Full-Text Electronic Books & Digital Audio Books
- Description: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
- Coverage: 1000-1900.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via the WWW link to the left.
- Description: “The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.”.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes, via WWW link to left.
- Description: Downloadable audiobooks from NetLibrary and Recorded Books are digital versions of literary classics that you can download and listen to on your computer or portable listening device. In the Audiobooks Center you can search for audiobook titles, see featured titles and generate a list of all audiobook titles or link to additional information about checking out, downloading and listening to downloadable audiobooks.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: N/A.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
- Description: This first release of Early Encounters in North America contains approximately 10,250 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: Yes Unpublished Books.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, EEBO will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources. Searchable fields include Author, Title, Printer, Publication date, Type of illustration, and Library of Congress subject heading. Records are linked to the corresponding page images, downloadable in Adobe PDF.
- Coverage: 1475-1700.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: GenderWatch is a full text database focusing on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With archival material dating back to 1970 in some cases, it is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women’s movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.
- Coverage: Varies by title; some titles 1970-present.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: This online resource delivers two million page images from the Gerritsen Collection, a collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women’s rights spanning four centuries and fifteen languages put together by Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen.
- Coverage: 1543-1945.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
- Description: Links to all of Shakespeare’s plays through Google Book Search.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes, via the WWW link to the left.
- Description: A collection of free, open-access digitized texts. Sub-collections include Canadian Libraries, the Million Book Project, Open Source Books, Project Gutenberg, the Children’s Library, and Arpanet.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes, via WWW link to left.
- Description: A reference book containing critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances.
- Coverage:.
- Full-text: Yes Single Reference Text.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: Reference book containing tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 13,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have 385 solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have 500 compounds.
- Coverage:.
- Full-text: Yes Single Reference Text.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: NetLibrary provides access to the full text of the over 9,000 electronic books purchased by the Wisconsin NetLibrary Academic and Public Library Consortia, as well as an additional 4,000 free e-books whose content is in the public domain.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through a personally customizable NetLibrary account.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Description: The North American Immigrant database provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Their goal is to include more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, much of the material being previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In selected cases, users can to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants or view images of their scrapbooks.
- Coverage: 1840-present.
- Full-text: Yes Unpublished Books.
- Online guide or tutorial: A Guided Tour and online help are available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: A growing collection of approximately 82,000 pages of women’s diaries and letters spanning from Colonial America to 1950. Also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
- Coverage: Colonial America to 1950.
- Full-text: Yes Unpublished Books.
- Online guide or tutorial: A Guided Tour and online help are available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: A huge repository of public domain electronic texts begun in 1971 by Michael Hart. The collection includes classic works by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help and FAQs are available.
- Remote access: Yes, via WWW link to left.
- Description: Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry from 47 authors, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.
- Coverage: Approximately 1780-1900.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
- Description: Reference source comprised of 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
- Coverage:.
- Full-text: Yes Single Reference Text.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
- Description: Referencecontaining atable of valueswitha list of substances accompanied by thermochemical data.Thedata collectedincludes 5840 values of heats of formation; and 350 values of heats of transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction.
- Coverage:.
- Full-text: Yes Single Reference Text.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
- Description: Locally digitized collections from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Coverage: N/A.
- Full-text: Some full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes, via WWW at link to left.
- Description: A digital collection of over 2,000 19th century American fiction texts digitized by Indiana University, as listed in Lyle Wright’s bibliography.
- Coverage:1851-1875.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via WWW link to left.
