Research Guides: Research Help: Getting Started: Books &amp; eBooks

High Library Catalog

EBSCOhost E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
Ebook collection containing high-quality academic and popular titles from a broad range of subject and topic areas.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A digital library from various scholarly and university presses that offers authoritative ebooks covering a wide range of subject areas.
Books @ JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of eBooks that can be accessed via JSTOR's one search integrated platform, along with the JSTOR archival collections.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project Muse is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Project MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and eBooks from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.

Project Gutenberg
The original e-book site containing over 17,000 titles, most published 75 or more years ago.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries.
Internet Archive
Archive of digital texts, audio, moving images, and webpages.
Online Books Page
Links to 25,000 free e-books on the Web, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania.

LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.

WorldCat
Search more than 2 billion records of items owned by libraries around the world. Its user-friendly search will indicate items owned by Elizabethtown and will link you directly to Interlibrary Loan.

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Access WorldCat through First Search for more advanced search functionality.

Area Colleges (ACLCP libraries)
Search the catalogs of libraries in the area. These colleges have an agreement with Etown which will let you borrow books directly from them. You can also request their books through Interlibrary Loan.
AccessPA Libraries
Search the catalogs of libraries across Pennsylvania.
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan)
Request books from other libraries, for free, using this system.