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* ACLS Humanities E-Books * Grolier Online Encyclopedias
* ALR: American Law Reports * American Jurisprudence Legal Encyclopedia
* Annual Reviews Online * Encyclopedia of Social Work
Kentuckiana Digital Library * Knovel Online Library 
* NetLibrary * Pan American Health Organization E-books
* Oxford Digital Reference * Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide
* Resources for College Libraries * TopSCHOLAR® Digital Repository
* Honors Program Theses * Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950
* The Alfred Russel Wallace Page * Free eBook Links
* Create Your Own eBooks * Commercial eBook Links

* 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.

* ALR: American Law Reports

* 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:

  • Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
  • Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective
  • Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards
  • Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
  • International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
  • Knovel Critical Tables
  • Knovel Sample Book
  • Knovel Science and Engineering Units Converter
  • Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1-2
  • Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS)
  • Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK- 5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures
  • Periodic Table of the Elements
  • Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Ed.)
  • Teaching Engineering

* 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:
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.

Free eBook Links

* 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.

Commercial eBook Links

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.

Create Your Own eBooks and Other Useful eBook Links

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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