New Reference E-Books

Thomson Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
New edition (25th, 2008) of this biographical directory of information on over 130,000 living men and women in the physical, biological, and related sciences.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
2007 guide to practice, theory, and history of design.

Sage.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
2007 volume contains about 600 alphabetically-arranged entries covering "every major facet of epidemiology, from risk ratios to case-control studies to mediating and moderating variables, and much more."

St. James Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
New edition, with up-to-date biographical and contact information for approximately 20,000 living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication.

Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
New edition, providing brief biographical and career details on more than 20,000 contemporary African Americans, including leaders from politics, the arts, business, sports, religion, etc.

St. James / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Two new volumes in this series, which offers three-to-five-page entries outlining over 9,000 company histories.

Washington and Lee University researchers now have online access to one of the most prestigious scholarly publication collections through Cambridge Histories Online.

This newly-released database contains the complete texts of over 250 volumes published since the 1960's in the various Cambridge Histories series on major historical topics.
Several series are still active and new volumes will be added to the database as published, as will any new series when they begin.
Here is a list of published volumes, thus far.

W&L students, faculty, and staff have access to this database through our Web site and through Annie (where we plan also to have links to individual titles in the series).

The University Library now subscribes to Safari Books Online, an online collection of about 6,000 technical reference sources from many of the leading technology publishers, including Adobe, Microsoft, O'Reilly, QUE, Sams, and others.
The collection focuses on explanations of and assistance with such information technology issues as enterprise computing, graphics, Java, Web development, Windows, XML, Linus/Unix, and more.

Here is our Web site access page. We plan to have each of the 6,000 titles listed in Annie.

Columbia University Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
The University Library recently acquired online access to two titles in this respected series -- Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast and Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast.
We already had online access to the Great Plains volume.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Blackwell / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set (2nd ed.; 2007) contains over 50 signed essays, providing "in-depth coverage of contemporary philosophical debate in all major related disciplines, such as economics, history, law, political science, international relations and sociology..."
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Second edition (2006) of this compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, with additional primary source materials, entries on organizations and agencies, and more.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Salem Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Edited by Carole Barrett and Harvey Markowitz, this three-volume set (2004)contains dozens of signed entries covering "the range of culture from lifeways, religious rituals, and material culture to art forms and modern social phenomena."
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Greenwood.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Four-volume set (2008) is divided into ten historical periods, placed in context by brief historical overviews of each period, covering styles of domestic architecture, home design, building materials, landscaping, furniture and decoration, and more.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.