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e-Books (Online Books)
Access thousands of full-text books online!
An e-book is a short way of saying "electronic book." Other similar words referring to electronic books are online book, ebook, cyberbook, eBook or e-text. An electronic book is published for reading on personal computers, smart phones, or dedicated equipment sometimes called e-book readers. Often e-books can be searched for specific words or phrases and you can use hyperlinks to get to other sections of the e-book or to web sites.
The ACC Library subscribes to many e-books which are available through this page or through the library catalog (http://alicat.austincc.edu). E-books are identified in the catalog by an icon which is a blue book with an "e" on the cover.
Note: This searches GVRL only.
- ebrary -- Hundreds of e-books on practically every topic
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) -- Hundreds of encyclopedias for all major subjects
- NetLibrary -- Nearly 30,000 e-books on practically every topic
- Nursing Books @Ovid -- Important nursing titles including the Lippincott Nursing Drug Guide
- Oxford Reference Online -- Hundreds of encyclopedias and dictionaries for all major subjects
- Safari Tech Books Online -- Nearly 100 reference titles for IT, multimedia, and programming
- Salem History -- U.S. and world history reference titles from Salem Press
- Stat!Ref -- Dozens of health science and nursing titles
- The Online Books Page -- Over 30,00 free out-of-copyright e-books.
- Project Guttenberg -- The first producer of free e-books. Contains thousands of classic works.
- Google Books -- To find entire e-books, choose "advanced search" and search using "full view only."
- NCBI Bookshelf -- A searchable collection of online biomedical textbooks and other literature from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- FreeBooks4Doctors! -- Free medical books on the Internet.
- Click Advanced Search in the Library Catalog.
- Enter your keywords.
- Choose E-Book from the "Material Type" menu.
- Click Submit Search.
Click the title of an e-book to open the record and then click the link in the box that describes where it's available to read it.
last revision: 8/20/09