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  • Electronic Text Archives - archives of e-texts from various organizations collected by Google. FREE.

  • Gale Virtual Reference - Dozens of multi-volume encyclopedias in all fields are available. From CUNY.

  • Guttenberg Project - There are 19,000 free e-books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

  • NetLibrary E-Books - Browse or check out an electronic book after you Create an Account on campus only, then accessible from home or off-campus with FULL TEXT of entire books online. From CSI and CUNY.

  • Online Book Page - This website lists over 20,000 books that are available on the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books. FREE.

  • Oxford Art Online - Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online) is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Users can choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.

  • Oxford English Dictionary - "The Definitive Record of the English Language" with the complete 2nd edition online, plus updates as entered. From CSI.

  • Oxford Music Online - Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference books in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes).

  • Oxford Reference Online - Reference works including dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, who's who. From CUNY.

  • Roget's Thesaurus - One of several versions of this public domain classic. Simple search screen from the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago. FREE.

  • Twayne's Author Series - Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles. From CUNY.


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