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ABC-CLIO History Reference Online


Ad Fontes: The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts (Alexander Street Press)

This comprehensive electronic collection gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to more than 1,200 works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. These works include the theological writings of more than 300 Protestant authors, as well as a wide range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical treatises, and Bible translations. From the followers of Luther and Calvin to the leading figures of the Anabaptist movement, the writers represented in the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts can now be studied and compared in ways that will open new avenues of research for the next generation of scholars.


Ad Fontes: The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (Alexander Street Press)

When complete, this collection will give scholars access to over 1500 works, all primary source material from the 16th and 17th centuries. Into one extensive, fully searchable collection we have gathered all the key catechisms, scholarly treatises, papal documents, devotional works, and theological volumes that sparked and sustained the reform from within the Catholic Church in the heady years before, during, and after the landmark decrees of the Council of Trent. The collection currently includes 371 titles.


ebrary
A full text database of more than 30,000 books, ebrary Academic Complete has books in all disciplines. You will need to download the ebrary Reader in order to view these materials. You can search by key word, full-text, publisher or author, and can create your own personal bookshelf of materials you wish to save.


Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale)

Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of eBook reference content in a database format, allowing libraries to choose exactly which titles to make available to their patrons. The sources that Gale Virtual Reference Library offers in eBook format include multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science. In addition to titles available from Thomson Gale, you can also access content from other publishers, including John Wiley & Sons, SAGE Reference, and Cambridge University Press. You can display the list of sources that make up your library's collection by clicking the Title List link.


Humanities E-Books (ACLS)
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book Project is a collaboration of ten learned societies, 250 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of more than 1,500 high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by subject specialists and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project was initially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collection is expected to add about 300 new titles per year.


NetLibrary (OCLC)
netLibrary is a collection of over 15,000 electronic books, made available through the University of Detroit Mercy and the Michigan Electronic Library. In addition to many current and recent titles, the collection includes over  3,000 classic texts that are no longer copyrighted. Books may be read online; printing options are limited.


Oxford Reference Online (Oxford)
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. The Collection offers detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage provided by Oxford Core Collection. (Description taken from Oxford Reference Online website)


Rittenhouse R2 Library

The R2 Library is an online collection of 550 titles in Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health professions. Titles are selected from 27 health sciences publishers, including Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Oxford University Press and Springer. new titles are added regularly.

UDM is fortunate to have a trial of this collection through May 15, 2008. Your feedback is valuable for helping to determine which titles should be purchased for permanent access. please send comments to libbeygh@udmercy.edu.