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Databases: E-Books

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33 Databases found for E-Books

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  • Access provided by JMU
Collection of ebooks covering history, geography, world cultures, military history, gender studies, politics, pop culture, religion, mythology, science, technology, and environment.
  • Access provided by JMU
Collection of ebooks of major importance to humanities studies.
Alternate Name(s) ABC
ABC is an African-owned, worldwide marketing and distribution outlet for books from Africa--scholarly, literature and children's books. Access includes pre-2020 backlist (1,490 ebooks), 2020 frontlist (76 ebooks), and 2021 frontlist (84 ebooks). The majority of titles are DRM-free. Titles can also be found in the library catalog.

B

Collection of e-books in the behavioral sciences.
  • Access provided by JMU
Collection of e-books relating to biomedicine and life sciences.
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Collection of e-books in business and economics.

C

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Reference resource covering fifteen subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
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Reference works covering the history of philosophy.
  • Access provided by JMU
Histories of religions from Judaism to witchcraft; ancient world religions to Christianity. Includes reference ebooks on music, war, and world events in context of religion.
Computer science e-book collection. Includes programming, theory, artificial intelligence, and other subjects.

D

  • Open Access
Indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
  • Access provided by JMU
A set of searchable, full-text reference works for psychiatric diagnosis.

E

Collection of e-books about the earth and environmental sciences. Includes topics in geography, geology, ecology, and geophysics.
  • Access provided by JMU
  • Ivanti Secure Access required for off-campus access
Alternate Name(s) Nutrition Terminology Reference Manual, eatright, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Extensive detail and explanation about the complete Nutrition Care Process Terminology for dietetics.
Note: 5 user limit!
E-book collection revolving around the study of energy.

H

  • Open Access
Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

I

  • Access provided by JMU
Scholarly books, journals, cases,encyclopedias, handbooks of research and electronic resources that cover the information, business, medical information, and engineering sciences.
Alternate Name(s) IOP
Collection of physics-related ebooks published by Institute of Physics.

J

  • Access provided by JMU
Alternate Name(s) Library Catalog; JMU Catalog
Find journals, books, ebooks, films, sound recordings, and government documents available to JMU users.
  • Access provided by JMU
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals and monographs in history, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, etc.

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  • Access provided by JMU
Alternate Name(s) EdITLib
Conference papers, articles, dissertations, and ebooks on topics in information technology in education.
The digital Loeb Classical Library offers an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin Classical literature, history, philosophy, and more.

O

Alternate Name(s) Previously Safari Books Online, O'Reilly
The O’Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video.
  • Open Access
Quality-controlled collection of academic open access books and services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
  • Open Access
A collection of freely available textbooks in accounting, business, economics, education, foreign languages, humanities, information systems, law, marketing, natural and physical sciences, statistics, and more.
Full text collection of core scholarly books in Economics, Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion and Theology from May 2006 to the most recent update.

P

Collection of e-books in professional computing and web design.
  • Access provided by JMU
Alternate Name(s) eBrary Academic Complete
Full text books from scholarly publishers in academic disciplines.
Cross-search PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycTESTS, and PsycEXTRA at once.
  • Open Access
An open-access publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design.

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  • Access provided by JMU
Online access to the reference titles: The Sixties in America; The Seventies in America; Great Events from History: The Ancient World; Great Lives from History: The Ancient World; Great Lives from History: The 18th Century; Historical Encyclopedia of American Business.
E-book packages in the sciences: biomedical, life, environmental, computer sciences, plus engineering, mathematics, architecture and more.
  • Access provided by JMU
Stahl Online is a comprehensive and regularly updated database providing full access to the entire current Cambridge portfolio of neuropsychopharmacology books by Dr. Stahl. Stahl Online features a Quick Drug Lookup feature as well as illustrated guides and case studies.

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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
New
Contains texts that have been critically edited in the printed Aristoteles Latinus series. It includes also Latin translations of Aristotle’s works published outside the Aristoles Latinus series and translations of Greek commentaries.
Trial
Offers access to ten newspapers published in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Trial ends 11/29.
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