Entire list of e-books from Langsam Library
Many e-books (often referred to as online books or electronic books) are cataloged and may be searched via the UC Library Catalog (link to UC Library Catalog) You will find a link to the electronic book via the library catalog record. When conducting a search in the library catalog, you can also limit your search to only “electronic formats” which often helps locate e-books.
Many e-books are accessible via collections that the Library has purchased. Often the title of the collection is listed in the Library Catalog and a link is provided to the collection web site that provides a full listing of the titles. Many of the collections are part of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center which offers thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences
ABC-CLIO: educational reference books – encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides – on many specialized topics, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
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Electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields from O'Reilly and Associates and Pearson Technology Associates.
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1500 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 90 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
An index to more than 25,000 English language books. All should be free for personal, non-commercial use.
Credo Reference (formerly XReferplus)
Credo Reference is an online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of approximately 414 reference books from over 63 publishers. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law, including science and technology. Find out about the titles in Credo Reference.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (OhioLINK)
The OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center is a free online database of master' theses and doctoral dissertations from graduate students in participating Ohio colleges and universities.
Google Book Search (Beta)
InfoSci Online includes full-text books, journal articles, case studies, and proceedings from the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishers, CyberTech Publishers, and IRM Press. InfoSci-Online covers research trends and developments in information science and technology such as IT management, end user computing, data mining, knowledge management, e-commerce, multimedia databases, telecommunications, and distance learning in the following areas: Business Management; Computer Science; Education Technologies; Electronic Commerce; Environmental IS; Healthcare Information Systems; Information Systems; Library Science; Multimedia Information Systems; Public Information Systems; Social Science and Technologies.
Provides leading science and engineering books, conferences, and databases embedded with productivity tools in one online service. The Knovel product provides the ability to interact with the data, deep searchability, valuable subject collections through aggregation, and continuing expanding content. At the end of March 2009, the University of Cincinnati had online access to approximately 1,856 books in the Knovel collection.
NetLibrary is a library of electronic books (e-books) on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Users can also download and read e-books on their personal computers. Every word in every book is searchable. NetLibrary operates on the library check-out model, where readers check out e-books for a specified amount of time.
OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC)
Offers thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the engineering, humanities, sciences and social sciences.
Oxford Reference Online
Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations from 1861 to the present with full-text to UC Ph.D. dissertations from 1955 to the present and for other institutions from 1997 to the present.
As of 2009, the Elsevier ScienceDirect searchable ebook collection includes 2,282 books covering the years 1995-2008. Seven subject categories are included in the collection. The seven subject areas are: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Environmental Science, and Materials Science.
Springer E-Books (publisher's website) high-quality scientific, technological and medical books.
University of Cincinnati E-Reference