E-book Collections
The library offers more than 17,000 books in electronic format from various publishers and providers. Our major collections of e-books include:
- Britannica Online Browse or search more than 100,000 articles from Encyclopædia Britannica
- Cambridge Histories OnlineOnline access to more than 300 volumes from the Cambridge Histories series, providing scholarly coverage of many academic subjects
- Credo Reference A digital reference library of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject-specific titles, covering many subjects, all from leading publishers.
- EBSCO eBook CollectionA collection of more than 12,500 electronic books, including scholarly monographs, reference materials, and more. Formerly known as NetLibrary.
- Gale Virtual Reference LibraryA database of encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Oxford Reference Full-text dictionaries and other reference books in many subject areas from Oxford University Press
- SAGE Knowledge (formerly SAGE Reference Online)A collection of more than 170 specialized encyclopedias and handbooks. Particularly strong in the social sciences, medicine, and the environment.
- EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription Collection (trial access expires 4/30/2013)
This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs. More than 113,000 titles are included in this package – all titles are available with unlimited user access, and titles are added to the package each month at no additional cost. Subject coverage includes art, business & economics, education, language arts, literary criticism, medical, performing arts, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, social science, technology & engineering, and more.
Freely-available e-books
Open-access titles and books in the public domain are increasingly available for free over the Internet. Check out these sources for freely-available e-books on a variety of topics.
Selected e-books by subject
This is only a sampling of our 17,000+ e-books. For a more comprehensive view of our e-book collection, search for e-books.
Encyclopedias / Ready Reference
- Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionaryfrom Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Britannica Online Browse or search more than 100,000 articles from Encyclopædia Britannica
- Gale Directory LibraryFeatures standard directories such as Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers, Encyclopedia of Associations, and Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
- OED Online Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world
- Oxford Reference Full-text dictionaries and other reference books in many subject areas from Oxford University Press
- Statistical Abstract of the United States Online Edition (ProQuest)
A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. - World Almanacs A collection of reference works including The World Almanac and Book of Facts

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