{"id":874,"date":"2022-08-08T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/library\/?page_id=874"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:50:20","slug":"ebooks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-advgb-columns advgb-columns-wrapper\" id=\"advgb-cols-28818c01-1e24-440d-a153-37c3beb66323\"><div class=\"advgb-columns-container\"><div class=\"advgb-columns advgb-columns-row advgb-is-mobile advgb-columns-2 layout-23-13 mbl-layout-stacked gutter-30 vgutter-20 order-rtl\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-advgb-column advgb-column advgb-is-two-thirds-tablet advgb-is-full-mobile\" id=\"advgb-col-158b597c-d146-4410-be72-acd19fd86cf3\"><div class=\"advgb-column-inner\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:1px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Many online books are also available through the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tsds.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/default\">library catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some resources will require you to supply your&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/get-help\/usernames\/\">NTNET username and password<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-advgb-column advgb-column advgb-is-one-third-tablet advgb-is-full-mobile\" id=\"advgb-col-f81ce6c1-031d-49b1-b1f5-3dd3e9c36053\"><div class=\"advgb-column-inner\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:1px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full better-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/08\/girl-on-laptop.jpg\" alt=\"Student using a laptop with feet on a table, backpack nearby.\" class=\"wp-image-873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/08\/girl-on-laptop.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/08\/girl-on-laptop-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/08\/girl-on-laptop-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">E-Book Collections<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?ace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC-CLIO Ebooks<\/a>: History ebooks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bartleby.com<\/a>: Contemporary and classic reference works as well as a wide range of fiction and non-fiction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookindex.com\/search001a.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Book Index<\/a>: Over 72,000 titles including both commercial and non-commercial eBooks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.doabooks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Searchable database of academic books available under Open Access licenses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/browse\/title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Documenting the American South<\/a>: Texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?cre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Credo Reference<\/a>: Covers the primary disciplines of Higher Education.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?nleb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eBook Collection (EBSCO)<\/a>: Thousands of e-books on a variety of academic subjects and some fiction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?oceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ebooks via FirstSearch (OCLC)<\/a>: Online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osti.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">E-print Network<\/a>: Scientific \/ technical documents to facilitate peer exchange and collaboration for the advancement of science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escholarship.org\/editions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eScholarship<\/a>: Books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, theology, and fiction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Books<\/a>: Search full-text scans of books and magazines stored in Google\u2019s digital database of more than 10 million titles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HathiTrust Digital Library<\/a>: A partnership of academic &amp; research institutions, offering millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?jstor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JSTOR<\/a>: eBooks and journals on a variety of topics. Subject areas include the humanities, science and social science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Library of Southern Literature<\/a>: Documents the riches of the Southern experience as presented in 100 of its most important literary works.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hti.umich.edu\/m\/moagrp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Making of America<\/a>: Primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Subject areas include education, psychology, American history, sociology, theology, and science and technology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Library<\/a>: Borrow and read freely available digitized books. Links to purchasing books and finding them in nearby libraries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?od\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OverDrive<\/a>: Check out fiction and non-fiction eBooks and audiobooks, mostly leisure reading. Downloadable or read in browser.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/posner.library.cmu.edu\/Posner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Posner Memorial Collection<\/a>: Digitized books available for online reading, focusing on landmark titles of the history of western science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>: Online library of free eBooks, including a wide variety of classical titles and authors. Downloadable or read in browser.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?pebk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ProQuest Ebook Central (ProQuest)<\/a>: access to full-text ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scientific American<\/a>: Online access to the Scientific American magazine that offers relevant discoveries and analysis in all areas of scientific research.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/epubs.siam.org\/action\/showPublications?pubType=book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SIAM ebooks<\/a>: The Society for Industrial &amp; Applied Mathematics ebooks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zeus.tarleton.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/link.springer.com\/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%22&amp;showAll=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpringerLINK eBooks<\/a>: Scientific eBooks and documents published by Springer. Downloadable PDFs by book or chapter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib01.tarleton.edu\/scripts\/lib_redirect.pl?tafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor &amp; Francis Ebooks<\/a>: eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Pennsylvania Online Books<\/a>: Access to online book collections, including Banned Books Online, a Celebration of Women Writers, Prize Winners Online, and much more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/action\/showPublications?PubType=book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wiley Online Publications<\/a>: ebooks from over 60 different subjects and research areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<style class=\"advgb-styles-renderer\">#advgb-col-158b597c-d146-4410-be72-acd19fd86cf3>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-158b597c-d146-4410-be72-acd19fd86cf3>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-158b597c-d146-4410-be72-acd19fd86cf3>.advgb-column-inner{}}#advgb-col-f81ce6c1-031d-49b1-b1f5-3dd3e9c36053>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-f81ce6c1-031d-49b1-b1f5-3dd3e9c36053>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-f81ce6c1-031d-49b1-b1f5-3dd3e9c36053>.advgb-column-inner{}}#advgb-cols-28818c01-1e24-440d-a153-37c3beb66323{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-cols-28818c01-1e24-440d-a153-37c3beb66323{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-cols-28818c01-1e24-440d-a153-37c3beb66323{}}#advgb-col-158b597c-d146-4410-be72-acd19fd86cf3>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-158b597c-d146-4410-be72-acd19fd86cf3>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-158b597c-d146-4410-be72-acd19fd86cf3>.advgb-column-inner{}}#advgb-col-f81ce6c1-031d-49b1-b1f5-3dd3e9c36053>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-f81ce6c1-031d-49b1-b1f5-3dd3e9c36053>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-f81ce6c1-031d-49b1-b1f5-3dd3e9c36053>.advgb-column-inner{}}<\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-Book Collections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":580,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-874","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/author\/kyle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3\/","display_name":"kyle"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 8, 2022","modified":"Updated on February 25, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 8, 2022 4:00 pm","modified":"Updated on February 25, 2025 5:50 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}