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Reference e-books
- AccessMedicine
- More than 60 medical titles, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, and much more [More info]
- Britannica Online
- Browse or search more than 100,000 articles from Encyclopædia Britannica. Includes photographs, illustrations, sound files, and video clips; a dictionary and thesaurus; and statistical data for the countries of the world. [More info]
- Credo Reference
- A digital reference library of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject-specific titles, all from leading publishers. [More info]
- Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
- Updated to 3rd edition! Contains articles providing overviews of many topics in library and information science. International in scope.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- A database of encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research. We have purchased the titles that appear below. If you're connecting to these e-books using the Internet Explorer browser, please read our special instructions.
- Business Plans Handbook
- Contains 20 actual business plans for various small businesses [More info in CLICnet]
- Encyclopedia of Health and Aging [More info in CLICnet]
- Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology [More info in CLICnet]
- Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking [More info in CLICnet]
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy [More info in CLICnet]
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America [More info in CLICnet]
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics[More info in CLICnet]
- Magill's Medical Guide (expires 31 December 2010)
- Medical encyclopedia covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, etc., suitable for student researchers or general readers
- NetLibrary Reference Center
- Online versions of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc., available through NetLibrary. [Guide to NetLibrary]
- OED Online
- Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world [More info]
- Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS)
- Defines terms in library and information science, as well as some terms in publishing, printing, book history, and computer science
- Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techiques in Art
- Oxford Classical Dictionary
- Oxford Companion to the Book
- Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
- Oxford Reference Online
- Full-text dictionaries and other reference books in many subject areas from Oxford University Press [More info]
- SAGE Reference Online (SAGE eReference)
- A collection of 35 specialized encyclopedias such as Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society, Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Encyclopedia of Obesity, Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research, and more. [More info]
- World Almanacs (on FirstSearch)
- A collection of reference works including The World Almanac and Book of Facts [More info]
Freely-available e-books
Many of these sites contain older works that are no longer under copyright.
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
- Collection of digital texts concentrating on American and English literature and Western philosophy. You can browse or search the list of documents. Also, the content of each document is searchable.
- Bartleby Library
- Begun in 1993, the Bartleby Library makes the texts of over 70 great books available online.
- Books On-Line
- Searchable list of over 10,000 titles freely available from online directories and archives. There is also information about women writers and banned books.
- Children's Library at the Internet Archive
- Books for children from around the world.
- Google Books
- View full books or snippets of text from books showing your search term.
- Making of America - Michigan
- Thousands of books printed during the 19th century. This collection is strong in the subjects of American social history, psychology, American education, history, sociology, religion, science, and technology.
- Project Gutenberg
- One of the first sources of free electronic texts. Browse by author or title, or search for a specific item. All items are available for download.
- Wired for Books
- Wired for Books brings literature alive with audio, video, and old-fashioned text of modern and classic stories, plays, poems, and essays. It also contains author interviews conducted by Don Swaim for CBS Radio.
