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This is a virtual library of Spanish academic journals, hosted by the University de la Rioja in Spain.

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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 Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker series has been in publication since 1981. It covers 31 works of major authors spanning eleven centuries and includes 16 collections of historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts. Collections of essays, speeches and other non-literary material add context and background material.

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Digitalia Hispanica

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This database contains full text Spanish language electronic books and journals. Currently USC patrons have access to close to 1,000 ebooks and journal issues.

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This collection, produced by Rotunda/University of Virginia Press, will be the first-ever complete edition of all of her known correspondence.

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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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Early American imprints. Series I, Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800 provides access to the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia to include a broad range of recently uncovered books, pamphlets, broadsides, and U.S. House and Senate Bills and Resolutions. This resource offers nearly 1,000 rare and unique items printed during a 130-year period spanning the colonial era and the formation of the new nation.

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Early American imprints. Series II, Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819 provides full-text access to American books, pamphlets and broadsides published from 1801-1819, covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. In addition to books, broadsides and pamphlets, the collection includes published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public. A large number of state papers and early government materials—including presidential letters and congressional, state and territorial resolutions—chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) a digital library of works from STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts - over 125,000 individual titles.

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Early European Books

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This is an extraordinary resource at its inception and will be even more so upon its completion in a few years.

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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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Originally created for the 2009 Poe bicentennial exhibition by the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) of the University of Texas, Austin, this Poe collection includes the private collections of William H. Koester and of J. H. Whitty, famed Poe scholar and collector.

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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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This is the digital version of the classic writing manual from 1918 written by William Strunk.

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The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly, but not exclusively, in English published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.

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Essay and General Literature Index, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

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