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The DETAIL inspiration online databank gives users access to more than 5,500 DETAIL project documentations from more than 55 years of DETAIL. By using professional search functions and filter options to find key terms such as building type, material, construction year or the topic of an issue, DETAIL inspiration supports architects both in their quest for solutions and in their daily work. With every new issue of DETAIL, the databank expands by the current projects in question. Furthermore, the projects can be organized and saved as needed in personal watchlists.

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The DS is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscriptions from a variety of U.S. institutions (Huntington Library, Jewish Theological Seminary, Grolier Club, UC Berkeley, etc.).

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The ICAA Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive provides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.

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E-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc.

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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 provides access to information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.

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A collection of photographs of late 19th to early 20th centuries Japan from the E. G. Stillman Japanese Collection held by Widener Library and the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University.

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eBooks on EBSCOhost

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This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary.

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Art & Architecture Source is an art research database providing full-text art journals and magazines, detailed indexing and abstracts.

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One of the largest resources of rare materials ever collected in microfilm or electronic formats.

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96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles.

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Emerald

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Articles from key journals and books in the fields of management, information science and engineering. Most, but not all, journals and books provide full-text access.

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This encyclopedia is a multimedia history of Chicago and the entire Chicago metropolitan area that includes maps, a biographical dictionary,and a dictionary of leading Chicago businesses (1820-2000), as well as numerous articles on the area. From the Chicago History Museum, the Newberry Library, and NorthwesternUniversity.

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ETANA is envisioned to include the permanent archiving, dissemination and generation of both front- and back-end stages of scholarly knowledge (such as archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain), a portal to ANE Web resources, an electronic commons where scholars in the field can share data and images, and eventually an electronic publishing effort for "born digital" publications.

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World War I, Hildegard of Bingen, Art Nouveau, and the Euro are all covered in the multilingual Europeana archive.

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