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OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. OAIster provides access to digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of electric refrigerators (from the Library of Congress American Memory project) to Harriet Beecher Stowe memoirs (from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service Making of America collection).
Digital resources include items such as:
- digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles
- born-digital texts
- audio files (e.g., wav, mp3)
- images (e.g., tiff, gif)
- movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime)
- datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files)
Ovid MEDLINE ® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,400 journals published world-wide.
Ovid MEDLINE ® is produced by the National Library of Medicine.
Access to the entire text of The Grove Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion of Western Art (2001). Contains over 45,000 articles and 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles. Updates, new articles, and new image links are added on an on-going basis.
The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Sue this online source for the latest information as we are no longer updating our print copies.
This authoritative, dynamic resource brings together the best current scholarship in the field for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and is regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito.
An encyclopedia on all aspects of music history and music-related topics, this is a continuously updated web version of the former print references: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Articles include bibliographies and composers’ works lists. Includes numerous “tools and resources,” or indexes, for accessing the textual and musical content as well as links to related sites, sound archives, illustrations.