Sharpe Online Reference brings together award-wining subject coverage, the convenience and flexibility of online research, 24/7, and a fresh new approach to digital content:

• Revised and updated editions of Sharpe's most popular encyclopedias
• Free annual updates
• One time purchase
  • No annual subscription fees
  • No annual maintenance fees
• Flexible purchase options - order only what your library needs
  • - Titles available individually
  • - Purchase the collection at a special money-saving price
• All titles a library owns are cross-searchable, providing multiple perspectives on the topic or subject researched
• Free supplemental resources with the purchase of any title:
  • - SOLR Primary Source Archive - approximately 500 key annotated documents, audio/visual clips, images, and other primary sources covering all periods of U.S. History
  • - Web links in U.S. History - links to approximately 1,000 vetted websites covering all periods of U.S. History
  • - Teacher's Resources - links to special resources and websites for teachers and librarians
• New titles will be added annually
• New subject collections in preparation

Other benefits:

• Unlimited concurrent users
• Supports federated searching
• Students can create individual user accounts
• Librarians can receive usage statistics

Key features of SOLR

SOLR is comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and easy to use:

• Quick Search
• Advanced Search
• Search within Results
• Multiple Search Refinements: articles, documents, images, chronologies, and more
• Topic Finder
• Alphabetical Browse
• Article Outline
• Image Gallery
• Article Links
• Special Resources and Archive
• "How to Cite" information provided in three formats (MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, APA)

U.S. HISTORY AND CULTURE COLLECTION

The titles in this collection offer a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. History & Culture, focusing on the broad range of cultural, social, economic, and political issues; people; and events that have shaped American history. Content has been revised and updated since print publication.

The U.S. History & Culture collection includes:

Colonial America

Early Republic and Antebellum America

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and New Deal

Postwar America

American Presidential Campaigns and Elections

Social Issues in America

American Social Movements

American Countercultures

American Folklife

Latino History and Culture

Asian American History and Culture

America in World History

GLOBAL HISTORY AND CULTURE COLLECTION

The new Global History and Culture collection provides sweeping, multidisciplinary perspectives on world history, from the origins of human society to the present day. It focuses on the major forces, encounters, conflicts, and exchanges that have influenced and transformed societies, cultures, and governments around the world, revealing recurring patterns throughout history. With in-depth coverage of the current global financial crisis, it also offers timely, essential information for today’s global citizen.

The Global History & Culture collection includes:

Global History: Cultural Encounters from Antiquity to the Present

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II

Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from Tulipmania of the 1630s to the Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century

These eighteen titles comprise:

• 7,000 articles
• 2,000 photographs, illustrations, charts, tables, and maps
• extensive bibliographies, cross-references, chronologies, cultural landmarks, documents, and glossaries