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All Electronic Books Databases
These eBook databases allow reading through your browser, and a many allow downloading for offline reading, but not all.
- AccessEngineeringFull text McGraw-Hill engineering books covering all areas of engineering, including classics such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more.
- Books 24x7 Full text online books covering topics of computers, information technology, and engineering. To connect, users must authenticate via EZproxy. Visitors may use on public workstations near reference desk.
- CRCnetBASE Searches CRC Press netBASE, full text CRC engineering handbooks.
- Ebrary 37,700+ full text books on many topics: Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences.
- EBSCOhost eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) Search and browse thousands of full text eBooks.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library Search Gale eBook reference content such as Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, Major Acts of Congress, Encyclopedia of Bioethics and 20+ other titles.
- Knovel Collection of 1600+ science and engineering handbooks, including the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine.
- OCLC eBooksContains all the online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Since WPI Library does not have access to all, check WPI eBook search above for access to subscribed electronic books. If you would like to request access to an eBook for WPI network use, use the Suggest a Purchase form.
- Oxford Reference Online Contains 100+ dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works full text and searchable.
- Safari Books Online 15,000+ technology, engineering, and business books.
- SpringerLINK Access to a variety of scholarly science journals and eBooks published by Springer.
Restrictions on Use
Each eBook site has its own terms of use, membership agreement, etc., which you are expected to abide by if you use that site. Please look for links to the terms of use from the beginning page of each of the eBook sites.
- Typically, you are allowed to download, view, save and/or print portions of eBooks, in reasonable quantity, for personal use, such as for study, research, or teaching.
- You are not allowed to download entire books. The eBook sites monitor usage, looking especially for any that might be deemed excessive, and they will take steps to curb any usage that they see as excessive and outside the terms of the user agreements.
- The library will cooperate with the eBook sites to curtail usage that falls outside the terms of the user agreements. If such usage continues, it could result in the termination of WPI's access.
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eBook Vendor Terms
Useful chart of WPI's subscriptions which includes: file formats, download and printing options, as well as mobile device compatibility.
Visit Individual Collections for Full Text Searching
Connect to eBook sites in order to search & read the full text online.
Visit the sites below for access to some free, or public domain eBooks, and some searchable eBooks that allow users to view snippets.
- Amazon A9 OpenSearch - Search Inside the Book feature280,000+ eBook snippets
- European LibraryCheck digital collection to search only online materials
- Google BooksSome public domain fulltext, some eBook snippets
- HathiTrust.orgA digital repository of fulltext content from some of the largest research universities in the United States.
- Internet Public Library Online Texts
- LibriVoxFree audio books
- The Online Books Page
- Project Gutenberg
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