E-books

Look for e-books in the Library Search . Type in a search term in the “PCC Library & Summit” tab. When the results come back, select those that say “Online access”.  Click the “View It” tab and follow the link that is offered.

All PCC e-books can be read on a computer screen. Some can be checked out and downloaded to a mobile device. Most books can be accessed by multiple users at the same time.

Search e-book collections

E-book Library (EBL)
Browse and check out thousands of titles in the sciences, humanities, the arts, business, computer science, engineering, and many others. Offline viewing options are available.

ebrary
Over 127,000 full-text books in all academic disciplines.

Credo
Provides online versions of 500+ published reference works, including general and specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias. Try the Concept Map to search for terms and topics that are interconnected and displayed in a visual form.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a database of over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Look here for biology, chemistry, nursing and medicine, sociology, history, education, law, and more.

Oxford Reference Online
A collection of dictionaries and other reference books from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the arts, languages, literature, sciences and social sciences.

Wiley Online Library E-books
A collection of 18,000 e-books covering a variety of subject areas including life, health, and physical sciences, social science, history, literature, visual arts, law, nursing, veterinary medicine and more. Features include easy searching, browsing across all chapters, references, save searches, and downloading content in PDF format.

Books available freely on the Internet

Project Gutenberg
More than 28,000 e-books. Most are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States.

The Online Books Page
Over 35,000 free books on the web, including Project Gutenberg titles. Site includes the full text of many literary award winners and banned books.

Hathi Trust Digital Library
A searchable digital archive of over 10 million books from major research institutions and libraries, including over 3 million in the public domain.

National Academies Press
Read over 3,000 environment, health, and science books online.

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