XPLORE Library Catalog (tips & tricks; RefWorks help; XLinks; video tutorials) is Xavier library's online public access catalog. It includes all of the library's books, journals, audiovisuals, and microform materials. Search XPLORE by keyword, author, title and Library of Congress subject heading. If you don't find what you need, request it online (printable instructions; video tutorial) from OhioLINK, the combined library catalog of 84 colleges and universities in the State of Ohio.

OhioLINK Library Catalog (updated daily; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides access to more than 40 million items located at 85 public and private colleges and universities in Ohio. Users may request items online (printable instructions; video tutorial) and pick them up in 3 business days at an OhioLINK library of their choosing. It is produced by OhioLINK and the user interface is provided by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

ACLS Humanities eBook (all full-text; title list; XLinks; RefWorks help), formerly the History eBook Project, is an online, fully searchable digital collection of 1,500 high-quality books covering all aspects of world history and many other humanities disciplines. Books in this database have been recommended and reviewed by scholars. They are of major importance, remain vital to scholarship and are frequently cited in the literature. Books may include illustrations, graphs, charts, and maps as well as video, sound and music. Restrictions may apply to printing and downloading as specified in Section 107 of the U. S. Copyright Law. It is produced by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with ten learned societies, about 80 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The user interface is provided by ACLS. Users can also find these electronic books in XPLORE, the library's online catalog.

African American Poetry Collection (1760-1900; all full-text; XLinks; title list) contains almost 3,000 poems written by African-American poets. The poetry explores topics such as abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice and slavery. It includes allegories, broadsides, children's poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic poems and sonnets. The poets are among those included in the William French et al. bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. It is produced by Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also 20th Century African American Poetry (1900-2000), or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.

American Civil War: Letters & Diaries (1861-1865; all full-text; XLinks) contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. It includes biographies, bibliography of sources and The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long. Users can search by author, months, battles, sources, places, personal events and day-by-day. A complete citation is provided for the source of each diary, letter or memoir. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

American Film Scripts (1903-present; all full-text; XLinks) contains 497 scripts by 605 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies. Users can search by writers, scripts, years, characters, people, and subjects. The showcase provides sample page images from selected scripts. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

American Poetry Collection (1600-1900; all full-text; XLinks) is a collection of 1,200 books and anthologies of early American poetry and contains the works of all major American poets, including many that are less familiar.It includes over 40,000 poems by over 200 writers. Any accompanying text written by the original author and forming an integral part of the work, such as notes, dedications, and prefaces to individual poems, is also included. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also Twentieth Century American Poetry (1900-2000), or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.

Asian American Drama (1891-present; all full-text; XLinks) contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. About half of the plays have never been published before. It includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies. Users can search by authors, characters, productions, companies, years, plays, theaters, subjects and related resources. The showcase includes images of brochures, playbills, fliers, etc. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) (American revolution-1930; all full-text; XLinks) provides nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers. It lists every reprint and variant edition of an author's works, including obscure and fugitive appearances in anthologies, broadsides, and gift books. It also includes details on bindings and physical features of the editions. It originally appeared in print in nine volumes, published for the Bibliographical Society of America by Yale University Press between 1955 and 1991. All nine volumes are fully searchable together. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

Black Drama (1850-present; all full-text; XLinks) contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs, author biographies and other ephemera related to the plays. Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. Users can search by author, characters, productions, companies, years, plays, theaters, and scenes. The plays have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries (1500-1950; all full-text; XLinks) contains the letters and diaries of about 500 British and Irish women as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. It includes biographies and an annotated bibliography of sources. Users can search by authors, sources, years, places, personal events, and historical events. The showcase provides page images of selected diaries. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

Credo Reference (all full-text; list of titles; XLinks; user guide; search tips; RefWorks help), formerly Xreferplus, provides hundreds of electronic reference books covering a broad range of subjects, including art, bilinguals, biography, business, dictionaries, encyclopedias, food, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, quotations, religion, science, social sciences, and technology. It features over 65,000 images (art, diagrams, maps and photos) and over 93,000 audio pronunciation files accessible in the advanced search. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Xrefer. Users can also find these electronic books in XPLORE, the library's online catalog.

Early American Fiction (1774-1850; all full-text; XLinks) contains the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. It includes 440 works of 80 novelists and short-story writers. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (1534-1860; all full-text; XLinks) includes about 1,000 primary sources describing North American peoples, cultures and environment that appear in key bibliographies for this academic discipline. It permits searches by author, year, source, place, environment, encounter, fauna, flora, peoples, images, personal event or cultural event. It includes the letters, diaries and memoirs of more than 1,440 authors. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

ebrary (all full-text; XLinks; RefWorks help) contains about 32,300 electronic books in business, marketing, economics, computers, information technology, health, biomedical sciences, clinical sciences, engineering, technology, life sciences, physical sciences, education, history, humanities, law, international relations, public policy, social sciences, and behavioral sciences. It includes books in the Vault Career Library. Users can search for words in the subject, title or full-text of books in this collection. Content can be easily copied and pasted into a word processing document. Books in this collection are protected by copyright laws and there are limitations on the number of pages that can be printed and copied. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by ebrary. Users can also find these electronic books in XPLORE, the library's online catalog. The ebrary Reader is required to view, copy and print pages in a book. Click the ebrary Reader icon or link to download the reader. The reader will install and display your ebook. Monthly system maintenance is performed the first Tuesday of each month from 8-10pm (Pacific Time) during which ebrary may be unavailable.

Eighteenth Century Fiction (1700-1780; all full-text; XLinks) contains 96 works of English prose fiction, written by writers from the British Isles. It includes all of the most widely-studied texts and others long neglected or unavailable. First editions have been used unless considered unreliable. Some original images are included (title pages and illustrations). It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

English Poetry Collection (600-1900; all full-text; XLinks) contains over 175,000 poems by over 1,400 poets from British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries. It contains over 4,400 poetry collections listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, many of which are rare books and unavailable in print form. Users can also these works in XPLORE the library's online catalog. Works in English of Welsh, Scottish, and Irish poets are included. It also includes any relevant accompanying text written by the poet. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also 20th Century English Poetry (1900-2000), or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.

English Prose Drama (1600-1900; all full-text; XLinks) is based on plays listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature that were written or intended for the stage and wholly or primarily in prose. It contains over 1,800 plays by about 400 authors from the renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The full text of each drama is included with any accompanying text written by the author and forming an integral part of the work. Selected images are directly accessible from the relevant points in the text. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also American Drama and English Verse Drama, or search all three databases in the Drama Group.

English Verse Drama (1400-1900; all full-text; XLinks) contains more than 2,200 works by over 500 named authors and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods to the end of the nineteenth century. A verse drama is generally defined as a work acted on or intended for the stage which is either completely in verse or includes significant verse content. It is based on bibliographic information in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. It contains masques, short dramatic pieces written primarily in verse, selected translations, works written for children and adaptations. It includes any accompanying text written by the original author. It also includes any relevant accompanying text written by the poet. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also American Drama and English Prose Drama, or search all three databases in the Drama Group.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides access to more than 1,500 electronic reference books and their individual book chapters covering the arts, biography, business, education, health, history, law, literature, multicultural studies, the nation and the world, science, and social science. There is unlimited, simultaneous usage and no special readers or equipment are required to use this resource. Users can search for keywords in the chapter title or throughout the full-text of a chapter. Book chapters can be downloaded, emailed or printed, as well as translated into eight languages. The Find It icon links to the book in print format in the OhioLINK Library Catalog. These electronic books will also be accessible in XPLORE and OhioLINK's Electronic Book Center. It is produced by Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.

netLibrary eBooks (all full-text: more info; XLinks; RefWorks help) provides access to about 15,000 electronic books on many different topics. The full-text of these eBooks may be browsed for 15 minutes or checked-out and read online for 2 hours. It includes books in the Vault Career Library. Users can also find these electronic books in XPLORE, the library's online catalog. In most cases only one person can access a netLibrary eBook at a time. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by netLibrary. Create an account (more info) at an on-campus computer workstation to add books to a list of favorites.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries & Oral Histories (1800-1950; all full-text; XLinks) contains 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. The collection is particularly useful to researchers, because much of the original material is difficult to find, poorly indexed, and unpublished; most bibliographies of the immigrant focus on secondary research; and few oral histories have been published. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants. The showcase provides a selection of cartoons from Puck Magazine and the images of a diary by Rose Qwong. Users can search by author, source, year, place, nationality & heritage, personal event, resource and subject. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

North American Women's Letters & Diaries (Colonial -1950; all full-text; XLinks) includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. Users can search by authors, source, year, place, historical event and personal event. The showcase provides page images of selected diaries and letters. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (all full-text; RefWorks help) contains thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Users can search the collection by keyword or phrase or browse the collection by author, title or subject area. The individual collections that have links can be searched separately. The collections come from multiple publishers (ABC-CLIO, Gale, Oxford University Press, Sage & Springer) and the user interface for the combined collections is provided by OhioLINK. Users can also find these electronic books in XPLORE, the library's online catalog.

Oxford Reference Online, English Dictionaries and Thesauruses (all full-text; XLinks; RefWorks help) is a cross-searchable database of 6 Amercian and English dictionaries and thesauruses. It is published by and the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Oxford Reference Online, English Language Reference (all full-text; XLinks; RefWorks help) is a cross-searchable database of 11 encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference works covering American usage and style, abbreviations, English grammar, English language, entymology, eponyms, foreign terms in English, idioms, linguistics, modern English usage and proverbs. It is published by and the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Oxford Reference Online, Literature (all full-text; XLinks; RefWorks help) is a cross-searchable database of 12 encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference works covering 20th century African American, American, classical, English and Irish literature as well as literary terms, Shakespeare, twentieth century English poetry, and writers and their works. It is published by and the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (all full-text; XLinks) contains 60 volumes of romantic poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars. Users can search by authors, poems, works, essays & criticisms, and related websites. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

Shakespeare: Editions and Adaptations 1623-1866; all full-text; XLinks) includes the complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio in 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-1866. It also includes twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

Twentieth Century African American Poetry (1900-2000; all full-text; XLinks) contains 12,000 poems with biographical profiles of more than 100 African-American poets, including Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, and Rita Dove, as well as emerging poets. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also African American Poetry Collection 1760-1900, or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.

Twentieth Century American Poetry (1900-2000; all full-text; XLinks) contains 52,000 poems from collected works and individual volumes of poetry. It covers the works of more than 316 major 20th century American poets, including the traditionalists and modernists.as well as contemporary works of the 1990s. It includes volumes of poetry from all the major movements and schools, including the New School, the Chicago School, the Southern School, the Confessionals, the Beats, and the Black Mountain poets. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also American Poetry Collection (1600-1900), or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.

Twentieth Century English Poetry (1900-2000; all full-text; XLinks) contains over 44,000 poems by 288 poets, incorporating the Modern Poetry Collection and The Faber Poetry Library. It includes any integral images, introductions, and prefaces to the volumes, all notes, and any prose sections. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also English Poetry Collection 600-1900, or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.

William Butler Yeats Collection (all full-text; XLinks) is a complete electronic edition of Yeats's work, bringing together 22 printed volumes and including critical and fictional prose, poetry, plays, and autobiographical works. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Heale and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

Women Writers Online (1400-1850; all full-text; XLinks) is an archive of works by pre-Victorian women writers accompanied by contextual and topical essays. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the Women Writers Project at Brown University.