Electronic Books, Papers, Documents, and Texts

These books/databases are available only for UTPA students, faculty, and staff.

Other books/databases are available to anyone, anywhere.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts allows you to read and search through classic works from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.

APA eBooks collection contains ebooks published by the American Psychological Association.

Athena has "thousands of e-texts: philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc.!"

Baen Free Library has dozens of free science fictions books online.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare from M.I.T.

Country Studies "presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world."

 Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts) "is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses... from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities."

 Early English Books Online includes works and images from 15th, 16th, and 17th century English literature.

 EBSCO eBooks includes reference material, as well as classics. Only one user at a time can look at a specific book. Patrons need to set up an account to "check out" books.

 Eighteenth Century Collections Online has "the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century [including] full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages."  Some of the subjects covered are history, science, philosophy, literature, the arts, and law.

Eighteenth-Century E-Texts

Electronic Text Center from the University of Virginia Library include thousands of texts and images in over a dozen languages.

eScholarship Editions has hundreds of books published by the University of California Press.

Google Books helps you find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.

HathiTrust is a collection of digitized books and serials, some of which are accessible and some of which are not accessible due to copyright restrictions.

 History E-Book Project from ACLS provides electronic books in history "that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, are frequently cited in the literature, and are currently not widely available."

Internet Archive provides links to free digitized books and texts.

The Internet Public Library "contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification."

La BitBlioteca "comprises texts mainly in Spanish, though it doesn't exclude texts in French, English and other languages."

The Making of America digital library, sponsored by Cornell University and the University of Michigan contains over 12,000 volumes of 19th century US books and journals.

MIT Press Ebooks Library contains ebooks on subjects such as computer science and programming, artificial intelligence, information theory and technology, and electrical engineering. 

The National Academies Press contains thousands of free pdf ebooks that can be downloaded by individuals. The books cover such areas as Education, Space and Aeronautics, Food and Nutrition, Engineering, and many other topics

 Palgrave Connect contains e-books published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Subject areas covered include Business, Education, History, Literature, and others.

 Past Masters "provides scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to the classic texts" of philosophy.  Click on Past Masters  

Project Gutenberg, "the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books," provides plain ASCII versions of classic works. They have 10,000 texts online.

Project Muse The ebook collections in Project Muse offer peer-reviewed digital books from over 65 major university presses and scholarly publishers.

ScienceDirect contains ebooks in subjects as varied as Physical Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities.

  SpringerLink includes electronic books published by Springer in 2010 on Behavioral Sciences, Business & Economics, and Earth & Environmental Science.

Travel at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A collection of digitized books focused on travel from 1875-1908.

The Victorian Women Writers Project is from Indiana University.

Wright American Fiction 1851--1875 is from Indiana University.