eBooks

User tip: Searching for eBooks: Use the catalog. Most of the collections below are digitized archival items with a few encyclopedias, dictionaries, and specialized collections. The online catalog has eBooks listed with print items.

If you are looking specifically for an eBook for your topic, perform a search in the catalog, then limit your results to electronic resources in the left-hand column.

ABC Clio EBooks (31 eBooks)

ABC CLIO offers easy navigation to full-text electronic books on varying subjects ranging from terrorism to world cultures.

American Memory (Historical collection of digitized materials)

A collection of digital texts and images, including books, manuscripts, photographs, and film created from the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress

Bartleby.com (Classics with some advertising)

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.

Black Drama (Collection of 1200 plays)

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.

Collection on Critical Global Issues of the United Nations University (late 1980's and early 1990 documents)

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.

Country Studies/Area Handbooks (101 countries 1988-1998 previously published in hard copy)

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.

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.

CRCnetBASE (make sure you click "Full Access Content Only" on the top of the page)

CRCnetBASE is made up of over 6000 online books that span over 40 disciplines.

Dictionary of American History (1 ebook from NetLibrary)

includes very brief to multi-page signed entries on topics in American History.

Directory of American Scholars (1 ebook from NetLibrary)

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.

Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans (1639-1800) (material from 17th & 18th century America)

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.

Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw Shoemaker (1801-1819) (material from 17th & 18th century America)

Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Early English Books Online (ProQuest) 100,000 titles from 1470-1700

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).

Early English Books Online (University of Michigan) (similar to above)

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).

ebrary (titles also found in FSU's catalog)

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.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (books scanned, some difficult to read)

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.

Electronic Text Center (free resource from University of Virginia)

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.

Encyclopedia of Education (1 eBook)

Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world.

Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology (EMSAT) (1 eBook)

Contains over 1500 articles on both the 'scientific fundamentals and the socioeconomic and humanistic aspects of materials production and consumption.'

Gale Virtual Reference Library (175 Reference books 2000 - 2008)

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Lecture Notes in Physics (articles from 1969 - 2011)

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.

MD Consult Core Collection (175 full text medical books, most from 2008)

F40+ full text journal titles and 48 full text reference books, patient education handouts, medical news, and clinical practice guidelines.

MOA: Making of America Digital Library (Archival scans/text from 1600's - 1900's)

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.

netLibrary (Titles are all available in FSU catalog)

netLibrary is a collection of over 50,000 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.

Oxford Art and Architecture Dictionaries (five users at a time. Try again later if asked for a user name)

Find art terms, biographies of artists, and entries covering all periods of Western architectural history.

Oxford English Dictionary (1 eBook)

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.

Oxford Reference Online (five users at a time. Try again later if asked for a user name)

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.

Oxford Scholarship Online (4,500 full text ebooks, only a small portion full text))

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.

Project Gutenberg (a million classic books)

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.

Sage eReference (50 reference titles, 2003 - 2006)

Full-Text access to Sage reference books on a variety of social science topics.

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.

Topics in Chemistry (17 eBooks published 2008 and later, about 100 total)

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.