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eBooks
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ACLS
Humanities E-Book Project (American Council
of Learned Societies)
Humanities E-Book contains over 1,700 full-text titles from
the ACLS and other learned societies, nearly 95 contributing
publishers, and the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University
of Michigan. Several titles now include imbedded sound and film
clips. Full-text access to these e-books is available on
campus and off-campus with WKU email and password login.
American
Jurisprudence Legal Encyclopedia
Annual
Reviews Online
Full-text access to these e-books is available on
campus and off-campus with WKU email and password login.
CRC
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE
We have been the recipients of a free one-year subscription
to this e-books package, which contains the .pdf full text of
over 250 technical titles in the biological sciences and related
fields.
Grolier
Online Encyclopedias
Part
of the database offerings in the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL),
Grolier Online provides
access to the Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge.
Full-text access to these e-books is available on campus and
off-campus with WKU email and password login.
Complete
Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Gale)
This e-book contains the entire 18-volume set of the the original
Dictionary of Scientific Biography, along with the recently-published
8 volumes of the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Full-text access to this e-book is available on campus and off-campus
with WKU email and password login.
Knovel
Online Library
The aggregated Knovel
Online Library content covers 18 industrially important
Subject Areas in the fields of Chemistry and the Life Sciences;
Materials; and Engineering. Our current arrangement with Knovel
provides full-text access to several E-Books from the Knovel
Online Library in addition to a number of subject related
reference works. Full-text access to these e-books is available
on campus and off-campus with WKU email and password login.
Knovel titles at WKU inclue:
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NetLibrary
NetLibrary
is a collection of 896 full text electronic books. You can
read the books online, and can download or print a page at
a time. You can search the entire text of all ebooks or search
the collection by author, title, publisher, or subject heading.
You can also browse the text of ebooks or search within a
selected ebook. NetLibrary contains books on: 
Business, Economics and Management
Computers
Criminal
Justice Education
Library
Science, Journalism, and Publishing
Medicine,
Health, and Nursing
Pop Culture Psychology
and Social Work
Sociology
and Gender. NetLibrary also provides access to 3,399 publicly-available
e-books. Full-text access to these e-books is available
on campus and off-campus with WKU email and password login.
Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO) E-Books (on IngentaConnect)
Full-text access to these e-books is available on campus and off-campus with WKU email and password login.
Reference
Sources in History: An Introductory Guide (Created
by Dr. Brian Coutts)
Full-text access to this e-book is available on campus and
off-campus with WKU email and password login.
Resources
for College Libraries (Association of College & Research
Libraries/Bowker)
A core list of titles recommended for academic libraries featuring
65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects. Full-text
access to this e-book is available on campus and off-campus
with WKU email and password login.
eBooks
Created at WKU |
The
Alfred Russel Wallace Page
Created by Science Librarian Charles Smith, this award-winning
site celebrates life and works (in full text) of Alfred Russel
Wallace (1823-1913), English naturalist, evolutionist, and social
critic.
Early
Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies:
To 1950
"An enhanced bibliography with links to: (1) the full-text
of many of the items listed, and (2) biographical information
on the authors." Also created by Charles Smith.
Honors
Thesis Library (WKU Honors Program)
F ull text of the theses produced by students in the honors
program. Each thesis represents an independent and original
project in the student's field of study.
TopSCHOLAR™
Digital Repository
TopSCHOLAR™ is a University-wide initiative to create
a centralized digital repository dedicated to scholarly research,
creative activity and other full-text learning resources that
merit enduring and archival value and permanent access. WKU
faculty, staff, and faculty-sponsored students are encouraged
to publish in TopSCHOLAR™. Funded
as a pilot project for 2007-08 by the Provost’s Initiatives
for Excellence and University Libraries.
Banned
Books Online
"All listings are from The Online Books Page at the University
of Pennsylvania. All opinions expressed on this page, unless
otherwise noted, are those of the editor, John Mark Ockerbloom,
who is solely responsible for the content of this page."
Bartleby
"The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference
and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually
curious with unlimited access to books and information on the
web, free of charge."
Blackmask
Online
A free eBook site that has over 7,000 links for you to choose
from. eBooks are in different formats.
Dewey's
Digital Library
A collection of free online books classified (roughly) by the
Dewey Decimal System. These books are NOT in the public domain
and are still covered by copyright. You may not copy and redistribute
them without the express consent of the copyright holder.
The
eBook Directory
"The Biggest Directory of Free eBooks Online!"
Free
eBook Library from the University of Virginia
"1,800 publicly-available eBooks from the University of
Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and
American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American
history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible,
and much more."
The
EServer
"The EServer is a unique website where 281 writers, artists,
editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works
(currently 31705 of them in all)."
Humanities
Text Initiative
"The Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University
of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided
online access to full text resources since 1994...... The collections
on this site are freely available to the Internet community."
MemoWare
"MemoWare is a unique collection of thousands of documents
(databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.)
specially formatted to be easily added to your PalmOS device,
Psion PDA, TI Avigo, or WinCE device. The documents available
here come in a variety of formats and cover a wide range of
topics."
The
Online Books Page
This page is an online eBook catalog from University of
Pennsylvania that finds eBooks in different formats from different
sources on the Internet.
Project
Gutenberg
The project generates Etexts of public domain literary works.
Etexts are ASCII text documents that can either be read with
no special software or be converted to various formats for different
eBook reading software.
The
Qvadis Library
"The Qvadis Library is the Web's premier collection of
free Palm e-books, all usable with Qvadis Express Reader. Other
Palm e-text archives are listed in our InterLibrary
resource."
SearcheBook.com
A simple and clean search engine that finds only eBooks by keyword
searching.
Universal
Digital Library Million Book Collection
"The mission is to create a Universal Library which will
foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As
a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create
the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection
of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet.
Within 10 years, it is our expectation that the collection will
grow to 10 Million books." Uses Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) technology whenever possible for indexing and searching.
Amazon.com
eBooks & Documents
Purchase your eBooks & e-documents in different formats
at Amazon.com.
Audible.com
Download and listen to a book on your PC, Pocket PC, and AudibleReady
MP3 player.
Barnes&Noble
eBooks
eBooks for the Microsoft Reader.
Bookbooters.com
"Bookbooters.com is an eBook resource for readers and authors
alike. Formed by a group of writers from various disciplines,
we aim to provide a portal for all things related to the eBook
industry and to expose both new and established quality authors
to a rapidly growing audience of eBook devotees."
eBook
Mall
Over 25,000 eBooks.
Fictionwise
"Fictionwise is the place to start if you are interested
in eBooks. They have many award-winning stories by top authors
like Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress,
Gregory Benford, Mike Resnick, and Kate Wilhelm, amongst others."
Peanutpress
"Electronic Books for Handheld Computers - Palm OS & Pocket
PC PDAs."
Perfectbound
"PerfectBound, the new e-book imprint at HarperCollins,
publishes a rich and diverse list of titles. Many of our e-book
titles have special features that are unavailable in other editions.
There are free excerpts for many of the titles listed in the
free e-books section of this site."
eBookExpress
eBookExpress is a web form that "will allow you to create
an eBook in Microsoft?Reader format from your manuscript or
other document."
PalmDoc
PalmDoc is a free software program designed to become an
add-on to Microsoft Word that converts a text document to pdb
format that is readable by a Palm.
Read
in Microsoft Reader
"Create eBooks from Microsoft Word version 2002 files at
the click of a button. The Read in Microsoft Reader (RMR) add-in
for Microsoft Word enables you to convert any Word document
into a Microsoft Reader format eBook in just a few simple steps."
Top
10 Free eBook Publishing Software from About.com
The software packages ... are available completely free, with
no time limits or nag screens. You can use them to create your
eBooks, or just to test the various formats available."
eBook Formats
Explained
Learn about eBook formats and their compatibility.
e-Books.org
This Web site is a non-commercial repository of information
related to eBook research and products, focusing primarily on
tasks, interfaces, and systems.
Electronic
Books in Libraries
A site created by Susan Gibbons of University of Rochester,
it covers eBook studies, products, websites, and newsletter.
Google
e-Book Web Directory
A Web directory from Google that features eBook Website links
to information about compilers, conferences, publishers, readers,
and more.
Planet eBook
A comprehensive and independent Web site exclusively focused
on eBooks and eBook-related technologies.
Pocket PC eBooks Watch
Investigating ebooks technology and contents for win CE,
especially Pocket PC.
Reader's
eBook Primer
"Converting for your portable computer? Use this html version
of the Reader's eBook Primer."
Content updated June 8, 2008
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