Britannica Online Academic delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. The combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources students need for research—all in one place.
Provides access to Cambridge University Press ebooks (including Cambridge Histories) and 300+ journals in diverse subject areas (full text typically from 2010-2013).
Formerly known as Ebrary. Ebrary bookshelf contents can be transferred to Ebook Central; click on the Bookshelf link to start the process (while on campus). Contains ebooks in all subject areas; currently more than 100,000 titles.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) offers full-text access to encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Global partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future.
Small group of academics at the University of Cambridge, Open Book Publishers publishes monographs and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. All books are available to read for free online.
"Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks." The database contains millions of copyright free books and speeches, all available for free download.
service of OAPEN Foundation based at the National Library in The Hague. Database contains more than 5,000 academic, peer-reviewed books from 163 publishers.
Offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
