Electronic Books

e-Book Collections

E-Books in these collections are available to CBU students, faculty, and staff only. These e-Books can also be found in Plough Library's online catalog, BUCCAT.

NetLibrary contains more than 59,000 titles in all subject areas to CBU users. NetLibrary includes scholarly, reference and professional works from leading university, academic, and professional publishers.

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project (HEB) offers over 1700 works of major importance to humanities studies — books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students and are frequently cited in the literature.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection provides full texts of 100+ language and subject dictionaries and reference works.
Usage info.: Licensed for only 1 user at a time.

Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) provides access to over 300 reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations; as well as subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library contains thirteen reference books on a variety of topics, including religion, business, medicine, multicultural studies and more.

Literature Online offers eight literary reference books that can be searched or browsed.

Knovel Library

Knovel Library is a collection of science and engineering full-text reference e-book titles and tools.

Free Online e-Book Sites

Many sites on the Internet provide free access to e-books. Here are some of the best ones:

Bartleby.com: Bartleby.com publishes the most up-to-date collection of reference works, as well as classic works of reference, fiction, nonfiction and verse—all free of charge. Comprises four main sections: reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction.
The Internet Archive: Text Archive: Search several free e-Book collections at once, including Project Gutenberg, Million Book Project, and University of Maryland's International Children's Digital Library.
The Internet Public Library: Online Texts: Provides an index to other online text sites: fewer full books, but more short texts, and non-English texts).
The Online Books Page: Includes a searchable index of thousands of online books, and directions to significant directories and archives of online texts.
Project Gutenberg: Oldest producer of free e-Books on the Internet. Most of the 18.000 Project Gutenberg e-Books are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.