http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/tags/A/narratives-diaries-letters.html en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:41:02 -0400 webmaster@lib.vt.edu webmaster@lib.vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/N/S_newsbank.jpg" alt="Newsbank Readex" height="103px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX" title="America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX')" shape="rect">America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex</a> </span></h2><p><em>America's Historical Imprints</em> is a digital collection containing virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America over a 200-year period. It is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties, and more. Scanned pages available as JPEG, TIFF, and PDF. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000847"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:42:00 -0500 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Governance Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/G/gale-encyclopedia-of-american-law.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_gale-virtual-ref.jpg" alt="Gale Virtual Reference Library" height="132px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;eisbn=9781414443027&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;version=1.0" title="Gale Encyclopedia of American Law " target="_blank" class="vt_link_blank, vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;eisbn=9781414443027&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;version=1.0')" shape="rect">Gale Encyclopedia of American Law </a> </span></h2><p>The <i>Gale Encyclopedia of American Law</i> provides articles in HTML and PDF on all aspects of American law: legal terms and concepts, cases, people, entities, and events. In Focus essays accompany related entries and provide additional facts, details, and arguments on particularly interesting, important, or controversial issues raised by those entries. Details on landmark legal cases and several primary documents are also provided. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000876"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/G/gale-encyclopedia-of-american-law.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/G/gale-encyclopedia-of-american-law.html Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Governance Narratives, diaries, and letters Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-inaugurals-the-speeches-the-presidents-and-their-times-from-gale.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_gale-virtual-ref.jpg" alt="Gale Virtual Reference Library" height="132px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/gale/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a></div><h2><span> <a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/infomark.do?action=interpret&amp;eisbn=9781410304803&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;type=aboutBook&amp;version=1.0&amp;authCount=1&amp;u=viva_vpi" title="American Inaugurals: The Speeches, The Presidents, and Their Times from Gale Virtual Reference Library" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://go.galegroup.com/ps/infomark.do?action=interpret&amp;eisbn=9781410304803&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;type=aboutBook&amp;version=1.0&amp;authCount=1&amp;u=viva_vpi')" shape="rect">American Inaugurals: The Speeches, The Presidents, and Their Times from Gale Virtual Reference Library</a> </span></h2><p><i>American Inaugurals</i> presents the inaugural address of the U.S. president from George Washington through George W. Bush. It includes a brief biography, a list of important events during the president's term of office, the actual text of the speech (in HTML and PDF), and notable quotes, plus portraits and reproductions of period paints, photos, and engravings.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000876"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-inaugurals-the-speeches-the-presidents-and-their-times-from-gale.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-inaugurals-the-speeches-the-presidents-and-their-times-from-gale.html Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Narratives, diaries, and letters Restricted to Virginia Tech users Screencast tutorials available http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-study-center-from-oxford.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_aasc.jpg" alt="African American Study Center from Oxford" height="190px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="database provides Get VText links" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif" title="database provides Get VText links" width="80" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.oxfordaasc.com/search/advanced_search.jsp" title="African American Study Center from Oxford" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.oxfordaasc.com/search/advanced_search.jsp')" shape="rect">African American Study Center from Oxford</a> </span></h2><p>The <em>African American Studies Center</em> provides full-text articles from encyclopedias and other references sources, plus primary sources with commentary, maps, charts, and biographies on African and African-American history, culture, literature, education, and the arts. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000281"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-study-center-from-oxford.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-study-center-from-oxford.html Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Narratives, diaries, and letters Restricted to Virginia Tech users Get VText http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/archive-finder-c19-from-chadwyck-healey.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/C/S_c19.jpg" alt="C19 The nineteenth centure index" height="199px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://c19index.chadwyck.com/gotoSearchCollections.do?initialise=ausa" title="Archive Finder C19 from Chadwyck-Healey" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://c19index.chadwyck.com/gotoSearchCollections.do?initialise=ausa')" shape="rect">Archive Finder C19 from Chadwyck-Healey</a> </span></h2><p><em>Archive Finder</em> is a current directory of repositories and collections of primary source material across the United States, including <a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/">Special Collections</a> at Virginia Tech. Using <em>Archive Finder</em>, researchers can read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material relevant to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000431"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/archive-finder-c19-from-chadwyck-healey.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/archive-finder-c19-from-chadwyck-healey.html Catalogs (about publications) Narratives, diaries, and letters Virginia Tech Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/animalbase.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_animalbase.jpg" alt="AnimalBase" height="147px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/search" title="AnimalBase" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/search')" shape="rect">AnimalBase</a> </span></h2><p><i>AnimalBase</i> provides copyright-free open access to zoological works and provides manually verified lists of names of zoological genera and species. It includes digitized books and journal articles, most from prior to 1900, in their original language. Documents display as scanned images; many can be downloaded as PDFs. You can also search or browse by species, genus, or family. 350 BCE-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/animalbase.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/animalbase.html Article searching Ebook packages Ejournal packages Multimedia Narratives, diaries, and letters Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-slavery-composite-autobiography-from-greenwood.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_greenwood.jpg" alt="Greenwood" height="146px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://gem.greenwood.com/ip.asp?c=1054" title="American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://gem.greenwood.com/ip.asp?c=1054')" shape="rect">American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood</a> </span></h2><p><i>American Slavery</i> contains both an overview of the collection of former slave narratives with related links (available without charge from the home page) and the collection of narratives themselves. Each narrative is delivered as a PDF as originally transcribed, with some interviews available as sound files. Searchable by name of narrator, interviewer, or master, the county or state where the narrator lived in slavery, the narrator's age or year of birth, or the location of the material in the print version (volume and page). 1920s-1940s (original interviews). <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000149"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-slavery-composite-autobiography-from-greenwood.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-slavery-composite-autobiography-from-greenwood.html Multimedia Narratives, diaries, and letters Freely accessible databases Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-periodical-series-online-from-proquest.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/P/S_proquest.gif" alt="ProQuest search screen" height="134px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.proquest.com/americanperiodicals/advanced?accountid=14826" title="APS - American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 from ProQuest" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.proquest.com/americanperiodicals/advanced?accountid=14826')" shape="rect">APS - American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 from ProQuest</a> </span></h2><p><em>American Periodicals Series Online</em> contains over 1,100 full-text periodicals (in HTML and PDF) that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including scholarly, special interest, and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Covers all academic disciplines including the sciences, though news and literary magazines are most prevalent. An excellent source of primary documents.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000296"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-periodical-series-online-from-proquest.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-periodical-series-online-from-proquest.html Article searching Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Professional and trade literature Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/L/S_LoC-am.jpg" alt="Library of Congress" height="116px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="Gold open access - publishing" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_open-access-gold.gif" title="Gold open access - publishing" width="14" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" title="American Memory from the Library of Congress" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html')" shape="rect">American Memory from the Library of Congress</a> </span></h2><p><i>American Memory</i> is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s digitized American historical materials, organized into more than 100 thematic collections. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Each collection provides explanatory features to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections. 1400s-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html Catalogs (about publications) Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon Gold open access: publishing http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/america-history-and-life-from-ebscohost.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/E/S_ebsco.jpg" alt="EBSCOhost interface" height="123px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_viva.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="36" /> <img alt="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_mobile.gif" title="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" width="10" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/ebsco/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="database provides Get VText links" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif" title="database provides Get VText links" width="80" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=ahl" title="America: History and Life from EBSCOhost" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=ahl')" shape="rect">America: History and Life from EBSCOhost</a> </span></h2><p><em>America: History and Life</em> is an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database includes citations and links to journal articles, dissertations, primary documents, and book and media reviews. Some content is available full-text (PDF and HTML). Allows limiting to peer reviewed articles, those with references, and to historical periods (date ranges). 1863-present. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000120"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/america-history-and-life-from-ebscohost.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/america-history-and-life-from-ebscohost.html Article searching Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Reviews and critiques Theses and dissertations Restricted to Virginia Tech users VIVA Mobile interface Screencast tutorials available Get VText Contents of database in Summon