English Literature: Books

A portal for several collections available through OhioLINK. The Scholarly & Reference collection are special-topic reference books, as well as more general books from Oxford University Press and Springer. The American & English Literature Collection contains the full text of British and American poetry, prose, and drama. You can Browse the books in their entirety, or search for a specific entry by keyword.

Several thousand electronic books from a variety of publishers, covering recent editions in all subject areas. In many ways, NetLibrary books behave like physical books; only one person can use them at a time, they cannot be downloaded and can be printed only a page at a time. You can browse a book indefinitely (with a fifteen minute inactivity ‘time out’ period), or check it out for two hours at a time.

Digital library of over 45,000 books, videos, and other materials covering technology and business topics.  Publishers represented include O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, Microsoft Press, Cisco Press, John Wiley & Sons, Manning Publications, AMACOM, and Prentice-Hall.

Collection of over 700 books from scholarly publishers covering a wide variety of academic disciplines.  Browsable by subject areas or searchable across the entire collection. Books can be read online or downloaded for offline use for up to 2 weeks. To download entire books or take advantage of features such as annotating and bookmarking, users need to create an Ebook Central account.  (Adobe Digital Editions software is also required for downloading.)