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Subscribed Collections
The University Library has recently added the Teacher's Resource Collection of 46 books to our NetLibrary subscription. Do a Title search on the SOUTHcat Catalog: Teacher's resources. NetLibrary 3 is a collection of about 11,173 current electronic books which you (student, faculty or staff) can search, browse, check-out and read on a computer anywhere in the world. The checkout period for books from Netlibrary is currently 4 hours. In order to check out a book, you must create an account with NetLibrary. Click on "Create a Free Account" next to Login at the top right of the screen. Only single pages can be printed using your browser print button. Let us know what you think.
The ACLS Humanities E-Book project contains approximately 1500 books. The project group plans to add around 300 e-books per year. The collection is available to USA faculty, staff and students on-campus and remotely. You can either search for a book using full-text, author, subject or title searches, or you can browse the list of books available.
Access Medicine contains books such as Harrison's Online and Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009. For more medical e-books, see the Biomedical Library's homepage at http://biomedicallibrary.southalabama.edu/library/?q=ebooks
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) contains nearly 2000 texts including classic works of French literature, various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and more. The collections are available to USA faculty, staff and students on-campus and remotely. You can search for books within each collection.
From the Buros Institute. Full-text reviews for English-language standardized tests. (OvidSP)
DSM-IV TR (Text Revision 2000)
From Stat-Ref. This is the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The Biomedical Library has only 1 simultaneous user for this database, so make sure to logout when finished. If you are trying to access this database and get a message that all slots are filled, try again later.
From Rittenhouse. Contains separate libraries for medicine, nursing and allied health.
Medical and nursing books.
Access to International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Knovel Critical Tables, Smithsonian Physical Tables, Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, Military Handbook, Metallic Materials Properties Development & Standardization and Engineering Problem Solving: A Classical Perspective.
Free Electronic Books
Remember that most of these are collections or links to older books, no longer under copyright protection.Digital Books from Cornell University Libraries
Over 70,000 public domain works.
". . . When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see the Snippet View which, like a card catalog, shows information about the book plus a few snippets - a few sentences of your search term in context. You may also see the Sample Pages View if the publisher or author has given us permission or the Full Book View if the book is out of copyright. In all cases, you'll also see 'Buy this Book' links that lead directly to online bookstores where you can buy the book." [Always check our catalog first before buying a book online--that's what a library is for!]
Project Gutenberg : 20,000 free books
One Million Book Project at Carnegie Mellon University. You may need to download a djvu reader for some editions.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
American and English literature and western philosophy
Humanities Text Initiative / Making of America
University of Michigan's digital collection including American primary documents
Free online books from the American Mathematical Society
Books researched and published with monies from the National Academies of Science. Also available for sale. Look for the "free" version.
Free Books 4 Doctors -- Also "new" books
2500 texts--some free
Not all ebooks in this collection from the California Digital Library are older books; some are from the 1990s.
Classics of American and English lit., translations of some French and Russian, some children's, miscellany.
A collection of novels, poetry, reference books, all out of copyright restrictions.
Texts and documents from ancient Greece, Rome, Renaissance and other items.
Miscellaneous collection out-of-copyright books. Try their Drama collection too.
Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia
Some restricted, some free
A searchable database (free to use but requires you to login) containing information about more than 72,000 digitized books from over 1800 publishers.
Links to other online collections
Over 5000 books available free including Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.