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AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - 1840 to present - Full Text - Help
Current year's photos from the Associated Press photo library and over 750,000 photos dating from the 1840s. Separate databases include graphics, maps, illustrations, and logos dating back to the 1920s with AP captions.
ACLS Humanities E-Book - Full Text
Full-text e-books in the humanities, offered by the the American Council of Learned Societies in collaboration with various learned societies and academic publishers.
Ebrary - Full Text - Help
Collection of over 14,000 documents, including books and maps, covering all academic disciplines. Many published within the last 3 years.
Google Books - Full Text
Indexes the full text of a growing number of books. For some books complete text is online; for others only a small portion. Printing and downloading are not available.
Index Translationum - 1979 to present
Cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in 100+ UNESCO Member States, with 1,300,000 notices in all disciplines. Updated quarterly.
Library Catalogs
English Short Title Catalog - 1473 - 1800
Lists books published in Britain and North America. For selected full-text of items published pre-1700 in Britain, see Early English Books Online; for selected full-text of items published pre-1800 in America, see Early American Imprints.
CW MARS
Catalogs for Central and Western Massachusetts public and academic libraries.
Five College Library Catalog - Help
Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst.
Forbes Library
Catalog for the public library, Northampton, MA
Henry N. Flynt Library
Catalog for Historic Deerfield, MA
LibDex
Link to other libraries' Web-based catalogs, listed by country.
Library of Congress Catalog
LIBWEB
Libweb currently lists over 2400 pages from libraries in over 70 countries.
Ohiolink WebPAC
Catalog of Ohio libraries and table of contents information such as author and chapter title.
WorldCat - all dates
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records.
Book Purchases and Reviews
Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bücher / German Books in Print
Publication and price information for German books, videos, etc.
AcqWeb
Contains publisher and copyright information
Book Review Digest - 1983 to present
Reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books from periodicals published in the U. S., Canada, and Great Britain. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication.
Book Review Digest Retrospective - 1905-1982
Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
Book Suggestion Form
Suggest a purchase for the libraries' collections.
Books in Print - 1979 to present
Includes information on scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books covering all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. Includes titles declared out-of-print from July 1979 to the present.
Educational Media Reviews Online - 1997 to present - Full Text
Reviews of videos, DVDs, and CD-ROMs from major educational and documentary distributors.
GOBI (Staff/Faculty Resource) - password required
YBP approval plan & book order information.
New York Review of Books - 1978 to present - Full Text
Full-text articles and reviews from this biweekly newpaper of literary, cultural, and political affairs.
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - 1902-1990. MLIN - Full Text
More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the TLS are available.
Times Literary Supplement Subscriber Archive - 1994 to present - Full Text
Access to articles from every issue of the TLS from 1994. (Issues are added to the Archive one month after publication). Username/password required; ask at Reference Desk.

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