Electronic Books

Licensed E-books for NLC students, faculty, and staff

ABC-Clio Ebook Collection

Reference and general publication titles on a broad range of topics. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username

CredoReference Online

Explore the contents of nearly 500 reference encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources on topics that include fine and performing arts, languages, business, agriculture and sciences, health and medicine, philosophy, biography, social and behavioral sciences, religion, technology, and more.

Directory of Open Access Books

he DOAB has been created to increase the discoverability of open access books.  The directory contains books that meet academic, peer-reviewed standards.

Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia

Licensed online general encyclopedia. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Licensed database with several current subject encyclopedias and other reference sources. Search individual titles or in all titles by keyword. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username. You can also identify these titles in the ALAMO Library Online Catalog.

EbscoHOST Ebooks

Licensed database with over 40,000 fulltext books published between 1913 to the present. Search by keyword, table of contents, or use the index of each book to identify a page number. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username. You can also identify these titles in the ALAMO Library Online Catalog.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Licensed online database with pro and con information on current / controversial topics. To find chapters in books about your chosen topic, select viewpoints / reference. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Licensed online encyclopedia of philosophy. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username.

Salem Press Ebooks

Use these Salem Press reference titles for background information on literary or historical topics.

E-books (publicly accessible)

Google Book Search (fulltext of books in the public domain and brief excerpts of books still under copyright).

Project Gutenberg

Perseus Digital Library

Classics @ MIT

Bartleby.com

Digital Book Index

EServer.org

University of Texas Online Books

Open Access Text Archive

Texas Digital Library Repositories