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E-Book/E-Text Collections

E-Books and E-Texts:  Princeton users

  • ABC CLIO eBook collection
    Full-text books in humanities, social sciences, gender studies, African American Studies, Latino Studies, and Native American Studies. Also contains the electronic version of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, a fully searchable collection of over 4,000 interviews with former slaves.
  • The American West
    Contains original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources on the American West from the Newberry Library
  • American History & Culture Online (1500-1926)
    Digital library of works written or published in the United States, as well as items printed elsewhere, that document the history of the Americas from 1492 to the mid-1800s. Based on Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana.
  • BIOSCIENCEnetBASE
    Combining biology, bioinformatics, and biotechnology, this collection offers instant access to the latest handbooks and monographs from leading microbiologists, geneticists, biomedical engineers, health professionals.
  • ChemlibNetBase
    Collection of electronic handbooks and monographs on applied chemistry; covering nanoscience and natural product chemistry to separation methods and surfactant science.
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    Collection of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection. All titles are accessible through the Main Catalog.
  • Early European Books
    Traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the 17th century, offering full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
  • EBRARY
    Collection of books on the following subjects: business & economics, computers, technology & engineering, humanities, life & physical sciences and social & behavioral sciences. It also includes over 9,000 sheet music titles for bands, orchestras, instrumentalists and vocalists of all levels. All titles are accessible through the Main Catalog.
  • ECONOMICSnetBASE
    Electronic books on economics, business management, finance, and public administration.
  • Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)
    Collection of books published during the 18th Century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science.
  • Knovel Engineering and Scientific Online References
    Collection of the latest leading technical and engineering reference books.
  • KSI e-book (2001+)
    Full-text e-books in humanities, social sciences, natural and medical science, arts, and education.
  • LION: Literature Online
    Collection of of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 131 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
  • London Low Life
    Full-text searchable resource, containing color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.
  • Making of the Modern World (1450-1850)
    Digital edition of the Goldsmiths'-Kress collections of books on that document economic and business activity in the West, from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. Materials include books, pamphlets and ephemera and cover a broad range of topics in political science, history, sociology, and banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.
  • Making of the Modern World -- Law (1800-1926)
    Digital library of works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law. Includes treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.
  • MaterialsNetBase
    Collection of handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises covering the theory, data, and processes shaping diverse materials applications.
  • MATHnetBASE
    Online library of Chapman & Hall/CRC references, handbooks, pocketbooks, and primers.
  • MyILibrary
    Full text of select publications from the International Atomic Energy Agency, International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, UNAIDS, United Nations, and the World Health Organization.
  • NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE
    Groundbreaking studies, classic texts, and illustrative atlases offer the latest on Parkinson's and Alzheimer's as well as circadian studies, cytokines research, and computational neuroscience.
  • North American Indian Thought and Culture
  • North American Theatre Online
    Covers all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. Includes reference materials, together with records to plays, people, theatres, productions, and production companies. Also includes images, playbills, postcards, and scrapbooks.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics
    Provides searchable full text of many Oxford University Press economics titles.
  • Oxford Reference Online: Philosophy  
    Provides searchable access to the Oxford Companion to Philosophy and The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Political Science
    Provides searchable full text of many Oxford University Press politics titles.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Religion
    Provides searchable full text of many Oxford University Press religion titles.
  • Past Masters
    Full-text works from most major historical philosophers.
  • Pan American Health Organization E-Books
    Online access to Pan American Health Organization publications. Useful for research in international health.
  • PhysicsNetBase
    Collection of electronic works covering fundamental theories and contemporary investigations of time, matter, and space.
  • Safari Tech Books Online
    Collection of information technology and programming books, mostly published by O'Reilly.  All titles are accessible through the Main Catalog.
  • SourceOECD
    Full-text books, periodicals, working papers, and statistics published by the OECD and the International Energy Agency. 
  • The Sixties:  Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974
  • World Bank E-Library
    Online access to World Bank publications. Useful for research in international social and economic development.
  • World Tourism Organization Database  (2001+)
    Fully cross-searchable portal of a vast number of World Tourism Organization publications in their respective languages. Includes all publications, reports and documents published since 2001. Previously published documents are added permanently to this library and make this unique resources once again available, in electronic format.
E-Books and E-Texts:  Freely Available on the Web
  • Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
    A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
  • American Memory (Library of Congress)
    A collection of primary source materials relating to U.S. history. Includes, more than 1,100 Civil War photographs, early motion pictures, George Washington's letterbooks, and many other political and literary works.
  • The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
    Full text of digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government, covering pre-18th century to the present.
  • Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) at University of Michigan
    Full text resources in the Humanities.  Major collections include the American Verse Project and the Modern English Collection.
  • Making of America (University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative)
    Full text materials on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
  • The On-Line Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
    Freely accessible electronic books, serials, and collections.
  • Oxford Text Archive
    Access to electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Holdings include editions of works by individual authors, and reference works such as the Bible and dictionaries.
  • Project Gutenberg
    A full-text e-book collection of historic and classic books and historical documents.
Gateways to E-book and E-text collections

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