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E-BOOKS
Cambridge Companions Online - Literature and Classics Collection (on campus login)
Cambridge Companions Online - Literature and Classics Collection (off campus login - Athens) - click on Login then use Athens option
Full text access to the literature and classics Cambridge Companions books which contain over 2000 essays. These are available in the following categories: authors, periods and genres, and they are specifically intended for students. These are of particular interest to English and History students.
Dawsonera (on campus login)
Dawsonera (off campus login - Athens)
Online digital access to electronic
books, across various subject areas, including management,
sport, early years, education and more!
Dawsonera FAQs
Early
English Books Online
(on campus login)
Early
English Books Online
(off campus login)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
available via JISC eCollections will contain over 125,000
titles
in
full
digital
facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection. From the
first book printed in English by William Caxton, through
to the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the
English Civil War.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (on campus login)
Eighteenth
Century Collections Online (off campus
login)
A digital collection of all the books published in Great Britain
and its colonies during the eighteenth century, comprising some
33 million pages from more than 180,000 titles.
JISC HistoricBooks (on campus login)
JISC
HistoricBooks (off campus login)
An essential new resource from JISC contains the full text or page
images of over 350,000 books published in England from 1475 to
1900. This service
draws together content from two of the best-known and longest-established
early book collections, Early English
Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(ECCO). Additionally, and never before available online, it
includes Nineteenth Century books from the British Library
collection.
Nineteenth Century books from the British Library collection (on campus login)
Nineteenth
Century books from the British Library collection (off campus login)
Digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions
from the long 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry
and literature. The collection of over 25 million pages of previously
rare and inaccessible content is searchable for the first time,
and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book.
Other resources you could use...
All
About Books
Wealth of links to online booksellers,
publishers, and free online texts
Arden
Shakespeare
Electronic and print
resources.
Bibliomania
Hundreds of searchable full text works
Children's
Literature Online books
Downloadable e-books
from Tom Sawyer to Treasure Island
CTI
Advice and links to electronic texts from the Computers
in Technology Initiative
E-Books
Directory
Access to free downloadable books, lecture notes, etc.
Internet
Archive
Home to electronic texts of all
kinds
Internet
Shakespeare
Online texts of Shakespeare's
plays plus links and information on the staging of the plays
Just
Free Books
Search engine covering over 450 websites
which offer free electronic books
Literary
Resources on the Net
Huge, searchable database of
a wide range of online literature sources
Online
Books Page
Index of thousands of on-line books, plus
pointers to significant directories and archives
Open University Repository Online
Access to theses published by the Open University. Ensure that you tick the "Thesis" box on the search screen
Oxford Text
Archive
Distributes more than 2500
resources in over 25 different languages
Poemhunter
Searchable
collection of poetry, accessible by poet and title
Project Gutenberg
Online access to free e-books
Textbooks in Mathematics
Listed by subject, with links to free e-books
White
Rose eTheses online
Access to electronic, doctoral level theses from the
Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York
WOWIO
Free e-books