SPIE Digital Library subject coverage includes optics, photonics, optoelectronics and imaging, providing full text access to more than 200 000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. At this time, Ebooks are not included in our access. Find this under Databases, A-Z. Journals include:

• Optical Engineering
• Journal of Biomedical Optics
• Journal of Electronic Imaging
• Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS
• Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
• Journal of Nanophotonics
• Journal of Photonics for Energy
• SPIE Reviews
• SPIE Letters Virtual Journal

The fourth section of Victorian Popular Culture explores the pivotal era in entertainment history when previously static images came to life and moved for the first time. Through a wealth of printed and visual material as well as artefacts in this resource, we are able to imagine the wide-eyed wonder of those early audiences, experiencing the magic of Victorian inventions and optical entertainments.

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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period is a  collection organized by Nancy Kushigian of the University of California, Davis and Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska. In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project by Alexander Street Press.

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More recent exams are available for purchase from Zap! in the Student Union Building.

In searching the database, both English and Japanese terms will work but Japanese search terms will  retrieve more hits.

UVIC libraries' recent subscription to the database will increase the full-text content access for our users to 30%. For UVic users, if you access the database from the library website, you will be able to access more full-text articles.  Please feel free to email yingliu@uvic.ca about your comments or concerns related to the database.

Library Journal called this “the best overall literary reference work ever”.

It includes biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Essays discuss the lives and careers of authors and summarize critical responses to their work. The entries usually run from 3000 - 5000 words and are produced by recognized literary scholars and critics.

This online collection is comprised of: Dictionary of Literary Biography (vols. 1-348) Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series (50 vols.) Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook (23 vols.)

Use this resource for doing research on such diverse topics as writers from the "Beat Generation", early Canadian authors, Holocaust novelists, Victorian women poets and so much more.

You can find this valuable resource on the Libraries Website under the Databases Tab/Databases A-Z.

UVic Libraries collect his best known novels including Red Sorghum Clan (Hong Gao liang), Big Breasts and Wide Hips (Feng ru fei tun), Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (Sheng si pi lao).

Some of his novels were also produced as movies by Zhang Yimo, such as Red Sorghum (Call number: PN1997 R384) and Happy Times (Call number: PN1997.2 X565).