Featured
- netLibrary
(CSU, Chico users, if you're using a commercial ISP
check here
)
- This is our main electronic book (E-book) site.
Currently more than 4,500 titles in all subject areas
are available online to CSU, Chico. Included are
scholarly, reference and professional works from
leading university, academic and professional publishers.
To read a book, search to find it, then select the "Browse this eBook online" option.
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History
E-Book Project (CSU, Chico users)
- The American Council of Learned Societies provides a set
of 500 major scholarly works in all fields of history including
the history of technology. All titles are accessible via the
Meriam Library catalog or, directly from the Project Web site.
- Safari
Bookshelf (CSU, Chico users)
- Includes a total of 378 titles, all in the category of
information technology, from major publishers including O'Reilly,
Que, Sam's Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall and, Peachpit Press.
The books cover a wide range of IT topics including .NET,
Cisco products, databases, enterprise computing, networking,
operating systems (Windows, Linux, Unix, Macintosh), programming
and software engineering and Internet (Web, Java and, XML).
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library (CSU, Chico users)
- More than 80 encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Oxford
Reference Online (CSU, Chico users)
- The collection includes subject encyclopedias, dictionaries,
and reference works in more than 20
subject areas.
- CQ Political Reference
Suite (CSU, Chico users)
- Access some of the best political encyclopedias full text through this
database. Includes Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents, Political
Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital
Statistics on American Politics, and Washington Information Directory.
Major Sites
- Alex Catalogue
of Electronic Texts (Eric Morgan)
- Public domain texts in the areas of American and British
Literature, and Western Philosophy. A unique feature of the
Catalogue is the on-the-fly creation of PDF or ebook (Newton
Paperback, Palm Pilot, or Rocket eBook) files.
- The
Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
- Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History,
Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
- Bartleby Library: Great
Books Online
- Accurate online text of major out of copyright works, includes
the Harvard Classics.
- Bibliomania:
The Network Library
- Reference, Fiction and Non-Fiction. Over 2,000 classic
texts.
- California Digital Library
- Includes the online Archive of California.
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- English Server (University
of Washington)
- Major humanities text collection. Browse or search by topic--location
and keyword searchable.
- Fiction (English Server)
- Novels and short stories; alphabetical by author.
- GROVEart
(CSU, Chico users)
- GROVEmusic
(CSU, Chico users)
- Harvard Classics
- History
E-Book Project (CSU, Chico users)
- The American Council of Learned Societies provides a set
of 500 major scholarly works in all fields of history including
the history of technology. All tiles are accessible via both
the Chico Sate Online Catalog and directly from the Project
Web site.
- Humanities
Text Initiative (University of Michigan)
- Internet Public
Library Online Texts (University of Michigan)
- More than 3,700 titles searchable by author, title or Dewey
classification number.
- Making of
America (University of Michigan)
- Focusing on American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction, the collection is particularly
strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American
history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
This online collection contains approximately 1,600 books
and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Merck Manual
of Diagnosis and Therapy and Merck
Manual Home Edition
- Medical reference information.
- Modern
English Collection (University of Virginia)
- National Academies Press
- Most of their 3,000 scholarly books are available free online.
- netLibrary
(CSU, Chico users)
- Our main eBook site. More than 4,500 titles in
all subject areas. Once you find a book you want,
the "Browse this eBook
Online" option is the easiest method of viewing.
- On-Line
Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
- Search or browse by author or title, and browse new book
and subject list. Contains over 17,000 titles.
- Oxford
Reference Online
- Oxford Text Archive
- Over 2,500 electronic texts in over 25 languages.
- Project Gutenberg
- Oldest and one of the largest sources.
- Smithsonian
Institution Libraries - Digital Collections
- The first online books and manuscripts from the Smithsonian.
- SunSITE Digital Collections
(University of California at Berkeley)
- University
of California Press e-Scholarship Editions
- 400 of the 1400 are available to the public and they are
fairly current and scholarly. Limit to ebooks available
to the Public.
- University
of Chicago - Online Texts and Electronic
Open Stacks Home Page
Classics
- Digital
Scriptorium Test Database
- The Digital Scriptorium is a pilot project organized by
the Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library and UC Berkeley's
Bancroft Library, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
aimed at the creation of a visual union catalog of medieval
manuscripts. This test database includes, as of February 4,
1999, descriptions of 2169 medieval codices or documents (cut-off
date ca. 1550, but with some materials as late as the 19th
century) from the Union Theological Seminary, six libraries
at Columbia and Barnard College, and three at Berkeley, with
a total of 5865 images from those manuscripts. The oldest
MSS catalogued date from the 9th century.
- Latin
Bookcase (Georgetown University)
- Search and browse; arranged by source. Includes Classical
Greek texts that influenced Latin traditions.
- Library
of Congress Greek and Latin Classics Internet Resources
- Comprehensive collection of Greek and Latic classics.
- MIT
Classics
- Perseus
Project - Texts
- Ancient Greek and Latin texts with morphological links to
text tools, English translations and secondary sources. Also
includes the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri, the complete
works of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, Julius
Caesar: Shakespeare's Play and Ancient Sources, Frazer's Summary
of Apollodorus' Handbook of Greek Mythology and Sources for
Thucydides Research: Modern Scholarship on the Ancient Historian.
- Princeton
Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Perseus)
- Project
Libellus (University of Washington)
- Classical languages, alphabetical by author.
Computer
Books
- McGraw-Hill
BetaBooks
- Full text versions of selected emerging technology titles.
- Safari
Bookshelf (CSU, Chico users)
- Includes a total of 378 titles, all in the category of
information technology, from major publishers including O'Reilly,
Que, Sam's Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall and, Peachpit Press.
The books cover a wide range of IT topics including .NET,
Cisco products, databases, enterprise computing, networking,
operating systems (Windows, Linux, Unix, Macintosh), programming
and software engineering and Internet (Web, Java and, XML).
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Foreign Language
- ARTFL
Project (University of Chicago)
- Project for American and French Research on the Treasury
of the French Language maintains a database of nearly 2,000
texts, searchable by word, word root, prefix, suffix and inclusive
dates. PhiloLogic displays the bibliographic information and
page number for each occurrence and can sort the results on
screen by date, author name, keywords and other fields.
- Association des Bibliophiles
Universels (France)
- Public Domain French texts.
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic
Texts (University College Cork)
- Texts from Ireland.
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- Electronic
Text Collections in Western European Literature (ACRL/WESS)
- Extensive links to literary texts in Western European languages
other than English. Maintained by the Association of College
and Research Libraries, Western European Specialists Section.
- Gallica: 19th Century
France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
- Major project with already more than 2,000,000 pages and
10,000 images and sound files online.
- International
Etext Projects (Linköping Univ.)
- Project Runeberg's compilation of foreign language text
projects encompassing a number of languages and genres.
- Japanese Text
Initiative (University of Virginia/University of Pittsburgh)
- National Diet Library
- Electronic Library Project
- Pilot online projects in Japanese.
- Project
Runeberg (from Linköping Univ.)
- Classic Nordic Literature in Swedish, Danish, Norweigan,
Icelandic, and Finnish.
- Russian and
East European Texts (University of Pittsburgh)
- Numerous links to documents on the Internet.
Literature in English
- 4Literature
- Over 2,000 books, stories, plays, and religious and historical
documents.
- African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public
Library)
- 52 online texts, fully keyword searchable.
- Anthology
of Middle English Literature 1350-1485 (Anniina Jokinen)
- Drama Collection (English
Server)
- Plays, screenplays and discussions of drama and dramatic
productions.
- English Literature
- 16th Century Renaissance 1425-1603 (Anniina Jokinen)
- English
Literature - Early 17th Century 1603-1660 (Anniina Jokinen)
- English Server (CMU)
- Major humanities text collection. Browse or search by
topic--location and keyword searchable.
- Fiction (English
Server)
- Novels and short stories; alphabetical by author.
- Humanities
Text Initiative (University of Michigan)
- Hyperizons:
Hypertext Fiction
- Modern
English Collection - AD 1500-present (University of Virginia)
- Browse by subject: African
American, including Letters
from Liberia; Native
American; American
Civil War; Salem
Witch Trials; Thomas
Jefferson; Edgar
Allan Poe; Mark
Twain; William
Shakespeare; Samuel
Taylor Coleridge; Women
Writers; Young
Readers; Literature
in Translation; Best
Sellers, 1900-1930; UVa
Special Collections. 2,722 titles including 17,518 manuscript
and book illustrations (including covers, spines, page images),
many of which are publicly accessible.
- Resources
for English and American Literature (University of Texas
at Austin, General Libraries)
- Includes links to electronic books and web sites with
electronic texts.
- Shakespeare
Resources (University of Virginia)
- Short Stories
(East of the Web)
- A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings
to 1920.
- Wright
American Fiction 1851-1875 (Indiana University)
- Online collection of 19th century American fiction, as
listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.
Includes 1752 texts by 845 authors.
Philosophy & Religion
- Bahá'í Resource
Library
- Bible Gateway
- Christian Classics Ethereal
Library (Wheaton College)
- Books from a variety of viewpoints and traditions. Also
see their What's
New page.
- Internet
Sacred Text Archive
- Electronic texts about all major world religions, mythology,
legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics
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- Judaism
Reading List (Ohio State)
- noesis
- "Philosophical Research On-line" including primary
texts and reference works.
- Philosophy (English
Server)
- Secular
Web Library
Poetry
- American
Verse Project (Univ. of Michigan)
- Volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
- Bartleby Verse:
American and English Poetry 1250-1920
- An important public domain collection.
- British
Women Romantic Poets Project
- Poetry Index of Canonical
Verse (CMU)
- Search the poems by title, author and keyword.
Other Subjects
- Alchemy
Virtual Library
- Full text alchemical works.
- Antique
Books
- Reproductions of antiquarian books in color.
- Banned
Books Online
- Berkeley Digital
Library Project
Chemistry
Tables of Data
- Congressional
Quarterly Library (CSU, Chico users)
- Documenting the American
South
- Full text diaries, autobiographies, narratives on slavery
and other resources.
- EHRAF
(CSU, Chico users)
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford
University
- Including ancient papyri from Herculaneum and Celtic manuscripts.
- Electronic
Texts in the History of Medicine (Yale University)
- Engineering
Village 2 (CSU, Chico users)
- Great Books
Index
- GROVEart
(CSU, Chico users)
- GROVEmusic
(CSU, Chico users)
- Herbal
Medicine Texts
- History
E-Book Project (CSU, Chico users)
- Internet
History Sourcebooks (Paul Halsall)
- Mathematics
- Electronic Library
- Medical
Books (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- Mountain
Men and the Fur Trade (Dean Rudy)
- On-line
Children's Stories (Calgary)
- Alphabetical by title.
- Philosophy Text
Collection (eserver)
- RAND
California (CSU, Chico users)
- RAND
Online Publications
- Soil and Health
Library (Steve Solomon)
- Online books on alternative agriculture and alternative
health.
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- Spunk Library
- Anarchist and related texts.
- Technical
Reports Online (University of Maryland Libraries)
- Links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations,
theses, and research reports from hundreds of organizations.
- U.S.
Army Center of Military History - Online Books
- University
of California Press e-Scholarship Editions
- 400 of the 1400 are available to the public and they
are fairly current and scholarly. Limit to ebooks available
to the Public.
- William H. Calvin
- Home Page (University of Washington)
- Online books and articles on "brains, evolution and where
we're heading".
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