DePaul University Libraries
E-books: Resources

1Books 24x7
Description: An extensive e-book collection in the areas of business, finance, government, and information technology. Available to current students and faculty only.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
2Credo Reference
Description: An online, cross-searchable collection of reference books on a variety of subjects from more than 50 publishers.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
3Digital Texts Project
Description: A collection of works by major philosophers and others.
Restrictions: None
4Illinois Harvest: Chicago
Description: Extensive collection of full-text books and pamphlets related to 19th and early 20th century Chicago, digitized by the Open Content Alliance.
Restrictions: None
5Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Description: The LNCS series reports the latest results from all areas of computer science and information technology research. Titles include both conference proceedings and individual books. DePaul also owns many of these titles in print.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
6Literary Text Collections
Description: Listing of several resources that provide the full-text of fiction, poetry and plays--from the classics and classical to more modern works.
Restrictions: None
7NBER Books
Description: National Bureau of Economic Research offers several hundred older books online.
Restrictions: None
8NCBI Bookshelf
Description: The National Center for Biotechnology Information offers this collection of searchable biomedical books and government reports.
Restrictions: None
9NetLibrary
Description: Business, nursing, computer science and psychology books, along with classic titles from literature.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
10Perseus Digital Library
Description: A large digitization project based out of Tufts University, this collection includes documentary papyrii, primary and secondary sources for Greek & Roman classical and Renaissance texts, 19th century American primary source documents, and texts in Old English and Old Norse for the study of the Germanic peoples, among others.
Restrictions: None
11Safari Tech Books Online
Description: Access to thousands of books, certification manuals, and articles from top software & technology publishers; also includes a number of business, management, and finance titles. Limited to 7 concurrent users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
12Springer 2009 Computer Science E-Book Package
Description: Collection includes over 3000 titles published in 2009: book series, monographs, textbooks, and major reference works. Also consider Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
13Synthesis Computer & Information Science Collection
Description: Comprised of 50 Synthesis lectures from series in Artificial Intelligence, Communication Networks, Architecture, Graphics & Animation, Human-Centered Informatics, Information Security, Mobile Computing, and Quantum Computing.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
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