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Library Catalog:
E-books are linked within the Library Catalog
Just click on the "online version" link provided in the catalog in order to access the book.
Database E-Book Collections:
ARTFL
Contains nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
ebrary Academic Complete
ebrary is a collection of approx. 30,000 fully searchable full-text online books
and maps. Download of the ebrary reader is required the first time you connect to the service. The download is automatic and only takes a minute. ebrary allows you to create a Personal Bookshelf to save, annotate, and highlight your favorite books. Other functionality includes the capability to copy text and paste into Word with automatic bibliographical citations. For more information, consult the user guide at ebrary User Guide.
Gutenberg-e
A growing collection of scholary electronic history texts. Gutenberg-e is a collaborative effort between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.
MyiLibrary MyiLibrary is an platform that provides access to electronic books from various publishers. For now, our access is to philosophy and psychology books only.
Netlibrary
Contains over 28,000 electronic books. Includes a wide range of scholarly, reference, and professional titles, including university press publications. NetLibrary operates on the library check-out model, where each book is only accessible to one person at a time. When finished viewing a book, please use the “close this book” link to make the book available to another user.
(Note for Mac users: Do not use the Safari web browser with Netlibrary. Use Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Netscape or Camino instead. Mac users are also advised to download the Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin to view Netlibrary books formatted in PDF.)
Oxford Scholarship Online (Philosophy Collection) Philosophy titles from Oxford University Press.
Stat!Ref
STAT!Ref is an electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 35 medical resources
Testing and Education Reference Center
Includes study guides for CLEP, AP, TOEFL, ASVAB, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, ACT, SAT and many others. (Plus many practice tests available.)
Reference electronic books, such as encyclopedias, and similar items, are listed under the E-books Resource Type on the Database page.
Websites With Free E-Books:
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
ATHENA: Literature, Books, & Lists Multilingual text index of books covering philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes A collaborative effort to promote Spanish and Hispano-American culture via the Internet. Its goal is to digitize, catalog, and make available online 30,000 works in Spanish.
Complete Works of William Shakepeare The Complete Works of William Shakespeare offering Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
Digital Book Index Around 90,0000 texts covering many different subjects with most of them free.
eScholarship Editions The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses. Some books are available to the public.
Google Books
Google's project to digitize the world's books. Google Books contains books of all subjects. Access to the full-text is limited. However, classic books in the public domain can be fully downloaded.
The Online Books Page
The University of Pennsylvania's listing of over 25,000 books availabe free online.
Online Library of Liberty Classic works on art, economics, history, law, literature, music, philosophy, political theory, religion, science, sociology, war and peace.
Librivox
Audio versions of public domain books available for download in .mp3 or .ogg formats. Librivox's goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. Librivox is a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
Textbook Revolution
Downloads of free E-textbooks and study guides in courses such as business, math, and computer applications. The downloaded books are subsidized by advertising that appears on the digital pages.
Textbook Media from Freeload Press Links visitors to a variety of free college-level, digital textbooks on the Web.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 This is a collection of 19th century American fiction. There are currently 2,887 volumes included by 1,456 authors.
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