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Worldcat.org is a global catalog of library content and materials.
WorldCat.org is the web interface for the world's largest network of library content and services. Over 10,000 libraries have provided access to their records and catalogs through this resource.
Online collection of scholarly e-books in the humanities.
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Subject Areas: Humanities
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of over 5,000 books of high quality in the humanities.
Fields currently covered include the following: African History, American History, Animal Studies, Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Asian History, Australasian/Oceanian History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Byzantine History, Canadian History, Caribbean History, Central European History, Comparative/World, Eastern European/Russian History, Economic History, Environmental Studies, European History, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American History, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Middle Eastern History, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
New in 2018, this collection makes out-of-print titles available as part of NEH & Mellon funded "Humanities Open Book Program," providing scholars with rarely used out of print books.
Format: Full Text
Database Producer: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Contains almost 2.5 million entries for doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
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Subject Areas: General
Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) contains almost 2.5 million entries for doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database includes citations and full text of materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Since 1997, new publications have been available electronically, and many publications can be ordered through the system for a fee. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities.
Format: Index and full text to Dissertations Dates of Coverage: 1861- Update Schedule: Daily. Database Producer: ProQuest.
Collection of thousands of e-books on a wide range of academic subjects.
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Subject Areas: General
Ebrary, now known as Ebook Central, is a collection of e-books on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles with new titles added on an annual basis.
Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest.
Ebooks from leading university presses, covering all academic subjects.
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Subject Areas: General
Offering 165,000+ e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others.
Please note, this database searches a collection of 165,442 ebooks allowing unlimited, simultaneous use as well as a collection of 15,460 ebooks that allow single user access (only). Check the "Concurrent User Level" field in the database record to verify access.
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Subject Areas: General
EBSCO eBook Collection is an ebook library covering many academic subjects.
This collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain ebooks. Users can preview an ebook online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable.
The EBSCO eBook Collection provides online access to one user at a time. Please use another eBook Collection, such as the EBSCO eBook Academic Collection, when assigning materials for class use.
eBooks from Harvard University Press, University of Toronto Press, Columbia University Press, University of California, and Stanford University Press.
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Subject Areas: All
De Gruyter Online is distributingeBooks from Harvard University Press, University of Toronto Press, Columbia University Press, University of California, and Stanford University Press along with open access eBooks from various academic publishers.
Format: Full text ebooks
Dates of Coverage: 1650-current
Update Schedule: irregular
Database Producer: De Gruyter
Open Access, academic ebooks, ejournals, and videos on a variety of subjects, funded by libraries around the world.
Off Campus Access: Open Access, available for everyone for free.
Subjects: Humanities, Social Science
Knowledge Unlatched contains collections of open access, scholarly ebooks, ejournals and videos that are freely available to anyone. These collections focus on Humanities and Social Sciences titles.
The Knowledge Unlatched model depends on many libraries from around the world sharing the payment of a single Title Fee to a publisher, in return for a book being made available on a Creative Commons license via OAPEN, HathiTrust, and a KU Cloud Library built on BiblioBoard as a fully downloadable PDF.
Format: Full Text, videos
Dates of Coverage: Varies
Update Schedule: Annually
Database Distributor: Knowledge Unlatched / LYRASIS
Thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences
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Subject Areas: Humanities, Science, Social Science
The Electronic Book Center contains thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The Electronic Center contains electronic books purchased by Ohio academic libraries from these publishers: ABC-CLIO, Gale, Oxford University Press, Sage, Springer, Wiley, Chadwyck-Healey, Oxford Scholarship Online, . Please note, some new ebooks are only added to the new platform.
Full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press and partner presses, including both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences.
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Subject Areas: Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion.
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press and partner presses.
Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Subject collections are available in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. New books are added regularly.
These books are also available through the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center, where they are searchable along with books from other publishers.
Partner presses with selected content available on the Oxford Scholarship Online platform include: University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, MIT Press, NYU Press, Princeton University Press, and Yale University Press.
Format: Full Text Books Coverage: 1990 - 2020 Database Producer: Oxford University Press.
Digital humanities and social sciences books and journals, from university presses and scholarly societies.
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Subject Areas: General
Project MUSE is an online archive of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. Project MUSE contains Open Access (OA) content. To see the title list of OA books and journals, click here.
Format: Full Text Journals and eBooks
Database Producer: Johns Hopkins University Press
Please Note: Project MUSE provides access to alumni as well as current members of the Denison community.
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