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Electronic Books


netLibrary - Assorted electronic books, both scholarly and popular, in a variety of fields. For a list of available titles and instructions in setting up a netLibrary account please connect to: netLibrary Directions. Can also be accessed through IUCAT.

ebrary - Contains more than 23,000 electronic books across the academic spectrum: business, economics, careers, computers, medicine, natural and social sciences. Can also be accessed through IUCAT.

Books 24x7 - Access to electronic versions of hundreds of books in computer science, ranging from programming to graphic design. Can also be accessed through IUCAT.

Medline Books at Ovid - Choose Medline from the Articles and Database Searching page, and select "Books @ Ovid" from the Medline menu. Full-text of current medical reference books.

Career Collection
100 e-books on job hunting, resumes, interviewing and changing careers. Instructions: Click on "Search Inspire Databases", then click on "Career Collection." Note from off-campus, you may have to search the complete netLibrary collection.

Online Career Library by Vault
Access to current career information.

Electronic Texts Developed at IU Libraries (Can also be accessed through IUCAT.)

Early English Books Online (1475 - 1700)

Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, it captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain during this period.

Project Gutenberg - Includes Light Literature (Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables), Heavy Literature (Bible, Shakespeare, Milton) and Reference Texts (Roget's Thesaurus, dictionaries, almanacs).

National Academy Press - NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.

UPenn Online Books - Facilitates access and indexing to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

Bartleby.com - Great Books Online publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference.

University of Virginia's E-Book Library - For the MSReader and PALM Devices. 1,800 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and much more.


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