BOOKS / ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
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Books / E-Books
BooksinPrint.com Professional Bowker
This comprehensive database of over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles is searchable by title, author, and subject as well as a variety of other variables. The database also contains reviews for many of the resources it lists.
Bookspot
This site tries to bring together much of the book information available on the web including reviews, online books, recommended lists and award winners.
Greenwood Digital Collection Greenwood
The Greenwood Digital Collection is a collection of complete e-books focusing on history and literature, all of which are searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method. It includes these series (formerly listed on our web page as individual databases by the same names): Daily Life Through History, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors, Historic Events of the 20th Century, Literature in Context .
NetLibrary
NetLibrary is a collection of 12,700 online books, most of which are new or recent titles. They are included in the Hackney Library online catalog, but can also be accessed separately through this link. These titles can be "checked out" for four-hour periods, or browsed online for 15 minutes. To check out a Netlibrary book you must first create an account at their website, using a computer located on campus. After you have created your account, you can access Netlibrary books from your home computer.
The On-Line Books Page
This site provides access to the many books which are now freely available online. Most of them are classic texts which no longer have copyright restrictions, but it also includes some current items. Books are input on a volunteer basis by groups or individuals.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection Oxford University Press
The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and new heavily illustrated natural history titles such as the Encyclopedia of Mammals. The titles also include full-color maps and illustrations, timelines, weblinks, and bibliographies. (Note: Barton log in is required to access this resource from off campus.)
Out of Print Books
Bookfinder.com
Provides listings of out-of-print books being sold by booksellers around the country.
Bibliofind
Provides listings of out-of print books being sold by booksellers around the country.
Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature Directory
Provides access to listings of poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements, including
hypertexts and other interactive works, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and other works that permit reader collaboration. Includes streaming audio readings of poetry and works of Pulitzer Prize winners.
Alternative Resources
NewPages.com
A portal to alternative culture, including alternative periodicals, literary periodicals, independent bookstores, independent publishers, alternative newsweeklies, plus book and journal reviews.
Last updated May 12, 2008
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