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The TWU Library provides access to a number of ebook collections: EBSCOhost eBooks, ACLS Humanities eBook Collection, Books Online, Directory of Open Access Books, eScholarship Editions Collection, National Academies Press, National Library of Canada Electronic Collection, Online Books Page, Online Medieval and Classical Library, Oxford Text Archive, Project Gutenberg, Bartleby.com -- Great Books Online, University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions. Check below for further information and access to a particular product.
   
Online Collections:

1. EBSCOhost Ebook Collection (formerly netLibrary)

Click here to search the TWU netLibrary eBook Collection

Available to the TWU community and authorized ELN and COPPUL users.

NOTE: EBSCO's Netlibrary does not work well with some browsers. This page details which browsers work well and some of the issues you may encounter.

 

What's Available from EBSCOhost eBooks:

a.  EBSCOhost Ebooks: >9,800 eBooks (netLibrary) purchased by the TWU Library (as of June 2011)
  • NOTE: all of TWU 's EBSCOhost eBooks are available via the TWU Library catalogue on the TWU Library website (http://www.twu.ca/library). They are listed together with TWU's books, videos & DVDs and can be found by searching by author, title and subject.

b. EBSCOhost Ebooks: 3,460 publicly-accessible eBook titles (titles in the public domain, such as Shakespeare, etc.)

Access to Titles in TWU EBSCOhost eBook Collection: Click here
 

eBooks on EBSCOhost: Help
 

EBSCOhost eBook titles are available to TWU Library users at terminals in the Library and from their personal computers via the Internet (via TWU's proxy server). Robust search technology allows users to quickly search across all the eBooks in the collection to identify the reputable published sources of greatest interest at any point in time. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within eBooks for keywords and phrases.

Library eBook titles range in scope from core academic areas of science, social sciences, and the humanities to collections of specialized study in areas such as business, education, library science, medicine, religion and philosophy, computer science, and engineering. As an added feature, the Houghton Mifflin 4th Edition of The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language is embedded into EBSCOhost eBooks. Faculty, staff, students, and other users can obtain dictionary definitions simply by clicking on a word in the eBook, or by entering a word in the dictionary search window. Some word definitions are accompanied by audio.

Other Collections:

2.  ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) | More info

Humanities E-Book (formerly the History E-Book Project) is a digital collection offered by the ACLS in collaboration with ten learned societies, nearly 80 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of more than 2600 high-quality books in the Humanities (with 300 added every year), recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. HEB incorporates two different types of electronic books: new XML-encoded titles, and scanned page-image versions of already-published titles.

NOTE: all of TWU 's ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection ebooks are available via the TWU Library catalogue (http://library.twu.ca/). They are listed together with TWU's books, videos & DVDs and can be found by searching by author, title and subject.

3.  Books Online (University of Toronto Libraries)

Books Online are books that have been digitized, from the University of Toronto Libraries. They are freely available online and out-of-copyright. The collection currently contains 858 titles. The full text of these books can be searched:

Search Books Online

Through their participation in the Open Content Alliance (OCA), a further 50,000 books have been digitized from the University of Toronto Libraries.

Search OCA collection

4. NLC Electronic Collection
  • the Electronic Collection of the National Library of Canada (NLC) includes over 6000 Canadian book and periodical titles published online by commercial and government publishers. The publications exist in various formats, including HTML, PDF, ASCII and others and in some cases software such as Acrobat Reader is required to read the texts. Some titles are labeled "Restricted Access" and are accessible on-site at the NLC only.
5. Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania Libraries)
  • Search or browse over 30,000 online books as well as access to relevant news, special exhibitions and links to other e-book collections.

6. Online Medieval and Classical Library

  • Access a collection of some of the most important literary works of the Classical and Medieval periods.

7. Oxford Text Archive

  • Founded in 1976 and dedicated to encouraging the acceptance of electronic texts within academia, the Archive contains an extensive collection of high quality e-texts and reference works in a variety of languages.

8. Project Gutenberg

  • Project Gutenberg began in 1971. The project operates on a system of volunteers selecting a text that is no longer in copyright (in the USA the general rule is pre-1923), turning the text into e-text, and adding it to the archive.

9. Bartleby.com : Great Books Online

  • Poetry, fiction, non-fiction and reference e-books. Full-text.

10. eScholarship Editions Collection (California Digital Library)

  • The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while select books (518 titles) are available to the public.
  • Publicly-available books:

11. National Academies Press (National Academy of Sciences)

  • 4000 full-text books in all science disciplines (behavioral science, biology, computer science, education, environment, mathematics, and more)

12. University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions

  • Pitt Press has selected 745 monographs for open access, including titles from the Pitt Latin American Series, Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, and Composition, Literacy and Culture. The majority of these titles are out-of-print, but are now available online.

13. Directory of Open Access Books

  • 756 Academic peer-reviewed books from 23 publishers

 

Format: 
Books (in electronic format)
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