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UCF Digital Collections - The University of Central Florida Libraries is building several collections of digitized materials for Web distribution. These collections include maps, journals, postcards, photographs, letters, monographs, and rare manuscripts.

Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) is a cooperative initiative of the State University System of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials. The site indexes many digital resources in addition to the PALMM sites listed below.

  • Aerial Photography Florida is a collection of aerial photographs taken between 1930 and 2000.
  • Eric Eustace Williams Collection is both a bibliography and a growing library of digitized works by and about Dr. Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago who is often called "the father of the Nation".
  • Everglades Digital Library is a comprehensive portal to high-quality Internet resources relating to the south Florida environment.
  • Florida Environments Online contains both digital full text materials and research bibliographies about the ecology and environment of Florida.
  • Florida Geological Survey Publications include annual reports, biennial reports, bulletins, information circulars, leaflets, and map series.
  • Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing cooperative project of the State University System (SUS) of Florida to digitize and provide online access to materials broadly representing Florida’s history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences. Thematic areas in this growing collection include Native American and minority populations, exploration and development, tourism, the natural environment, and regional interests.
  • Florida Historical Legal Documents is a growing collection of primary source materials surveying changes in Florida law from the time it became a territory in 1822 through 1845 when Florida became a state.
  • Florida Historical Quarterly is the online version of the academic journal of the Florida Historical Society.
  • Floridiana on the Web is a unique and dynamic website devoted to the history and culture of Florida, focusing primarily on the Tampa Bay Region.
  • Linking Florida's Natural Heritage (LFNH) allows students, researchers, and the public to query museum specimen databases, library catalogs, and other citation databases for taxonomic and topical information. In addition, scientific experts selected 200 texts for digitization. This core collection on Florida species and ecosystems is available through the LFNH site.
  • Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950.
  • Miami Metropolitan Archive (MMA) is a cooperative effort of the Urban, Regional & Local Government Documents Department at Florida International University Libraries, the City of Miami City Clerk's Office, and the Florida Center for Library Automation to provide digital access to important source materials on Miami-Dade County history.
  • Milemarkers: Linking Keys History depict the rich history of the Florida Keys. Early industries, such as sponging, shark fishing, turtle canning, and cigar manufacturing, are illustrated in vivid detail. Of special interest are the images of the building of Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway, construction of the Overseas Highway (designated a Florida Scenic Highway), development of the tourism industry, and the aftermath of devastating hurricanes.
  • Psychological Study of the Arts explores literary questions using psychology, often psychoanalytic psychology.
  • Reclaiming the Everglades documents the history of the Everglades and the south Florida environment from 1884-1934.
  • Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of 19th Century American and British actors and actresses. There are more than 6,000 images in this digital collection depicting more than 3,000 actors and actresses. The Collection is important not simply for its pictures of the idols of a bye-gone era but for its depictions of clothing, hair styles, and other indicators of the period's social mores and attitudes.
  • Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida comprise a collection of more than 300 bibliographic units in more than 3,000 map sheets dating from 1860 through 1923. Digitized maps are in the public domain and illustrate the development of more than 130 Florida cities.
  • Southwest Florida Environmental Documents is a collection of recent and historical scientific information related to the environment of Southwest Florida, the Caloosahatchee River and its watershed. There are reports, surveys, monographs and other materials.
  • Type Specimens in the University of Florida Herbarium includes a searchable database of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen type specimen label data, and high resolution digital images of all vascular plant holotypes, isotypes, lectotypes, neotypes and syntypes. See also University of Florida Herbarium Collections Catalog.
  • United States Virgin Islands History and Culture is a collection of archival, library, and museum materials documenting Virgin Islands' heritage and social life and customs.
  • West Florida Photo History (coming soon)
  • Wolfsonian-FIU Modern Dutch Collection consists of selected digitized items from the Wolfsonian—FIU's collection of Dutch artifacts, including rare book covers, calendars, proofs, advertisements, and original sketches.
  • World Map Collections are a cooperative project of several public and private universities of Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to make digitized modern and antique maps available on the Web. The Florida and Caribbean collections are particularly strong, but Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East are also represented.
  • Yiddish Children's Books is a part of the Joseph and Mary Savetsky Yiddish Resources Collection at the Florida Atlantic University Libraries.

Cuban Heritage Digital Collection (Univ of Miami) is currently comprised of archival collection finding aids and the digitized content of those collections, including photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other documents.

Florida Electronic Library - Florida On Florida is a catalog of digital materials related to Florida. It includes all sorts of items including maps, photographs, postcards, books, and manuscripts. The materials in Florida On Florida come from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums and historical societies throughout Florida. Some of the linked collections include:

  • Florida Photographic Collection is a nationally recognized component of the State Archives of Florida and contains more than 850,000 photographs, and approximately 2,500 movies and video tapes. Over 100,000 of the photographs have been scanned and placed on this website.
  • Florida Writers' Project Digital Collection (Jacksonville University) provide a small portion of the papers of Dr. Carita Doggett Corse, Director of the Florida Federal Writers' Project from its inception in 1935 until 1942.
  • Winter Park Public Library Digital Collection contains photographs, images, documents, and audio files representing the wealth of local and regional history housed at the Winter Park Public Library.

University of Florida Digital Collections includes some of the PALMM projects listed above, plus the following collections:

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Information from around the United States

Government Resources for Other States provides links to various resources from state governments.

American Memory (Library of Congress) is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

California Digital Library

Colorado Digitization Program and Colorado Virtual Library

Kentuckiana Digital Library and Kentucky Virtual Library

Louisiana - LSU Digital Library

Maine Memory Network

Archives of Maryland Online

Virtually Missouri

North Carolina ECHO - Exploring Cultural Heritage Online

Ohio Memory

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Information from around the World

Foreign & International Government Resources provides links to various resources about other countries and international organizations.

Australian Digitization Projects

Canada's Digital Collections and Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives

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General Resources and Directories

Directory of Digitized Collections provides a list of major digitized heritage collections and on-going digitization programs worldwide.

Digital Library Federation is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services.

Clearinghouse of Government Documents Digital Projects (GODORT) provides information to librarians and others about digitization projects for local, state, federal, and international government documents that are currently planned, in progress, or already completed.

Other Digitization Projects (Colorado Digitization Project) provides links to a few model statewide consortial projects as well as select national/international digital projects.

D-Lib Forum & D-Lib Magazine provide information about innovation and research in digital libraries.

RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly web-based newsletter providing information about various digital issues.

Ariadne magazine reports on information service developments and information networking issues worldwide, keeping the busy practitioner abreast of current digital library initiatives.

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Other Full-Text Resources Online

Electronic Theses & Dissertations:

UCF Subscription Resources:

  • Reference Books: Online Versions & Excerpts is a list in call number order of some encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference resources for which the UCF Libraries provide online access.

  • Archive of Americana provides UCF users with access to several historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.

    • American State Papers, 1789-1838 - Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817

    • Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 - Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans

    • U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 - Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library provides full text access to various reference books and encyclopedias.

  • netLibrary provides approximately 56,000 full-text books for browsing or 4-hour checkout.

  • Credo provides a selection of 169 high-quality reference books from art (architecture, fashion, theatre), bilinguals (general, commerce, classics), biography (artists, politicians, writers), business (economics, finance, management), conversions (distances, volumes, weights), dictionaries (definitions, crossword solver), encyclopedias (facts, people, places), food (cooking, ingredients, nutrition), geography (climate, demographic, physical), history (classical, modern, renaissance), language (idioms, rhymes, usage), law (criminal, civil, commercial), literature (drama, fiction, poetry), medicine (conditions, health, therapies), music (classical, jazz, artists), philosophy & psychology (ideas, theories, thoughts), quotations (biographical, esoteric, popular), religion (Christianity, Bible, history), science (physics, biology, chemistry), social sciences (education, politics, sociology), and technology (computing, telecoms, jargon).

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts "is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online provides free online text for Harvard Classics, Gray's Anatomy, Oxford Shakespeare, dictionaries, quotations, etc.

Electronic Text Center (Univ. of Virginia) - holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)

eBooks & eTexts (Univ. of Florida) provides links to various e-book web sites.

EServer Books Collection is a collection of book-length monographs available online divided into three major groups: fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Google Books searches the full text of digitized books. If this book is a library book, you can find a local library that has it by clicking "Find it in a Library" and entering your zip code

Internet Classics Archive provides works of classical literature, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

Librarians' Index to the Internet describes full-text resources available as directories, databases, etc on the Internet.

Library of Southern Literature (Univ. of North Carolina) "includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924....This collection begins with some of the earliest texts about America written by British discoverers that set the foundation for American letters and traces the development of southern literature through to the beginning of the twentieth century."

Online Books Page (Univ. of Pennsylvania) lists over 25,000 free books on the Web. Features include: A Celebration of Women Writers, Banned Books Online, Prize Winners Online, Foreign Language collections, and Specialty archives.

Perseus Digital Library (Tufts Univ.) provides access to several collections, including:

  • primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome

  • non-literary papyri, Greek and Latin, from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods

  • primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet.

World eBook Library Public Access Section provides full text search of 75,000+ html eBooks.

"Free" articles on the Internet - The following provide access to some free articles from magazines and journals. Note that most publishers only make some of their content freely available. As of Fall 2004, there are approximately 190,000 periodicals published worldwide. Only 19% have any content available electronically, most of which require a paid subscription. Of scholarly publishing, about 34% is available electronically, again requiring paid subscriptions for access. For more complete coverage, see the UCF list of electronic resources or ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.

  • FindArticles.com provides free online access to articles dating back to 1984 from thousands of magazines and journals.
  • MagPortal.com indexes and links to free online articles from about 150 magazines.
  • NewJour provides links to online journals and newsletters, some of which provide limited free content.
  • Google Scholar "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. You should be able to see the full text of articles from open access journals and preprint repositories, as well as preprints on the web. For others, you should be able to get access to the full text if you or an institution you belong to has a subscription for the content." NOTE: Users should save their Scholar Preferences to include their affiliation with UCF, which activates the SFX@UCF link in Google for remote access to UCF's subscription databases and the library catalog.

Historical articles on the Internet - There are a few projects providing free access to some full-text articles from old journals, i.e., pre-1900. The UCF Library also subscribes to some resources providing early journals.

  • Internet Library of Early Journals - a digital library of 18th and 19th century British journals, including Annual Register (1758-1778), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), Notes and Queries (1849-1869), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777), and The Builder (1843-1852).
  • Making of America (Cornell Univ. and Univ. of Michigan) provides full-text articles from over thirty 19th century American periodicals, published between 1815 and 1901. Some of the articles are also available through American Memory's The Nineteenth Century in Print.
  • The UCF Library subscribes to JSTOR, providing full-text access to over 600 scholarly journals (1665-2006). The UCF Library also has several microfilm/microfiche collections providing early journals, such as the American Periodical Series (1741-1935), English Literary Periodicals (1681-1914), and Radical Periodicals of Great Britain (1794-1914).

Looking for something else? Ask for assistance at the UCF Library's Research Assistance Desk or contact Ask A Librarian.

Prepared by: Rich Gause, Government Documents Librarian

Last updated October 13, 2011 9:26:09 AM

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