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Electronic Books (E-Books)
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Paid for by WKU; from off campus, Log In
with WKU email username & password.
Provided by the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL).
Created at WKU
Free web sites.
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eBooks
Subscribed to by the WKU Libraries |
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.
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.
Encyclopedia of
Social Work (National Ass'n of Social Workers/Oxford University
Press)
The 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work
contains entries and biographies in the field of social work, arranged
in A-Z format.
Full-text access to this e-book is available on campus and off-campus
with WKU email and password login.
Kentuckiana
Digital Library
Rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. Contains
finding aids, newspapers, books, images, maps, oral histories, manuscripts,
and journals relating to Kentucky.
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 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.
NetLibrary contains books on:
Business, Economics and Management Computers Criminal
Justice Education Journalism
& Publishing |
Library Science Medicine,
Health, and Nursing Pop Culture Psychology
and Social Work Sociology
and Gender |
Nutrition
Care Manual (American Dietetic Association)
Research-based nutrition information and clinical tools for dietitians,
dietetic technicians, and other health care professionals.
Full-text access to this e-book is available on campus and off-campus
with WKU email and password login.
Access is restricted to three simultaneous users. Please
"Log out" when exiting the Nutrition Care Manual
Oxford
Reference Online Premium (Oxford University Press)
Oxford Reference Online
Premium contains nearly 200 full-text language and subject
reference works published by Oxford University Press. The electronic
books may be searched individually or together. The collection includes
English-language and bilingual dictionaries, as well as subject encyclopedias
and dictionaries in a wide range of subject areas.
Full-text
access to this e-book is available on campus and off-campus with WKU
email and password login. Access
is restricted to a total of one simultaneous user.
Please use the "LOG OUT" link at the top of the page to exit
the Oxford Reference Online.
Click here for a full listing of included dictionaries.Subject areas include:
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Art & Architecture Biological
Sciences Classics Computing Earth & Environmental
Sciences Economics
& Business Food & Drink History Law Literature Maps |
Medicine Military
History Mythology
& Folklore Names & Places Performing
Arts Physical
Sciences & Mathematics Politics
& Social Sciences Quotations Religion
& Philosophy Science |
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."
BiblioMania
A site with lots of classic works and collections.
Blackmask/Munseys
A free eBook site that has over 7,000 links for you to choose from. eBooks
are in different formats.
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)."
FullBooks
Lots of free books, but the interface is not user-friendly.
Google Book Search
"If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission,
you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire
text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
If you find a book you like, click on the 'Buy this book' and 'Borrow
this book' links to see where you can buy or borrow it."
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." Includes the Making of
America Collection.
LibriVox: free audiobooks
"LibriVox
volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the
audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books
available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source,
free content, public domain project."
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.
Planet eBook
Free classic literature.
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.
ReadPrint
"Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers,
and the classic enthusiast." Lots of free classic literature.
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.
World Book Fair
Links to many eBook collections.
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.
BiblioMania
A mixture of free classic literature and commercial contemporary eBooks.
eBookExpress
A commercial eBook publisher which carries (among other things) Harlequin®
Romances.
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."
ITunes
Store Audiobooks
"Tens of thousands of titles and growing."
Peanutpress
"Electronic Books for Handheld Computers - Palm OS & Pocket PC PDAs."
World Public Library
A commerical eBook site with lots of collections.
Ebook
Writer
Commercial software for creating eBooks.
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.
Publish Your Own eBooks
Lots of tips on how to write, publish, compile, and sell eBooks.
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