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

Books 24x7 
Access to electronic versions of hundreds of books in computer science, ranging from programming to graphic design.  Must use your IUS username and password for access both on and off campus.

Books at Ovid Full Text
An online collection of books in medicine, nursing, life sciences, engineering, and related subjects.

Career Insider by Vault (Formerly Career Library)
Access to current career information.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Contains letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of the peoples, cultures, and environment of North America between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Early English Books Online
This collection includes virtually all books printed between 1473-1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere during this time period.

eBook Collection on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary)
Provides access to a collection of electronic books, both scholarly and popular, in a variety of disciplines and subject areas.

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.

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.

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

• LETRS: The Victorian Women Writers Project
• The Wright American Fiction Collection, 1851-1875
• The Chronicle of the Drum by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Les Contemporaines by Restif de la Bretonne

Gale Virtual Reference Library 
Includes Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment and History.

HathiTrust Digital Library
Provides full access to over 675,000 digitized books and journals in the public domain as well as allows users to search some digitized books and journals still in copyright. 

IU Press Online (IUPO)
Provides access to online journals and books published by IU Press, focusing on the areas of music, philosophy, Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, African studies, and African American and diaspora studies.

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.

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.

NetLibrary (now called eBook Collection on EBSCOhost)
Provides access to a collection of electronic books, both scholarly and popular, in a variety of disciplines and subject areas.

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

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

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.

Virtual Reference Library from Gale 
Includes Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment and History.

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