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This guide describes the various subcollections that comprise the library's holdings. Use it to identify and access: print books and periodicals, eBooks, eAudiobooks, eReference books, new books, and Web resources.
Last update: Nov 11th, 2009 URL: http://lib.pstcc.edu/books  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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NetLibrary eBooks

NetLibrary 

Search a collection of over 60,00 recently published ebooks in many subject areas.  Especially useful for research projects, with many books from University Press Publishers.  Easy to access, available 24/7. 

 

Knovel eBooks

Knovel

 The Knovel Engineering and Science Online Reference database contains the full text of over 500 science and technology reference books including interactive charts, graphs, equations, and illustrations.

 

ACLS Humanities eBooks

ACLS Humanities

A digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office featuring unlimited multi-user access

 

Safari eBooks

Safari

A collection of over 200 recent computer related books. Including publications from O'Reilly, Prentice Hall, Addison-Wesley, Microsoft, John Wiley & Sons, Peachpit Press, New Riders, Sams, Que, Adobe Press, Cisco Press & FT Press.

 

ebooks

  • Access Science  
      
    AccessScience is the online publication of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology reference book with access to over 7100 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of research updates in all areas of science and technology.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book  
      
    Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
  • Bacteriological Analytical Manual  
      
    BAM presents preferred laboratory procedures for microbiological analyses of foods and cosmetics. Published by US Food and Drug Administration, (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).
  • Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project  
      
    The Rosetta Project's collections contain about 2,000 antique children's books published in the 19th and early 20th century. Their current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of approximately 65,000 html pages.
  • Credo Reference  
      
    Credo is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of reference books. It includes images, sound files, animations, videos.
  • Documenting the American South  
      
    DAS is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
  • ebrary  
    Select eBooks with a sophisticated user interface. Most eBooks were obtained providing unlimited simultaneous user access. Create personal account to make notes, highlight and set bookmarks while reading.
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica Online  
      
    With over 73,000 authoritative articles, this online version of the popular Encyclopedia Britannica brings together the world-renowned content of the encyclopedia with the speed and convenience of the World Wide Web.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library  
      
    Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • Health and Wellness Resources Center  
      
    Health & Wellness Resource Center provides the full text of 8 reference books, Drug Finder, Medical Dictionary, Medical Encyclopedia, 390 journals (including journals in nursing and allied health) and hundreds of pamphlets.
  • International Children's Digital Library  
      
    The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a collection of more than 10,000 children's books that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world.
  • Knovel Science and Technology eBooks.  
      
    The Knovel Engineering and Science Online Reference database contains the full text of over 500 science and technology reference books including interactive charts, graphs, equations, and illustrations.
  • Lexis Nexis Academic  
    LexisNexis Academic includes full text eBooks in Accounting Literature - Business Directories & Reference - Company Financial Reports - Company Profiles - Country Profiles - Roper Center for Public Opinion Research - SEC Filings - State Profiles.
  • Medline Plus (Consumer Health)  
    What is MEDLINEplus? - A Factsheet. The National Library of Medicine (U.S.)'s MEDLINEplus is a freely searchable consumer information site with links to authoritative Web resources.
  • Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy  
      
    The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy covers all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine.
  • Million Book Project  
    Funded by National Science Foundation and Carnegie Mellon, the goal of The Million Book Project is to digitize a million books that will be freely accessible on the Internet. As of August, 2008 there are 10,846 items available.
  • NAP: National Academies Press  
      
    The National Academies Press (NAP), operating under charter granted by the Congress of the United States, publishes reports issued by: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
  • NCBI Bookshelf  
      
    The Bookshelf is a growing collection of freely accessible biomedical books that can be searched simultaneously by typing a concept into the textbox. Bookshelf is also linked to PubMed.
  • NetLibrary  
      
    Pellissippi Library's holdings (about 50,000 books) include titles in all subject areas. Each book is listed in the Library's On-Line Catalog by author, title, or subject.
  • Oxford Digital Reference Shelf  
    The Oxford Digital Reference Shelf is a collection of Oxford's award-winning scholarly reference titles. The collection consists over twenty dictionaries and encyclopedias.

  • Oxford English Dictionary  
      
    The OED is considered the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. It traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day.
  • Oxford Music Online  
      
    Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location.
  • Oxford Reference Online  
      
    Oxford Reference Online brings together over 175 language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works into a single cross-searchable resource.
  • Rosetta "Modern Masters" ebooks  
    Instant access to 99 well known 20th Century authors. No limit to number of simultaneous users. You can also access this collection by searching NetLibrary with the term "rosetta books".
  • Safari Tech Books Online  
      
    Safari Tech Books Online offers content in more than 20 categories.
  • Scribners Writers Series  
      
    The Scribner Writers Series includes 1,564 essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods. Many authors are seen from multiple perspectives in two, three, or even four essays--a broad biocritical overview as well as specialized treatments.
  • Twayne Author Series  
      
    The Twayne Authors Series comprising Twayne's U.S. Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors.
 

eReference Books

Access full text, authoritative Reference eBooks, including dictionaries, encyclopedias and statistical information.

  • Credo Reference  
      
    Credo provides access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library  
    Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • NetLibrary ebooks  
      
    A considerable number of NetLibrary's over 50,000 full text ebooks conists of reference books covering a broad subject area. Books featured are from Academic publishers, and written by experts in their fields.
  • Oxford Digital Reference Shelf  
      
    The Oxford Digital Reference Shelf provides access to a range of Oxford's scholarly reference titles in the Arts, Literature and Language, History and Culture, Science, and Social Sciences.
  • Oxford Reference Premium  
      
    Oxford Reference Online is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 175 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum:
 
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