is governed by the major research libraries of North America, and is funded by fee, grants, and contributions. The mission of CRL is to foster and advance scholarly inquiry through cost-effective, cooperative programs that provide reliable access through traditional and electronic means to unique and unusual collections of library materials that are in all appropriate formats, international in scope, and comprehensive in disciplines.
The Handbook describes the collection components, details the parameters of the uncataloged collections, and lists significant sets in a subject arrangement.
- Hoover's Online
Hoover's Online provides access to a wide range of business related information; in particular, extensive data on companies and industries. This includes the data which appears on the print publications: Hoover's Handbook of American Business (UCSB call number: HG 4057 .H66 Reference), Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies (HG 4057 .A33 Reference), and Hoover's Masterlist of Major U.S. Companies (HG 4057 .A34).
- The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
The Guide consists of 226 alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats figures who did not explicitly deal with, but who still deeply affected, literature, literary theory, or literary criticism, as well as figures and kinds of inquiry from other fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography, and there is extensive cross-referencing both within and at the conclusion of each entry. Also available in print at PN81 .J55 1994 (Reference)
- Landolt-Börnstein (New Series)
Landolt-Börnstein is an immense compilation of physical data in seven broad areas: elementary particles, nuclei and atomes; molecules and radicals; condensed matter; physical chemistry; geophysics; astronomy and astrophysics; and biophysics. It is one of the largest and most authoritative collections of physical data in the world. Print copies of the "New Series" are available in the SEL Reference Area of the UCSB Library at QC 61 .L3 1961.
- Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to full text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining core literary databases (Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, etc.) in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Many of the core reference works here are available in print in the Davidson Library's Main Reference collection.
- Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB)
A collection of data on currencies and prices in Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern eras.
- MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.
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Moths of North America
Based on the books Lepidoptera of North America Vol. 1 (Opler, 1995), Moths of western North America Vol. 1 (Peigler and Opler, 1993), and Moths of western North America Vol. 2 (Smith, 1995).
- National Climatic Data Center
Includes the following publications: Monthly Climatic Data for the World (MCDW), Storm Data (SD), Local Climatological Data, Edited (LCD), Climatological Data (CD), Hourly Precipitation Data (HPD), Climatography of the U.S. #81 - Monthly Normals, Heating and Cooling Degree Day Data (HCS 5-1 & 5-2), Climate Maps of U.S., Climatography of the U.S., Clim 81 Sup 3. (U.S. maps of mean air temperature, precipitation, heating/cooling degree data), Climates of the World (Publication of average temperature and precipitation data for over 800 stations ), Wind Climatology (for selected U.S. cities), Freeze/Frost data for the U.S..
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby
Originally sold on subscription, this two volume 1754 work was possibly the first accurate (or at least, not fantastic) depiction of the flora and fauna of the British Colonies in North America. The volumes are browsable, and searchable by chapter headings, though not by full text.
- The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd ed.
This reference work, edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga of Dartmouth College, is the product of an 18 day interdisciplinary Summer Institute on Cognitive Neurosciences held in 1999. It contains 94 chapters divided into sections on Development, Plasticity, Sensory Systems, Motor Systems, Attention, Memory, Language, Higher Cognitive Functions, Emotion, Evolution, and Consciousness. It is available in print at UCSB call #: QP 360.5 .N4986 2000.
- Numerical Recipes Books Online
This site features electronic (PDF and PostScript) versions of the Cambridge University Press books: Numerical Recipes in C, 2nd ed. (UCSB call #: QA76.73.C15 N865 1992), Numerical Recipes in Fortran, 2nd ed. (QA297 .N866 1994) and Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90, 2nd ed. (QA76.73.F25 N85 1996). The site also links to copies of the software and updates. There is a duplicate site at Los Alamos National Laboratory Library.
- Pornography & Sexual Representation: A Reference Guide
From obscene lyrics in music to celebrity nudity in adverstising, this Web guide explores the vast history of sexual expression in America. Joseph Slade of Ohio University uses pornography to illuminate the considerable social, cultural and legal aspects of privacy and free speech in the United States. This dynamic, fully searchable online resource contains, in addition to exhaustive bibliography and review of the literature:
- over 750 links to outside sources
- full text transcripts (and some audio clips) of cited court cases
- links to complete e-texts of cited literary works
- fully hyper-referenced timeline of important dates from 1656-present
- The Prokaryotes
This reference work on bacteria and archaebacteria begins with an online implementation of the content currently found in the printed reference work, The Prokaryotes: Second Edition (1992). Approximately 25% of the content will be fully updated each year over a four-year period until the work is completely revised. Thereafter, material will be continuously added to reflect developments in Prokaryotic microbiology. This online version features information retrieval functions and multimedia components. The print version of the 2nd edition may be found at QR 72.2 .P76 1992.
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
A searchable directory of over 150,000 American companies and their products and services. This source is free, but requires users to register at the site. Also available in print at T 12 .T5 (SEL Reference Area.)
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Produced by R.R. Bowker, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. Updated weekly, the database is searchable and browsable by title, subject, language, electronic availability and more. There is also a news section, and links to libraries and interest groups. The latest edition of the print version is available at the Reference Desk at Z6941 .P4.
- Virus Taxonomy Online
This is the electronic version of the Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, dealing with the classifcation and nomenclature of viruses (orders, families, subfamilies, genera and species). There are 1550 classified species, and a list of unassigned viruses with references. It is available in print at QR 394 .I58 2000.
- World Almanacs
The World Almanacs database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, The World Almanac of the U.S.A. The World Almanac of U.S. Politics and The World Almanac for Kids (all 1998 editions.)
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- Acta Sanctorum Database
The Acta Sanctorum are a principal source of research into the societies and cultures of early Christian and medieval Europe. Our knowledge of this period relies heavily on hagiographical literature, and specifically on this monumental collection of texts, published over a period of three hundred years (1642-1940) by the Société des Bollandistes. The Acta Sanctorum bring together materials on the lives of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the sixteenth century, in critical editions with commentaries on the source documents; these include Vitae, Passiones, Miracula, Translationes, Gloria posthuma, inscriptions, etc. The commentaries examine the problems which
the biography of each saint can pose, and employ the scholarly methods appropriate to the period of the document. The current release of the Acta Sanctorum Database contains the volumes for the ecclesiastical months of January through September 28th. When complete (end of 2002), it will contain the texts of the sixty-eight printed volumes published in Antwerp and Brussels, from the two January volumes published in 1642 to the Propyleum to December published in 1940.
- Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology
Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology reviews actual trends in modern biotechnology. Its aim is to cover all aspects of this interdisciplinary technology where knowledge, methods and expertise are required for chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, chemical engineering and computer science. Special volumes are dedicated to selected topics which focus on new biotechnological products and new processes for their synthesis and purification. It also discusses new discoveries and applications. Online access is currently available for volumes from vol. 63 (1999) to present. Print copies are available in the UCSB Library at TP 248.3 .A38
- Advances in Polymer Science
This series presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics and materials science. Online access is currently available for volumes from vol. 130 (1997) to present. Print copies are available in the UCSB Library at QD 251 .P6 F6
- Advances in Solid State Physics
Advances in Solid State Physics is a book series containing the invited lectures presented at the Spring Meetings of the “Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik” of the “Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft”, held in March of each year. The invited talks are intended to reflect the most recent achievements of researchers working in the field both in Germany and worldwide. Online access is currently available from Vol. 41 (2001) onward. Earlier volumes may be found in print in the UCSB Library at TK 7871.85 .F47.
- American Memory Collection
This Library of Congress project provides access to a large number of LoC collections, searchable and browsable by subject and title.
- ARTFL Project: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
The ARTFL Project is a joint venture of the University of Chicago and the Institut Nationale de la Langue Francaise. It includes a variety of databases for research in the French language, including a text-searchable database of over 8,500 works of French literature and databases of French women writers and of Provençal poetry. It also has links to a variety of other resources in French language and literature, including dictionaries and thesauri.
- Bartleby.com
The Bartleby.com site, originally created at Columbia University, includes a host of e-texts, all browsable and searchable. In addition to the reference works listed above and general books, it has a very strong poetry collection, BartlebyVerse, covering American and English poetry from 1250-1920.
- California Digital Library Electronic Reference Texts
Browsable by title or subject area, and searchable.
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
The project, based at University College, Cork in Ireland aims to "bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Old Norse, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet." The texts are browsable and searchable.
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Directory of Electronic Text Centers
A list of a number of major academic centers for electronic texts, which in turn provide access to a wide variety of resources. Some resources at these centers may be restricted in access to their home institution.
- CogNet Library (MIT)
This resource center for the cognitive and brain sciences includes job listing, forums and links to other resources. Its most important collections are the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (see above), The New Cognitive Neuroscience (see above), and a collection of over 250 cognitive science and neuroscience books available through an unique link to netLibrary.
- Cold War International History Project Working Papers
The Cold War International History Project, established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world. The CWIHP Working Paper Series is designed to provide a speedy outlet for historians associated with the Project who have gained access to newly-available archives and sources and would like to share their results, especially submissions by junior scholars from the former Communist bloc who have done research in their countries' archives and are looking to introduce their findings to a Western audience.
- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years transcribing and annotating Lincoln's papers. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln represented the first major scholarly effort to collect and publish the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln, and the edition has remained an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars. The electronic edition is searchable and browsable by keywords and phrases. The print edition is available in the UCSB Library Special Collections Dept. as part of the Wyles Collection at E 457.91 1953b.
- Collection on Critical Global Issues
The Collection on Critical Global Issues 2.0 was developed in 1999 by United Nations University Press. It contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology.
- Columbia Earthscape Books
Books on the Earth sciences (astronomy, geology, meteorology, oceanography, paleontology) and environmental policy, from over a dozen publishers, selected in consultation with the Columbia Earthscape advisory board. Titles and tables of contents may be browsed, and the full text is searchable.
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
"To provide American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society, a core group of current and historical Government publications is being made available for free, permanent, public access via the GPO Access service." In addition to full ASCII text, some documents, such as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, are available as scanned images of the original manuscripts.
- Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor. The collection is still developing; as of July, 2002, 846 of the projected 4,500 monographs have been made available online.
- Cornell University Library Math Book Collection
The Cornell University Math Collection consists of 571 books published before 1914 that were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library. All books disbound and all pages scanned. The collection is browsable by author and by book title. Many books are in German, French, Latin and other languages.
- The Decameron Web
This Brown University site hosts the full text of Boccaccio's Decameron with extensive background on the historical and societal context of the stories.
- Dickens: Letters
This collection is the electronic version of The Letters of Charles Dickens (the Pilgrim Edition). 11 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1965-1997. (UCSB call number: PR 4581 .A3 H6) For more information see Past Masters® below.
- Digital South Asia Library
The Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) is a cooperative project of the Center for Research Libraries. Newly created for 2000, it contains at present a limited selection of full-text books, bibliographies and links to other resources dealing with South Asia. It is planned to include "on-line information about contemporary and historical South Asia – including full-text documents, statistical data, electronic images, cartographic representations, and pedagogical resources for language instruction."
- Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DAS) is a searchable and browsable collection of full-text sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. The Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DAS, and the texts come primarily from its Southern holdings. An editorial board guides its development. As of March, 2002, DAS includes over 1000 books and manuscripts, in six collections, including "First Person Narratives of the American South", "Library of Southern Literature", "North American Slave Narratives", "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865", "The Church in the Southern Black Community", "The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940", and "North Carolinians and the Great War."
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition.
The information in this collection is presented in the form of online images, as well as downloadable PDF copies. In order to view documents online, you will need the DJVU plugin from AT&T. In order to view the PDF documents, you will need the Acrobat Reader plugin from Adobe. Links for downloading both plugins are available from the EEBO home page.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) Text Creation Partnership
ProQuest Information and Learning has created digital images for the 125,000 titles in the English Short Title Catalog, which includes English language texts from 1475-1700 listed in Wing, Pollard and Redgrave, and the Thomason Tracts. These form the Early English Books Online database (see above.) Working together, the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford have proposed an international initiative supported by the research library community to create structured SGML text files (all full text searchable)for a significant portion of this collection, and are serving as production sites for the project. 25,000 volumes have been targeted for conversion over a five year period. The encoded texts will link to the ProQuest Information and Learning images. As of July, 2002, almost 900 books are available through the EEBO TCP.
- The Ecole Initiative
This site, created by the University of Evansville, is a collection of links to English language versions of documents pertaining to "early Church history" up to about 1500 C.E., mainly Christian writers, but including Jewish, Islamic and other texts of the period. It also contains a chronology and an index to Web images of painting and sculpture of relevant persons and scenes. It also contains some articles by contemporary authors on facets of Church history. Unfortunately, not all the links are well-maintained.
- eScholarship International and Area Studies Monographs
This portion of the California Digital Library's eScholarship initiative contains digital versions of selected monographs published by the International and Area Studies Department of the University of California at Berkeley. As of April, 2001 there are eleven books available. Most books are browsable and searchable, and text is available both as HTML pages and PDF files.
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
The Brigham Young University Library has assembled a collection of links to transcriptions, translations and facsimiles of primary European historical documents and books from a variety of sources. Documents are grouped by nation or Europe as a whole, and in chronological order within a group.
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
A browsable collection of texts and links to texts, created by Prof. D. L. Ashliman of the Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.
- German Philosophers Collection
Collections purchased by UCSB include: Fichte (Sämmtliche Werke und Nachlass, ed. Karsten Worm), Hegel (Suhrkamp German edition), Kant's Hauptwerke (Akademie Ausgabe edition), Kant's Philosophische Briefe (Akademie Ausgabe edition), and Wittgenstein's Collected Works (in English, Blackwell Publishers editions.) For more information see Past Masters® below.
- Göttinger Digitalisierungzentrum (GDZ)
The Göttinger Digitalization Center has a large number of electronic volumes grouped in subject collections. Presently available are: Autobiographies, Itineraries/Travel Literature, Mathematics, Early North Americana, History of Humanities and Sciences, and Siberica (literature dealing with Siberia). Most of the works are in German.
- Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
The Handbook publishes themed volumes in this young and interdisciplinary field of science. Its aim is a complete description of the environment and of transformations occurring on a local or global scale. Environmental chemistry also gives an account on the impact of man’s activities on the natural environment by describing observed changes. Volumes from late 1999-present are available online. UCSB's print volumes are available at QD 31 .H335.
- International & Area Studies (IAS) Research Monograph Collection
These are eleven selected digital editions of monographs published by the International and Area Studies Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Some of the tests are full test searchable as well as browsable. This is a California Digital Library e-Scholarship projecr.
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project
This site, created by Paul Halsall of Fordham University, contains several large collections of primary full-texts and other useful materials organized by era and by region/culture. They include:
- Kurt Stüber's Historic Biology Books
This is a one-man digital library of classic biology works, including books by Darwin, Haeckel and Mendel, as well as a set of 572 color plates from a flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science has established itself as a medium for the reporting of new developments in computer science research and teaching. Some volumes are monographs, and some are multi-author works. Online access is currently available for selected volumes from vol. 1267 (1997) to 1858 (2000). UCSB's print copies are cataloged individually and may be found via PEGASUS.
- Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
This series aims to report new developments in the fields of control and information sciences - quickly, informally and at a high level. Coverage begins in 2001, with an earlier volume or two available. UCSB's print copies are cataloged individually and may be found via PEGASUS.
- Lecture Notes in Mathematics
This series reports on new developments in all areas of mathematics and their applications – quickly, informally and at a high level. Coverage begins in 2000, with a handful of earlier volumes available. UCSB's print copies are available at QA 3 .L28.
- Lecture Notes in Physics
The series Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP), founded in 1969, reports on new developments in physics research and teaching - quickly and informally but with a high quality. A number of volumes are available, beginning in 2000. UCSB's print copies are cataloged individually and may be found via PEGASUS.
- Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs
Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs reports on new developments in physics research and texts (e.g. course notes, seminar workouts) - quickly, informally, and at a high level. The type of manuscripts to be considered for publication includes monographs presenting original research or new angles in a classical field. The timeliness of a manuscript is more important than its form, which may be preliminary or tentative. A number of volumes are available, beginning with Vol. 51 (1997). UCSB's print copies are cataloged individually and may be found via PEGASUS.
- Library of Southern Literature
The "Library of Southern Literature" documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works, published from 1709 to 1922. The bibliography was compiled by the late Professor Robert Bain, based on suggestions from colleagues in Southern studies around the country. The texts for this project come primarily from the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Editorial Board for Documenting the American South guides its development.
- LiNuM (Livres Numérisés Mathématiques)
This site from the University of Grenoble in France provides a common search interface for four major sources of mathematics books in digital form: the Cornell Digital Math Books collection, the University of Michigan Historical Math Collection; Gallica; and the Mathematics section of the Göttinger Digitalisierungzentrum (GDZ).
- LION Literature Online
(Chadwyck-Healey)
Provides the full text of a variety of literary works, including:
- African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- American Drama
When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.
- American Poetry (1600-1900)
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920-present)
ABELL contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. The printed bibliography consists of 75 volumes beginning in 1920 and issued annually. The online version is updated monthly.
- The Bible in English (990-1970)
20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of
the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament.
- Bibliography of American Literature (BAL)
Nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930.
- Canadian Poetry
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection currently contains the full text of more than 12,000 poems by 142 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, and will soon offer a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
- Early American Fiction
Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library.
- Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)
Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700.
- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)
96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- English Drama (1280-1915)
A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
- English Poetry (600-1900)
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
- English Poetry, Second Edition
English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of its ground-breaking predecessor with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.
- Faber Poetry Library
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.
- The King James Bible - 'Authorized' Version
The King James - 'Authorized' Version is included to provide a single Bible for reference purposes.
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction
250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.
- Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the most important African-American poets of the last century, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes.
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry
This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
- Twentieth-Century English Poetry
A collection of 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.
- The W. B. Yeats Collection
The major works of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between 1885 and 1995.
- Making of America
Hosted at the University of Michigan, Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains
searchable scanned images of approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints, estimated at over 3% of all American monographs published in the 19th century.
- Middle English Compendium
Offers access to the electronic versions of the Middle English Dictionary,
a Hyperbibliography of Middle English prose and verse and associated
electronic resources.
- Molecular Sieves: Science and Technology
This new handbook-like series of monographs is intended to cover, in a comprehensive manner, all aspects of the rapidly developing science and
technology of zeolites and related microporous crystalline materials. Coverage of the series begins with Volume 1.
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers
The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Its research is conducted by more than 500 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields. Papers from November, 1994 (#4935) to the present are available, along with selected older papers.
- National Library of Medicine Electronic Bookshelf
The NLM Bookshelf is a small but growing collection of recent biomedical and molecular biology books in searchable and browsable electronic form.
- NetLibrary
UCSB has access to over 500 titles from NetLibrary's collection of
reference, academic, general interest and professional electronic books.
- New Advent
This website includes English translations of the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, numerous writings of the Church Fathers and New Testament Apocrypha, as well as large numbers of official documents of the Roman Catholic Church, and links to a variety of other Catholic-related websites.
- New York Public Library Digital Library Collections
The NYPL Digital Library is small at present, but with ambitious plans to grow. Among its current holdings are "African American Women Writers of the 19th Century" and "Images of African Americans from the 19th Century".
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Old English Corpus/Dictionary of Old English
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant
manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3037 texts in the corpus.
- The On-Line Books Page
This site was founded in 1993 by John Mark Ockerbloom at Carnegie Mellon University. He is now a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and the site has relocated there. It indexes over 10,000 books on the web, has special subject-oriented exhibits and links to many other digitial book sites. The index is searchable, and browsable by author, title and Library of Congress classification.
- The Online Medieval & Classical Library
A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical
and Medieval civilization. Douglas B. Killings is responsible for the project, which is maintained at the Berkeley Digital Library SunSite.
- ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web. It includes an extensive collection of full-test materials at the ORB site, and links to other medieval full-text sources, as well as contemporary articles on medieval topics.
- Oxford Text Archive
The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora. The Oxford Text Archive does not produce digital resources itself.
- Past Masters®
InteLex publishes the Past Masters® series of full-text humanities databases: cohesive collections of excellent editions, in both original language and in English translation, using meticulous text conversion processes. Combined with powerful web-based search and reference tools, the Past Masters series provides scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to the classic texts.
Collections purchased by UCSB include: Dickens (The Letters of Charles Dickens, the Pilgrim Edition), Fichte (Sämmtliche Werke und Nachlass, ed. Karsten Worm), Hegel (Suhrkamp German edition), Kant's Hauptwerke (Akademie Ausgabe edition), Kant's Philosophische Briefe (Akademie Ausgabe edition), and Wittgenstein's Collected Works (in English, Blackwell Publishers editions.)
- Patrologia Latina Database
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
- The Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Digital, hosted at Tufts University, is an evolving collection of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. It includes an extensive collection of classical texts, both in the original languages and in translation, a variety of text tools and lexica, over 30,000 images of art and architecture, an encyclopedic dictionary of terms from classical art and architecture and an atlas of the Greek and Roman world, as well as other studies of the topics.
- Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program
This series of reports on the Ocean Drilling Project, an ongoing investigation of the geology of the sea floor, operated by Texas A&M University includes (in sequence of release):
The online full text versions are available from 1997-present.
- Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science
"Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science" serves as a supplementary series to the journal "Colloid and Polymer Science". It publishes topic-related volumes in the area of colloid and polymer science and its interdisciplinary interactions. Vol. 112 (1999) - present are currently available online. For the print version, the UCSB Library call number is QD 549 .P76.
- Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is one of the earliest attempts to provide widespread access to public domain books via the Internet. As of July 2002, it offers about 5600 works, adding about 150 per month. Files are in plain ASCII text or in zipped ASCII text, available from a number of mirror sites around the world. The Project Gutenberg catalog is searchable by author and title. Author and title lists may be downloaded by FTP.
- Project Runeberg
A collection of literature (prose, poetry, music, etc.) in Nordic languages created at Linköping University Sweden, containing more than 200 titles, mostly in Swedish. The collection is browsable and searchable, and contains a section of biographical information on authors, with links to other Internet resources where available.
- Projekt Gutenberg
A major German language digital library, now located at the Spiegel Online website. It contains HTML full text of selected works of over 350 authors -- mainly German authors, but some German translations of other authors(e.g., Twain, Shakespeare, Dickens.)
- RAND Online Publications
This site has a collection of free books published by the RAND organization, a "think tank" supplying analyses for policy development in a wide variety of areas, including child policy, civil and criminal justice, education, environment and energy, health, international policy, labor markets, population and regional studies, science and technology, social welfare, transportation, and especially global security and military issues. Some documents are available in HTML, some in PDF. The database is also searchable by author, title word, or words in the abstract.
- Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Periodd
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry by 47 poets, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.
- SETIS Australian Electronic Texts
The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service of the University of Sydney Library makes available an assortment of Australian texts, including works of literature, history, botany and philosophy.
- Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics provides comprehensive and critical reviews of topics of current interest in physics. The following fields are emphasized: Elementary Particle Physics, Solid-State Physics, Complex Systems, Fundamental Astrophysics. Online coverage begins with the year 2000 and is expected to expand both forward and retrospectively. The UCSB Library's print volumes are available at QC 3.5 .A1 S65.
- Structure and Bonding
The series Structure and Bonding publishes critical reviews on topics of research concerned with chemical structure and bonding. The scope of the series spans the entire Periodic Table and addresses structure and bonding issues associated with all of the elements. It also focuses attention on new and developing areas of modern structural and theoretical chemistry such as nanostructures, molecular electronics, designed molecular solids, surfaces, metal clusters and supramolecular structures. Coverage of the series begins with Volume 94 (1999). The series is available in print in the UCSB Library at QD 461 .S78.
- Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro (TESO)
This full text database contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. Each play is reproduced in full, including the "Preliminaries" which contain "aprobaciones", "censuras", "privilegios" etc. Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro contains more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Agustín Moreto, etc. The texts are in Spanish and fully searchable; the interface is also available in Spanish.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae or "Treasury of the Greek Language" now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. The center continues its efforts to include all extant Greek texts from the byzantine and post-byzantine period. Also included is the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, a comprehensive database of all known ancient Greek and Byzantine authors, together with bibliographies of existing critical editions of their extant works. Note: Each user must register and create his or her own TLG userid and password.
- Tobacco Control from eScholarship
This collection of resources includes two full text books, The Cigarette Papers by Glantz, Slade, Bero, Hanauer and Barnes (UCSB Library: HD9135 .C5 1996), and Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles by Glantz and Balbach (UCSB Library: KFC417.T6 G58 2000).
- Topics in Applied Physics
Topics in Applied Physics is a well-established series of review books, each of which presents a comprehensive survey of a selected topic within the broad area of applied physics. Edited and written by leading research scientists in the field concerned, each volume contains review contributions covering the various aspects of the topic. Together these provide an overview of the state of the art in the respective field, extending from an introduction to the subject right up to the frontiers of contemporary research. For the print version, the UCSB Library call number varies with the topic of the individual volume.
- Topics in Current Chemistry
The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. The scope of coverage includes all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science. The goal of each thematic volume is to give the non-specialist reader a comprehensive overview of an area where new insights are emerging that are of interest to a larger scientific audience. The series is available in print in the UCSB Library at QD 1 .F665.
- Topics in Organometallic Chemistry
The series Topics in Organometallic Chemistry presents critical overviews of research results in organometallic chemistry. The understanding of organometallic structure, properties and mechanism has rapidly increased in recent years, opening the way for the design of organometallic compounds and reactions tailored to the needs of such diverse areas as medicine, biology, materials and organic synthesis. Coverage of the series begins wiht Volume 1 (1998).
- UC Press Books
Electronic editions of over 60 selected UC Press books are available in the following subject areas: African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, South Asian Studies, Classics, Literature, Public Health and European History. These editions are available for browsing free of charge, courtesy of the California digital Library's e-Scholarship initiative. New titles are added frequently.
- The Universal Library
This site, hosted by Carnegie-Mellon University, ambitiously aims to provide access "to all human knowledge, anytime, anywhere." Though not there yet, it does connect to a large array of books and other materials, many hosted at Carnegie-Mellon itself, and many from other sources.
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Provides access to texts in twelve languages, including English, Latin, French, and German. Some materials are available only to UVa users, but much is publicly available. Links to other full-text sites are also listed.
- University of Wisconsin Electronic Text and Multimedia Collections
The University of Wisconsin Libraries maintain an excellent collection of links to electronic texts, well annotated and browsable by title or subject category. Many of the resources are available to the general public, though not all. (Note: if you see a resource which is listed as restricted to UW users, check back on this page or our other Electronic Publications pages to see if UCSB has access as well.)
- Victorian Women Writers Project
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project (edited by Perry Willett, Indiana University) is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them.
- Women Writers Online
The Women Writers Project has placed online a collection in HTML format of over 200 texts by women writers published between 1400 and 1850. The texts may be browsed by author or searched by author or keyword.
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Housed at Indiana University, the Wright American Fiction online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction,1851-1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time. There are as of June, 2002, 2340 texts included (2,040 unedited, 300 fully edited and encoded) by 1,128 authors.
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