E-Books at SUNY Potsdam

Large Collections and Directories

• Google Book Search
• The Online Books Page - at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. A directory - with links to more than 25,000 freely available titles in English, in various formats, at many locations. Listed by author, title, subject. A very nice effort!

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• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - "a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
• American Museum of Natural History - scientific publications
• Bartleby.com - a variety of electronic books and reference works. Freely accessible and searchable
• Digital Book Index - free registration required to use; includes search of free and cost-based e-book collections
• e-book locator - a database of ebooks for sale
• E-Print Network - "a gateway to over 27,850 web sites and databases worldwide, containing over 5 million e-prints in basic and applied sciences
• Electronic Literature Directory - a descriptive guide to works, authors, and publishers of electronic text.
• Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia - search the unrestricted collection of e-books - including the "Modern English Collection"
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
• English Short-Title Catalogue - the index to this collection is online. Crumb Library has microfilm reels 1-1805 of this major collection of early publications.
• Gallica - "l'une des plus importantes bibliothèques numériques accessibles gratuitement sur l'Internet" - from the National Library of France
• HathiTrust Digital Library - searches the Univ. of Michigan / Google Books Digitization Project (aka MBooks)
• Index Translationum - an international and interdisciplinary bibliography of modern translations (from UNESCO)
• International Digital Collections at the Library of Congress
• The Million Books Project - from the Internet Archive
• National Academy Press - online access to the full-text of the publications of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council
• Ohio State Univ. Press - open access books
• Project Gutenberg - the original effort to place public domain titles on the net. Search the collection by author or words in the title.
• Univ. of California: E-Scholarship - e-books, some of which are available online to the general public.
• Univ. of Michigan: MBooks - search this catalog for the books and documents scanned by Google at the Univ. of Michigan. Limit your search to "Electronic Resources" to focus on the scanned titles.
• World Digital Library - from UNESCO and the Library of Congress
• World Public Library - free access to over 27,000 books in html. More titles available by paid subscription.

Other collections of digital documents and books

• American Memory - from the Library of Congress: documents and media materials on U.S. history.
• Australian Literary and Historical Texts
• Avalon Project - digital documents on law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government.
• Bibliomania - digital editions of reference works and classic texts
• Canada's Digital Collection
• The Canadian Literature Archive
• Carrie - a full-text digital library at the Univ. of Kansas.
• eLIB - a U.K. digital library project
• The EServer - over 20,000 works, including writings and art works.
• Feeding America - digitized and searchable American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
• Indigenous People’s Literature - American Indian resources
• The Internet Classics Archive - works of classical literature
• Internet Public Library - some 14,000 titles, including many shorter documents.
• The Making of America - American social history, especially the 19th century. Books and articles. A cooperative project of Univ. of Michigan and Cornell.
• Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project - "to digitize on an ongoing basis printed reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought.
• The National Archives - digital documents on U.S. history
• New York Public Library Digital Collection - Texts on Afro-Americans in the 19th century, and New York State history
• Online Library of Liberty, from the Liberty Fund, Inc.
• The Online Medieval & Classical Library
• Oxford Text Archive - some 2,000 electronic texts in many subject areas. Many must be downloaded. Formats vary.
• Perseus Project - Materials for the study of the ancient world.
• PubMed Bookshelf - biomedical books
• RAND Corporation - a think tank. Reports on many current issues.
• Recommended Online Poetry Collections
• Renascence Editions - from the University of Oregon, an indexed collection of electronic editions of works printed in English from 1477 to 1799. All have been prepared by reputable scholars.
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) - "to publish virtual facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the Penn Library's collections."
• TEAMS Middle English Texts - "texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon"
• THOMAS - legislative information from the Library of Congress
• U.C. Berkeley: Digital Sunsite - documents in history and classic texts.
• Women Romantic-era Writers - e-texts
• Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. A full-text collection.
  

Children's Books - see this page for links to online children's literature resources.

About netLibrary: SUNY Potsdam Libraries are participating in the SUNY shared collection of netLibrary eBooks. Library patrons have access to over 4600 eBooks, including more than 800 copyrighted books and about 3820 public domain titles.

To use some features of NetLibrary you must create a new User Account. NetLibrary e-books are all listed in BearCat. The links in BearCat make these e-books accessible from off-campus through our standard authentication using your campus computer login. You may also create an account in NetLibrary (using an on-campus computer) and use the username/password you create to access NetLibrary books directly in the NetLibrary interface.