Biography

• Artnet.com (Grove Dictionary of Art)
• Britannica Online [info]

Britannica Online
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
With access to four encyclopedias-Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia- Britannica Online is a site for all ages. Users can locate information quickly by using Boolean operators; browsing A-Z; or typing in words, phrases, or questions to receive a list of relevance-ranked articles. In addition to providing answers to a multitude of questions, Britannica Online also leads users to additional information about their topics though related articles, links to outside Web sites, and bibliographies.

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• Grovemusic [info]

Grovemusic
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Full-text access to the encyclopedia, with sound files, musical examples, and Web links.

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• Literature Resource Center [info]

Literature Resource Center
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Includes: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Scribner's Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors Series.

Contemporary Authors:
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select:
Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after 1959. Initial release features 50 authors derived from CLC print volumes 95-99 and 50 retrospective entries. Updates of 10-12 new authors will be added about 6 times a year as print volumes are published and 10-20 retrospective entries will be added each time. CLC Select may be searched separately or simultaneously with Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Scribner Writer's Series:
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.

Twayne's Authors Series:
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.

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• Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 [info]

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1600-2000
A collection of documentary projects pertaining to women and social movements in the United States. Primary source materials include books, images, manuscripts, journal articles, phamplets, letters, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. This database has been made available through USM Faculty Technology Grant awards to the History and Women's Studies programs.

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Books

• Books in Print [info]

Books in Print
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Global Books in Print is a comprehensive database of over 9 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming English and Spanish-language book, e-book, audio book, and video titles from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. It includes value-added content for many titles, such as professional reviews, full-text preview, tables of contents, cover images, and author biographies. Other features are an alerts service, a directory of publishers and distributors with links to home pages, stock inventory lists for top U.S. vendors, award and bestseller lists, Children’s Room, and Fiction Room. The user may download, e-mail, or create lists of records.

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• Global Books in Print [info]

Global Books in Print
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Global Books in Print is a comprehensive database of over 9 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming English and Spanish-language book, e-book, audio book, and video titles from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. It includes value-added content for many titles, such as professional reviews, full-text preview, tables of contents, cover images, and author biographies. Other features are an alerts service, a directory of publishers and distributors with links to home pages, stock inventory lists for top U.S. vendors, award and bestseller lists, Children’s Room, and Fiction Room. The user may download, e-mail, or create lists of records.

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• NetLibrary [info]

NetLibrary
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
The Netlibrary collection is a collection of 7,885 ebooks (4,480 Netlibrary titles and 3,405 Project Gutenberg titles). The collection is accessible to all Maine citizens. Users accessing titles from a recognized IP may view ebooks online in 15 minute intervals. Users who wish to view ebooks remotely, or check out an ebook for a four hour loan period, must create a Netlibrary account.

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• WorldCat [info]

WorldCat
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Bibliographic records for more than 36 million items held at OCLC member libraries throughout the world. Includes all types of information resources. Updated daily.

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• URSUS Catalog

Conference Papers & Proceedings

• PapersFirst [info]

PapersFirst
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Not Available
Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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• Proceedings [info]

Proceedings
Format: Internet
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Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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• WorldCat [info]

WorldCat
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Bibliographic records for more than 36 million items held at OCLC member libraries throughout the world. Includes all types of information resources. Updated daily.

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Dissertations

• Digital Dissertations [info]

Digital Dissertations
Format: Internet
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Index to dissertations from 1861 to the present, representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Includes the 350-word abstracts written by the author for those dissertations published after 1979. More limited coverage of master's theses from 1962 on (UM theses are not included); citations for those published after 1987 include 150-word abstracts. Database includes full text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996.

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• Electronic Theses & Dissertations (UMaine) [info]

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (UMaine)
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1998
The Electronic Theses and Dissertations database is a pilot project that provides indexing, abstracting, and full text for some University of Maine masters theses and doctoral dissertations. Access to full-text is currently restricted to University of Maine faculty, staff, and students.

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Newspaper articles

• Maine Newsstand [info]

Maine Newsstand
Format: Internet
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Index to and full text coverage of four Maine newspapers. Database includes comprehensive coverage of the Bangor Daily News (12/3/92-present) and the Portland Press Herald (10/30/95-present). Selected business coverage of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel (8/12/93-8/27/97) and Maine Times (2/4/95-present). Updated regularly.

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• ProQuest Newspapers [info]

ProQuest Newspapers
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).

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