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A large number of full-text books and magazines are
present on the WWW, many for free. The sites below bring a number of these no
cost items together, regardless of discipline or topic, along with free
periodical indices.
Tusculum College Subscription
E-books:
Ebrary over 30,000 full-text full-image electronic books available to the TC community.
ABC-CLIO E-books Over 3,000 full text, full image book titles from an outstanding academic book publisher available for searching and downloading. Access available from off campus using the research databases universal username and password. Titles include all areas of the liberal arts.
EBSCOhost eBOOKS
Once you access the page, you may search for and preview over 100,000 titles
employing the provided search tool.
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Wiley Interscience
E-Books and Electronic Texts from the Web
Alex Catalogue of Electronic
Texts is a collection of public domain texts from American and British
literature, as well as Western philosophy, which may be accessed via search
engine.
Bibliomania provides
full-text of 2,000 classic literary works, together with a research section
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library presents important Christian text and documents, including 38 volumes of
the most important works from the first 800 years.
Concordances of Great Books,revolves
around concordances to 200 books (primarily the Great Books classics).
CONTENTdm Collection of Collections
Click on Browse to view collections. Here you will find records
representing a sampling of collections created by the hundreds of libraries and
cultural heritage organizations using CONTENTdm today. Some records represent
individual collections; some connect you to entire digital libraries. Each
record attempts to describe the breadth and depth of the resources you will find
when you access the site using the URL listed in each record.
The Core
Historical Literature of Agriculture, CHLA from the Mann Library
at Cornell is an electronic collection of important US agricultural texts
published between the early 19th and middle 20th century. As of Februrary
2, 2001, the site contained 833 monographs.
Digital Library SunSITE
from Berkeley.
Digital Book Index"provides
links to more than 128,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and
non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 88,000
of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are
available at very modest cost."
Digital Scriptorium,
from Duke University, publishes and links rare historical documents from ancient
Egypt to Civil War diaries.
NEW!
ebrary Open Access
Collection: available on timely issues such as Cyberbullying,
H1N1, Natural Disasters for all interested.
eHistory founded
by Scott Laidig and now maintained and expanded by Ohio State University Dept.
of History. A wealth of primary documents and contributable site for book
reviews. Contains links to the full text of
The War of the Rebellion:
A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Etext Archives includes electronic
texts of all kinds.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Free E-Book Library, University of Virginia A collection of 1,800 publicly-available
e-books; a total of 8.5 million circulations from this site occured between
August 8, 2000 and May 20, 2002.
Free Online Books, from online sapiens,
provides a diverse group of books from a work on research
strategies to an outline of American geography, to a cybertext on television
studio and field production.
NEW!
Free Books 50 Places to find free books online provided by
Education-Portal.com via Stumble Upon.
Google Book Search
"Each book includes an 'About this book' page with basic bibliographic data like
title, author, publication date, length and subject. For some books you may also
see additional information like key terms and phrases, references to the book
from scholarly publications or other books, chapter titles and a list of related
books. For every book, you'll see links directing you to bookstores where you
can buy the book and libraries where you can borrow it. Full view:
If we've determined that a book is out of copyright, or the publisher or
rightsholder has given us permission, you'll be able to page through the entire
book from start to finish, as many times as you like. If the book is in the
public domain, you'll also be able download, save and print a PDF version to
read at your own pace. "
Internet
Archive
" was founded to build an Internet library,
with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and
scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996
and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving
data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization
started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet
Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived
web pages in our collections. "
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The Literature Network
offers "searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast.
To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the
author index. We currently have over 1200 full books and over 2000 short
stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500
quotes."
Links to Electronic Books and Text Sites contains hundreds of links to entire
collections and individual titles...
National
Academies Press More than 3700 full text books available for free
and more available for purchase.
The On-line Books
Page, links to some 8,000 listings of books, definitive collections,
and serials that are freely accessible over the Internet; even includes
links to online versions of "banned books"...
The Online Medieval
& Classical Library, includes texts in Greek, Anglo-Saxon,
Latin, Middle English, Old French, Old Norse, Old Spanish Middle High German,
and early Italian...
Project Bartleby, now just Bartleby.Com,
was designed at Columbia University brings a host of books to the
Internet; included are well-known reference titles, as well as anthologies...
Project Gutenberg is
the mother lode of full text books with 6,267+ titles (with 119 more available
from Project Gutenberg Australia); the original goal was go have
a trillion e-books circulated by 2001!
The
War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union
and Confederate
Armies
provides the full-text of the famous documents, the surviving TC print
volumes of which will be retired from the circulating collection to special collections
upon the opening of the rebuilt Tate Library...A companion set not currently available in TC Library
is Official
Records of the Union and
Confederate Navies in the War of theRebellion...
The
Universal Digital Library Million Book Collection Digital access
to over 1.5 million texts some copyrighted, most not, gathered in collaboration
with Chinese and American partners.
Electronic Journals, Periodical Indices, and E-zines
All Academic: The Guide to Free
Academic Resources On-Line, a clearinghouse for free academic
resources on the Internet, this site consists of articles and book reviews
from several hundred journals. The site also indexes articles available
free on the Web sites of high-quality commercial periodicals (e.g., Atlantic
Monthly).
American
Historical Review FULLTEXT access to the current issues of this esteemed
history journal, courtesy again of the History Cooperative from Univ. of
Illinois.
AUL Index
to Military Periodicals...
bizjournals.com...
Business
Magazines, via Webcrawler.
Christianity Today
Online website featuring the evangelical
news magazine and additional resources of the
Billy Graham founded organization.
Directories of Electronic Journals
DOAJ: Directory of open
access journals. Over 2200 journals available free and in full text. "The
aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and
ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting
their increased usage and impact."
Education Journals,
via Yahoo.
The E-zine Directory is a
clearing house for ezines from every discipline (e.g., 37 from education, 528
from business, 35 on sports, and 21 on politics).
Harrassowitz, formally known as Electronic Journals: a Selected Resource Guide,
is very complete...
HighWire
Press, 160,044 free full-text science articles. back to top
Making of America,
a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction; searchable database includes 267 books
and 100,000+ articles from 19th Century journals.
International
Journal of the Book "is
peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article
ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the
greatest substance and highest significance is published." Requires
subscription.
Public Knowledge Project Open Access Journals PKP continues to be an active player in the open access movement,
as it provides the leading open source software for journal and conference
management and publishing.
NEW!
RSAP:
Research Society for American Periodicals
This website offers the
Research Resource page,
an invaluable resource of scanned 19th, 20th, and 21st century periodicals and
resources for teaching about and researching them.
TV Guide, full-text; allows you
to chart your PBS or A&E (or ESPN) viewing or recording as much as two weeks in
advance.
U.S. News & World Report
now has a site.