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ABC-CLIO eBooks Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

AccessMedicine.com Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
AccessMedicine.com is an online resource that provides complete references and services for physicians, students, and health professionals who need immediate access to authoritative and current medical data. It is updated daily. The service's central resource is a repository of medical knowledge from internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care, and more. All databases in the repository contain the latest editions core medical titles from the AccessLange collection.

AccessMedicine.com - Drugs Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

AccessPharmacy Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
AccessPharmacy is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.

ACLS Humanities E-Book Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A collection of over 1,700 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These are works of major importance, from 250 publishers, that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.

ACP Medicine Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
ACP Medicine (was: Scientific American Medicine) is a comprehensive online textbook.

American Drama 1714-1915 Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714 -1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller. Part of Literature Online (LION).

Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Only accessible on campus. Contains the content of selected journals and books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society. Includes each issue of the magazines Biblical archaeology review, Bible review, and Archaeology odyssey, and the content of five books.

Black Drama - 1850 to present Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Currently contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Many works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by such writers as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston.

Black Thought and Culture : African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Black Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders form the mainstay of this corpus. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.

Books24x7 Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Electronic books, chiefly in the field of computer science (Business and Culture, Certification and Compliance, Databases, Desktop and Office Applications, Enterprise Computing, Graphic Design and Multimedia, Hardware, IBM Technologies, Networks and Protocols, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Security, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, Web Programming and Development) and Business (Business Skills, Corporate Case Studies and Interviews, Employee Training and Development, Finance and Accounting, Human Resources, International Business, Management and Leadership, Marketing and Sales, Project Management, Quality and Manufacturing Management, Team Skills, Technology in Business). LOGIN FROM THE LIBRARY CATALOG using a Hawk ID to access content.

CogNet Library Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A major electronic resource for cognitive and brain sciences which provides searchable full-text of major reference works, books, and journals from MIT Press and other publishers and resource providers. Also includes conference materials, CogSci Dictionary, Almanac of cognitive science programs, and much more.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Online version of the microfiche set Early American Imprints, 1639-1800. Resource for aspects of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, e.g., agriculture, auctions, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.

Early English Prose Fiction Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A collection of more than 200 works from the period 1500 - 1700, exploring the rich diversity of prose fiction in English in the period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form. EEPF offers the full text of works by key writers such as John Bunyan, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Nashe and Aphra Behn, and has been produced in association with the Salzburg Centre for Research on the Early English Novel (SCREEN). Access via Literature Online (LION).

ebrary Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Academic Complete is a highly interactive eBook database from ebrary that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world's leading academic, STM, and professional publishers.

ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of over 180,000 titles of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.

EEBO-TCP: Early English Books Online -- Text Creation Partnership Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Searchable text-based version of the page images available in EEBO: Early English Books Online, an online corpus of the titles published between 1475 and 1700 listed in Pollard and Redgrave, Wing, and the Thomason Tracts catalogs. The marked-up text provides full keyword searching, allowing scholars to pinpoint even minute references to their subjects as they appeared in a wide variety of early modern works. The search interface also allows scholars to uncover repeated word patterns across texts that ten years ago were only available in archives or on microfilm. Links from this text version to the page images are planned.

EEBO: Early English Books Online Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare this collection contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition.

Evans-TCP: Evans Digital Edition -- Text Creation Partnership Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Searchable text-based version of the page images available in Evans Digital Edition.

Google Book Search
Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them.

Gutenberg-e Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A collection of books from the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. (Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view PDF files; QuickTime or RealOne players are required to play audio and video files.)

Harrison's Online (AccessMedicine) Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Featuring the complete contents of the world's leading textbook of medicine Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine

Making of America
University of Michigan. A digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. This site provides access to 9,500 books and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

MD Consult Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
MD Consult provides access to more than 50 renowned medical texts, articles from more than 70 clinical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 2,500 patient education handouts, CME, and daily medical updates customized for a given specialty.

Medieval Sourcesonline Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Contains several full text books, which include hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history.

Mental Measurements Yearbook Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks."

MyiLibrary Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Includes the Springer & Humana Press e-book collections.

netLibrary Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A collection of electronic books, chiefly in the fields of Business and Computer Science. A complete listing of netLibrary books available to University of Iowa users is available through the library catalog on InfoHawk.

Oxford Reference Online : Religion and Philosophy Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published Oxford encyclopedias and dictionaries on the Bible, Buddhism, Islam, Philosophy, etc.

Oxford Scholarship Online Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

Past Masters Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Full-text humanities database, including works of such philosophers as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Mill, Bentham, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Kierkegaard, A. Smith; mostly in English.

Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

Sage eReference Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aging & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology.

Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition) Intranet Version Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Siku Quanshu is the electronic version of the Wenyuange edition of Siku Quanshu. It features a collection of 3,460 Chinese classical works in 36,000 volumes or 4,700,000 pages, which includes works on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, technology, etc. As the largest encyclopedic collection of Chinese classical works, it is the single richest source for Chinese studies.

SourceOECD Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
SourceOECD provides comparative statistics from the 30 member states (industrialized nations) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as development statistics from other countries. Includes an interactive data browser as well as PDF downloadable files. Click on Statistics link at the top of the page to get started.

Springer E-Book Collection Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
The University of Iowa Libraries through CIC has licensed a large package of E-books from Springer Verlag, published between 2005 through 2008 (with selected pre-2005 content). This link should allow library users to search and retrieve books forming part of this package until we are able to add cataloging records to InfoHawk for individual books and to link to them through InfoLink. You can also view the Springer E-Book Collection through MyiLibrary.

STATRef Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Electronic medical library.

World Bank e-Library Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Contains over 3,400 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author.

Wright American fiction, 1851-1875
A product of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), this is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are over 2,800 texts by almost 1,500 authors.

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