Best Bets for Finding eBooks
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 NetLibrary
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. If you are off-campus, you must create an account to search the library's collection. Everyone (on and off-campus) must create an account to check out books.
To create your netLibrary account, see the help page.
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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
- 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.
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 (University of Virginia Library)
- Humanities and social sciences
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InformIT
- Computer books online; free with registration (click on the Free Library link)
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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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National Academies Press
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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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Project Gutenberg
- All topics
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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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