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See Using University Library Ebooks with Ereaders for instructions on how to download and read ebooks with a variety of ereaders.
Subscribed Collections
The University Library has access to ebrary's Academic Complete collections and has purchased the following ebrary collections: Business and Economics, Computers and IT, Education, Engineering and Technology, Environment, Psychology and Social Work, Special Needs Education, and Sports and Recreation.
The University Library subscribes to Springer's 2005-2010 English/International ebook collection with access for one year to book series back to 1997. We've also recently added 2011 collections. Sort your results by date so that the books we have access to will appear first. You can also tell if a book is part of our collection if the square to the left of the title is green.
EBSCO eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary 3) is a collection of about 11,173 electronic books which you (student, faculty or staff) can search, browse, check-out and read on a computer or transfer to your ereader. The University Library has added two new Teacher's Resource Collections, a Career Collection and a Test Preparation Collection to our NetLibrary subscription. Do a Title search on the SOUTHcat Catalog: Teacher's resources.The checkout period for books from EBSCO is currently 3 days. In order to check out a book, you must create an account with EBSCO. Click on Sign In at the top right on the blue bar, then choose Create a New Account. A maximum of 60 pages may be printed at one time.
The ACLS Humanities E-Book project contains approximately 2800 books.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.
From Rittenhouse. Contains separate libraries for medicine, nursing and allied health.
Medical and nursing books.
Medical and First Aid 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!]
Over 2 million out of copyright books. The collections can be searched by title, keyword or subject; the fulltext can be searched; or the public collections can be browsed.
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.