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Electronic Books

NetLibrary
Easy access to the full text of more than 47,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books as well as over 1,500 eAudiobooks. Once you create your account in the library you can view or listen to the complete content of these books from NetLibrary on any computer with internet access.

Chadwyck-Healey Individual Literature Collections -- Through NC LIVE, these databases give access to full text poetry. Collections included are: 20th Century African-American Poetry (1901-1998); 20th Century American Poetry; African-American Poetry (1750-1900); American Poetry (1600-1900); English Poetry (600-1900); The Faber Poetry Library (the most influential poets of the twentieth century.)

R2Library of Medical & Health Sciences eBooks
R2Library features health sciences book content from leading publishers. Set up an account on campus and you can access these full-text books from your home computer.

StatRef Medical eBooks
StatRef is an electronic medical textbook database resource for healthcare professionals from the National Library Alliance.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Covering a variety of subject areas, this is a searchable collection of online reference books published by Gale.

Oxford Premium Reference Collection
Search over 100 dictionaries, language references, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press along with key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Available on campus only.

National Academies Press
The NAP gives online access to over 3,000 books in science, engineering, and health.

Bartleby.com - Great Books Online
Probably the most comprehensive collection of reference materials on the web, along with full text of verse, fiction, and non-fiction, including the complete Harvard Classics.

Project Gutenberg
This project is an ongoing effort to provide electronic access to books that are in the public domain. Included titles range from light literature such as Alice in Wonderland to more serious works such as The Bible and the works of Shakespeare. References such as Roget's Thesaurus are also included.

The Online Books Page
Locate books that are freely readable in electronic format on the internet. Choose from over 15,000 titles.

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