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Table of Contents:
 Books & E-Books
Reviews (Books, Film, Media and other)
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, sixty contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. Also available via the CUNY+ catalog.
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ebrary is an information delivery service that features a growing selection of more than 60,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Also available via the CUNY+ catalog.
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The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library collects SGML and XML texts and images on history, literature, and more.
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Google's Book Search searches the full text of books and allows you to see anything from a few short excerpts to the entire book, depending copyright restrictions and other factors. Select Full View in the results screen or advanced search to limit your search to books entirely, and freely, available online.
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One of the best free book sites for children from 3 - 13, this collection offers some 500 contemporary and out of print books and picture books in full text and in the original language of publication. Current research and design methods presented as well as interactive demos.
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The Internet Archive offers access to freely available e-books from a number of projects including Project Gutenberg and the Universal Library.
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Over 3,000 books are available for free online from the National Academies Press, which publishes reports by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
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By combining the time-honored traditions of the library system with electronic publishing, NetLibrary offers an easy-to-use information and retrieval system for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. Also available via the CUNY+ catalog.
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The Online Books Page indexes over 25,000 books and shorter texts available for free on the web. Listings can be searched or browsed by title, author, and subject.
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Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books, has over 20,000 books available for online viewing or downloading.
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Textbook Revolution is the web's source for free educational materials. All of the books are offered for free by their respective copyright holders for online viewing. Books are available on many topics, including biology, business, chemistry, earth sciences, economics, engineering, health sciences, history, mathematics, physics, and more.
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The Drama Library holds more than 30,000 volumes, including plays by American, British and foreign playwrights, books on the history of theatre, theatre architecture, dramatic criticism, costume and stage design, stage lighting and production, theatre management, biographies and related reference books. Periodicals collected range from scholarly theatre journals to weekly trade papers. In addition to theatre, there are books on the other performing arts: film, dance, radio, television, and opera
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For comprehensive book review searches, be sure to check article databases as well.
Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews.
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Books in Print offers complete, unbiased bibliographic information on over 5 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles. An online version of the highly regarded Books In Print7, BooksInPrint.com Professional features over 30,000 full-text previews, 140,000 tables of contents, and over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000 publishers.
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Essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film.
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Last Modified: 2009-11-13 12:23:00
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