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Electronic Books

Electronic Book Databases

Electronic books in almost every field. Features include full-text searching, bookmarks, and personal notes. (Full-text).
Free software is required: download ebrary Reader™

Electronic books from academic, professional, and popular publishers. (Full-text).

More than 1,700 electronic books in history and the arts. All books are chosen by scholars. (Full-text).

Classic fiction and poetry, plus dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works. (Full-text)

Spanish-langauge database with biographies, maps, literary texts, and dictionaries. (Full-text).

Books, memoirs, diaries, and pamphlets on Southern history, literature, and culture. (Full-text).

Basic information on almost any topic from specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks. (Full-text).

Books and articles published in the United States from 1850 to 1877. (Full-text).

Standard reference handbooks in engineering, industrial chemistry, and related fields. (Full-text).

Current books in biomedicine, cell biology, genetics, and related fields. (Full-text).

Important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. (Full-text).

Essays on controversial topics from books in the Opposing Viewpoints series, the Current Controversies series, and the At Issue series. Additional content includes magazines, journals, news, primary sources, statistics, multimedia, and web sites. (Full-text).

English and bilingual dictionaries, quotation dictionaries, and specialized subject dictionaries. (Full-text).

Greek, Roman, and Egyptian classics; classics of the English Renaissance; and more. (Full-text).

Famous and important books of fiction and nonfiction. (Full-text).

Electronic books in computer science, web development, programming, desktop applications, security, and more. (Full-text).

Electronic textbooks and reference books in medicine and psychology. (Full-text).

Complete plays by Spanish dramatists of the 16th and 17th centuries. (Full-text).

Thousands of full-text poems by prominent American poets. (Full-text).

Thousands of full-text poems by prominent English poets. (Full-text).

 

E-Book Search Engines

Search current and out-of-print books. View short previews or full-text content from some books. (Some full-text).

Find free books on the Web by author, title, or subject. (Full-text).

 

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