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ONLINE BOOKS
Clifton Fowler Library
Phone: 303-963-3250
Toll-Free: 1-877-777-6132
Fax: 303-963-3251
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For books that have been digitized and made available online, select a collection. Access to some electronic texts is limited to subscribers. For required AUTHORIZATIONS/PASSWORDS, go to the Library Department Web, pick up a bookmark, or ask a librarian.
Virtual Reference Library
- ABC-CLIO E-Books - 240 reference e-books online. One can search all at once, or individually by book. (World issues, Religion, History, International Affairs, Countries)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - 41 reference e-books online. Choose a category such as education and then the specific work. American Decades Primary Sources, Arts and Humanities Through the Ages, Biology, Business Plans Handbook v. 10, Chemistry: Foundations and Applications, Company Profiles for Students, Dictionary of American History, Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Encyclopedia of Business & Finance, Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior, Encyclopedia of Education, Encyclopedia of Global Industries, Encyclopedia of Leadership, Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns, Encyclopedia of Management, Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Encyclopedia of Public Health, Encyclopedia of Religion, Encyclopedia of Russian History, Encyclopedia of Shamanism, Encyclopedia of Small Business, Encyclopedia of Sociology, Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, Genetics, International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism, Learning and Memory, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Nurse Educator Manual: Essential Skills and Guidelines for Effective Practice, Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Psychologists and Their Theories for Students, Science and Its Times, Social Trends and Indicators. These reference books are a purchased suscription and should be accessed via AUTHORIZATION/PASSWORD (current CCU students/etc. should enter through their network account on the Library Department Web, contact the librarian, or pickup a handout at the Circulation desk).
- EBSCO Academic Search/EBSCO Business Source EBSCOhost now includes a number of databases that offer e-books, e-articles, e-reports, etc. as part of the database. Examples are: EBSCO MasterFILE (Public) Premier (1,946 e-books), EBSCO Middle (School) Search Plus (1,567 e-books), EBSCO TOPICsearch (Points of View)(139,800 e-articles), EBSCO Primary (School) Search (1,212 e-books), EBSCO MAS (High School) Ultra (1,640 e-books), etc.
Collections and Projects
- American Verse Project - American poetry before 1920. Includes Poe's Complete Works and Carl Sandburg.
- ARTFL - French language and literature from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the 17th through 20th centuries.
- Bartleby Library - Fiction and nonfiction classic literature, poetry, and reference encyclopedias, thesauri, dictionaries, quotation sources, etc.
- Bibliomania - Reference, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama, with study guides and literary criticism.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Classic works, the World Wide Study Bible, the World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity, early church fathers, a hymnary, etc.
- The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia - Over 70,000 humanities texts in many languages (classics, The Bible, Shakespeare, American fiction, American and British literature (Beowulf, Moby-Dick, Heart of Darkness, etc.) Click on the language at left to access.
- English Server - Over 30,000 texts in many disciplines, including short fiction and nonfiction, novels, poetry, plays, and classics such as The Complete Works of Poe, Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, the writings of Hume, etc.
- EOS (Electronic Open Stacks) and EFTS (Electronic Full-Text Sources) - Image-based texts from the University of Chicago Library, as well as full-text resources.
- Google Book Search - When it debuted on 11/3/05, it originally offered public domain, primarily 19th century American literature and history books out of copyright in full-text in an online format. At present previews and snippets of current books from numerous publishers are also available. What is useful is the listing at the right side of the page that shows where these books can be bought or can be borrowed from a library near the user.
- Humanities Text Initiative - Making of America and text collections, including Bibles, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and the English collection with Plato, Poe, Melville. Also has the Internet Public Library Online Texts - This is an excellent listing of online repositories of e-texts.
- Internet Archive: Text Archive - More than a million texts.
- Internet Classics Archive - More than 400 translated classic Greek and Roman texts with commentary.
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Jack London Collection
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection
- Online Books Page - Very extensive with 16,000+ listings.
- Online Medieval and Classical Library - Medieval and classical texts.
- The Oxford Text Archive - Wide representation of authors with works in Latin, Greek, English, and other languages (example: Aesop’s Fables).
- Perseus Project - Classics, ancient Greek and Roman literature and artifacts; also Renaissance and Shakespeare.
- Project Gutenberg - Over 25,000 books now out of copyright.
- Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image - Books, manuscripts, photographs, slides, maps, and sound recordings from Penn Library. Includes Shakespeare, Dreiser, Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, 19th century Amer. history, Jewish music archive, and other. Click on Schoenberg Center...
- SunSite Collections - Numerous collections, such as American Heritage, literature (American) at SunSite, etc.
- Universal Digital Library (Carnegie Mellon) - Art, books, collections, journals, multimedia and music.
- Victorian Women Writers Project - Texts from women writers of the Victorian era.
- WWII Resources
- Women Working: 1800 - 1930 - Digital collection from Harvard.
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