Electronic Book Packages

An ebook is an electronic version of a printed book. Some ebooks require you to set up a personal account in order to view them.

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Details	Title
	ACLS Humanities E-Book - 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
	Books@Ovid - UW restricted Database contains full text access to selected biomedical and nursing books
	CogNet library - 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
	Digital collection of children's literature Baldwin Library of Children's Literature
	EBL ebook library - 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
	eBooks@Adelaide Web book versions of over 1,000 classic texts in literature, philosophy, science, and history. Foreign-language works are mostly presented in English translation. Includes works divided chronologically into the Classical Age (e.g., Homer; Sophocles; Confucius); the Dark Age (e.g., Beowulf; Omar Khayyam); the Renaissance (e.g., Dante; Machiavelli; Chaucer; Cervantes; Galileo); the Age of Enlightenment (e.g., Descartes; Milton; Moliere; Leibniz; Rousseau); Revolution and Romanticism (e.g., Paine; Austen; Shelley; Malthus; Schopenhauer); Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism (e.g., Balzac; Pushkin; the Brontes; Melville; Twain; Emerson; Thoreau); and the Age of Uncertainty (e.g., Marx; Darwin; Shaw; Proust; Joyce; Woolf; Keynes). Includes special collections of classic works in travel and exploration, Australian exploration, gastronomy/cookery, the Gothic novel, the Greek dramatists, crime and mystery, and Russian literature
	Ebrary - UW restricted
	ENGnetBASE engineering handbooks online - UW restricted Provides access to engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Also accessible via the Engineering Village 2
	eScholarship editions University of California Press Provides searchable access to over 1400 online University of Caliifornia Press titles covering a range of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. More than 400 of the titles are available to the public; the rest are available to UC faculty, staff, and students only
	Gale virtual reference library - UW restricted
	Gutenberg-e - 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
	Handbooks in economics - 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
	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
	Knovel - UW restricted 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
	Lecture notes in computer science - UW restricted (Springer) 1997 to present
	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
	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
	NetLibrary University of Washington eBook collection - UW restricted (NANC PNW collection) Electronic books available for use by University of Washington students, faculty and staff
	Oxford reference online - 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
	Oxford scholarship online - UW restricted Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion
	Safari Books Online [home page] - UW restricted
	Sage ereference - UW restricted A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education
	Springer Math/Stat e-book collection - UW restricted
	STATSnetBASE - UW restricted A collections of online books covering statistical methods in all areas, including Bayes, environmental, and medical statistics
	Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science - 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
	Taylor & Francis - UW restricted This searchable and browsable collection provides access to textbooks, reference books and research monographs