E-BOOKS

Book Collection - Nonfiction.  A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers.  Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,048 popular nonfiction books. Includes full text entries on core subjects:  careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills, etc.    http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=ndh

NetLibrary. More than 630 ebook titles. To read an online book you need eBook Reader installed; register your name; provide a login and password. http://www.netlibrary.com/

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Alex. A Catalogue of Electronic Texts. Several thousand classics of Western civilization in electronic form, mostly in English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/

Digital Book Index. Provides access to more than 80,000 titles records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 48,000 are available free. http://www.digitalbookindex.com

Electronic Text Center Holdings. Includes 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.). http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/

eScholarship Editions - California Digital Library. Includes the full text of more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. http://content.cdlib.org/escholarship/

Gutenberg Project. More than 10,000 out-of-copyright e-books. http://promo.net/pg/

National Academy Press. More than 2,000 e-books online. http://www.nap.edu

University of Pennsylvania. Index of more than 14,000 English works available online. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

SPECIFIC TITLES

Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises (2002) http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074347/html/

Enabling Ocean Research in the 21st Century: Implementation of a Network of Ocean Observatories (2003) http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089905/html/

Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences (2003) http://www.nap.edu/books/NI000492/html/