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E-STAT
E-STAT is an interactive tool about society and the economy in Canada. The database also contains comprehensive statistical and demographic data about Canada, containing census returns from 1986-2006 and the historical censuses from 1665 to 1871; the 1991 and 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Surveys; CANSIM time series (including more than 2,700 tables); 1997 and 2000 Canadian federal election returns; and more.The E-STAT database is password protected. WMU faculty, students and staff who wish to access E-STAT should contact Barbrara Cockrell by phone (269 387-5143) or email Barbara.Cockrell@wmich.edu.

Early American Fiction (1789-1850)
Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library.
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Early American Fiction (1789-1875)
Provides the full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples Cultures, and the Environment
This full text database includes more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries and other accounts of traders, explorers, native peoples, and others from 1534 to 1850. Indexed by place, year, peoples, cultural events, and other categories.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. The collection is indexed at the British Library website. The index (in print) and images (on microfilm) are also available in Waldo Library.

Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)
Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700.
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Ebrary
A collection of over 40,000 books from over 150 publishers covering all academic disciplines. Users must download and install the Ebrary software to view the books.

ECO (Electronic Collections Online)
Full-text journals in a variety of subjects presented predominantly in PDF format, including images. Searchable as a whole collection or just those titles owned by WMU Libraries. Coverage from 1995, updated daily.

EconLit

Indexes and abstracts over 400 journals and over 700 essay collections and other publications in economics from 1969 to the present with links to full-text when available. Updated monthly.

EDGAR
Contains searchable 10K Reports and other filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Contains eleven major editions of Shakespeare from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6 as well as more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
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Education Abstracts
Indexes more than 700 English-language periodicals in education. Coverage: 1983 to the present, abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly.

Education Index Retrospective 1929-1983
Indexes about 850,000 articles in education journals from 1929-1983.
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Educator's Reference Complete
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. The database is updated daily.

eHRAF Archaeology
This is a cross-cultural database that currently contains nearly 60,000 pages of information on the world's prehistory. This annually updated eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full-text sources are all subject-indexed to the paragraph level.

eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
see eHRAF Archaeology

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
see eHRAF World Cultures

eHRAF World Cultures
The electronic Human Relations Area Files is a full-text cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life written by social scientists, travelers and missionaries. Information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. Updated annually. Coverage: 1866 to the present.

Ei Compendex
The most comprehensive index for scholarly research in engineering and applied science. Includes conference papers and foreign language material. Coverage 1969-present, updated weekly.
Available through Engineering Village 2.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)
96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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Electronic Enlightenment
This database provides access to tens of thousands of letters from the best critical editions from leading scholarly and university presses around the globe covering the era of the Enlightenment.
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eLibrary Elementary
Full-text material from magazines, books, newspapers, maps, pictures, and TV and radio transcripts for elementary school children. Updated daily.

Emerald Fulltext
Full-text journal articles in international management, organizational development, library and information management, leadership, quality and operations management, engineering, applied science and technology. Abstracts from 1989, full-text from 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.

Engineering Village
Engineering Village features access to Compendex and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database.

English Drama (1280-1915)
A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
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English Poetry (600-1900)
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
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English Poetry, Second Edition
This contains more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, representing a comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 21st. Includes representative poems both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.
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Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Multidisciplinary index with abstracts of journals, conference proceedings, reports, books and government publications in the environmental sciences. Coverage: 1967- present. Updated monthly.

RefWorks Info: Imports checked citations directly into RefWorks.

Ergonomics Abstracts Online
Index with abstracts of over 400 journals and other publications in all aspects of ergonomics and human factor engineering. Coverage: 1985-present. Updated 4 times a year.

ERIC

The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial

Essay and General Literature Index
Indexes essays in over 300 books each year, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1985-present. Updated annually.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Index and full-text to over 250 ethnic newspapers, magazines and journals in both English and Spanish. Major area of focus is ethnic area studies, but also covers arts, business, education, environment, history, journalism, political science, and sociology. Coverage from 1985.

Expanded Academic ASAP
An index to a variety of scholarly journals in all academic disciplines as well as numerous news magazines and newspapers. Many include full-text. Coverage: 1980-present.