Search for E-Books in Franklin
What is an E-book
An e-book, electronic book, or digital book, is defined by The Oxford English Dictionary as a book whose text is available in electronic format for reading on a specialized device or computer screen.
National Emergency Library from the Internet Archive
The National Emergency Library is a collection of 1.4 million books (and growing) that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. Available through The Internet Archive, all books have no waitlists, which will continue through at least June 30, 2020.
How Journals are Responding to COVID-19
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Online Journals and COVID-19Many online journals are opening up free access in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This library guide explains each journal's response. There may be some journals here you would not usually have immediate free access to through Penn.
Questions? Contact:
Rebecca Stuhr
Director for Academic Engagement
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
stuhrreb@pobox.upenn.edu
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Books@OVIDThis 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.
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Cambridge Core CollectionCollection 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
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De GruyterPublishes over 1300 books each year in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law.
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e-Duke Books Scholarly CollectionThis 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.
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EBSCOhost EbooksProvides 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.
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Elsevier ScienceDirect BooksWeb 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.
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IGI Global OnlineOver 5,300 reference books in a number of different fields.
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and RenaissanceContains 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
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O'Reilly for Higher EducationPenn Libraries subscribes to the O'Reilly digital platform, which includes books and videos on technology, digital media, and business.
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Oxford Scholarly Editions OnlineOxford 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.
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Oxford Scholarship OnlineCross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in a number of scholarly disciplines.
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ProQuest Ebook CentralMultidisciplinary e-book library with over 1 million books from over 750 publishers.
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SAGE KnowledgeA 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.
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Translated Texts for HistoriansFully 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.
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World Bank E-LibraryFulltext 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.
Linking to e-books @ Penn
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A Sample of E-book Collections @ PennLinks to major collections such as Early English Books Online, African Writers, and the complete works of William Shakespeare. Follow the link at the bottom of the page to find even more e-books @ penn. This page is continuously updated.
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Digital PennDigital collections and projects feature unique, primary-source materials for teaching, research, and discovery drawn from the Penn Libraries' signature collections or from our collaborations with the Penn community and with cultural heritage institutions. It provides access to important rare books, manuscripts, photographs and multimedia sources represented by images, texts, audio files, bibliographic databases, catalogs, and archival finding aids for the study of a wide array of subjects.
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DOAB: Directory of Open Access BooksThe primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books from academic publishers.
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HathiTrust Digital LibraryUniversity 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.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications Full-Text OnlineThe Met has released over 500 of their publications as freely availably Open Access texts.
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Online Books PageLinks to open access, freely available online texts
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Penn Collections at the Internet ArchiveThe Penn libraries have digitized 1,027 volumes gathered into eight collections and accessible through the Internet Archive.
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Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
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SAGE KnowledgeA 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.
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University of California Press E-books 1982-2004700 open access titles are included in this collection of University Press books on art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.