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Quick Links - most often used eBooks and page navigation links

*ACLS History E-Book Project *Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals & Academic Discussion Lists *NetLibrary

*Knovel

*Pan American Health Organization *Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide
*The Alfred Russel Wallace Page  *Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950  *Free eBook Links
*Commercial eBook Links *Create Your Own eBooks *Other Useful eBook Links

The dots before database names show accessibility: *login from off campus using your WKU email username and password; * available off campus with specific passwords; * on campus only; available through the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL);*Created at WKU; and * free web sites. If you are off campus, you must login first with your WKU email username & password.

eBooks Subscribed to by the WKU Libraries & Museum

*ACLS History E-Book Project (American Council of Learned Societies)
Contains over 500 high quality books in the field of history. "These are works of major importance to historical studies - books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature."

*Annual Reviews Online
This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

*Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals & Academic Discussion Lists
The Directory of Open-Access Journals contains the full text of academic peer-reviewed journals that do not charge subscription fees. DOAJ is available directly at www.doaj.org.

*Knovel
Through subscription to Knovel, a provider of aggregated engineering and applied science data, access is now available to four e-books:

*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. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

* Pan American Health Organization (on Ingenta Select)

* Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide (Created by Dr. Brian Coutts)
This eBook is available on campus via the campuswide information system, WKUNet, and off-campus via the proxy server.

 

eBooks Created at the WKU Libraries & Museum

*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.

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."

* 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.

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.
  • 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."
Create Your Own eBooks

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."

Other Useful eBook Links

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."

 
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