Electronic Books: Catalogs and Archives

Licensed Products netLibrary [UM only] Large collection of 55,000+ electronic books on all subjects owned by the University of Memphis Libraries. Search the content of all books (every word on every page of every book) simultaneously. Safari Technical Books [UM only] Collection of electronic versions of technical books owned by the University of Memphis Libraries. Gale Virtual Reference Library [UM only] Collection of electronic reference works owned by the University of Memphis Libraries and/or provided by TEL. Oxford Reference Online [UM only] Collection of over 100 electronic reference works provided to the University of Memphis Libraries by the RODP. Titles include the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, the Encyclopedia of Evolution, the Encyclopedia of Global Change, the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the International Encyclopedia of the Dance, the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance and more. See Also: Reference Works (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries) Free Electronic Text Archives, Collections, and Catalogs Large Collections: Google Books Project. Google is digitizing the collections of 16 research libraries, making the books available online. (For details about the project, see About Google Book Search). Be aware that only public domain titles are fully available. You will have limited online access to titles under copyright. Search results are tabbed for All Books, Limited Preview Books, and Full View Books. Choose the Full View for public domain books. Internet Archive: Texts. Includes 49,000+ titles from numerous library and university scanning projects. Project Gutenberg. Includes 20,000+ free e-books, available in plain text or html. Other Collections (subject, genre, individual author or work-focused): Aesop's Fables - Online Collection ALEX Catalog of Electronic Texts - UC Berkeley American Literary Classics American Verse Project - University of Michigan The Avalon Project at Yale - American Historical Documents Bartleby.com: Great Books Online Bibliographical Society - University of Virginia Bibliomania Blackmask Online Blake Digital Text Project British Poetry 1780-1910 British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832 - University of California, Davis Bookshelf at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) The Camelot Project, Rossell Hope Robbins Library - University of Rochester CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts (Irish Documents) Christian Classics Ethereal Library Classics Archive - MIT Documenting the American South Project - University of North Carolina Electronic Theses & Disserations - Virginia Tech Folklore and Mythology - University of Pittsburgh Great Books and Classics of the Western Civilization Guide to Early Church Documents Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection Literature.org - Classics at the Online Literature Library Middle English Literature Modern English Collection On-Line Books - University of Pennsylvania Turning the Pages, the British Library Turning the Pages, the National Library of Medicine Turning the Pages, the Wellcome Library University of Virginia E-Text Library Other Sources of Information about Books: Books in Print - identify books available for purchase, find ISBNs and other identifying information. WorldCat - identify books available in libraries world-wide, whether in- or out-of-print.