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E-Books


Full text books available online.

Electronic Text Center
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Search over 2,100 publicly-available e-books from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more.


Google Book Search
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Offers full text of older books in the public domain and limited previews of selected recent books. As more and more books are being scanned by major libraries (U. of Mich., NYPL), the value of this search increases.


NetLibrary
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Access to nearly 5,000 full text e-books across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Find full text scholarly and reference books in a variety of subjects, including business, economics, computer science, history, political science, art, literature, and science. [NOTE: PDF browser plug-in required for Mac users].


Online Books Page
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Provides access to electronic books that are freely available on the web. Available titles tend to be older books that are in the public domain (i.e. copyright on the material has expired). Search by author, title, or subject.


Project Gutenberg
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Provides full text for over 27,000 books in the public domain.


SpringerLink
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Full text journals, books, and reference works published by Springer. Core focus is science, technology, and medicine but includes some titles in the social sciences and humanities. Please note that the Library does not subscribe to all publications in SpringerLink. Subscribed content is marked by a green "full access" icon.


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