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Trial & New Databases
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The following are being evaulated for the Libraries' collections, or have been recently added. Feedback is appreciated. All trials are for on-campus use only unless indicated otherwise.
American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity - over 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth.
A landmark electronic collection of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering nearly three centuries of history. It showcases the writings of teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures.
In addition to the most familiar works, the collection shares previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.
19,000 poems by 177 poets from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth, including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott.
Biographical materials of nearly one million historical figures. Trial ends 9/30/2020. To login to the database, please contact the subject librarian, Julie Wang via email to jwang@binghamton.edu.
Digital version of the replicated Rare Books of China, initially nearly 800 titles. Trial ends 9/30/2020. To login to the database, please contact the subject librarian, Julie Wang via email to jwang@binghamton.edu.
Full texts of 600+ titles of Chinese ancient books, in tens of thousands of volumes, annotated and punctuated. Trial ends 9/30/2020. Please send feedback to Julie Wang.
Clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,400 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and conveniene.
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians, residents, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals for use at the point of care.
Early American Fiction 1789–1875 offers the full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain.
A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift
Unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
Original ground-breaking Chadwyck-Healey collection, containing essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets, drawn from 4,500 printed sources.
Contains 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th, and representing more than 2,700 poets.
A one-stop, state-of-the-art reference resource that includes best-evidence answers to clinical questions concerning symptoms, diseases, and treatment.
Collection of fifty of the most influential poets of the twentieth century includes the poetry of Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney.
Documents the ACLU’s legal battle to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in thirteen Southern states. Consists of case files, correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, etc. and offers a primary source perspective on civil rights issues from voting rights to the dismantling of the Jim Crow system. The papers of the ACLU's Southern Regional Office offer researchers a unique view of the inner workings of the ACLU's regional offices and the organizations with which the ACLU collaborated such as the NAACP.
MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books.
Covering subjects such art, history, sports and music, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.
Provides access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.
Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.
Provides a window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America that is of interest to both professional and general researchers. With 1.8 million pages available, the collection features publications of all kinds, from the political party newspapers at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mammoth dailies that shaped the nation at the century's end. Major newspapers stand alongside those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women’s rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.
Collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s
Examines the history of public health and the policy debates that ensued in the delivery of services at the national, state, and local levels during pivotal times in history.
Read It!™ was created for anyone who has a good foundation in English grammar and reading skills. Useful for English Language learners, it is a place to find reading material about many subjects.
Articles are short, and written to support your reading skills as you learn about topics in English that you need for school and everyday life.
Chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950, bringing together over 590,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports that recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II.
Contains major historic texts dating from from 300 to 800 A.D. translated into English. The collection is organized into topical volumes.
The original languages include Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish. Geographically, the collection includes texts from Syria, Arabia, Armenia, Georgia and Egypt; North Africa; major cities of the Roman Empire (Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople); and Spain, Gaul, Italy, Britain and Ireland.
Connects archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources. Focuses on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals.
