E-books at Penn: Overview

For a more complete listing of major publisher platforms in all disciplines see the Libraries' catalog record for links and to keep up to date with major ebook platforms

This is a collection of clinical textbooks and manuals for medicine and nursing, fully cross-searchable, and with links from bibliographies to articles in external databases such as PubMed.

Collection of over 900 e-books from across the disciplines published by Cambridge University Press. Try also the related collection of e-books, Cambridge Companions online—http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/84298

Publishes over 1300 books each year in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law.

This collection of e-books from Duke University Press includes 100 newly published books as well as hundreds of earlier imprints. Every title is searchable in Franklin or from the e-Duke site.

Provides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.

Web database for scientific research that contains abstracts, articles and full text of Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Contains abstracts from the core journals in major scientific disciplines.

Over 5,300 reference books in a number of different fields.

Contains electronic resources for researchers in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Enables users to access citations in journal, book, and reviews databases

Penn Libraries subscribes to the O'Reilly digital platform, which includes books and videos on technology, digital media, and business.

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) is a major new publishing initiative from Oxford University Press, providing an interlinked collection of authoritative Oxford editions of major works from the humanities.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in a number of scholarly disciplines.

Multidisciplinary e-book library with over 1 million books from over 750 publishers.

A database of ebooks and reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education. The SAGE Knowledge platform hosts 2,700 titles and includes scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.

Fully searchable scholarly translations from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian and Armenian of texts published between 300 and 800 AD; from late antiquity to the early middle ages.

Fulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance, globalization, governance, health and population, industry, infrastructure, international economics, labor and employment, macroeconomics and growth, poverty, private sector development, public sector management, rural development, social development, transition economies, urban development.

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books from academic publishers.

University of Pennsylvania is a HathiTrust partner, which is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. Books published before 1923 are fully searchable and viewable. Books published after 1923 are searchable but not viewable.

The Met has released over 500 of their publications as freely availably Open Access texts.

Links to open access, freely available online texts

Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

A database of ebooks and reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education. The SAGE Knowledge platform hosts 2,700 titles and includes scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.

700 open access titles are included in this collection of University Press books on art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.