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Electronic Books and Text
Listed are eBook collections to which the FAU Libraries subscribe or otherwise recommend. You may search for individual titles using the FAU Libraries catalog.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
| Full Text | Vendor: ACLS
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: An online, fully searchable collection of high-quality
books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
African American Music Reference
| Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: African American Music Reference will bring together
50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images,
lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and
culture of the African American experience through music.
The Arabidopsis Book |
Full Text | Vendor: The American Society of Plant Biologists
Open Access
Contents/Info: A compilation of over 100 invited chapters, each reviewing
in detail an important and interesting aspect of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana,
with reference to what is known in other plants and in other kingdoms.
ARBA Online
| 1997-present | Full Text | Vendor: Libraries Unlimited
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides reviews of the best reference materials including electronic products,
and information on the most current resources available.
ASM Materials Information
| Full Text | Vendor: ASM International
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: ASM Materials Information consists of two main content
areas: ASM Handbooks Online, featuring the complete content of twenty one ASM
Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions and ASM Alloy Center Online,
featuring ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for
specific metals and alloys.
Open Access
Contents/Info:
Thousands of free online classics of
reference, literature and nonfiction.
Birds of North America
| Full Text | Vendor: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of
North American birds. This resource will provide access to image and video
galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more.
Blackwell Reference Online: Business
& Economics |
Full Text | Vendor: Blackwell Publishing
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides access to Business, Management and
Economics reference books.
Books at Ovid | Some
Full Text | Vendor: Ovid
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource provides access to electronic books in Medicine
and Nursing.
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Business Directories | Full Text | Vendor: Cabell Pub.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Cabell's Directory helps
authors determine which journal will most likely accept their manuscript by
comparing the characteristics of the manuscript and the needs of each journal.
The following Business directories are included in this subscription:
Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, and Marketing.
City of Boca Raton Buildings and Building Regulations
| Full Text | Vendor: City of Boca Raton Open Access
Contents/Info: This site provides access to the building regulations of the
City of Boca Raton.
Classics
Archive | Full Text |
Vendor: MIT
Open Access
Contents/Info: Works of classical literature.
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
| Full Text |
Vendor: Blackwell Publishing &
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Open Access
Contents/Info: A major collection of essays dealing
with texts and the humanities in the digital world.
Complete Works of
Shakespeare | Full Text |
Vendor: MIT
Open Access
Contents/Info: Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William
Shakespeare. (Poetry and other services not available at this time.)
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
| Full Text | Vendor: CRC Press LLC
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The most widely used source of data for
chemists, physicists, and professionals in related fields of science. The
Handbook provides broad coverage of all types of data commonly encountered by
physical scientists and engineers.
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
| Full Text | Vendor: Center for Medieval Studies, University of
Toronto
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A complete record of surviving Old English except for some
variant manuscripts of individual texts.
Early
American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 |
1639-1800 | Full Text |
Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans.
The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century
America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy,
literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and
just about any other topic imaginable.
Early
American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 |
1801-1819 | Full Text |
Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the
distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
| Full Text | Vendor: Proquest Direct
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile
page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700
- from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of
Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
Early English Books Online Text Creation
Partnership (EEBO-TCP) | Full Text | Vendor: Proquest Direct
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This is a text version of EEBO with multiple search
capabilities.
ebrary | Vendor:
ebrary, inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Collection of electronic books purchased by the FAU
Libraries.
Eighteenth
Century Collections Online | 1701-1800 | Full Text | Vendor:
Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Online access to the digital images of books published
between 1701 and 1800.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online | Full Text | Vendor:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus, and the
Britannica Book of the Year.
ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online
| Full Text | Vendor: CRC Press LLC
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Consists of a compilation of essential engineering
information, including data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations,
and charts.
Florida Building Code |
Full Text | Vendor: State of Florida Open Access
Contents/Info: This site provides access to the Florida Building Code.
Gale Directory Library |
Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Gale
Virtual Reference Library |
Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of
encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library,
but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Open Access
Contents/Info: Links to new electronic titles available from the GPO.
Greenwood Digital Collection |
Full Text | Vendor: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Grove Art Online see
Oxford Art Online |
1996-present | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource comprises the full text of The
Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford
Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001).
Grove Music Online see
Oxford Music Online
| Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University
Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource comprises the full text of The New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley
Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera,
edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,
second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).
Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
| Full Text | Vendor: Knovel Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This handbook has been designed to provide scientific
investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the
mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems.
Open Access
Contents/Info: The Guide to Jewish Life on Campus offers information
on hundreds of colleges and universities around the world. Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The standard source for the quantitative facts of American
history.
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
| Full Text | Vendor: Knovel Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This classic and well-known reference was originally
published from 1926 - 1930 for the National Research Council in 7 volumes. It
contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds,
and pure substances.
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Full Text | Vendor: Knovel Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) Contents/Info:
Includes tables covering Heat Capacity and Thermal Conductivity, Reaction
Thermodynamics and Equilibrium Constants, Density and Compressibility,
Vaporization and Vapor Pressure, Thermal Expansion, Transport and Flow, and
Electrical Properties data.
Mathematics Books
Online | Full Text |
Vendor: American Mathematical Society
Open Access
Contents/Info: Links to Mathematics books online.
Mental Measurements Yearbook |
Volume 9 - present | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Contains full text information about and reviews of all
English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality,
vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.
MIT Cognet | Vendor: MIT
Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The CogNet Library is a growing collection of searchable
electronic texts for cognitive and brain sciences.
NetLibrary | Full Text | Vendor: OCLC
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Well over 10,000 E-Books covering a full range of subjects.
On the Fabric of the Human Body
| Full Text | Vendor: Northwestern University Open Access
Contents/Info:
An annotated translation of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Andreas Vesalius' De
Humani Corporis Fabrica.
| Full Text | Vendor: OBP Open Access
Contents/Info: Listing over 30,000
free books on the Web.
Original
Sources | Full Text|
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This site includes original source documents, critical
selections, and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature,
Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion,
Philosophy, and Language.
Oxford Art Online |
Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford
Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford Music Online |
Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music,
Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference Online
| Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A comprehensive resource that contains over 100
dictionaries and reference titles covering general reference, language, science,
medicine, humanities, the social sciences, business and professional.
Oxford Scholarship Online |
Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly
expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the
full text of Oxford books in the following subjects areas: History, Philosophy,
Religion, Economics & Finance, and Political Science.
Past Masters | 1989-present | Full Text | Vendor: InteLex
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Past Masters is a collection of primary-source full-text
humanities databases.
Political Risk Yearbook Online
| Full Text | Vendor: PRS Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Offers Country Reports on 106 countries providing political
and economic risk analysis. [Due to state budget cuts,
this site will no longer be available after Dec. 31, 2008. For continued access
to this resource, choose "Country Reports" in
Business Source Premier and select "prs group, inc." under the "Publisher"
tab.]
Open Access
Contents/Info: Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection
of free electronic books, or eBooks.
R2Library | Full Text | Vendor: Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: This resource provides access to 73 titles in the "Nursing
Library."
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(REP Onine) | Full Text | Vendor: Routledge
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced dynamic
Web version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP).
Safari Tech
Books Online | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: An online, searchable database of top IT books from leading
technology publishers.
SAGE eReference | Full Text
| Vendor: SAGE Publications
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A selection of SAGE's authoritative and award-winning
encyclopedias (46) within the social sciences, psychology and education.
SpringerLINK
| Full Text | Vendor: Springer
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Includes a collection of electronic books published by
Springer.
Smithsonian Physical Tables | Full Text | Vendor: Knovel
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) Contents/Info:
This classic reference source comprises 901
tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular
interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
SREB Factbook
on Higher Education
| Full Text | Vendor: Southern Regional Education Board
Open Access
Contents/Info: One of the nation's
most comprehensive collections of data on higher education.
Universal Digital Library |
Full Text | Vendor: Carnegie Mellon University & Partners
Open Access
Contents/Info: Free-to-read, searchable collection of digitized books.
The World of Learning |
Full Text | Vendor: Europa Publications
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The World of Learning is a directory of international scope
that provides information on learned societies, research institutions,
libraries, museums, and universities. It provides contact information for more
than 200,000 faculty, staff and officials at these institutions.
[Due to state budget cuts, this resource is no longer
available.]
Wright American Fiction
| 1851-1875 | Full Text | Vendor: Committee on Institutional
Cooperation
Open Access
Contents/Info: A collection of 19th century American fiction with access to
more than 1,700 full-text books.
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