E-Books in the Sinclair Library Catalog

Reference E-Books

E-Book Collections

Biography Reference Center
Over 450,000 full-text biographical entries from magazines, dictionaries, and encyclopedia entries.

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

Gale Virtual Reference Library (on & off campus link)
Reference books such as College Blue Book and Who's Who Among African Americans. A list of titles is availalbe.

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

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

World Book Online Reference Center (on campus link)
World atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia from World Book Encyclopedia.

NetLibrary | (off campus)
Thousands of academic books on a wide range of topics.

Safari Tech Books | (off campus)
Online versions of a wide range of Information Technology books. 

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 | (off campus)
21 versions of the Bible in full text, from the 10th to the 20th centuries.

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

Free Internet Sites

Poetry & Drama

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.

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

American & English Literature (OhioLINK)

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