| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts |
| A collection of about 14,000 ?classic? public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search the content of multiple books simultaneously.
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| Bartleby.com |
| Publishes classics (over 300 titles) of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge. Books are no longer covered by copyright; old editions of reference works are a specialty.
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| Dictionaries & encyclopedias for John Jay students, faculty & staff |
| The Library subscribes to specialized encyclopedias & dictionaries published by Sage, Oxford University Press, Gale, and other publishers. All are accessible from home for students, faculty and staff with current John Jay email addresses. |
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| Electronic Databases at CUNY Libraries |
| Links to E-Journals & Reference Databases that are available for use by the patrons of all the CUNY libraries. This list of databases will vary from year to year. Some databases include the full text of electronic books, others include the full text of articles from journals, magazines and newspapers and others may be compilations of statistics and facts. |
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| Google Book Search |
| Google is in the process of scanning complete books from some of the world's great libraries. Books in the public domain can be read in their entirety; other books will have only snippets displayed. |
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| National Academies Press |
| Over 2,500 books available, and searchable, using "open book" format. This includes books published this year. "The National Academy Press (NAP) was created to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy."
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| Online Books Page |
| Over 20,000 listings, searchable by authors, titles, subjects. |
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| Project Gutenberg |
| One of the original collections of public domain books on the Internet. Books are mostly in simple text (.txt) format. Over 12,000 titles.
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| University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center |
| Includes approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, thousands of which are publicly accessible. There are also about 350,000 related images ((book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)
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