Electronic books (e-books) are digital versions of books. Some are available from the Internet through subscription or purchase. Others, like older works in the public domain, are available free. Numerous Web sites offer “libraries” of e-books; there are sites that link to a broad variety of titles and others that specialize in certain kinds of works. The Libraries have purchased access to some large collections. In addition, UF Libraries are a leading participant in the PALMM Project, a statewide initiative to digitize materials from library collections in Florida.
An electronic book must be read using either a computer or a special reading device. Most e-book users will simply use their personal computer for accessing, reading, studying and printing excerpts from e-books. However, there is a growing demand for a more portable option such as one of the Gemstar readers, SoftBook, Everybook , or eBookMan, and most PDAs offer e-book reader software.
Following are some e-book Web sites to get you started!
E-BOOK COLLECTIONS
- University of Florida Digital Collections
Digitized collections of books, maps, documents, and images taken from the holdings of the University of Florida Libraries.
- Net Library
Provided by UF Libraries (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty). For more information about creating a NetLibrary Account and checking out NetLibrary books see "Getting Started With netLibrary." - Books24x7
Provided by UF Libraries (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty). Books24x7 provides web-based digital technical and business reference content, containing thousands of digitized "best-in-class" reference books, research reports, documentation and articles through the Referenceware platform. Collections include ITPro (information technology and computer science), BusinessPro, and EngineeringPro.. - Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provided by UF Libraries (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty). Electronic reference eBooks in virtually any subject area including health, science, art, history, biography and many more.
- InteLex Past Masters
- Knovel
Provided by UF Libraries (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty). Sci-tech full-text reference content that includes books, databases and conference proceedings, databases from publishers such as McGraw Hill, Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is all presented on the same interface, is fully searchable and is integrated with productivity tools. - Referex Engineering
The Engineering Villiage (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty) presents Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, and Academic Press handbooks and practical guides in mechanical and materials engineering - includes automotive, aeronautical, marine, metallurgy, tribology, maintenance, quality systems, health and safety, engineering fundamentals, quick reference, technique and practice, “how to” guides, and other highly specialized information. Accessed through Engineering Village 2. - Women and Social
Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Provided by UF Libraries (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty). Primary documents from women’s reform organizations such as Women’s Trade Union League, the National Association of Colored Women, the National Consumers’ League, Henry Street and Hull House settlements, the National Woman’s Party, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. - North American Women’s
Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Provided by UF Libraries (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty). The daily lives of over a thousand public figures and everyday women are expressed in these published and archival sources, providing a detailed record to what women wore, the conditions under which they worked, what they ate, what they read, and how they amused themselves.
GENERAL COLLECTIONS
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts http:www.infomotions.com/alex/
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
- Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com/
- Berkeley Digital Library http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/index.php
- eScholarship Editions, Univ. of California Press http://eScholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/
- EServer http://eserver.org/default.html
- English Online Resources http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-on.html
- Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/
- Library Electronic Text Resource Service http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/
- Literature Online http://lion.chadwyck.com (restricted to current UF students, staff, and faculty)
- National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/
- On-Line Books Page http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
- Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/
- Ted Nellen’s List of Books http://www.tnellen.com/school/books.html
- VIVA E-Books http://www.vivalib.org/collect/books.html
- World eBook Library http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
PALMM: Digital Sites of the State Universities of Florida
- Eric Eustace Williams Collection http://susdl.fcla.edu/eew
- Florida Environments Online http://susdl.fcla.edu/feol
- Florida Heritage Collection http://susdl.fcla.edu/fh/
- Florida Historical Legal Documents http://susdl.fcla.edu/law
- Linking Florida's Natural Heritage http://susdl.fcla.edu/lfnh/
- Literature for Children http://susdl.fcla.edu/juv
- Psychological Study of the Arts http://palmm.fcla.edu/psa
- Reclaiming the Everglades http://everglades.fiu.edu/reclaim
- Southwest Florida Environmental Documents http://library.fgcu.edu/PALMM/SWFEDC/index.htm
- USF Libraries Digital Collections http://www.lib.usf.edu/public/index.cfm?Pg=DigitalCollections
SPECIALIZED COLLECTIONS
- Antologia della Letteratura Italiana http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html
- CETH: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/
- Digital Scriptorium http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/
- Early English Books Online http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home
- Humanities Text Initiative http://www.hti.umich.edu/
- Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/
- Library of Southern Literature http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/
- Luminarium http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/index.html
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDLive/index.html
- Online Medieval & Classical Library http://omacl.org/
- Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
- Project Runeberg http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/
- Project Wittenberg http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
- Wright American Fiction Collection 1851 - 1875
COMMERCIAL SITES
- Amazon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/551440
- Audible.com http://www.audible.com/
- Dorrance Publishing http://www.dorrancebookstore.com/
- Ebooks On The Net http://www.ebooksonthe.net/
- ebrary http://shop.ebrary.com
Specializing in business and economics - ereader http://www.ereader.com/
- Fictionwise http://www.fictionwise.com/
- AuthorHouse http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/
- MemoWare http://www.memoware.com/
- Page-By-Page Books http://www.pagebypagebooks.com
- Questia http://www.questia.com
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