E-Books
Connect to collections of electronic
books, literary works, and other texts either purchased for WSU
faculty, staff, and students or freely available to all users through
the Internet.
netLibrary
A collection of over 6000
e-books shared with libraries in Kansas and surrounding states. Covers
all subject areas including business, education, Kansas history, and
health sciences. Made available to WSU users through a cooperative
effort of the Kansas Library Network Board and the Regents
Universities; the WSU Libraries' participation is supported through a
generous gift from the Kansas Gas Service (KGS).
Audio books, Music,
and More!
A collection of thousands of digital audio books, digital
e-books, digital music, and digital videos shared with libraries
throughout Kansas. Browse and search both fiction and
non-fiction titles in several genres. Using the Overdrive
software, which is free, download to your computer, transfer to a
portable device, or burn onto a CD. The loan period is 14 days
for music and books and 7 days for videos with a maximum of 10 items being checked out at one time.
Holds can be placed on items that are currently checked out.
This is open to Kansas residents only and you must have a myWSUid or
a
Kansas State Library Card.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Over 500 scholarly e-books in history. Project of
the American Council of Learned Society.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic
Texts
A collection of public domain books and documents in American
and English literature and western philosophy. Browsable by author,
title, and date.
American Memory
A multimedia collection
from the National Digital Library of unique, primary source materials
(including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps) in U.S. history
and culture. Created by the Library of Congress.
Bartleby.com
A collection of about 100
reference books, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Featuring such
works as Gray's Anatomy, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Strunk's
Elements of Style.
Electronic Text Center Collection
A collection of
approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen
languages with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations,
covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, museum objects, etc.). Developed
by University of Virginia.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Database of over 300 eBook reference titles from Gale and its
imprints. 24/7 remote access. Flexibility to buy one eBook or
multiple eBooks.
Humanities Text Initiative
A collection of literary,
historical, and religious texts developed by the University of
Michigan. Includes projects such as the American Verse project and the
Making of America.
Knovel
Over 500 full-text reference handbooks, databases,
and conference proceedings in science and engineering. Interactive
tables and graphs. Only provider of aggregated engineering and
applied science data that can be accessed using proprietary tabular
analysis tools.
Library of
American Civilization Titles
A collection of online titles freely available on the Internet
from the Library of American Civilization microfiche collection held
by Quinnipiac University, Hamden CT. Derived from online titles
maintained by the University of Pennsylvania at their Online Books
Page (see below).
Online
Books Page
A directory of links to over 16,000 of
books available on the Internet. Hosted by the University of
Pennsylvania Library. Browsable by author, title, and subject.
Online
Texts Collection - Internet Public Library
A collection of 20,000 freely available
texts. Browsable by author, title, and Dewey Decimal
Classification.
Perseus Digital Library
Includes collections of
Greek and Roman texts as well as primary and secondary sources in
early modern English literature.
Project
Gutenberg
A collection of
approximately 2,500 classics including Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, Lewis
Carroll. Browsable by author or title. Texts are downloaded from FTP
sites.
Salem History
Salem Literature is a robust
online database that includes the complete content of printed
reference sets. This includes: Musicians and Composers of
the 20th Century, Great Lives from History, and
Historical Encyclopedia of American Business.
Salem Literature
Salem Literature is a robust
online database that includes the complete content of printed
reference sets, including the Critical Survey of Long Fiction.
E-Book
Websites for Review as Possible Acquisitions
