Electronic Books

eBook Collections

eBooks in these collections are available to CBU students, faculty, and staff only. They can also be found in Plough Library's online catalog, BUCCAT.

	EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) contains more than 60,000 titles in all subject areas. It inludes scholarly, reference and professional works from leading university, academic, and professional publishers. NOTE: You must register for a My EBSCO account (free) with EBSCOHost and install Adobe Digital Editions on your computer in order to download EBSCO eBooks. Here are Instructions for downloading EBSCO eBooks.
	ACLS Humanities E-Book Project (HEB) is a digital collection of 3300+ full-text titles. Offers a searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
	Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection provides full texts of 175+ language and subject-specific dictionaries and reference works. Usage info.: Licensed for only 1 user at a time.
	Credo Reference contains over 550 reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations; as well as subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	Gale Virtual Reference Library contains over 20 reference books on a variety of topics, including religion, business, medicine, multicultural studies and more.
	Literature Online Reference Edition offers eight literary reference books that can be searched or browsed.
	Knovel Library offers science and engineering full-text reference e-book titles and tools. Our subscription includes the Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, and General Engineering & Engineering Management collections.

Academic OneFile

General Reference Center Gold

, and

Business Source Premier

Free Online e-Book Sites

Many sites on the Internet provide free access to e-books. Here are some of the best ones:

Bartleby.com: Bartleby.com publishes the most up-to-date collection of reference works, as well as classic works of reference, fiction, nonfiction and verse—all free of charge. Comprises four main sections: reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction.
ebooks at Adelaide: full-text e-books of classic works of literature, philosophy, and history from a variety of countries. Titles can be read online or downloaded to eReader devices supporting the ePub standard.
Google Books: Search the books of the Google digitization project, representing the holdings of dozens of research libraries. Recent titles still under copyright have only minimal availability; to access books that can be downloaded, limit your search to "Full view." Historic runs of popular magazines also available; limit to "Magazines" to access them, or go to the alphabetic list of titles for browsing.
Hathi Trust Digital Library: Search multiple libraries' digitized collections. Choose "Full view only" to limit to items available online. Results overlap with Google Books results, but Hathi offers more precise search functionality.
The Internet Archive: Text Archive: Search several free e-Book collections at once, including Project Gutenberg, Million Book Project, and University of Maryland's International Children's Digital Library.
The Internet Public Library: Online Texts: Provides an index to other online text sites: fewer full books, but more short texts, and non-English texts).
NCBI Bookshelf: Single search interface for online books provided by the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. Includes texts related to biotechnology and genetics, as well as the National Academies collection.
The Online Books Page: Includes a searchable index of thousands of online books, and directions to significant directories and archives of online texts.
Project Gutenberg: Oldest producer of free e-Books on the Internet. Most of the 18.000 Project Gutenberg e-Books are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.