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Online/electronic books are available through:

• netLibrary. netLibrary is a web-based system for accessing and retrieving more than 50,000 full text reference, scholarly, and professional books in electronic format (eBooks). netLibrary includes audiobooks as well. Text-based books can be read online, and audiobooks can be "checked out" and downloaded for listening. ECU students, staff and faculty, use this link to create an account


• Oxford Reference Online. Provides online content from reference works published by Oxford University Press. These reference works include dictionaries, subject encyclopedias and guides, time lines, and other reference sources. Oxford Reference Online is cross-indexed, and can be searched or browsed.


• Project Gutenberg. Over 3,000 classic books. Generally, the texts were published before 1923 and are no longer protected by copyright laws.


• Early English Books Online. From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.


• Gale Virtual Reference Library. Contains full text online reference books on the subjects of arts, biography, education, environment, history, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, and social science. View books by subject or search for articles by keyword or topic.


• Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection. Contains over 19,000 titles that can be browsed by author, title, or Dewey Decimal Classification. They can also be searched by keyword.


• National Academies Press. Publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States.


• The Online Books Page. Facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Major parts of the site include: an index of thousands of online books; pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts; and special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books.


• Wright American Fiction. A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. More than 2,880 volumes are included by well-known authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time.

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