Library Ebooks
Credo (Academic, Religion, & Psychology Collections)Contains Academic Core collection, Religion Collection Volume 1, and Psychology Collection Volume 1. Over 500 reference titles that include images, sound and video.
EbraryThe ebrary Academic & Public collection offers simultaneous, multi-user access to more than 80,000 ebook titles in subject areas including Social Sciences, Humanities, Allied Health, Science and Business.
EBLWeb-based ebook lending platform which is capable of delivering Ebook Corporation's rapidly expanding catalogue of ebooks to academic and research libraries.
McGraw-Hill Access EngineeringAccessEngineering from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online reference and learning resource providing seamless access to the world's most trusted collection of critical, regularly updated engineering reference information.
- Knovel This link opens in a new windowKnovel is a collection of over 800 essential reference books and databases from the world's leading publishers and professional societies in science and engineering.
- SpringerLink This link opens in a new windowSpringerLink provides access to journals, e-books, and reference works.
- Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new windowLiterature Criticism Online brings together 10 of the most acclaimed literary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Plus, it matches the familiar look and feel of the print originals. Databases included: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review
Free Public Ebooks
- Project Gutenberg60,000+ free ebooks in the public domain
- HathiTrust Digital RepositoryHathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository.
- Google BooksSearch and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search
- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWeb's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
- EServer Books CollectionEbooks hosted by Iowa State University
- Internet Archive: Ebook and Texts ArchivesDownload free books and texts.
Ebook Myths
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Common Ebook File Formats
ePubA free and open standard e-book file format, adopted by the International Digital Publishing Forum.
PDFA file format created by Adobe.
PDFs are widely supported by most e-book readers and smartphones.
Kindle Format 8Proprietary DRM restricted file format for Amazon Kindle.
MobiFile format used for some PDAs as well as the Kindle