E-Books

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES (BU only)

ACLS Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies) [About]
Over 1,500 titles in the humanities available in full-text format.

Artfl [About]
Includes historic French dictionaries and the complete digital version of the Encyclopedie by Diderot and d'Alembert.

Business Source Premier [About]
Provides the full-text of several hundred books related to business and economics.

Cambridge Companions [About]
Includes 299 titles related to literature, classics, philosophy, religion, and culture. Chapters can be viewed and downloaded in PDF format.

Early English Books Online [About]
Contains facsimile page images of over 100,000 books published in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works published in English elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online [About]
Complements Early English Books Online, providing over 100,000 items published in Great Britain and its colonies from 1701-1800.

ENGnetBASE [About]
Contains over 700 engineering handbooks from CRC Press. New titles are continually being added.

HeinOnline [About]
Includes the full-text of many legal books, documents, presidential papers, etc.

Karl Barth Digital Library [About]
Digitized version of the theologian's major works.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library [About]
Contains the full-text of over 5,000 curriculum documents on a variety of subjects covered in pre K-12 and adult basic education.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science [About]
Over 4,000 books related to developments in computer science and information technology are included in this series. The BU subscription provides online access to books published from 1997 to the present. Many of the publications are conference proceedings.

Lecture Notes in Mathematics [About]
This series reports on new developments in all areas of mathematics and their applications. Includes research monographs and lectures. Online access is from 1997 to the present.

Literature Online (LION) [About]
Provides the full-text of thousands of books of poetry, drama, and prose from the Anglo-Saxon period to the twentieth century.

Luthers Werke [About]
Electronic version of the complete Weimar edition of Martin Luther's writings.

Making of Modern Law [About]
Includes over 21,000 Anglo-American legal treatises from 1800-1926.

MyiLibrary [About]
Over 100 Cambridge University Press e-books that focus on legal issues and the law.

NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) [About]
Provides full-text of NBER Working Papers.

Netlibrary [About]
Includes over 3,000 e-books on a variety of topics. Approximately 1,000 of these focus on theology and those titles are listed in the library catalog.

Oxford Scholarship Online [About]
Over 1,000 books available covering religion, philosophy, political science, and economics. The religion and philosophy books are available full-text while those in political science and economics have only abstracts.

Patrologia Latina Database [About]
Electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844-1855.

Safari Books Online [About]
Contains several thousand computer-related books. Click on Library for access to the 175 books in the B.U. subscription.

SourceOECD [About]
Full-text of books, working papers, and other publications from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Stat!Ref [About]
Provides the full-text of a number of medical reference books, including the DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).

Women Writers Online [About]
Contains several hundred works in English written by women between 1400 and 1850.

OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS

American Verse Project
A collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press. Presently contains 170 volumes of American poetry published prior to 1920.

Bartleby.com
Includes the complete Oxford Shakespeare, the 70 volumes of the Harvard Classics and Shelf of Fiction, multiple reference books and hundreds of other fiction, poetry, and non-fiction books.

DailyScript
Contains the full-text of many classic and contemporary movie scripts as well as some TV scripts.

Digital Book Index
Intended as a meta-index of major e-book sites. Provides links to more than 145,000 title records from approximately 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. Around 103,000 of these books and documents are available without cost.

Google Book Search
Searches the text of thousands of books but the full-text is only available if it is out of copyright (before 1923) or if the copyright holder has given permission. Limited previews may also be available.

Internet Archive:Texts
Displays over 1,000,000 items, most of them published before 1923. Materials have been contributed by American and Canadian libraries.

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Includes American Memory, a collection of original documents related to many aspects of American history. Other collections include historic American newspapers, country handbooks, video and audio oral histories, and legislative documents.

National Academies Press
More than 4,000 books are available to read online for free. There may be a charge for downloading.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf
Collection of biology and biomedical books that can be searched and, in some cases, browsed and downloaded. This site is linked to PubMed.

Online Books Page
Index to more than 35,000 works in English. Mostly older materials no longer under copyright although more current items included when permission for free access has been granted.

Oxford Text Archive
The aim of the Archive is to identify, collect, and preserve high-quality, well-documented electronic texts in a variety of languages.There are presently several thousand documents available.

The Perseus Digital Library
This site, produced at Tufts University, provides digital images and transcribed text (in translation or original language) from ancient Greek and Latin sources. Also includes documents related to English Renaissance literature and to London.

Project Gutenberg
Over 28,000 books available for free. Has links to Gutenberg sites in other countries that also provide free online books.

University of Buffalo E-Books on the Web
Searches multiple sites for e-books. Can search by title or author.

University of California Press (eScholarship Editions)
Contains almost 2,000 books although only 518 are available to the public without cost. Covers a variety of subject areas.

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Includes over 2,100 publicly available e-books. Books can be downloaded for Microsoft Reader and Palm Reader.

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
The purpose is to make available every novel published in the U.S from 1851-1875. Presently includes 2,887 volumes by 1,456 authors.