Electronic Books
ARTFL
Project, University of Chicago The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French
Language (ARTFL) includes technical writing in such subjects as history and
economics. The 18th through 20th centuries are about equally represented, with
a smaller selection of 17th century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance
texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence,
and treatises in English and French.
Books
on Demand This service from ProQuest/UMI offers more than
150,000 out-of-print books in a wide range of disciplines that
are available
for black-and-white reproduction.
Early
English Books Online (ProQuest) Full images of books published
in English from 1475 to 1700. Searchable by keywords in the
citation only. To search within the texts, use the EEBO-TCP version.
Over 100,000 works from Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title
Catalog, Wing's Short-Title Catalog, and Thomason Tracts, a
compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War. Documents
may be viewed online using the Dj Vu Plugin or downloaded using
Adobe Acrobat. Users may search by author keyword, title keyword,
subject keyword, or bibliographic number. In addition, users
may choose to search only within the illustrations, and may
limit searches by originating collection, source library, language
or date.
Early
English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership
(EEBO-TCP) Growing
collection of searchable texts published in English
between 1475 and 1700. To search all EEBO titles
(over 100,000)
by keyword in citations (as opposed to searching
within text) and view full-page images, use the ProQuest version.
ebrary This
is a full text database of thousands of e-books. Search by subject
headings such as nonverbal communication or communication and
culture. Ebrary e-books require the use of the ebrary Reader. Click
on "Get
ebrary Reader" from the main page to download the Reader. You need do this only once (i.e., you
do not have to do it again next time you use ebrary).
Eighteenth
Century Collection Online (ECCO) Full-text searchable facsimile
page displays of approximately 150,000 books published in Britain
and its colonies during the 18th century.
European Library: "...portal which offers access to the combined resources... both digital and non-digital... of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects – some free, some priced." Allows cross-collection searching. A few of the national libraries include: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Russia-St. Peterburg, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and United Kingdom.
Google Books Full-text of out-of-copyright books and partial text of in-copyright books. Out-of-copyright works are from the library of the Complutense University of Madrid, the libraries of universities of Michigan and California, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, and from the New York Public Library. Limited access to some in-copyright works is also available, with links to options for purchase. (Check NUcat to see if NU owns the title.)
History
E-Book Project A
continuously growing database designed by 8 learned societies
and 10 university presses. Recent and older books on topics such
as race relations, the Paris Peace Conference, political participation
in Greece, modern Islamic political thought, equality before
the law. "Browse" to search subject fields.
NetLibrary Thousands
of full text e-books. Search by author, title, keyword, subject,
or in the full text.
On-Line Books Page An index to and listing of over 25,000 freely-available e-books on the Internet. Searchable directory.
Past Masters Includes
the complete works, variant editions, selections, and/or
correspondence of the following and many more:
Aristotle St. Thomas Aquinas Bentham, Jeremy Burke, Edmund Gladstone, William Hamilton, Alexander Hegel, Friedrich Hobbes, Thomas Hume, David Jay, John Locke, John Machiavelli, Niccolo Madison, James Mill, John Stuart Paine, Thomas Plato Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Smith, Adam Weber, Max Wittgenstein, Ludwig
