Electronic Book Resources: E-books on the Web

This guide describes the e-book collections that are available to students, faculty and staff at Columbus State. It also discusses accessing each of these collections.

Open Library E-books

Open Library

Open Library provides access to many works from other free and open access projects, such as Project Gutenburg, Internet Archive, as well as hundreds of contributing libraries.

There are many other volumes available for borrowing through the Lending Library collection. 

Google Books

Google Books

Google Books is a wonderful resource for previewing books. The majority of books that Google has digitized are not fully accessible to the public.

Some works are available as "full view," meaning that these works can be read in their entirety online.

Google Books Advanced Search allows users to retrieve "Full view only" books by selecting the appropriate search setting.

Hathi Trust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a collaboration between academic libraries and other parties to provide storage and access for their digital collections.

In order to locate the books that are available in their entirety you may use the advanced catalog search.  

 

University of California Press E-books

University of California Press eBooks

UC Press E-books provides access to almost 2000 academic titles on a variety of topics.  E-books can be viewed online, but there is no download option for offline or device use.

Internet Archive

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 6,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. This includes a special modern collection of over 500,000 eBooks for users with print disabilities, and a very interesting curated, modern collection for the world at large.

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