eBook Collections
| Collection Titles (Subscription Titles) | Descriptions |
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Credo
Reference
Accessible to Truman Network users only. Connect from Off-campus |
Over 600 dictionaries and encyclopedias. View a list of titles available. |
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Includes all these
sub-collections: |
This EBSCO eBook collection provides access to over 138,000 titles from a wide variety of subject areas. This collection is also known as eMO. MOBIUS and EBSCO eBooks partnered to make this available to participating MOBIUS libraries. http://emo.searchmobius.org/ |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library-GVRL Accessible to Truman Network users only. Connect from Off-campus |
Gale Virtual Reference Library is
a collection of premier reference
books that you can view and search online. |
| Collection Titles (Free Titles) | Descriptions |
| American Memory: The 19th Century in Print | About 1,500 books published in the U.S. from 1850-1880. |
| Bartleby.com's Great Books Online | Includes the 70-volume Harvard Classics, King James Bible, and many reference books. |
| Bibliomania | More than 2000 classic texts, reference books, author biographies, study guides, etc |
| Digital Book Index | 145,00 free digital books. |
| eScholarship Editions |
Provides access to a growing collection of digital texts and monographs, including more than 2,000 University of California Press titles. A significant number of the electronic books are available for free to the public. |
| Google Book Search | Google has partnered with publishers, authors, and libraries to provide full text of millions of volumes. |
| Hathi Trust Digital Library | A repository for archiving and sharing of digitized collections. |
| Humanities Text Initiative | From the University of Michigan. Includes: American Verse Project, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, and Modern English Works (public domain) and much more. |
| Hypertexts: "We DO American Studies" | Hosted by the American Studies Group at University of Virginia. Provides full text access to a variety of literary and scholarly hypertexts. |
| IPL Books Online | Internet Public Library links to more than 20,000 free texts. |
| Internet Archive | The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. It includes moving images, live music archives, audio and text. |
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Missouri
Digital Heritage Initiative |
Missouri historical resources: including documents, photographs, maps and other materials of interest. |
| National Academies Press |
3,000 books online for free. Primarily science and political science titles. |
| National Agricultural Library Digital Collection | Historical documents and research in the agricultural sciences, |
| OAIster | Project of the University of
Michigan to provide access to publicly available
digital library resources provided by the
research library community. |
| Online Books Page | University of Pennsylvania provides links to more than 20,000 titles available through Project Gutenberg, Bibliomania, UVA Electronic Text Center, etc. |
| Project Gutenberg | More than 10,000 texts available, generally published before 1923, no longer in copyright. |
| University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center | Contains more than 70,000 texts, about 10,000 of them are free; access to others requires membership. |
| World Digital Library | Developed by the U.S. Library of Congress; UNESCO; contributions by partner institutions in many countries; financial support of a number of companies and private foundations. |
| Wright American Fiction Collection - | About 2,880 volumes of American adult fiction published between 1851 and 1875. |