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Reference e-books
You can also find our reference e-books by searching CLICnet.
- 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]
- CQ Press e-books
- Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History
- More CQ Press titles coming soon!
- 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]
- IGI Global
- Cognitive Effects of Multimedia Learning
- Handbook of Research on Technoethics
- Magill's Literary Annual
- Evaluates recent works of fiction and nonfiction across many subjects, genres, and countries.
- 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 International Encyclopedia of Peace
- 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 more than 90 specialized encyclopedias and handbooks, 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]
- Salem History
- Includes several reference books from Salem Press: The Fifties in America; The Sixties in America; The Seventies in America; and Great Lives from History: The 18th Century
- Salem Science
- Includes access to Forensic Science, a comprehensive reference source on the theory, techniques, and applications of the various forensic sciences.
- 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.
