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Butler Library has thousands of e-books on a variety of topics. You can find them by searching the library catalog. Choose Advanced Search. Change one of the lines to Keywords(s) in Subject and type Electronic Books:. If you want to limit to a specific topic, type your topic on one of the other lines. Click on the Search button.

Another way to find the library's e-books is through a direct link to the collection:

ACLS Humanities E-Book
Searchable collection of over 1,700 academic electronic books, covering many aspects of history and the humanities (mid 1800s – present).

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digital facsimiles of over 100,000 works on many subjects written in English from 1473-1700.

FOODnetBASE
Reference books covering topics in food science.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Dozens of standard, academic reference sources on a variety of topics.

netLibrary
Electronic versions of books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Database of over 120 reference books on many topics.


Here are some other e-book collections:

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A collection of books in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.

Bartleby.com
Searchable database of books with an emphasis on reference, literature, and poetry.

Electronic Text Center
Includes thousands of texts in over a dozen languages.

eScholarship Editions
A title list of electronic books available for free from the California Digital Library.

Gateway to the Classics
Text from over 200 major works of Western history, literature, philosophy, and science.

Google Books (Beta)
Search the full text of millions of books - some books include previews, partial content, or full content. Includes over 130,000 public domain books.

The Online Books Page
Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library, this page is a directory of links to the full text of thousands of books available on the Internet.

Project Gutenberg
Browse or search by author, title, or topic for thousands of classic books.


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E. H. Butler Library
Buffalo State College | State University of New York
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
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This page was last updated on July 28, 2008