Electronic Books

Ebrary  An entire full-text academic library containing over 30,000 books, 1,400 reports and 1,000 maps.

Google Book Search  Full texts of books that are no longer copyrighted.

Live Search Books  Full texts of non-copyright books digitized by Microsoft.

NetLibrary  The full text of thousands of newly published books and many older titles. All texts may be searched simultaneously by keyword. Access limited to 1 simultaneous user.

Oxford Reference Online  Over 250 dictionaries, encyclopedias and subject reference books published by Oxford University Press.

Gale Virtual Reference Library  Online access to the New Catholic Encyclopedia and encyclopedias of communications, education, business, American history, sociology, psychology, medicine, and congressional legislation.

Oxford Scholarship Online  Books published by Oxford University Press in biology, business and management, classical studies, economics and finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, and religion.

Humanities E-Book Collection  Full text of over 1,700 scholarly books in most humanities disciplines and area studies.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism  Indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse.

Early English Books Online, 1475-1700  Full texts of books and pamphlets printed in English in the British Isles and other countries. When complete it will contain over 125,000 titles. Presently it contains over 100,000.

Early American Imprints: Series I: Evans, 1639-1800  Full texts of all the books published in America from 1639 until 1800.

Early American Imprints: Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819  Full texts of all the books published in America from 1801 until 1819.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  Full texts of 150,000 books published from 1700 to 1799.

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation   Full text of books of the 16th and 17th centuries by over 300 authors. Some church documents are included.

Nineteenth Century Index   Full text of over 1.3 million books and documents, and articles from more than 2,000 journals and newspapers.

Digital Book Index   Thousands of digital books available from commercial, noncommercial, universities and various private sites. Over 89,000 are available at no charge.

La Biblioteca de las Culturas Hispanicas  Full texts of Spanish books in the public domain.

Gallica: La Bibliotheque Numerique  Full texts of French books in the public domain.

Original Sources  Primary sources and other documents dealing with history, politics, law, science, philosophy, religion, literature and language.

PsycBOOKS   Full text of books published by APA and other publishers. Includes the Encyclopedia of Psychology published by APA and Oxford University Press.

Books24x7.com  Full text of books on technology, business, finance, management, and government topics.

Twayne's Author Series  Biography and criticism of over 600 well-known authors.

Questia  An entire academic library on-line. Available only through individual subscriptions at $19.95 per month. Free trial available.

Online Books  Full text of thousands of public domain books.

Bartleby.com  Full text of public domain books of fiction, non-fiction, reference, and verse.

Humanities Text Initiative  Full texts of thousands of prose and poetic works.

Schoenberg  Center for Electronic Text and Image  Full text of rare books, manuscripts, and images 9th-20th cent. at PENN Library's collections.

Electronic Text Center  Thousands of texts available online from the University of Virginia.

Online Texts Collection  Over 10,000 books in the public domain, i.e. 75 years or older.

Project Gutenberg  Full text of many thousand books in the public domain.