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Platino Educa
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Spanish and Ibero-American documentaries, educational shorts, feature films, and animations covering themes across the environment, social sciences, languages and literature, arts and social justice. Most videos have English subtitles.

74 Databases Found for:Ebooks

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a+t online library
Alternate Name(s):a + t, aplust, a plus t

Publications from a+t architecture publishers, including ebooks and the a+t magazine.

AccessEngineering
Alternate Name(s):Access Engineering
Perry's Handbook for Chemical Engineers, Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers and other McGraw Hill books, videos, graphs, and an Excel calculator tool.
ACLS Humanities E-book
Books covering subjects within the humanities, including world history, philosophy, musicology, and film and media studies.
ACS In Focus
Short introductory ebooks on various chemistry topics, published by the American Chemical Society. Titles are designed to be read in 4-6 hours and include a glossary, animations of concepts, and video interviews with scientists.
ACS Publications
Journals and books published by the American Chemical Society, covering chemistry, chemical engineering, materials, chemistry education, and more.
Art and Architecture ePortal
Art and architecture works with images from several presses and galleries, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University press, MIT Press, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press, and more.
ARTFL - FRANTEXT Database
Classic works of French literature, prose, and technical writing from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries covering literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
ATLA monograph series: Jewish Studies Perspective, 1800-1918
Books from 1800-1918 covering Jewish culture, theology, Hebrew language, poetry and more.
ATLA monograph series: Religion and Social Change, 1723-1921
Books from 1723-1921 covering religion and social movements, such as women's rights, church and state, abolition, evolution, education reforms, and more.

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Black Thought and Culture : African Americans to 1975
Primary and secondary non-fiction writings, speeches, interviews, trials and other materials by black Americans.
Bloomsbury Architecture Library
Books and images for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design. Includes Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, images from the National Archives at Kew, and other scholarly titles.
Bloomsbury Collections
Select academic books published by Bloomsbury. Limited titles available.
Bloomsbury Cultural History
Books and images for the study of culture throughout the ages, including animals, food, work, fashion, the human body, media, and more. Includes the Bloomsbury Cultural History series and other scholarly history titles.
Bloomsbury Design Library
Books, reference, and museum object images for the scholarly study of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. Includes the Encyclopedia of Design, Encyclopedia of East Asian Design, and exhibition archives from the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco.
Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Alternate Name(s):Berg Fashion Library; Fashion Photography Archive; Fashion Video Archive
Images, videos, reference, biographies, and peer reviewed articles for research in international fashion and dress and fashion as performance art. Includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, the Valerie Steele Core Collection of fashion photographs, and videos from the YOOX-NET-A-PORTER Runway Archive Collections 1979 to 2003. Contains the modules Berg Fashion Library, Fashion Photography Archive, Fashion Video Archive.
Bloomsbury Food Library
Books and reference works in food studies, food history and anthropology of food, with a broad coverage of topics, periods, and cultures. Image collections include content from the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson and Wales University, The National Archives (UK), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bloomsbury Music and Sound
Scholarly books and reference works published by Bloomsbury on world popular music, sound studies, and the music industry. Includes the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, the Bloomsbury 33 1/3 book series on influential music albums, and other Bloomsbury titles.
Brill Online Books
Select academic books published by Brill. Limited titles available.
Business Expert Press
Ebooks on various business topics, such as communications, entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, management, marketing, and more.

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Cambridge Core

Access to journals and select ebooks published by Cambridge University Press, covering sciences, social sciences and humanities.

CHEMLIBnetBASE
Research and historic book chapters about all areas of chemistry, including nanoscience, separation methods, and sustainable chemistry.

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DeGruyter
Select academic books published by DeGruyter and other presses. Limited titles available.
Digitalia Hispanica
Books and journals in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Catalan covering arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB
Academic, peer-reviewed, open access books covering a wide variety of subjects.
Drama Online
Playtexts, audio plays, video productions, practitioner videos, photos, and ebooks related to practice and criticism, including works from Arden Shakespeare, Nick Hern Books, TCG Books, Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, BBC, L.A. Theater Works, Currency Press and more.
Duke University Press Books
Books from Duke University Press covering areas across the arts, humanities, social sciences, area studies, media studies, politics, and more.

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Early American Imprints Series I: Evans 1639-1800
Alternate Name(s):America's Historical Imprints
Books, pamphlets, and broadsides from 1639-1800, based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and subsequent bibliographic works by Roger Bristol, James Mooney and Clifford Shipton.
Early American Imprints Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Alternate Name(s):America's Historical Imprints
Books, pamphlets, government papers, and more published in the United States between 1801 and 1819. Based on the American Bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker
Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Marked up texts from Early English Books Online (Short-Title Catalogues I and II) created by academic libraries participating in the Text Creation Partnership
Early English Books Online: EEBO
Titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Early European Books
Books published between 1450-1700 in Europe, including content from collection partners the Danish Royal Library, the National Central Library in Florence, the National Library of France, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Welcome Library in London. Includes page images, lettering, binding, and more.
eBook Caribbean Collection
Alternate Name(s):EBSCO eBook Caribbean Collection
Books related to the Caribbean region.
EBSCO ebooks

Books covering a wide range of subjects, from many publishers

Eighteenth Century Collections Online: ECCO
English language books, pamphlets, broadsides, and more published between 1701 and 1800, covering numerous subjects.
Elgar Online
Alternate Name(s):Elgaronline
Academic books published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Limited titles available.

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Gale Ebooks
Books including subject encyclopedias, handbooks and guides, covering many subject disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and medicine.
Goethes Werke
Goethe's literary and scientific works, diaries, and letters, as well as illustrations, notes, variants and indexes from the published volumes.
Gutenberg-e
Books in many fields made freely available through a collaboration of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press.

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Human Kinetics Library
Books and videos for both practitioners and scholarly study in dance, exercise, fitness, health, motor behavior, nutrition, physical activity, and sport management. Includes Human Kinetics Dance Technique module.

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ICE Virtual Library
Journals and books published by the Institute of Civil Engineers, covering, geotechnical engineering, structures, buildings, transport, water, energy and more.
IEEE Xplore
Journal articles, conference proceedings, books, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the UK’s Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); includes all Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published and approved standards
IET Digital Library

Books and journals published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, covering electrical engineering, signal processing, radar, energy, control, electromagnetic wave, and more.

IGI Global InfoSci-Educational Science and Technology
IGI Global books on information science and educational technologies.
IOPScience
Institute of Physics (IOP) journals and books.

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JSTOR
Featured
Featured
Full-text archive of scholarly publications, including ebooks, in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

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KLGonline

The "Kritische Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur" (KLG), or "Critical Encyclopedia to Contemporary German Literature," provides information about German authors after 1945.

Knovel
Information covering many fields of engineering, providing details about material properties, process and design, best practices, equations and formulations.
Kotobarabia Arabic E-Library
Alternate Name(s):KA Arabic Library
Books in Arabic, in many genres, including fiction, scientific treatises, and more.
KRPIA
Korean books including classical texts and reference works in fields such as Korean history, literature, civilization, medicine, architecture, and natural history.

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Language Science Press
Open access ebooks in a variety of disciplines on the Open Research Library platform, including linguistics titles published by Language Science Press.
Loeb Classical Library
Classic texts in Greek and Latin with English translations on facing pages.
Lyell Collection
Journals, publications, and books published by the Geological Society of London.

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MIT Press Direct
A collection of scholarly e-books from MIT Press covering a broad range of topics, including open access titles.

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National Academies Press
Publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Primary sources from the nineteenth century including monographs, newspapers, and pamphlets.

O

O'Reilly for Higher Education
Alternate Name(s):Safari Books Oreilly
*Users are required to authenticate with NetID and password.*
Ebooks, streaming videos, courses, and case studies that support skill development and certification training in information technology and business. Content is published by O’Reilly, Pearson, Prentice Hall Professional, IBM Redbooks, Wiley, McGraw Hill, and others.
Oxford Academic
Alternate Name(s):Oxford Handbooks, Oxford Scholarship, Oxford Journals
Full-text journals and books published by Oxford University Press. Includes Oxford Handbooks, Oxford Scholarship, and Oxford Journals.
Oxford Reference Online
Reference books in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.

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Past Masters
Classic texts in philosophy.
Primary Research Group
Research reports, surveys, and benchmarking studies on aspects of higher education, law firms, and libraries.
ProQuest eBook Central
Create a sign-in to get access to all feature
Books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

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Richard K. Miller and Associates Publications
Richard K. Miller and Associates consumer and market research reports on entertainment, food, health care, leisure, sports, and more.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Collection
Books and journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), covering biology, biophysics, chemical science, medicinal drug discovery and physics.

S

Sage Reference and Academic Books

Books, reference works, handbooks, in the social sciences, from Sage and CQ Press.

Screen Studies
Screenplays and scholarly books covering filmmaking, film history, screenwriting, and film studies. Includes titles from Bloomsbury, Faber and Faber, and several book series from the British Film Institute.
SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Contains full text journal articles and ebooks on applied mathematics and computational science. Also includes 1953 to 1996 content in LOCUS.
Skillsoft
Users are required to authenticate with NetID and password. Not compatible with Internet Explorer browser as of April 4, 2022.

Books and videos covering business, engineering, information technology, well-being and more.
Springer ebooks

Full-text ebooks published by Springer from across the sciences, mathematics, engineering, business, social sciences, and humanities. Includes titles from Springer, Palgrave McMillan, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, as well as Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science.

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Information about research in engineering and computer science, organized by lectures disciplines and series.

**Synthesis eBook content is now available through Springer Ebooks.

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Taylor & Francis eBooks
Access to select academic books published by Taylor & Francis, includes titles published by CRC Press, Routledge, and Apple Academic Press.

U

University of Michigan Press eBooks
Ebooks in the humanities and social sciences with particular focus in performing arts, classical studies, political science, American studies (especially disability and class studies), Asian and African studies. These books are made available to libraries through the press’s own publishing platform, Fulcrum.
UrbanNext
Alternate Name(s):Urban Next
Ebooks, essays, photographic atlases, data, architectural projects, podcasts, and lecture videos about contemporary urban environments.

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Women Writers Online
Collection of early women’s writing in English, from 1400-1850.
World Scientific
Select academic books and journals published by World Scientific Publishing. Limited titles available.
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