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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) Digital Edition	Full-text archive of nearly 37,000 early American publications based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of all Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America from the Genesis of Printing in 1639 down to and including the Year 1800. Includes Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia.	1639-1800	Yes
Early American Newspapers, Series, VI & VII	Fully searchable runs of 215 newspapers from 27 states and the District of Columbia from 1741-1922. Series 6 includes the Detroit Plaindealer; Detroits first successful black newspaper, The Colored American; also the Arkansas Gazette, one of the first papers west of the Mississippi. Series 7 includes New Orleans' Times-Picayune, established in 1837, and The Oregonian, founded in 1850 in Portland and still the states largest daily.	1741-1922	Yes
Early English Books Online			Yes
Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003	Delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003, including supplements. Color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers are included.	1843-2003	Yes
Eighteenth Century Collections online	Full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 items published in the British Isles, colonial America, the United States (1776 - 1800), Canada, and territories governed by Britain during any period of the eighteenth century, in any language; plus all relevant items printed wholly or partly in English, or other British vernaculars, in any part of the world. ECCO includes a variety of materials from books, directories, Bibles and sermons to shipping lists, advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection in History, Geography, Science, Technology, Medicine, Law, Philosophy, Religion, Social Sciences, Literature, and the Fine Arts. ECCO is based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).	1701-1800	Yes
Electronic Enlightenment	Edited letters of over 7,000 correspondents from Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, including the correspondence of philosophers, scientists, clerics, government ministers, merchants, and people of many other occupations. Limited to one user at a time. A research project of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, EE provides a network of interconnected documents allowing scholars to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period. Forty-five nationalities, 11 languages, and 688 occupations are represented.	1619-1878	Yes
Essay and General Literature Index--EBSCO Portal	Indexes essays and chapters in anthologies, and multi-author collections. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.	1985-present	No
Ethnic NewsWatch	Provides access to full-text articles from 200 magazines, journals, and newspapers published by the ethnic, minority, and native press in America. Searchable in both English and Spanish.	1985 - present	Partial