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INFO ABC-Clio ebook collection - UW restricted UW restricted
Customizable digital collection with over 6,000 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and guides from ABC-CLIO, Greenwood Press, Libraries Unlimited, and Praeger
INFO ACLS Humanities E-Book - UW restricted UW restricted
A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications
INFO Baldwin Library of Children's Literature digital collection
The product of Ruth Baldwin's 40-year collection development efforts, this assemblage of literature printed primarily for children offers these topics: education and upbringing, family and gender roles, civic values, racial, religious, and moral attitudes, literary style and format, and the arts of illustration and book design. A strength of the collection is the many English and American editions of the same work (in particular Robinson Crusoe and Pilgrim's Progress). Other strengths include fables, juvenile biography, 19th century science and natural history, 19th century alphabet books, moral tales, fairy tales, 19th century juvenile periodicals, 19th century boys' adventure stories, 20th century boys' and girls' series, Little Golden Books, and juvenile publications of the American Sunday School Union and other tract societies
INFO Biodiversity heritage library
A digital library providing open access to over 45,000 titles of digitized biodiversity, natural history, and taxonomic literature worldwide
INFO Books24x7 - UW restricted UW restricted (Public display)
Full-text electronic republication of hundreds of books and journals covering over 90 technology topics, including networking, programming languages, desktop applications, the Web and more
INFO Books@Ovid - UW restricted UW restricted
Database contains full text access to selected biomedical and nursing books
INFO Cambridge histories online - UW restricted UW restricted
Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects
INFO Chinamaxx digital libraries Zhong wen ji xian / - UW restricted UW restricted
A collection of 780,000 titles of Chinese literature
INFO CogNet library - UW restricted UW restricted
This is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. The CogNet library contains work from both from the MIT Press, as well as links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals, offering public access to online work
INFO CQ Press electronic library - UW restricted UW restricted
Common platform for CQ Press online products covering American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Allows cross-product searching. Composition depends on institutional subscriptions
INFO EBL ebook library - UW restricted UW restricted
Dawson Books, in partnership with EBooks Corporation, introduces Ebook Library - an ebook lending platform developed in collaboration with leading university and research libraries and with academic publishers. Offering content across all subject areas EBL will feature content from major academic publishers worldwide, including titles from Taylor & Francis, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Kluwer Academic, Springer, World Scientific and others. Ebooks can be viewed online or downloaded to a computer or PDA. EBL offers full-text search capability across the database
INFO eBooks@Adelaide
Web book versions of over 1,600 classic texts in literature, philosophy, science, and history. Foreign-language works are mostly presented in English translation. Works are divided chronologically. Includes special collections of classic works in travel and exploration; gastronomy/cookery; the Gothic novel; horror, science fiction, and fantasy; crime and mystery; the Greek dramatists; and Russian literature
INFO Ebrary - UW restricted UW restricted
E-books in business and economics, computers, technology and engineering, humanities, life and physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences
INFO EBSCOhost ebook collection - UW restricted UW restricted Continues NetLibrary University of Washington eBook collection
Provides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain
INFO eDuke books scholarly collection - UW restricted UW restricted
Access to e-books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences
INFO ENGnetBASE engineering handbooks online - UW restricted UW restricted
Provides access to engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Also accessible via the Engineering Village 2
INFO Gale virtual reference library - UW restricted UW restricted
Online encyclopedias, almanacs, and other reference sources
INFO Gutenberg-e - UW restricted UW restricted
A collection of digital monographs in the field of historical scholarship produced by a partnership between the authors and the electronic publishing staff of Columbia University Press. Each e-text offers extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, search feature, and links to related web sites
INFO Handbooks in economics - UW restricted UW restricted
Elsevier Science presents the full text of handbooks on economics. The topics of the books include development economics, income distribution, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, regional and urban economics, and health economics
INFO Hathi Trust digital library
As a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections
INFO HTI public domain modern English collection
The texts in this collection come from a variety of sources on the Internet, including the Oxford Text Archive, Project Gutenberg, the Online Book Initiative, and contributions from individual text encoders
INFO IEEE Xplore digital library. Browse books - UW restricted UW restricted
Over 400 technical books published by Wiley-IEEE Press, topics cover all the fields served by IEEE
INFO Knovel - UW restricted UW restricted (Public display)
Over 650 hand-picked books and databases are available from more than 30 sci-tech publishers and professional societies; contents cover 17 industrially important subject areas in the fields of chemistry, life sciences, materials, and engineering
INFO Lecture notes in computer science - UW restricted UW restricted (Springer) 1997 to present
INFO Making of America (Public display)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection contains books and journal volumes with 19th century imprints
INFO MyiLibrary - UW restricted UW restricted
EBook platform offering desktop access covering all major disciplines
INFO National Academies Press publisher for the National Academies (Public display)
Online books in the physical and social sciences (also accessible by subject) published since 1980. Includes full-text searching capabilities
INFO Oxford handbooks online - UW restricted UW restricted
The complete texts of the Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion online. Extensive links make the online Handbooks easy to navigate making these valuable reference resources more easily discoverable, accessible and searchable. Contains 2,000+ in-depth essays by the world's leading scholars
INFO Oxford reference online - UW restricted UW restricted
Contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database
INFO R2 digital library - UW restricted UW restricted
Full text access to selected medicine, nursing and allied health books
INFO RAND reports by series
View all of RAND's documents, grouped by document series and year of publication
INFO Routledge religion online - UW restricted UW restricted
Contains a collection of reference works, mostly handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias, in the area of religion. Titles may be browsed individually or fully searchable as a group
INFO Safari Books Online - UW restricted UW restricted (Public display) Current three years only
Full-text, online technical books published by O'Reilly
INFO Sage reference online - UW restricted UW restricted
A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology
INFO Si bu cong kan - UW restricted UW restricted
Contains scanned images and searchable full-text of 504 works in 3,134 volumes compiled during the years 1919 to 1936
INFO Si ku jin hui shu cong kan - UW restricted UW restricted
INFO Si ku quan shu cun mu cong shu Si ku quan shu cun mu cong shu bu bian - UW restricted UW restricted
INFO Si ku wei shou shu ji kan - UW restricted UW restricted
INFO SIAM e-books - UW restricted UW restricted
Ebooks on applied mathematics and computational science
INFO Springer Math/Stat e-book collection - UW restricted UW restricted
INFO Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science - UW restricted UW restricted
Contains 50- to 100-page self-contained electronic documents--lectures, which are organized into a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series. Each lecture synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field
INFO Taylor & Francis - UW restricted UW restricted
This searchable and browsable collection provides access to textbooks, reference books and research monographs
INFO UC Press e-books collection, 1982-2004
Provides searchable access to almost 2000 online University of California Press titles covering a range of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. More than 500 of the titles are available to the public; the rest are available to UC faculty, staff, and students only
INFO Wen yuan ge si ku quan shu dian zi ban Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition) / - UW restricted UW restricted
Contains the full-text of the Wenyuange edition of Sikuquanshu. Over 3,400 types fo classical Chinese texts are organized into jing, shi, zi, ji, making up a total of 8 hundred million characters. Users can search by keywords, authors and publication titles or broad categories. Search results can be displayed in the edited version of in the original image version. Includes Si ku da ci dian, Zhonghua gu Han yu zi dian, Si ku suo you zi dian and Gu jin ji nian huan suan, etc.. Printing of documents is supported
INFO Wiley online library - UW restricted UW restricted
Provides full text access to journals, reference works, books, and databases published by Wiley in all the science disciplines

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