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| ProQuest |
American Periodicals Series Online 1740 - 1900 contains over 1,100 periodicals beginning between 1740 and 1900. Titles include Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine along with the United States' first medical journal, Medical Repository, and other titles such as Niles' Weekly Register, Vanity Fair, and Ladies Home Journal.
until May 18, 2008
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| ProQuest |
GenderWatch is a full-text database of a variety of publications including journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, and reports from the government and elsewhere. These publications provide an historical perspective on the women's movement, men's studies, and the transgenered community including how these have evolved over the years.
until May 2, 2008
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| Chadwyck-Healey |
Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs documents women in history and the women's movement over 4 centuries (1543-1945). It consists of two sections: periodicals, making up 25% of the collection and covering approximately 1860 through 1900; and books and pamphlets, making up the rest and covering a larger time span. Books and pamphlets were collected "from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand." (text from site 4/5/08) 
until May 2, 2008
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until May 31, 2008
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| Gale Cengage |
Literature Resource Center contains a vast amount of materials for the study of literature including
- Biographical entries on more than 130,000 authors, from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale sources, providing detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works
- More than 70,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review
- More than 7,000 overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction
- More than 650,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 300 scholarly journals and literary magazines
- Nearly 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays
- More than 4,500 interviews
- Nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2800 author portraits
- Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms (text from site 4/18/08)
This trial also contains the MLA International Bibliography, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series.
until May 15, 2008
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| Elsevier |
Scopus, updated daily, is again available for your use. Search over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers plus 1200 open access titles, patents from five patent offices, and scientific Web sites. An online tutorial is available here.
until May 18, 2008
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| Alexander Street Press |
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000 (Scholar's Edition) contains at least 79 "projects" each with an interpretive question and a list of resources that provide information about that question. Currently this section contains "2,400 documents [and] more than 900 images". In addition, there are over 32,000 pages about Women and Social Movements, "a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, and teaching tools". (text from site 4/21/08)
until May 21, 2008
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