E-Books in the Sinclair Library Catalog

Reference E-Books

E-Book Collections

Biography Reference Bank
Contains the full text of biographies and obituaries of more than 500,000 people. Also includes over 30,000 photographs of individual subjects, and bibliographic citations (with some abstracts and full text) of relevant material in periodicals indexed by other Wilson databases.

Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK) 
The Electronic Book Center contains special-topic reference books--encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, and guides.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Reference books such as College Blue Book and Who's Who Among African Americans. A list of titles is available.

LearningExpress Library | (off campus)
This resource offers students and adults unlimited, 24/7 access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that prepare them for several types of exams including Nursing, grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions.

Oxford English Dictionary
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Reference Books 
Full text of about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.

Science Online (Facts on File) Encyclopedia covering all aspects of the natural sciences.

World Book Online Reference Center
World atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia from World Book Encyclopedia.

NetLibrary
Thousands of academic books on a wide range of topics.

Safari Tech Books
Online versions of a wide range of Information Technology books. 

Scholarly & Reference Collection
E-books from major publishers covering everything from science & technology to social sciences and humanities.

Ohio e-Book Project 
A variety of both popular and academic books in audiobook and e-book (adobe and mobipocket) formats.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Encyclopedia covering the broad range of philosophic thought and traditions.

The Bible in English
21 versions of the Bible in full text, from the 10th to the 20th centuries.

Eighteenth Century Fiction
Full text of 96 works of prose fiction written in the British Isles, 1700-1780.

Poetry & Drama

American & English Literature (OhioLINK)

Poetry, drama, early American fiction, 18th Century fiction, the Bible, Shakespeare, and Yates collections.

Free Internet Sites

Google Books
Thousands of digitized books. Many are available in full, others are limited viewings because of Copyright law.

Project Gutenberg Over 20,000 public domain books in full text.

Electronic Text Center The University of Virginia's collection of 2,100 ebooks.  Books are available in MS Reader, Palm, and web formats.

ManyBooks.net There are more than 29,000 eBooks available here and they are all free.

Internet Archive The Archive includes thousands of texts, including many books that have been scanned or contributed.