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Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library: Find E-books

What are E-books?

E-Books are electronic full-text copies of published print materials. E-books are available via the Library's subscription databases and the Web.


Safari Books Online

Search across the full text of thousands of technical books for programmers and IT professionals.

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Credo Reference Books

Access to the full text of the best reference books, along with images, customizable data, visual concept maps of results, sound, maps, and more.

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Free E-Books on the Web

Use our Library's custom Google search engine to locate free e-books online. Free e-books are mainly older works that are no longer in the copyright domain.

Our tool searches these sites:



Google Book Search

http://books.google.com

The Google Book Project involves the digitization of several large library collections; these books searchable and discoverable via the Web. Google shows information about the book, and in many cases, a few sentences to display your search term in context.

Search within the full text of books to find ones that interest you, and learn where to buy or borrow them. When a book is out of copyright, you can view or download it in its entirety.

 

NetLibrary Database

http://www.netlibrary.com

Netlibrary contains digital versions of books, including a wide range of research, reference and reading materials. Includes both fiction and academic titles.

 

Gale Virtual Reference Database

Search Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Contents of this database are shown as e-books, electronic books.

 

 

 

 

Featured E-Book

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Jacqueline L. Longe, Ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 3956 pp. 5 vols.