Finding eBooks @ UWM
eBook Databases
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ACLS Humanities EbookACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1,000 ebooks in most humanities disciplines. You can only read or print one page at a time from a computer screen.
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Black DramaBlack 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.
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eBook CollectionEbsco's eBook Collection offers the content of thousands of books in an electronic format. Formerly called NetLibrary.
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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.
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryGale 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.
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KnovelKnovel is a collection of over 4500 handbooks, dictionaries and proceedings in technical disciplines. Full text is searchable by keywords and numeric property values. Contains interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Data from tables can be manipulated and further imported in an Excel spreadsheet.
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MATERIALSnetBASEMATERIALSnetBASE is an ebook subject collection that provides access to over 1000 books in materials science. Now available on the Taylor & Francis Group platform.
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Project Gutenberg - Free eBooksProject Gutenberg offers over 54,000 free eBooks: Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which copyright has expired. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
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Open LibraryOpen Library has well over 20 million edition records online, provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books, and link to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon when we can. The secondary goal is to get you as close to the actual document you're looking for as we can, whether that is a scanned version courtesy of the Internet Archive, or a link to Powell's where you can purchase your own copy.
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Free Science Fiction ClassicsFree science fiction classics, as well as free downloadable audio books.
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International Children's Digital LibraryOver 4,000 free children's books in over 50 languages.
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Barnes & Noble Free Nook BooksFree e-books from B&N, just download the Nook app (which is free) to enjoy.
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Free ebooks.netFree fiction and non-fiction e-books across all subjects.
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Aozora BunkoOver 2,000 works of Japanese literature
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National Library of FranceOver 2,500 digitized works in French
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Libros TauroOver 2,000 free e-books in Spanish
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Ngiyaw E-booksGerman works along with English and Hungarian books.
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New Threads Chinese Cultural SocietyElectronic archive of classic Chinese texts
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AthenaOver 10,000 books in French, covering topics: philosophy, literature, history, economics and science