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Finding Books 

How to locate books, ebooks, reviews, and more.
Last update: Oct 02nd, 2009 URL: http://libguides.bethel.edu/findingbooks  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Google Books

Google Book Search
 

eBooks Through Bethel

NetLibrary (eBooks)

Access entire electronic books (many of which are business-oriented) anytime from any computer with internet access.  

On Campus Access:

  • Locate items through CLICnet (see Search tab in this guide)
  • Use the link in the record
  • Limited to 2 hour use
  • Item will "return to shelf" if left unattended for 15 minutes.

Off Campus Use:

  • Locate item in CLICnet (see Search tab in this guide)
  • Go to the NetLibrary link above
  • First-time users set up a free account, others login
  • Enter the title of the book
  • Limited to 2 hour use
  • Item will "return to shelf" if left unattended for 15 minutes.

NetLibrary(eBooks) Instructional Guide (PDF)

 

Online Book Sites

  • The Christian Classics Ethereal Library  
    A digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
  • International Children's Digital Library  
    ICDL is building a collection of children's books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.
  • Internet Archive  
    Offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
  • LibriVox  
    Free audio books, in various formats, of books that are in the public domain.
  • Making of America  
    A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction... contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
  • The Online Books Page  
    The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Open Source Shakespeare  
    Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind.
  • Parker Library on the Web  
    An interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
  • Project Gutenberg  
    The first and largest single collection of free electronic books.
  • Universal Digital Library  
    Growing collection of digital books in 20 plus languages using 50 scanning centers around the world.
  • Working Women, 1800-1930  
    Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. Approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images.
  • Bibliomania  
    Find searchable full-text editions of thousands of classic works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry; some reference titles and contemporary articles; plus study guides and book notes for standard high school and college assigned reading.
  • Classic Reader  
    Over 3000 titles including fiction, children's, poetry, and short stories in the public domain.
 
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