- GreenFILE From EBSCO, this is a freely accessbile database comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. Offers abstracting and indexing of more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage of Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1917) and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (back to 1948).
- Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Text and Images Produced by the NLM this online collection brings together 221 English language monographs from 1817-1900. The Images area is organized under such themes as "Social Commentary," "Patients and Victims," "Urban Outbreaks and Hygiene." The site was reviewed in the March 28, 2008 Scout Report.
- Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics "Created by the OCP here at Harvard, the collection provides background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide and is organized around significant episodes of contagious disease. These materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- a total of more than 500,000 pages -- many of which contain visual materials" including engravings, maps, illustrations, and the like. Epidemics covered include cholera, smallpox, the 1665 Great Plague of London, syphillis, spanish influenza, tropical diseases, yellow fever, and TB.
These resources are multidisciplinary and even complementary -- great for history of science projects, straight-up history, sociology, ecology, etc.
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