Ebook Collections
** Guide to ebooksHow to find and use ebooks in the Library's collection. |
ACLS Humanities EbooksCollection of over 4,000 books of high quality in the humanities that are recommended and reviewed by scholars frequently cited in the literature offered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with other learned societies. Access level: John Jay
 |
Directory of Open Access BooksA discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. Access level: Freely available to the public
|
Early English Books OnlineEEBO contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Access level: John Jay
|
Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary)A constantly expanding collection of thousands of ebooks in a broad variety of disciplines from ProQuest (formerly Ebrary). Access level: John Jay
|
Ebook Collection from Ebscohost (formerly Netlibrary)Access to thousands of commercially published electronic books in various disciplines, including recently-published titles in criminal justice (formerly Netlibary) Access level: John Jay
|
Gale EBooks (Gale Virtual Reference)Hundreds of specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical directories and other ebooks in the subject fields of criminal justice, economics, history, literature, psychology, religion, science, world cultures, and more. Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials
|
Google Book SearchGoogle is in the process of scanning complete books from some of the world's great libraries. Books in the public domain can be read in their entirety. Some books will display in part. Access level: Freely available to the public
|
IOP (Institute of Physics) books and journalsA wide range of content from the leading voices in physics. Includes the physics of spectroscopy, cancer, the environment, green energy, the atmosphere, astronomy, optics & photonics, bio & medical physics, geophysics, nanotechology, materials & plasmas, mathematics & computation, quantum, classical and nuclear physics. Over 100 journals in the IOPScience Extra Collection, and books in the IOP Publishing Concise Physics, Series 1 through 4, and IOP Publishing Expanding Physics, Series 1 through 4. Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials
|
Loeb Classical Library (digital)Provided by the Harvard University Press, this online resource provides more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts in a modern interface that allows readers to browse, search, bookmark, and annotate content. Content cannot be downloaded or printed. (Note: The library has the print edition of the Loeb Classical Library).
|
NCBI Bookshelf (NIH)A growing collection of searchable biomedical books hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. Access level: Freely available to the public
|
Open LibraryOpen Library, a book digitization project of the Internet Archive, provides access to millions of books. Books in the public domain can be downloaded for free by anyone. Books that are still subject to copyright can be borrowed via controlled digital lending. An account is not needed to search this collection, but you need to create an Open Library account to either read on their Internet Archive book reader or download to epub/pdf. Access level: Freely available to the public
|
PsycBOOKSBooks published by the APA, including 700 classics and more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Access level: John Jay
|
Sage Knowledge CollectionHundreds of ebooks and subject encyclopedias, including major titles in criminal justice, research methods, psychology, and social issues from Sage and CQ Press. Access level: John Jay
|
Taylor & Francis ebooksUse this platform to search all Taylor and Francis ebook content including the CRCnetBase database collections at one time; FORENSICnetBASE; InfoSECURITYnetBASE; AND STATSnetBASE. Access level: John Jay
|
Wiley Online LibraryFull text of over 1,400 journals from Wiley-Blackwell Publishers and over 20,000 ebooks. (Note: You can search all Wiley ePublications on this platform, but you can only access the full text of the Wiley journals subscribed to by John Jay). Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials
|