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Subscription e-books (for UNC Charlotte affiliated users)

• NetLibrary <www.netlibrary.com> is a collection of over 30,000 e-books. Includes academic and scholarly as well as popular titles. Also Cliff Notes. All of these books are listed in our catalog. Books can be "checked out" for a limited time period. Only one person per institution may check out a given title at any one time. Requires NinerNet login for remote access.
• Books 24/7 - Skillport - computer and business manuals - many current titles including some currently used as textbooks at UNC Charlotte - requires NinerNet login.

Public domain e-books - Large collections

New & Useful: Google Book Search - looks for keywords inside the text - includes full-text pdf for many public domain books. Also links to library catalogs - look for "Find it in a library" on the right side of the screen.

New & Useful: Live Search: Books - looks for keywords inside the text - includes full-text pdf for many public domain books

• Books-On-Line (50,826 mostly FREE)
• Net Library: The Public Collection (available for anyone to use) includes 4000+ classic works of fiction, speeches, government reports, and other electronic texts - mostly books in the public domain - search by author.
• National Academy Press - this publisher has over 3,700 books online for review - scholarly and popular scientific titles. The How to Search for books gives helpful tips on how to find information in the various titles.
• On-line Books Page - over 30,000 titles, 25,000 songs, books in languages other than English, women authors, banned books, links.
• Project Bartleby Archive - Excellent!
• Project Gutenberg - 25,000 digitized books, more planned. Links to more than 100,000 books.

Illustrated Books (Rare Manuscripts)

• Turning the Pages: British Library - small exquisite collection of rare books in virtual format
• Turning the Pages: National Library of Medicine
• Turning the Pages: Wellcome Trust

review of Turning the Pages from if: Institute for the Future of the Book

Special Topics, Scholarly Resources

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia A Guide to Manuscripts
• Banned Books
• Bibliomania - classical literature, reference, non-fiction
• Electronic Text Centers and Projects - links to resources (from Vassar College Library)
• Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
Hundreds of full text literary works are available at this site. Some are restricted to UVa affiliates, but many are in the public domain.
• Guide to African American Documentary Sources in North Carolina - Manuscripts
• Humanities Text Initiative - on line texts, images, mostly historical (some are restricted to University of Michigan affiliates, these are freely available)
• The Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa
• Oxford Text Archive

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