Online Reference Books
- AccessScience This link opens in a new windowUse to find up-to-date science reference information. Contains full-text articles, textbooks, overviews of scientific concepts, brief biographies of scientists and recent research developments and news.
- Art Cyclopedia This link opens in a new windowThe Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find out where the works of over 8000 different fine artists can be viewed online.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowUse to find general reference material, including encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. A great place to start researching your topic; you can search across all the reference books or select a subject area. Contains eBooks.
- Harrison's Online This link opens in a new windowPart of the Access Medicine e-book collection, Harrison's Online is the standard resource on internal medicine.
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowTraces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day. Varieties of English covered include British English, American English, Australian English, New Zealand English, the English of the Indian subcontinent, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean, among others.
Kindles
Search catalog using E-books (Amazon Kindle) to view Kindle book titles held by our library.
There are 3 Kindles available for 3-week loans at the check-out desk.
E-books at OCPL
The Onondaga County Public Library (OCPL) system has an e-book collection of 3M Cloud Library and Overdrive e-books that you can borrow to read on your e-reader or computer. Most Le Moyne students and faculty should be eligible provided you register for an OCPL library card.
Besides e-books in ePUB, PDF, and Mobi formats, Overdrive also provides a collection of downloadable audio books.
Liverpool Public Library, an OCPL member library, has excellent instructions for using the collection as well as a list of e-readers and other devices capable of displaying Overdrive e-books. See also the Overdrive help pages.
Contact reference@onlib.org for support.
eBooks on the Open Web
There are several significant collections of eBooks that are in the public domain or are in copyright but open access.
- Bio-diversity Heritage LibraryThe BHL has digitized tens of thousands of titles and over 100,000 volumes from the domain of systematic biology that are held by a global network of partner libraries.
- Google BooksGoogle Books contains works in the public domain, as well as titles that are still under copyright. While the text of most books are searchable using the Google interface, only the former may be read in their entirety.
- HathiTrustHathiTrust, a partnership of major research institutions and libraries, has digitized over 10 million volumes (5 million titles), over 1/3 of which are in the public domain.
- Internet Archive TextsThe Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books, mostly in the public domain.
- LibriVoxLibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. Files can be downloaded to your computer or device as mp3 or ogg files.
- National Academies PressAlthough a commercial publisher of both print and online books, with a special emphasis on the sciences and social policy, many of the books may be read online as open e-books.
- The Open LibraryOL's goal is to create a web page for every book, but it also acts as a portal to over 1 million public domain e-books as well as a lending library of over 100,000 more current works.
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg, the first online collection of books, contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books, mostly in the public domain.