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Electronic Resources
This page is designed to help you locate online resources, be
they e-books, e-journals
(including newspapers), or multimedia
resources. While many of these listings are databases licensed
by the library, a number of free web resources are included.
Many of the resources listed below have print equivalents. Since
almost all of the library's licensed databases have print equivalents,
we have chosen to exclude resources that are periodical indexes or
bibliographies and list only those resources that contain identifiable,
full-text items.
Books
Resources Licensed by the Hiram College Library
(Restricted to use on-campus or by Hiram students, faculty and staff
only)
Collections - These resources contain collections
of e-books, or the full-text of poems, short stories, dramas, etc.
African-American Poetry
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of some 2,500 poems
written in the late 18th and the 19th centuries. |
American
Drama (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Provides full-text of some 700 plays from more than 300
playwrights. When complete, the database will will provide
text to more than 2,000 plays from 1714 to the present. |
American Poetry
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of about 35,000 poems by
more than 200 American writers from colonial times to the early
20th century. |
ARTFL
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Contains the full-text of nearly
2,000 texts from classic works of French literature to
non-fiction prose. Covers the 17th through the 20th
century with some Medieval and Renaissance texts also available. |
Early
American Fiction (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Provides the full-text of the first editions of American novels
and short stories (some 440 works) written before 1850. |
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
The full-text of eleven major
editions of Shakespeare's works, along with 24 contemporary
printings of individual plays and more than 100 adaptations and
sequels from the 17th through the 19th centuries. |
Eighteenth Century Fiction
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of 96 works of British
prose from 1700 to 1780. |
Electronic Reference Books (off-campus
Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of hundreds of specialized
reference books, including encyclopedias, handbooks, and
biographical collections. The text is fully searchable. |
English
Poetry 600-1900
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of more than 175,000 poems
by some 1,400 poets from the British Commonwealth and
ex-colonial countries. |
English Prose Drama
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of more than 1,800 plays
from the Renaissance through the 19th century. |
English Verse Drama
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of more than 1,500 works
of poetry intended for the stage. Coverage is from the
late 13th century through the 19th century. |
netLibrary
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Hiram College students, faculty,
and staff have access to thousands of e-books purchased by
OhioLINK, as well as public-domain titles. Titles owned by
OhioLINK can be found in the OhioLINK catalog. To access
from off-campus you must first create a personal account from an
on-campus computer. For more information, please see our netLibrary
User Guide.
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Oxford Reference Online
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of some 100 dictionaries,
handbooks, and guides from the Oxford University Press. |
Safari Tech Books
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Provides more than 1,2oo e-books in
the field of information technology. |
20th Century African-American Poetry
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of 12,000 poems by more
than 100 poets. |
20th Century American Poetry
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of more than 52,000 poems
from collected works and individual volumes of some 315 poets. |
20th Century English Poetry
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of more than 44,000 poems
by some 288 English poets. Incorporates the Modern
Poetry Collection and the Faber Poetry Library. |
Women Writers Online
Provides the full-text of several
hundred publications (books, essays, pamphlets, etc.) by women
between 1400 and 1850. |
William
Butler Yeats Collection (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
A complete electronic edition of Yeats's work, bringing together
22 printed volumes of critical and fictional prose, poetry, and
plays. |
Individual Titles - Specific titles that are a
"database" in and of themselves.
Access Science
(off-campus Hiram users,
click
here)
The web version of the McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, this database also
includes news from the world of science, biographies, and links
to related sites. |
Annals of American History
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text access to more than 2,000
primary documents and 700 multimedia pieces, including pictures,
video clips, and audio of famous speeches. |
The Bible in English
(off- campus Hiram users, click
here)
Contains the full-text of 13
complete editions, five New Testaments, two Gospel works, and
William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch, and Johan. Bibles
are from the 10th century through the 20th century. |
Books in Print
More than 1.8 million records for
books currently in-print, forthcoming, or out-of-print. |
CQ Researcher
Each weekly issue of CQ Research
provides in-depth coverage of a single issue in the news.
Each issues follows a standard template to provide overview,
background, an assessment of the current situation, outlook,
chronology, pro and con essays, and a bibliography. Browse
by issue or topic and searchable by keyword access to the
full-text. |
Contemporary Authors
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Provides basic biographical
information and a short, critical overview of contemporary
authors. |
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Text of selected entries (which
themselves are excerpts of previously published works) from
Gale's print series Contemporary Literary Criticism. |
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Documents the lives of authors from
all time periods and genres. Provides full-text
biographies and critical studies, plus additional bibliographic
citations. |
Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
From the publishers of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, this is billed as the "most
detailed and comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish
language." |
Enyclopaedia Britannica
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, plus images and an atlas and a dictionary. |
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
More than 25,000 entries in an
encyclopedia aimed at middle and high-school students.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Online it's called AccessScience
(see above for a brief description) |
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
The tenth edition of a
standard college dictionary. |
Oxford English Dictionary
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
The standard historical dictionary
of the English language, this second edition lists more than one
million words. |
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
This free to all, dynamic encyclopedia is a work in progress.
Maintained and kept current by a group of experts, this is a
project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University. |
Value Line
Full-text of the print Value Line
Investment Survey, plus six other Value Line publications
covering stocks, mutual funds, daily options, and convertibles. |
World Almanac
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Text of the most recent World
Almanac and Book of Facts, plus the World Almanac of U.S.
Politcs.
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Free Web Resources
(freely available to everyone)
Collections
Bartleby.com
Publishes online versions of
reference books, as well as fiction and non-fiction.
Please note that most materials posted here are out of
copyright. This means many titles, while familiar, are
older editions. Bartlett's, for example, is a 1919
edition, while Gray's Anatomy is the "classic 1918
publication." Still very useful, but look carefully
at the publication date. |
Early Americas Digital Archive
Full-text of materials
written in or about the Americas from 1492 to about 1820.
Part of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(MITH) at the University of Maryland. |
National Academy Press
The National Academy Press, created
by the National Academies to publish reports issued by the
National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of
Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National
Research Council, makes available more than 1,500 of its books
available online for free. |
National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center E-Books
Electronic versions of historical books from the collection of
the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati,
Ohio. All text is searchable. |
Project
Gutenburg
More than 2,500 books, all in the
public domain, available in basic ascii text. |
University of Pennsylvania Digital Library
This free-to-all section of Penn's
Digital Library contains the full-text of more than 20,000
books. You can search by author, title, or subject or by
keywords in the title. |
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
A project of the University of
Virginia Libraries, the Electronic Text Center provides
approximately 45,000 online and offline texts in the
humanities. The texts cover 12 languages. Many of
the texts are restricted to Univerisyt of Virginia users, but a
number are available to all. Especially useful are the
texts from the University of Virginia special collections. |
Individual Titles
Periodicals
Resources Licensed by the Hiram College Library
(Restricted to use on-campus or by Hiram students, faculty and staff
only)
Note: We have chosen to list only online collections of
journals and newspapers. For individual titles, click on Periodical
Holdings and be sure to look for your specific title under both
alphabets.
Journals
ACM Digital Library
Provides the full-text (from
1991 to the present) for the journals and transactions of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). You can search
the entire database or browse by a specific journal. |
American
Periodical Series (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text of more than 1,000 periodicals published in the U.S.
between 1741 and 1900. Includes general interest
magazines, women's magazines, and scientific and medical
journals. Great source for American history and
literature. |
Annual Reviews
Searchable full-text of all
29 Annual Reviews publications. Full-text is provided from
1996 (or from volume 1) to the present with bibliographic
citations to articles for the years 1984 through 1995. |
Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Searchable, full-text issues of
journals from a number of major publishers. More than
5,500 titles (as of 10/1/03) are available. |
JSTOR
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Searchable full-text of some 450 scholarly journals in all
disciplines. JSTOR provides back files to the first issue
of a journal, but stops 3 to 5 years before the current year of
publication. |
Project Muse
Project Muse journals (published by a variety of university
presses) are available full-text in the Electronic Journal
Center. |
PsycArticles
PsycArticles (full-text journals from the American
Psychological Association) are part of the Electronic Journal
Center. |
Science Direct
Science Direct titles (full-text journals from Elsevier) are
available in the Electronic Journal Center. |
Newspapers - While most newspapers now have a web
site with free access to the day's news, many do not have back issues
available online for free. The collections listed below provide
back issues, while allowing you to search many newspapers at once.
To find newspaper web sites, check one of the free, web-based online
directories such as NewsDirectory.com,
Online Newspapers.com., or
World Press.
America's
Newspapers (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Complete full-text of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer (from 1991) and the Akron Beacon Journal (from
1985). Also includes full-text of 15 other Ohio newspapers
and 13 newspapers from around the United States. |
Ethnic
Newswatch
Provides in-depth, full-text coverage to some 200 newspapers and
magazines from the ethnic, minority, and native press.
Some articles date to the mid-1980s with 7,500 articles added
each month. A number of the articles are in Spanish and a
Spanish search interface is available. |
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
More than 5,000 sources that provide
full-text coverage of newspapers, as well as business, law,
medicine, health, and general reference sources. The news
section includes newspapers, transcripts from TV news shows, and
polling data. |
Newspaper Source
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Full-text coverage of nearly 225
newspapers, newswires, and other sources. Includes 177
U.S. newspapers, 18 international newspapers, and 12 news wires. |
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
The library subscribes only to the Historical
New York Times in this collection of old
newspapers. More than 3 million pages are available from
1851 to 1999. Searchable by index or keyword. |
Free Web Resources
(freely available to everyone)
Journals
American City Business Journals
Contains searchable full-text from
39 metropolitan business newspapers, all published by American
City Business Journals, Inc. Covering 1996 to the present,
the database includes publications from Cincinnati, Columbus,
Dayton, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo among others. |
Highwire
While mostly a subscription required
site, Highwire is also the largest archive of free, full-text
science articles. There are 21 free journals and another
144 journals that provide free access to the backfiles (issues
older than 6 months to 2 years depending on the individual
title). We have linked in our online Periodical
Holdings list as many individual titles as we can identify. |
Multimedia Resources
Resources Licensed by the Hiram College Library
(Restricted to use on-campus or by Hiram students, faculty and staff
only)
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archives
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
The online archives for the
Associated Press (AP) including photographs (some 750,000 going
back to circa-1840), graphics (some 14,500 maps, graphs, charts,
etc.), audio (500, 000 audio clips, and text (800,000 news
stories back to 1997) |
Art and Architecture
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Contains more than 80,000 art and
architecture images from commercial providers such as AMICO (Art
Museum Image Consortium) and Saskia, plus selections from other
OhioLINK institutions, including the Akron Art Museum. |
Digital Video Collection
Some 800 full-length videos from the
Films for the Humanities and Sciences. The videos require the
free RealPlayer plug-in. |
Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations
Some 600 demonstrations of physics
principles. Videos are in Real Video format. |
Foreign Language Database
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Contains more than 175 short (from
about 10 seconds to a minute and a half) video clips of native
speakers on a variety of topics related to their culture and
everyday life. Languages include Arabic, Chinese
(Mandarin), French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili.
Produced by the ViewPoints Project of the Five Colleges of Ohio
consortium. The videos are in QuickTime format. |
Historic and Archival Collections
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Images from the Wright Brothers
collection at Wright State University, plus 200+ photos and
letters from the E.W. Scripps Archive at Ohio University. |
LANDSAT 7 Satellite Images
Satellite data for Ohio, including
infrared and true color composite views. New images are
available every 16 days, weather permitting. |
Recorded Animal Sounds
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Some 3,900 recorded sounds of wood
warblers. Another 25,000 recordings of some 1,000 species
are currently being loaded. Recordings are from the Borror
Lab at Ohio State University. |
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Large-scale street plans of Ohio
towns and cities from 1867 to 1970. |
Social Sciences Database
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
A variety of resources including
squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of Greek and Latin
inscriptions and more than 500 images related to Mayan
archaeology. |
Free Web Resources
American Memory Project
More than 7 million items from some
100 historical collections at the Library of Congress. |
Ohio Memory Project
Digital images of items from
libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums across
Ohio. The state's answer to the national American Memory
Project, the database includes items from Hiram College. |
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