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eresources@cambridge - ebooks

The following collections of electronic books and services that include electronic books are available across the University:

  • Covers all of the above except STAT!Ref Shakespeare Survey and Books@Ovid
  • Try the Advanced CrossSearch for ebooks to select specific ebook collections and for more search options

 

ebooks@cambridge provides access to electronic versions of over one hundred of the most frequently used titles in college libraries. The agreements with NetLibrary, the e-content division of OCLC, and MyiLibrary have been negotiated by the Cambridge College Libraries' Forum.

The CCLF ebooks collection can be accessed both via Newton Catalogue and the NetLibrary or MyiLibrary websites. For further information please see the ebooks@cambridge website.

The following databases also include electronic books in their subject areas:

You may also be interested in the following free eBook collections. Search within these resources for the titles you require, individual records do not appear on Newton.

  • Alex — http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/
    A full text indexed collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy, written or translated into English.
  • Bartleby — http://www.bartleby.com/
    The full text of many classic literary works, including Shakespeare.
  • Internet Public Library — http://www.ipl.org/
    45000+ full text works, fiction and non-fiction plus online reference works. Divided into subject collections for easy browsing but also fully searchable.
  • NetLibrary free titles — http://www.netlibrary.com/ListContent.aspx?pa=true&cc=1
    Over 3,000 out of copyright works, including the Bible, Shakespeare, and classic works of literature and philosophy.
  • Oxford Text Archive — http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
    The archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistics corpora, in a variety of languages. Includes online versions of works by individual authors, standard reference works and a range of language corpora.
  • Project Gutenberg — http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
    A fully searchable collection of 18000+ multilanguage eBooks. Many classic titles and other formats such as audio books. It has a fully searchable online catalogue.
  • University of California Press — http://content.cdlib.org/ucpress
    Select editions from UCP’s Scholarship Editions are available to the public. These include books on art, science, history, music, religion and fiction.
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