Ebook Collections

The first section below offers scholarly electronic book collections available to F&M students, staff and faculty. The second section points to some of the better ebook collections available for free online, and accessible to everyone.

F&M Access Only

• Credo Reference
  A digital reference library containing 100 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention a host of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts and literature to technology.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  A digital reference collection that places factual information at your fingertips, containing high-quality reference books in history, medicine, religion and the social sciences, now accessible wherever you are.

• Grove Art Online
  Online version of the 34-volume text covering all forms of the visual arts from prehistory to the present, with ongoing additions of new and updated articles. Includes 41,000 articles and 10,000 color images.

• Grove Music Online
  Online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music, this resource is updated quarterly and is considered to be the premier authority on music. Also included are the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

• netLibrary
  E-books for searching, reading, and checkout. Access to Main Library books requires free registration.

• Oxford Reference Online
  The largest, most up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible reference work in the world. This huge resource contains almost 2 million words and phrases from Oxford's English language and bilingual dictionaries. Individual Oxford titles may be found amongst our Electronic Resources - By Subject pages.

Universal Access

• Digital Book Index
  Digital Book Index provides links to more than 139,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 103,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

• eServer at Iowa State University
  The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish works as open archives, available free of charge to readers.

• Google Books
  The aim is simple: to work with publishers and libraries to create a comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalog of all books in all languages that helps users discover new books and publishers discover new readers.

• The Online Books Page
  The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.

• Project Gutenberg
  Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

• The Universal Digital Library: Million Book Project Collection
  The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language, available to everyone over the Internet.