This is a collection of reference books--encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, and more across all subjects. The content is from ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, Libraries Unlimited, and Praeger.
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Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 5,000 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office.
A half century of pioneering concepts and fundamental research have been digitized and indexed in a variety of ways in this special collection of works published by ACM since its inception.
This database provides indexing and abstracts from more than 4,000 current serial and non-serial titles, including content from AIAA and NASA.
ANU E Press publishes between 50-60 titles a year, all of its eBooks are available free through its website and the reader may choose to purchase a Print-On-Demand version of the book.
ASCE Research Digital Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles across all disciplines of civil engineering. It provides unprecedented access to more than 40,000 full-text papers, published proceedings, e-books and standards.
CollegeSource Online features over 14,000 full text college catalogs representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Other resources include links (and some catalogs) to international universities; financial aid information and assistance; career planning links; and college entrance exam information.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.
The DARMC makes freely accessible the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds. It allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization.
Digital Scholarship is a web portal to information on open access publishing since 1989.
This database contains full text Spanish language electronic books and journals. Currently USC patrons have access to close to 1,000 ebooks and journal issues.
The www.dissonline.de information system provides a wide range of information on the electronic publishing of dissertations and post-doctoral theses.
DOAB provides open access to over 854 Academic peer-reviewed books from 25 publishers.
Ebooks is a catalog portal to the substantial sub-set of electronic books, in all subject areas, included in OCLC WorldCat.
This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary.
This site features the European Mathematical Society's entire e-book collection from 2004 up to the present.
Allows evaluation and comparison of scholarly journals.
JapanKnowledge is a powerful reference tool for Japanese language and culture provided by NetAdvance Inc. of the Shogakkan Group Holdings, the top 4th publisher in Japan.
This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries.
The Library of Congress's home page, linking to an extraordinary wealth of information including the Library's catalogs and its very significant digital collections.
As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press are downloadable to anyone free of charge.
To gain access, please click “Institution Not Listed?” and enter your USC email address in the box provided.
Safari Online provides e-books from the publishers specializing in computer application user and training manuals.
Safari Online provides e-books from the publishers specializing in computer application user and training manuals.
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains a wealth of essential material for learning and detailed research in a single, easily-searched database.
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) provides scholarly ebooks on a wide range of subjects. Chapters can be downloaded as PDFs. Subject areas include Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Palliative Care, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion, Social Work, and Sociology. OSO also includes the full text of some publications from other university presses.
ProQuest Ebook Central is a web-based ebook lending platform.
Contains millions of index terms to specialized subject encyclopedias, compendia, and scholarly handbooks.
Access over 2,200 peer reviewed academic journals and selected books.
This site features the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics' e-book collection.
The SPIE Digital Library contains the world's largest collection of optics and photonics applied research. With more than 445,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research.
Synthesis is an engineering and applied science e-books collection from Morgan & Claypool, which synthesizes important engineering research or development topics in lecture series format.
The gateway to Taylor & Francis e-books.
The University of Adelaide's Barr Smith Library has established a digital Press with an electronic edition of each new book published as well as print.The electronic editions are Open Access and free, in PDF format.
The University of Pittsburgh Press and the University Library System have formed a partnership to make books published by the Press available online.
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center was formed to be the utility that digitizes, provides access to, and maintains digital projects.