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American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement	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.
Bartleby.com	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.
eAudioEssentials Collection via NetLibrary	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.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment via Alexander Street Press	Description: This first release of Early Encounters in North America (EENA) 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	Full-text: Yes Unpublished Books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.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) via ProQuest	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.
GenderWatch via ProQuest	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, plus Search Tips from http://training.proquest.com/trc/splash/gnw/tips.htm.
	Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945 via ProQuest/ChadwykHealey	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.
Google Explore Shakespeare	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.
Internet Archive:  Open-Access Text Archive	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.
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology via knovel	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.
knovel Critical Tables via knovel	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.
NetLibrary	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
	Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.  A tutorial is available at http://www.oclc.org/netlibrary/demo/.
	Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through a personally customizable NetLibrary account.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories via Alexander Street Press	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.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 via Alexander Street Press	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.
Project Gutenberg	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.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period via Alexander Street Press	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.
Smithsonian Physical Tables via knovel	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.
Sunday Herald Online's eBooks	Description: The eBooks section of Scotland's Sunday Herald Online which brings downloadable "key texts in digital format" to its readers every month.  Selections include works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Jack London.
	Coverage: N/A
	Full-text: Yes
	Online guide or tutorial: No
	Remote access: Yes, via the WWW link to the left.
Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances via knovel	Description: Reference containing a table of values with a list of substances accompanied by thermochemical data. The data collected includes 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.
University of California Press eScholarship Editions	Description: The University of California Press eScholarship Editions are made available through a California Digital Library purchase from NetLibrary of 1,500 electronic book files on behalf of the UC community. eScholarship, which supports experiments in the production and dissemination of scholarly communications, converted the books into fully searchable XML.  This link leads to a subject list of the over 350 publicly-accessible titles in the collection, many of which are out of print.
	Coverage: N/A
	Full-text: Yes
	Online guide or tutorial: No
	Remote access: Yes, via the WWW link to the left.
UW-Madison E-Books, E-Texts and Multimedia	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.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875	Description: A digital collection of over 2,000 19th century American fiction texts digitized by Indiana University, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.
	Coverage: 1851-1875
	Full-text: Yes
	Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
	Remote access: Yes, via WWW link to left.

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