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Ebrary  An entire full-text Academic Collection containing over 70,000 books, reports and maps. 

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

EbscoHost E-book Collection  Full text of thousands of books. Access limited to 1-2 simultaneous users, depending on title.

Fordham Scholarship Online  Full text of books published by Fordham University Press in History, Philosophy and Religion. Click on Fordham subject homepages on the left, and then on View new title information link for the complete list of books in each subject.

Credo Reference  Full text of hundreds of reference books from over 60 publishers. Covers medicine, art, technology, history and more.

Oxford Reference Online  Over 200 dictionaries, encyclopedias and subject reference books published by Oxford University Press.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf  Browse Reference books published by Oxford University Press. Access is available only for books owned by Fordham (if you are asked to log in, the book is not in our collection).

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.

Gale Directory Library 

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

Humanities E-Book Collection  Full text of over 3,000 scholarly books in most humanities disciplines and area studies.

Cambridge Histories Online  Unique historical reference compendium of renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series.

Internet Archive  Almost two million digitized texts as well as audio and video resources .

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 over 180,000 books published mostly in the UK from 1700 to 1799.

Nineteenth Century Index   Full text of over 1.7 million books, documents and articles from thousands of journals and newspapers.

Digital Book Index   Thousands of digital books available from commercial, noncommercial, universities and various private sites. Nearly 150,000 are available at no charge.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Servantes  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 and management.  Please LOGOUT to exit.

Twayne's Author Series  Includes over 600 well-known books from Twayne's World, English and US Authors series.

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

Online Books  Full text of thousands free books on the Web.

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.

Gutenberg-e  A program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press for publishing open access e-books.

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

The Latin Works of John Wyclif Collecting the complete work of Lollard philosopher John Wyclif (1328-1384), in the original Latin.


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