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Electronic Books and Reference SourcesIf you would like more information about the resources listed here, or need assistance in making use of them, please stop at the Library Reference Desk, or call ext. 0382. OED Online offers the complete full-text of the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary. All word and phrase definitions, etymologies, and quotations can be searched by keyword. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations "This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations." Gale Virtual Reference Library Includes: Health and Wellness Resource Center Includes a medical encyclopedia, medical dictionary, and drug reference in full text. History E-Books Project (Electronic Books Full-text) Provides access to more than 1,000 electronic books. These e-books can be read online or printed. NetLibrary (Electronic Books Full-text) NetLibrary provides access to approximately 10,000 electronic books. These e-books can be read online, printed, or downloaded. Women Writers Online is the "textbase" of the Women Writers Project, based at Brown University. The collection includes the full text of works by women writers from 1400 to 1850. Currently, approximately 200 works are accessible online. World Almanac and Book of Facts Other links: A small collection of ebooks in literature, politics, and law. Bookshelf (National Center for Biotechnology Information) A collection of biomedical books available in full text.Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project (illustrated antique children's books on line) The Rosetta Project's collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children's books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of approximately 65,000 html pages. However, as we are still collecting books from around the world, we expect the Rosetta Project online library will eventually number millions of html pages. "The University of Adelaide Library’s collection of Web books. The collection includes more than 700 classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History." Etext Center (University of Virginia) ""Search the full text of books to find those that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. You may view the entire text of a book that is in the public domain." Great Books -- Texts and Fully Searchable Concordances International Children's Digital Library Internet Archive Children's Library Currently (Jan. 2007) contains more than 140,000 freely available online books. LearnOut Loud - Free Audio and Video Provides free access to more than 500 audio and video titles. The On-Line Books Page (University of Pennsylvania) Provides access to more than 3,000 free online books. "The vision of the Open Library Project "is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world. Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they're in the public domain, the books can be downloaded, shared and printed for free." Sponsored by the Internaet Archive and a number of research libraries.
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 (Electronic books full text) "The Wright American Fiction online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time."
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