E-books and Articles in Sterling (Sample)

The Age of Innocence:  Edith Wharton's text follows information about the Project Gutenberg series.
The Carbon Dioxide Dilemma: Promising Technologies and Policies:  Proceedings of a symposium on a study supported by the National Academy of Engineering Fund.
Overview of Organizational Change: This business e-book includes a list of on-line discussion groups.
Physics e-books(Word search): A keyword search for a specific discipline AND "ebooks" yields a hyperlinked list of electronic texts. 
Steps to Access E-Reserves: Read the course reserves policy, download the course reserves request form online, or search for material already placed on reserve for Howard University courses.

Digital Collections on the Internet

CONTENTdm Customer Collections: This database provides access to digital collections on a variety of subjects.  It is searchable by topic and institution.

American Women's History: Digital Collections of Primary Sources:  Provides citations and links to primary collections on a wide range of topics of interest to women.

American Memory from the Library of Congress:  Browse the vast library of digital collections on advertising, African American history, architecture, cities and towns, culture and folklife, environmental conservation, government, immigration,  literature, maps, Native American history, music, performing arts, presidents, religion, sports, recreation, technology and industry, military forces, and women's history.  

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Includes digitized images and texts, the online version of the UNESCO traveling exhibition entitled "Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery,"  web versions of other exhibitions from the Schomburg Center, and a webliography on Malcolm X: A Search for Truth.

Digital History and the Jim Crow South, 1900-1941:  An electronic syllabus for an African American Studies course at the University of Virginia.

War Posters:  Posters from the University of Washington Libraries.

J. Willis Sayre Photographs Collection:  A collection of photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, musicians, and entertainers who played in Seattle between about 1900 and 1955.

Their Own Words: A Collection of Books. Letters & Personal Accounts...: A collection prepared by the Dickinson College Electronic Initiative in the Liberal Arts.

Black Oral History Collection: Pioneers & their descendants throughout Washington (state), Oregon, Idaho and Montano.

San Fernando Valley History Digital Library:  California State University at Northridge provides digital images of natural resources, social life and customs, transportation, industries, politics and labor in the San Fernando Valley.

Social Issues Photographs:  This University of Washington Libraries collection provides historical images from the Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region.

Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869:  Original writings of 49 voyagers on the Mormon, California, Oregon and Montana trails.

Through Open Eyes: 95 Years of Roslyn's Black Mining History:  The photographs were compiled by the staff of the Ellensburg Public Library in Ellensburg, Washington.

Robert Henry Chandless Photographs: China in the 1900s

Notable Blacks of Cleveland: The Cleveland State University Library provides digitized photographs from the Cleveland Press Collection.  The newspaper staff took the photographs between the 1920's and 1982.

Eliot Ness in Cleveland: This collection chronicles the legendary crime fighter's career.

Early Las Vegas: The University of Nevada at Las Vegas provides an animated retrospective of early life in this western city.

Freshwater and Marine Image Bank: This University of Washington Libraries collection covers diverse freshwater and marine topics.

Digital Collections -  Links to digital gateways at selected libraries and subject-specific digital collections.

E-Books -  Locate free electronic books from sites within and outside the United States.  Includes major collections such as Bartleby or Project Gutenberg.

Google Scholar  - Excellent tool for finding scholarly material. For more about this source: Google Scholar Offers Access to Academic Information)

E -Texts (Sources)

eScholarship Editions: California Digital Libraries includes selected free e-books on a wide range of topics.

University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection: A searchable database of repository journals and peer-reviewed series.

University of California eScholarship Repository: Includes over a million full-text articles and other publications by faculty and staff of the University of California.

The Berkeley Electronic Press: Includes electronic journals, monographs and other documents. 

Boston College Dissertations and Theses:  Full text access to dissertations and theses completed at Boston College.

Boston College Law School Lectures and Presentations: Lectures and presentations by the Boston College Law School faculty from 2000.

Oxford Scholarship Online: Provides free access to abstracts of Oxford books for all users and full-text for subscribers.  This searchable database covers economics, finance, philosophy, religion and political science.

SafariX Textbooks Online:  A searchable virtual textbook store.

eBook Express: A digital bookstore covering books for general and professional audiences.

E-Journals

Sage Journals Online  - Free access during October 2005, in honor of the company's 40th anniversary.