E-Books

designates Open Source e-books

614 Places for Free eBooks Online
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm

Alex. A Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Several thousand classics of Western civilization in electronic form, mostly in English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/

Digital Book Index
Provides access to more than 80,000 titles records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 48,000 are available free.
http://www.digitalbookindex.com

Digital Commons Network
The Digital Commons Network brings together scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges, providing open access to peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. This constantly growing body of publications represents thousands of disciplines and subject areas—from Architecture to Zoology.
http://network.bepress.com/

Digital Identity Project, University of Adelaide Press
Australia The university press publishes peer-reviewed scholarly books authored and edited by its staff. Most titles are available in print and free electronic editions. The disciplines include: social sciences, medicine, law, humanities, and many more. You are able to DOWNLOAD and READ the editions on e-readers that read PDF’s, including iPads and those with ePub format. Included on this site is access to 1200 Web Books which includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/titles/A.html

EBSCO Book Collection - Nonfiction
A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers. Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,048 popular nonfiction books. Includes full text entries on core subjects: careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills, etc. http://ez.centenary.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=ndh

EBSCO E-Book Collection
Search and view full text of e-books.
http://ez.centenary.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=nlebk

Electronic Text Center Holdings
Includes 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.).
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/

eScholarship Editions - California Digital Library
Includes the full text of more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
http://content.cdlib.org/escholarship/

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of 231 encyclopedias and specialized e-book reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=GVRL&u=lln_louis

Humanities, Social Sciences and Law E-Book Collection
A Springer e-book collection including over 490 titles in the fields of education, humanities, arts and design, law, linguistics, philosophy and social sciences. NOTE: Centenary students, staff and faculty do not have access to journal articles within the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Collection or access to e-books in any other Springer collection.
http://www.springerlink.com/humanities-social-sciences-and-law/books/
For remote access, use http://springerlink.metapress.com. Remember to limit to books in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law E-Book Collection.