Databases by type: eBook Collections

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Full-text ebooks on a wide variety of topics. Search by keyword, or browse by title or topic.

Ancient world to present
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains  virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere.

1473-1700
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Ebook Central consist primarily  of academic titles in a wide variety of subjects. 

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The EBSCO eBook collection includes over 100,000 titles in a wide-variety of subjects, including Literature, Technology, Career & Self Help, how-to books, and much more.

2000-present
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(formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.

2000-present
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Users must create a Hoopla account to access. Choose "NC Live" as your library. For "Library Card" enter your University ID, and then register with your App State email address.

Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with all popular e-readers that support apps.

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JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 2,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. 

Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago.
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MackinVIA offers a  growing collection of eBooks for students from pre-kindergarten through middle grades.

2000-present
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Provides access to fiction and nonfiction content from North Carolina publishers.

1949-present
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From "Select your institution," choose "Institution not listed" and enter your App State e-mail, or log in with an existing account.

Online access to 30,000+ technical books, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths, and audio books from O'Reilly & Associates and other publishers.

2004-present
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OverDrive eBooks allows faculty, students and staff to borrow eBooks and audiobooks and download them to computers and portable devices.

Current
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Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to about 18,000 Oxford eBooks in a wide range of subject areas. Downloadable chapters (pdf) for off-line viewing.

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Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 200 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks.

1994-present
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Taylor & Francis eBooks provides full text access to approximately 36,000 ebooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities, and social science.

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Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series.

2005-present
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