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Databases
Publication coverage: 1946 -
The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes.
Dryad originated from an initiative among a group of leading journals and scientific societies in evolutionary biology and ecology to adopt a joint data archiving policy (JDAP) for their publications, and the recognition that easy-to-use, sustainable, community-governed data infrastructure was needed to support such a policy.
Publication coverage: 1956-2006
DynaMed is a next-generation clinical reference resource useful for getting answers to clinical questions quickly and easily. Content is written and reviewed by a team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis.
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection provides access to over 2,000 e-books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences.
Database of Ontario statutes and regulations, both consolidated and source law.
This collection 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, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Publication coverage: 1534-1850
Documents early encounters in North America from 1534 to 1850.Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Publication coverage: 1473 - 1700
EEBO includes full text facsimiles of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700.Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
Publication coverage: 1473 - 1700
The Text Creation Partnership, which provides highly searchable versions of the texts, has made the first 25,000 works freely available. The interface, at the University of Michigan, allows proximity and boolean searching within the available works, but does not search the full Early English Books Online (EEBO) database.