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E-Book Collections

The library provides access to a number of collections of electronic books. By connecting to these collections, you can browse or search the titles available.

The following is a list of the E-Book collections available:

ABC CLIO eBook Collection This digital reference collection includes titles such as: Encyclopedia of Ellis Island, Encyclopedia of Modern Olympic Movement, Dictionary of Medical Biography, American Universities and Colleges, The American Slave narrative series, and Terrorism: a Documentary and Reference Guide.

Academic Complete / ebrary, Inc. A cross-searchable multidisciplinary database of electronic books featuring publications from major academic publishers. New titles are added regularly.

ACLS Humanities E-Book The American Council of Learned Societies' History E-Book website contains over 1500 books of major importance to historical studies. Approximately 250 titles will be added annually.

African American Experience African American Experience contains hundreds of articles from Greenwood Press, Negro University Press, and many other sources covering all aspects of the African American experience. The database includes articles, audio clips, images, primary source documents, maps, monographs, and government documents.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

African Studies Companion, 4th edition Lists general, multidisciplinary sources of information in African studies. Covers both print and electronic resources.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts The collection includes items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

The American Colonist's Library The site describes itself as a collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics, culture, and ideals, but it includes works written from the classical period through the eighteenth century. Also included are works by Franklin, Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

American Memory American Memory provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

ARTFL: Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language Nearly 2,000 texts in French literature. Emphasis is on the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century, medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (Yale Law School) Provides digital documents, including ebooks, relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Covers ancient times (BCE) to the present. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Bartleby Library -- Great Books On-line A comprehensive, searchable database of reference, verse and classic literature. Includes thousands of works by hundreds of authors (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Bibliomania Classic fiction, drama, poetry and short stories, each prefaced with author biographies, book summaries and links to recommended literary web sites. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText A full-text online library that publishes religious, philosophical, and literary works, including books, periodicals, complete works, and archives in more than 30 languages. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Blackwell Reference Online Blackwell Reference Online provides full-text access to almost 300 Blackwell reference titles. Subjects include Business, Economics, History, Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy and Religion.

Bonner Kant-Korpus Created by researchers at the University of Bonn, this database provides access to Kant's Akademie-Ausgabe as well as to selected unpublished, handwritten works. Currently, volumes 1-9 of his works and volumes 10-13 and 23 of his letters are available insearchable full-text. Future projects include Kant's personal lecture books with his personal notes. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

California Digital Library The CDL's eScholarship Editions project digitizes academic books. Many are available free to the general public. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Cambridge Collections Online Cambridge Collections Online provides full-text access to the Cambridge Companions. Titles cover literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies. Content will increase as new essays and bibliographies become available.

Cambridge Histories Online The Cambridge Histories provides access to more than 250 volumes published since the 1960’s. CHO will cover 14 subject areas, including General History, Regional History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. New titles are added each year.

Cambridge History of Latin America

Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication and Mass Education... "Chinese pamphlets, picture books and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People's Republic of China between 1947 and 1954. Unlike the high-end, made-for-export propaganda held by many Western libraries, this is the 'street literature' of the revolution: the comic books, leaflets and other ephemera distributed to the population of the provincial cities and villages." This collection is one of Center for Research Libraries' ecollections. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

CogNet CogNet Library is a collection of searchable electronic texts for the cognitive and brain sciences. The Library contains works from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, journal abstracts, books, a schedule of events, policy briefs and economic indicators, and maps and country data. Provides links to more than 160 related sites and to the home pages of contributing institutions. Can be accessed by category; by alphabetical indices (author, subject, title, and institution); by fields (author, subject, title, date, and content area), and by keywords.

Cornell University Library Historical Monographs In 1990 the Cornell Library initiated an early attempt to create digital surrogates for materials that were rapidly deteriorating and becoming brittle. Currently, the materials available include over 400 entire monographs. The search engine allows visitors to search the holding by author, title, and text. Additionally, visitors can browse the collection by author or title. The monographs include Shelley's "An address to the Irish people," Comte's "Positive Philosophy," selected writings of Richard Wagner, and Sir Richard Burton's "Personal Narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah." The Web site concludes with a help section. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

CQ Press Political Reference Suite CQ's Political Reference Suite provides access to the online editions of Congress and the Nation (1945-, except most recent Presidential term), Historic Documents (1972-), Political Handbook of the World (current edition), Politics in America (2000-), Supreme Court Yearbook (1989-), Vital Statistics on American Politics (most recent edition), and the Washington Information Directory (most recent edition).

CQ's Politics in America (PIA) (Congressional Quarterly) For each state, provides profiles of Governors, U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, and each Congressional district. For Senators and Representatives gives biographical information, committee assignments, election results, key votes, and interest group ratings. Also gives data on campaign finances and zip codes for each Congressional district. 2000- ; 1972-1998 available at JK 1012 .A44 on 5th level, Central Library. Produced by Congressional Quarterly.

Digital Book Index Provides access to more than 73,000 titles. Includes commercial and non-commercial ebooks from more than 1800 publishers. Covers most major disciplines—literature, history, science and the history of science, social sciences, medicine, the arts, religion, and area studies. A reference section includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, glossaries, bibliographies, and writing and style guides. Includes links to netLibrary ebooks. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) "The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia including books and journals, full-text dictionaries, bibliographies, images, maps, and statistical information from the colonial period through the present." This resource is one of the ecollections of the Center for Research Libraries. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Documenting the American South (UNC) A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Early American Fiction A collection of over 400 full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes.

Early English Books Online Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will be added soon. Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn. EEBO covers all material types from the period, including monographs, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.

Early English Books Online -- Text Creation Partnership A searchable text version of Early English Books Online. When complete, EEBO-TCP will contain 25,000 texts

ebooks on EBSCOhost The EBSCOhost ebook collection contains titles formerly on the netLibrary platform, as well as new purchases from Ebsco. Most titles are restricted to one user at a time and become available to other users after 30 minutes of inactivity.Creating a user account (by clicking on the "Sign In" link at the top and then "Create a New Account") enables you to save preferences, organize your research with folders and share these, save and retrieve your search history, create email alerts and/or RSS feeds, and gain access to your saved research remotely.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) The ECCO provides full text access to almost 150,000 "English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas" between 1701 and 1800. The Collection is divided into seven subject areas including History and Geography; Social Science; Fine Arts, Music, Art and Architecture; Medicine, Science and Tecnology; Literature and Language; Religion and Philosophy; and Law. The database is based on "The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)".

Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd Edition) Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists

Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition

Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an Combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qurʼān. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qurʼānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qurʼānic studies.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed. The Encyclopedia is a 5-volume set and a supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces-many by the foremost scholars in the field-it addresses a wide array of subjects in over 2,300 articles to fully define in one source the cultural roots and current condition of the African-American community.

Encyclopedia of American Religions, 8th ed. Contains general essays that historically trace the major religious families and traditions, as well as directory listings that include contact and descriptive information on individual churches, religious bodies, and spiritual groups.

Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed. This edition is a complete revision of the Dartmouth Medal-winning set first published in 1995. Covering a wealth of topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment, the set helps researchers to consider the impact of new scientific knowledge and its potential to harm or benefit present and future generations.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism This encyclopedia describes the Buddhist world view, basic teachings and practices of Buddhism, as well as its different schools and sects. In addition to containing entries on Buddhist scriptures, art, architecture, divinities, monastic orders, festivals, rites and ceremonies, this 2-vol. set explores the history of Buddhism, the different forms it has taken in different parts of the world, and how Buddhism has blended with other religions like Shinto, Confucianism, Daoism, Islam, and Christianity.

Encyclopedia of European Social History This six-volume reference on European social history includes more than 230 articles on everything from serfdom and the economy, to witchcraft and public health.

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World This encyclopedia looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more.

Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism "The articles in the Encyclopedia broadly cover the basic elements and enduring features of Mormon history, doctrine, scripture, organization, and culture. . . . In order to reflect more than the views of a small number of academicians, the Encyclopedia draws upon 750 authors, and no author wrote more than three of its articles. It also includes many informative appendices and a unique synoptic outline" (from home page). (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. The 2nd edition of the classic Edwards (1967) encyclopedia. Provides original and updated articles on African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more. Includes approximately 1,000 biographies.

Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, 2nd ed. "The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion traces the roots of the relationship between politics and religion from antiquity to the present, revealing how it has shaped public discourse, social attitudes, collective action, and national and international policy, particularly during the past two centuries" (About page)

Encyclopedia of Religion in America

Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. The second edition of this highly regarded encyclopedia, intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles. Preserving the best of the first edition's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of the classic work, making it relevant to the questions and interests of all researchers.

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Addresses the interactions, contradictions, and tensions between science and religion, both historically and in contemporary life. The set examines technologies like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and continuing developments in neurophysiology against the backdrop of deeply-held religious beliefs. In addition, phenomena such as the Church of Scientology are also studied, along with more traditional issues, such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion.

Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Reference source for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary social theory. The encyclopedia examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses

Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. Winner of the 1993 Dartmouth Medal, this classic reference has been updated to reflect the many changes in society and in the field of sociology in recent years. Articles covering core issues such as race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy and abortion have been updated and expanded, and completely new articles have been written on topics such as the Internet, privacy, and epidemiology.

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) "EBR offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible according to its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. At the same time, EBR also documents the history of the Bible's reception in the Christian churches and the Jewish Diaspora; in literature, art, music, and film; in Islam, as well as in other religious traditions and current religious movements, Western and non-Western alike"--Publisher's website.

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. Covers the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. Covers the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

The English Server (Carnegie Mellon University) Collections on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, eighteenth century literary criticism, internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, gender studies and current political and social issues. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

ENGnetBASE (Engineering Handbooks Online) A collection of engineering handbooks published by CRC Press.

ETANA A portal to ancient Near Eastern web resources, including archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World Explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. Includes 1,150 articles written by eminent scholars covering major topics in art, government, and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. Also covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish Inquisition, Utopia and others.

Evans Digital Edition (Early American Imprints) Evans Digital is the online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. Series I. Evans is the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.

Evans Early American Imprint Collection -- Text Creation Partnership A searchable text version of Evans Early American Imprint Collection. When completed Evans-TCP will contain 6,000 texts.

Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources This volume of primary source documents focuses on the role of the family in society. It contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. Also included is an introduction to the topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index.

Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion This six-volume set explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times. Topics covered include misogyny and women's social roles in ancient civilizations, 16th-century women's devotional literature, 17th- and 18th-century women's captivity narratives, the women's suffrage movement in 19th-century America, women writers of the "Lost Generation," lesbian literature, modern feminist theory, criticism and scholarship and much more. Also included are detailed studies of prominent women writers, including Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich and many others.

France in America This resource focuses on "the role played by France in the exploration and settlement of the continent and its participation in several events which indelibly marked the history of the United States: the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Louisiana Purchase. Includes books, maps, prints and other documents. (Will be completed in fall, 2006). (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Gale Virtual Reference Library Provides access and cross searching for the Gale Reference e-books that have been purchased by the Library. (As of January 2006, over 100 titles are available). A link to a list of available titles is available on the search page. The database also provides access to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Also see the Tennessee Electronic Library databases entry and select Gale Virtual Reference Library for access to additional titles.

Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources This volume of primary source documents from the Social Issues Primary Source Collection focuses on the issues of gender and sexuality in the last three centuries. International in scope, this volume contains approximately 200 documents, such as speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays, and much more.

Gutenberg-e Gutenberg-e is a collection of books that represent "the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology. These books have undergone a rigorous academic review process by distinguished historians brought together by the American Historical Association and produced through a close collaboration between the authors and the electronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press."

Handbook of Death and Dying Reference work covering the field of thanatology, the study of death and related psychological coping mechanisms and behaviors.

Hein Online (HeinOnline) Includes Code of Federal Regulations (1938 to date), Congressional Record (1789 to date), Federal Register (1936 to date), Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) (1861 to date), Pentagon Papers, U.S. Code (1925 to date), U.S. Statutes at Large (1989 to date) and state law databases, legislative histories, world constitutions, and other U.S., foreign, and international databases.

Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection Has pointers to over 14,000 titles that can be searched or browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Internet Sacred Texts Archive Freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Italian Women Writers This database is a research endeavor project to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors from the 12th century through 1945. The database includes an author index with links to biographies, portraits, editions, and bibliographies. The database includes anthologies, articles, articles and essays, autobiographies, biographies, children's literature, devotional works, dialogues, diaries, dramas, epics, hagiographies, histories and chronicles, interviews and conversations, letters, memoirs, novels,operas, poems, reviews, short shories, and travel literature. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

The King James Bible Authorized Version Text of the King James Bible, 1611 edition, including all introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables

Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS includes the subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). The series reports new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.

Lecture Notes in Physics LNP reports new developments in physics research and teaching with aim to summarize and communicate current knowledge. Books published in the series are conceived as bridging material between advanced graduate textbooks and the forefront of research.

Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT) -- web access Searchable library of Latin texts. Texts include literature from antiquity (the entire corpus of Latin Literature from Classical Antiquity up to the second century A.D.); literature from patristic authors (including the complete works of important patristic writers such as Ambrose, Augustine, Ausonius, Cassian, Cyprian, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Marius Victorinus, Novatian, Paulinus of Nola, Prudentius, and Tertullian, among others, and including non-Christian literature as well); literature from the Middle Ages (including the complete works of many medieval authors such as Anselm of Canterbury, Beatus de Liebana, Bernard of Clairvaux, Guillaume of St. Thierry, Sedulius Scottus, Thomas a Kempis, and Thomas of Celano, among others); and neo-Latin literature (including decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II, among other items).

Literature Online (formerly LION) "Literature Online contains a full library of up-to-date, fully searchable criticism and reference resources in addition to the full text of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day. It not only provides the materials for the historical study of almost every period and genre of literature in English but also features increasing numbers of works by the major authors of the twentieth century. Contemporary criticism is available through the full text of 120 current literature journals that can be accessed through the renowned literary index, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), which contains over 880,000 records of literary criticism from 1920 to current." Coverage also includes, "over 4,100 hyperlinks to other sites on the Web that are relevant to the study of literature" and multimedia to support poetry study with PoetsOnScreen, a collection of video clips of filmed poetry readings.Literature Online includes the content from the following databases: 20th Century African-American Poetry, 20th Century American Poetry, 20th Century English Poetry, African-American Poetry, 1760-1900, American Drama, American Poetry, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), Canadian Poetry, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875, Early English Prose Fiction 1500-1700, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Drama (1280-1915), English Poetry, The Faber Poetry Library, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.

Making of America A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Separate sites at Cornell and the University of Michigan contain different sets of materials. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Making of America (Cornell site) A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Separate sites at Cornell and the University of Michigan contain different sets of materials. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Making of Modern Law Provides digital images of every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages.

Making of the Modern World The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

National Academy Press NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. Its books are available online in full text. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 500 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Bookshelf A growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by concept. You can also search a single selected book from its table of contents (Free E-Book --open to all users)

netLibrary (please use ebooks on EBSCOhost)

New Catholic Encyclopedia Jubilee Volume, 2nd ed. This supplement focuses on the pontificate of John Paul II and includes thematic essays that present the man and his work.

New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. A standard in public, academic, and high school libraries worldwide, and prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities, this book is the first place to turn for answers for questions on topics such as abortion, divorce, cloning, and reproductive technologies. In addition to the hundreds of new, signed articles on a wide variety of topics, this edition also features biographies of contemporary religious figures, thousands of photos, maps, and illustrations, and completely updated bibliographical citations. The 15th volume is a cumulative index to the entire encyclopedia.

New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2009 This supplement to the New Catholic Encyclopedia focuses on the theme of science and the church.

New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010 This supplement focuses on the Church in Modern History, particularly WWII and after. It also includes about 200 entries on the men and women who have been beatified or canonized since 2003.

New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2011 This supplement covers the areas of art, music and literature. It includes articles written by specialists and scholars, bios of the beatified and canonized since 2010 as well as entries on other relevant current Catholic issues, events and topics, such as: Internet and the Church, Pope Benedict XVI, popular culture, sex abuse crisis, television and Catholicism, and women artists and Catholic art.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online "Written by 1506 eminent contributors, this new edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics retains many classic essays of enduring importance and contains 1,872 articles."

OECD iLibrary Online Library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) that is the gateway to OECD anaysis through its books, papers, and statistics.

The On-line Books Page A directory of free ebooks, including a searchable index and links to directories and archives of etexts (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Open Library One web page for every book. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church "[C]ontains over 6,000 A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of [the Christian church], from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics" (from home page).

The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt The Encyclopedia offers the most complete picture available of ancient Egyptian civilization, from the predynastic era to its eclipse in the seventh century CE. Here is the Egyptian world in illuminating, accessible detail: art, architecture, religion, language, literature, trade, politics, everyday social life and the culture of the court.

Oxford Handbooks Online Complete texts of some of the Oxford Handbooks. Note: we only have access to some of the texts in the subject areas of Philosophy and Political Science.

Oxford Reference This fully indexed, cross-searchable database consists of approximately 100 reference sources published by Oxford University Press. It includes dictionaries, subject reference works, language reference sources any key titles in the Oxford Companion series. Some examples are: the Oxford-Duden German dictionaries, A Dictionary of Psychology, A Dictionary of Zoology, The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Oxford Companion to U.S.History, Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Companion to Philosophy and over ninety other reference books covering a wide range of subjects. The database allows searching within twenty-three specific subject areas, as well as keyword searches of the entire group of reference sources.

Oxford Text Archive Includes thousands of etexts. Some public domain titles are open to all users. Use of some texts requires permission of the depositor. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Past Masters Scholarly editions of major philosophers, from Aristotle to Santayana; and the collected letters of major English writers: Austen, Burney, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and selected Romantics. Also includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary and the Oxford Duden German Dictionary.

Patrologiae Graecae Electronic version of J.P. Migne's Patrologiae Graecae. PG contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. PG is a collection of the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century. It includes, for example, the early writings collectively known as the Apostolic Fathers, such as the Epistles of Clement and The Shepherd of Hermas, the church historian Eusebius, the controversial theologian Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. The texts are generally interlaced, with one column of Greek and a corresponding column on the other side of the page that is the Latin translation. Where the Greek has been lost, such as in Irenaeus, the full text appears only in Latin, and the extant Greek fragments of the work are interspersed throughout the Latin text.

Perseus Digital Library The Perseus Project was founded to present materials related to the Classical Greek world. It contains texts in Romanized Greek and English translation (many edited from the Loeb series), the Intermediate Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon, and morphological and translation tools. It has since expanded into the Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, site plans, maps, and art and archaeology catalogs and images. Additional collections in the Perseus Library are: the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri; Renaissance Collection (Marlowe, Shakespeare); Bolles collection on the history of London; American Memory: California Collection and the Upper Midwest Collection. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Pollard and Redgrave (Early English Books Online) Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will be added soon. Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn. EEBO covers all material types from the period, including monographs, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.

Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature Provides biographical and critical essays on 223 writers connected to or concerned with the Holocaust, as well as separate essays on 307 of their works.

SAGE Reference Online The SAGE Reference Online (SRO) platform hosts authoritative, award winning handbooks and encyclopedias in the social sciences.

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) SCETI was created in 1996 to publish virtual facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library's collections. It includes materials published between the 9th and 20th centuries. Users can browse the site by author, collection, period, language, or format. The site is also searchable by author title, or keyword. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Shakespeare in Quarto The most significant value of this well-designed and multi-faceted database lies in the British Library's 93 quarto texts of 21 plays, which can be studied individually or compared in their variant editions. The database also provides background information about Shakespeare, his works, the theatre world of his time, and the printing of his plays, as well as a list of references and links to websites of special relevance to the quartos. An "Afterlife" section traces changes in the plays in print and performance from the Restoration to the 21st century. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Short Title Catalog (Early English Books Online) Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will be added soon. Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn. EEBO covers all material types from the period, including monographs, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.

Something about the Author (SATA) (Gale) Something about the Author is a major reference source for biographical information on children's and young adult authors and illustrators. The essays examine the lives and works of authors and illustrators from English-speaking countries as well as authors from around the world. Well-known and emerging authors and illustrators are covered by the series. Included with each essay are photos and illustrations.

Something About the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS) (Gale) Something About the Author Autobiography Series includes original essays by prominent authors or illustrators written specifically for the series. The Autobiography Series was started in 1985 as a companion to the Something about the Author series. Beginning in 1999, the autobiographical essays are included with the original Something about the Author series and no longer published separately.

SourceOECD Education and Skills SourceOECD Education and Skills. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development publications cover a wide variety of topics, all dedicated to helping governments and citizens understand and take on the challenges of a globalised world. SourceOECD Education and Skills is the online library of e-books in the field of education.

SpringerLINK Includes full text books in several monographic series published by Springer.

Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro The full texts of original versions of over 800 Spanish plays from the 16th and 17th centuries (e. g., Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Ruíz de Alarcón). The first edition is used except in cases where the original is illegible. The text is copied exactly as written, with all peculiarities captured (accents, abbreviations, etc.). Full texts are keyword searchable

Thomason Tracts (Early English Books Online) Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will be added soon. Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn. EEBO covers all material types from the period, including monographs, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.

Topics in Current Chemistry Presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. The scope of coverage includes all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science.

Twayne’s Authors Series (Twaynes) "Twayne World, US and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles."

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE) Peer-reviewed articles on a wide range of topics related to Ancient Egypt. "The aim of the UEE is to provide access to excellent information on a broad range of topics on ancient Egypt for scholars across multiple disciplines, students of Egyptology, History and related fields, and at the same time meeting the enormous popular interest in ancient Egypt" (from Aims and Scope page). (Free E-Book --open to all users)

University of Michigan Electronic Text Initiative A collection of religious and literary sources. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

University of Virginia's Text Collection 1,200 publicly-available ebooks, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and more. (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Washington Information Directory Washington Information Directory (http://library.cqpress.com/wid/)Capsule descriptions and contact information for Congress and federal agencies, governors and other state officials, U.S. and foreign diplomats, interest groups, other nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, foundations, and institutions.

Witchcraft Collection (Cornell University Library) "Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft." The collection "...documents the earliest and the latest manifestations of the belief in witchcraft as well as its geographical boundaries, and elaborates this history with works on canon law, the Inquisition, torture, demonology, trial testimony, and narratives. Most importantly, the collection focuses on witchcraft not as folklore or anthropology, but as theology and as religious heresy." (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Covers the period 1600-2000. Includes 57 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,500 documents, 600 images, and over 600 links to other websites.

Women Working, 1870-1930 This database is the "prototype of the Open Collections Program Women Working project. This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2,000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U. S. economy from 1870-1930." (Free E-Book --open to all users)

Women Writers Online This database has full text access to works in English or translations into English by women writers prior to 1850. The Brown University Women Writers Project seeks to include texts not currently available in print but are needed by scholars. Basic information given about each work includes author's name, facts of publication of the original text, Wing or STC number, language and period, and genre.

Women’s Studies Encyclopedia An updated electronic version of the Women's Studies Encyclopedia edited by Helen Tierney. Includes more than 700 entries prepared by 425 scholars from all disciplines. Provides a thorough analysis of women and society throughout history and around the world. Extensive bibliographic sources.

World Bank eLibrary This database contains World Bank publications (books, reports, and other documents) in fulltext, as well as Policy Research Working Papers. Selected titles from the 1980’s and 1990’s, and all publications since 2000.

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Wright American Fiction A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. It includes over 2,000 texts by over 1,100 authors. The collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time. (Free E-Book --open to all users)