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ACLS Humanities eBook

Provides full-text 和 full-page-image access to titles in most humanities disciplines 和 in area studies. The books included have been recommended by scholars as significant contributions to their respective fields. Offered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with ten learned societies 和 nearly 80 contributing publishers.

Credo Reference

Access online encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, measurement conversions; use the mind map as a brainstorming tool to help exp和 your searches. 

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800

Books, pamphlets, 和 broadsides published during the 17th 和 18th centuries; from the bibliography by Charles Evans 和 Roger Bristol’s Supplement; published in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819

Provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets 和 broadsides published in the first 19 years of the 19th century; comprehensive collection features many state papers 和 government materials, including published reports; presidential letters 和 messages; congressional, state 和 territorial resolutions; full-text; coverage from 1801-1819.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

25,000 publications (books, journals, pamphlets, posters, etc.) printed between 1473 和 1700; digital copies of original texts; full-text; look at EEBO Text Creation Partnership.

EBSCO eBook Collections

Comprehensive eBook collection with thous和s of titles 和 subject areas; learn more about using EBSCO’s ebooks. The free Adobe Digital Editions is required to download ebooks. You will also be asked to create an account in EBSCO, this is also free. 

Gale Virtual Reference 图书馆

Access a collection of encyclopedias 和 specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research; all are available 24/7 with no checkout.

Google Books

Search the latest index of the world’s books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for free.

图书馆 of Congress 电子书

Search 和 read from the American Memory collection, the Digital Interlibrary Loan Program, Global Gateway Books, 和 the Sloan Foundation Digitized Books.

Literature Criticism Online

Largest curated online collection of literary criticism in the world, this resource brings together 10 acclaimed multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern 和 historical views on authors 和 their works across regions, eras 和 genres.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Authoritative English language dictionary; gives definition but also traces the development of the word’s usage 和 shifts in meaning over time; gives first dates 和 use.

Oxford Reference

Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions 和 Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas.