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Electronic Resources : E-Book Collections




Each of the following resources may be searched as a collection. Not all e-books are part of a collection. You can also find e-books using the Library Catalog. Click here for a tutorial on finding e-books by title. Click here for a tutorial on finding e-books by subject.


E-Book Collections



AccessTitleDescription
NYACLS Humanities E-Book CollectionContains the full text of over 1,500 titles.
NYEncyclopedia Britannica OnlineIncludes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.
NYGale Virtual Reference LibraryFull text electronic books in the arts, history, multicultural studies, religion, and social science.
NYGrolier OnlineThis resource includes seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science
NY VTnetLibraryA collection of over 500 electronic books and resources.  Online books may be downloaded, searched, electronically highlighted, and annotated.
NYOxford Art OnlineIncludes over 45,000 articles on art, architecture, photography, and sculpture as well as links to over 40,000 images from museum and gallery websites all over the world.
NYOxford Reference OnlineA cross-searchable collection of over 120 online reference books from Oxford University Press. It includes a wide range of dictionaries and the Oxford Companion series.
NY VTR2 LibraryA fully searchable and cross-referenced collection of health sciences books.
NYRoutledge Religion ResourceIncludes thirty fully-searchable and cross-referenced online reference books in religion published by Routledge.
NY VTSTAT!RefFull text medical and drug information textbooks.



RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT
A comprehensive and authoritative examination of the causes of medication errors and the strategies used to prevent them. Click the title for access to this e-book.
The Internet Archive offers access to historical collections that exist in digital format. It includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Take a look, you may be surprised by what you find!