Best Bets for Finding eBooks
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Ebsco Ebooks
Access restricted to St. Mary's and participating Amigos members computers and computing accounts.
- A collection of current scholarly texts on a variety of topics purchased by St. Mary's and other Amigos library members. Everyone (on and off-campus) must create an account to check out books.
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Google Book Search
- Many public domain books are available through Google Book Search, though most books are copyright-protected. Choose "Full view books" for books where full text is freely available. Choose "All books" to search all book titles that Google indexes.
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Hathi Trust Digital Library
- A collection of over 10 million volumes from around the world. With a free account you can create your own collection of favorites
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National Academies Press
- All books published by the National Academies Press downloadable for free in PDF format
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Oapen Library
- OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative by European publishers.
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Open Library
- A collection of over 200,000 ebooks available, contributed by over 1,000 libraries. St. Mary's students, faculty and staff may create a free account and begin borrowing online books instantly.
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Open Access Text Archive
- A collection of fulltext books available under the open access license, sponsored by the Internet Archive. There are also links to audio, moving images, and software collections available via open access.
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On-Line Books Page
- Access to thousands of free online books
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Project Gutenberg
- Books in the public domain on all topics
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Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
- A collection of fulltext books available under the open access license. You can read the book for free here or have a copy printed in paper format for a fee.
More Books Online
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
- English literature, American literature and Western philosophy
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Bartleby.com
- Selected reference, verse, fiction, non-fiction
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Bibliomania
- Classic fiction, reference, short stories, non-fiction, drama, poetry, ancient classics
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Bible, early church writings, other religious works
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Electronic Text Center (searched via the University of Virginia Library Virgo Catalog)
- Humanities and social sciences
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Internet Public Library Reading Room
- All topics plus some serials and newspapers online
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Manybooks.net
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NCBI Bookshelf
- Medical and biology books linked from PubMed
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Oxford Text Archive
- Humanities
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Universal Library (Million Book Project)
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University of Toronto English Library
- Literature and criticism
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