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EBL (Ebook Library) [coverage dates: varies]
E-books on a variety of topics. Read online or download as pdf files to your computer for 3-day "loans." Subjects include: computer Science, electrical engineering, general, humanities, information science, and ebooks.
Access: Funded by NJIT Library
Google Book Search [coverage dates: varies]
Please note not all books are available in full-text online.
Access: Open access
Knovel [coverage dates: varies]
Provides keyword and numeric searching across a book’s text, tables, graphs and equations. NJIT has access to only 9 free sources. Subjects include: chemistry, engineering, materials, and ebooks. Access to this resource may be disabled without advanced notice.
Access: Open access
Knovel Critical Tables [coverage dates: varies]
Interactive reference contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 13,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have 385 solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have 500 compounds. Subjects include: chemistry, engineering, materials, and ebooks. Access to this resource may be disabled without advanced notice.
Access: Open access
Online Books Page - UPenn [coverage dates: varies]
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Major parts of the site include: An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet, pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books, information on how readers can help support the growth of online books.
Access: Open access
Open Access Text Archive [coverage dates: varies]
This collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses.
Access: Open access
Project Gutenberg [coverage dates: varies]
Generally, the texts are taken from books published pre-1923. You will find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.
Access: Open access
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