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ABC Clio EBooks: ABC CLIO offers easy navigation to full-text electronic books on varying subjects ranging from terrorism to world cultures. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
American Memory: A collection of digital texts and images, including books, manuscripts, photographs, and film created from the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Bartleby.com: an online collection of digital reference books, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Includes such classics as Strunk's Elements of Style and Frazer's Golden Bough. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Birds of North America: Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Black Drama: When complete, Black Drama will contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Cabell's Education Directory: The library has a license for Cabell's Education Directory, which includes Curriculum & Methods and Psychology & Administration. Directory information on about 360 journals in education relating to curriculum and directory information on about 250 journals in education relating to psychology and administration. Covers style, format, manuscript guidelines, review process, readership and time lines in both directories. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Characterization of Materials: Provides comprehensive up-to-date coverage of materials characterization techniques including computational and theoretical methods as well as crystallography, mechanical testing, thermal analysis, optical imaging and spectroscopy, and more. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Collection on Critical Global Issues of the United Nations University: Contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Country Studies/Area Handbooks: This online series presently contains studies of 101 countries. Most of the books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
CRC EngNetBase: Features 134 titles on everything from AC Power Systems to Viscous Fluid Flow. Also called Engineering Handbooks online and EngNetBase. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: The most widely used source of data for chemists, physicists, and professionals in related fields of science. The Handbook provides broad coverage of all types of data commonly encountered by physical scientists and engineers. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Dictionary of American History: includes very brief to multi-page signed entries on topics in American History. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Directory of American Scholars: biographical information about more than 24,000 U.S. and Canadian scholars in a wide range of fields, including history, literature, philosophy, religion, linguistics, and foreign languages. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Early English Books Online (ProQuest): Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Early English Books Online (University of Michigan): Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
ebrary: ebrary provides thousands of eBooks from more than 220 world leading publishers. The eBooks offered through ebrary span all academic subject areas. ebrary requires a download of the "ebrary reader" in order to view the eBooks. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Eighteenth Century Collections Online is based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. This includes over 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800. This online collection is divided into seven subject areas: history and geography; social science and fine arts; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; and reference. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Electronic Text Center: a project at the University of Virginia to create thousands of electronic texts in many subject areas and languages. Most texts can be viewed online. Many can also be downloaded for use on handheld computers. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Encyclopedia of Education: Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology (EMSAT): Contains over 1500 articles on both the 'scientific fundamentals and the socioeconomic and humanistic aspects of materials production and consumption.' Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Evans Digital Edition (1639 - 1800): Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Contains over 36,000 imprints and more than 2.5 million images. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Humanities Text Initiative: A collection of literary, historical and religious texts developed by the University of Michigan. Includes projects like the American Verse Project and the Making of America. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Lecture Notes in Physics: Reports on new developments in physics research and teaching (e.g. course notes, seminar workouts) - quickly, informally, and at a high level. Coverage is from 1997 to the present. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
MD Consult Core Collection: F40+ full text journal titles and 48 full text reference books, patient education handouts, medical news, and clinical practice guidelines. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
MOA: Making of America Digital Library: A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains access to approximately 9,000 books and 955 serials with 19th century imprints and is made up of two separate online collections from the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
netLibrary: netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books. Language may be limited to Spanish. netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Online Rand Research Documents: Environment and Energy: This site has a collection of free books published by the RAND organization, a "think tank" supplying analyses for policy development in a wide variety of areas including this link to areas of environment and energy. The database is also searchable by author, title word, or words in the abstract. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Opposing Viewpoints Resources Center: Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Provides current event topics and the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Oxford Art and Architecture Dictionaries: Find art terms, biographies of artists, and entries covering all periods of Western architectural history. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf: Composed of reference e-books that are searchable through Oxford Reference Online Premium. Currently, there are 17 titles available in the Digital Reference Shelf. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Oxford English Dictionary: Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Oxford Reference Online: Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 general and subject dictionaries, and language reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes quotations, proverbs, place-names and other general reference works. Among the English language reference works are thesauri and a wide variety of dictionaries (e.g. grammar, abbreviations, idioms, eponyms, euphemisms). Foreign language dictionaries include German, Italian, and Spanish. Specialized subject dictionaries are available in a wide range of disciplines. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Oxford Scholarship Online: A cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,100 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Project Gutenberg: Find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Sage eReference: Full-Text access to Sage reference books on a variety of social science topics. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Statesman's Yearbook Online: Published since 1864, Statesman's Yearbooks is a key reference resource in International Affairs. It provides detailed information on the political, economic and social status of every country in the world. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Topics in Chemistry: Presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research in all areas of chemical science including related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science from 1997 to the present. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia