E-books
Digital, full text books and documents
Buley Library subscribed e-books (login required off campus)
- Ebook Packages (search more than one book at a time):
- Credo
Reference e-books, including dictionaries, guides, and handbooks. Search within all books, books in a single subject, or a single book.
- Digital Dissertations
Full text of over 1 million dissertations and theses (mostly from the last 10 years); indexing and abstracts for older dissertaions back to 1637. Equivalent of Dissertation Abstracts.
- Knovel K-Essentials E-books
Full text reference books in chemistry, physics, and mathematics, including tables of physical constants which can be manipulated and exported.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Online access to Oxford Dictionaries (not including the Oxford English Dictionary--see below), the "Oxford Companion to..." series, and other reference sources.
- Gale Virtual Reference Books
Subject Encyclopedias in
humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
- Netlibrary
E-books in all subject areas.
- Safari Tech Books
Technology books from O'Reilly and related publishers. Computers, software how-to's, ecommerce, etc.
- R2 Library
Medical ebooks from Rittenhouse Publishing.
- Individual Books:
Web-based Reference Books
- Bartlett's Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html
- Cambridge Dictionaries
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
- CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Comprehensive county information published by the CIA, including background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Also includes an entry for "the World". More CIA books available at the CIA Library.
- County and City Data Book
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html
This site contains official statistics for U.S. counties and cities with over
25,000 inhabitants. City rankings in terms of population, land area, education,
employment, infant death rate, annual temperature, poverty, etc. can be obtained
at this site. The information is taken from the most recent County and City Data
Book.
- Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/
Online version of the popular almanac which you can browse by topic or search.
Also includes the Random House Webster's College Dictionary and the Columbia
Encyclopedia.
- Information Please Atlas
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/
Free online atlas. Click on country to get an enlarged map of the region.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/OCO/
Job and career information, including statistics, qualifications, and job prospects; from the US Bureau of Labor.
- Statistical Abstracts
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html
The standard source for US statistics.
- See also--Reference Internet Resources Guide.
Free Collections of Ebooks and Edocuments
- Codes of Professional Ethics
http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/coe.html
Contains codes of ethics for various organizations and associations.
- DocuTicker
http://www.docuticker.com/
Covers recently released reports from government agencies, NGO's, think tanks
and other similar groups. A search box is located in the right column, after
the date listings.
- eScholarship Editions
http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/
F rom the University of California Press. Some are public, others are for
the UC community only. A Public
Title List is available of only publicly accessible books.
- Free PDF eBooks
http://www.planetebook.com/
Classic novels (Austin, Dickens,Tolstoy, etc.) in PDF format--needs Adobe
Acrobat Reader or other PDF reader.
- HEARTH: Home Economics Archive:
Research, Tradition, and History
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/
Over 1,000 volumes on Home Economics from 1850-1950. Includes journal articles
as well.
- Infolibrarian: Ebooks
http://www.infolibrarian.com/ebook.htm
Links to two dozen ebook collections.
- Internet Archive: Text Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/texts/
Includes the Million Book Project and Project Gutenberg. Searchable by keyword.
- The Internet Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/
Greek and Roman (and a few Chinese and Persian) classical texts in English
translation from MIT.
- Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection
http://ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
The IPL Online Texts Collection contains links to both collections and individual titles.
- Literature for Children
http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/
A collection of children's books published in the U.S. and Great Britain roughly
between 1850 and 1950.
- ManyBooks
http://www.manybooks.net/
Ebooks formatted for mobile reading on PDA's and mobile phones. Other collections
of PDA formatted texts are available at Memoware (http://www.memoware.com/)
and other sites specializing in PDA software.
- National Academies Press
http://www.nap.edu/
Thousands of books and reports by the various National Academies in Washington
DC. Look for the Read it Online link to the left
of the book descriptions.
- The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
- O'Reilly Open Books Project
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
Computer and technology related books from the publisher of the "animals" computer programming books.
- Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
One of the oldest and most famous online book collections.
- Renascence Editions
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
Works printed in English, 1477 - 1799.
Free Theses and Dissertations
Also see the Open
Access Resource Guide.
Rebecca
Hedreen
Distance Education Librarian
2009
