UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Children's and YA Literature: Distance & Online Resources

Online and Distance Education Library Services

Online students and faculty have full access to the UWM Libraries print and electronic collections.

Worldcat for Online Students

Search WorldCat to find books held in libraries across North America and beyond. If UWM Libraries does not hold an item and it is not available through UW System borrowing, you may make Interlibrary Loan requests through WorldCat.

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ACLS Humanities Ebook
Collection of 1,000 ebooks in most humanities disciplines. You can only read or print one page at a time from a computer screen.
Black Drama
Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
eBook Collection
Ebsco's eBook Collection offers the content of thousands of books in an electronic format. Formerly called NetLibrary.
Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary)
A collection of thousands of online full text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas. The Libraries have subscribed to the Academic Complete collection as well as purchased access to selected individual titles.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of specialized reference sources. Titles include: Contemporary Black Biography, Business Plans Handbook, International Directory of Company Histories, College Fellowships and Loans, College Blue Book, Writer's Directory and many others.