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General Academic E-book Collections
Over 500,000 e-book titles available
Using these links allows for full-text searching across current academic titles in most fields of study..
Requires AU username and password to access from off-campus.
- Digitalia Hispanica This link opens in a new window Digitalia Hispánica is a multidisciplinary database with about 30,000 ebooks and ejournals in Spanish language, from Spanish and Latin American publishers. You can either read online or download documents on loan to your computer.
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window A collection of over 260,000 eBooks available on the Ebsco platform.
- Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library The R2 Digital Library is a web based database available from Rittenhouse Book Distributors. It offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers, on a web based platform
Reference Resources
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window MeL Database -- Britannica Academic delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. Written by Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors, and other notable experts, Britannica Academic’s articles provide trusted information with balanced, global perspectives and insights that users will not find anywhere else.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Licensed database, requires AU username and password for access off campus.
- Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ESDA is a global church project which aims at completing approximately 8,500 articles with accompanying photographs, media, and original documents.
Primary Literary Sources
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window Books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. (website)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window This database includes: Over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more Based on the English Short Title Catalogue Works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere Primarily in English - also includes other languages
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window Includes Encyclopedia of Religion Licensed database, requires AU username and password for access off campus.
- Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window Welcome – old friends and newcomers, scholars, students, and general readers alike – to the digital Loeb Classical Library, and to invite you to enjoy its Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations, in the familiar ways and in surprisingly new ones.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window The TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
Historical and Special Collections
- Atla Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1 This link opens in a new window The Atla Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1 provides religious and theological literature from the late 13th century to the 1893 World Parliament of Religions. Topics covered include church life, demographics, doctrinal disputes, higher criticism, Judeo-Christian religions, Non-Western religions, and social movements.
- Atla Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2 This link opens in a new window The Atla Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2 covers religious and theological literature from 1893 through 1922. Topics covered include church life, demographics, doctrinal disputes, higher criticism, Judeo-Christian religions, Non-Western religions, and social movements.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) The mission of the CCEL is to build up the church by making classic Christian writings available and promoting their use.
- eBook Religion Collection This link opens in a new window This unique collection features more than 6,800 e-books from trusted publishers covering a broad range of religious subjects including philosophy, ethics, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, religious texts and more. This dynamic compilation of texts explores religious beliefs, faith, cultural systems and world views and provides a key resource to meet the needs of students and scholars in their research.
- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window eHRAF World Cultures contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level. This allows detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.
- Ellen G. White Writings One of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ellen G. White was a prolific writer whose works inspired and ministered to her contemporaries, and yet her timeless insight and wisdom continue to bless her readers.
- GlobeTheoLib Requires individual registration, no cost to user. The Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism [GlobeTheoLib] is a multilingual online library offering access free of charge to more than 650'000 full-text articles, journals, books and other resources. Its focus is on theology, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics, and ecumenism in World Christianity.
- Open Access Digital Theological Library The mission of Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to curate high quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, and stable public domain collections. The OADTL uses the world’s most advanced library discovery cataloging and discovery system, OCLC’s WorldShare, to make content easily discoverable and retrievable. The OADTL is staffed by professional librarians and curates content without regard for theological or confessional perspective. It is hoped that the increased access to high quality religious studies content will serve scholars and students of religion.
- Post-Reformation Digital Library The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included. The PRDL is a project of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research of Calvin Theological Seminary.
- Theological German Dictionary Wolfgang P. Kunze EditorIncluded are the Religionswissenschaften: Archeology, Religious Art and Architecture, Church History, Comparative Religion, Ethics, Judaic Studies, Language, Linguistics, and Literature , Missions, Mythology and Folklore, Pastoral Counseling, Sacred Music, and Philosophy, as well as important abbreviations and Latin phrases and German, Latin, and Greek root words which are used as technical terms with very specific meanings. This online-dictionary continues to improve and grow as new words are entered and checked every day. Since this is a work in progress and all entries are set up around a specific use of the vocabulary we make no guarantee of completeness. However, over 28.000 entries are already in the database.
Additional Open Access Databases for E-books
- Brill Open Open Access Titles 499 Books and 11 Reference Books
- Open Access books on JSTOR More than 6,500 Open Access ebooks from 85+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.
- Palace Bookshelf Our mission at DPLA is to maximize access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge. One of the ways we do this is through our ebooks program, which is an important and growing area of our work. Our ebooks work includes Palace Bookshelf, our ever-expanding collection of more than 15,000 open-access ebooks; and DPLA Publications, our collection of free, easy-to-read ebook versions of public documents.
National/Regional Online Archives
- BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Germany) BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. German Langauge Resource
- Digital Public Library of America A Wealth of Knowledge: explore 4,484,077 items from libraries, archives, and museums in the United States.
- Europeana Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections
- Gallica Gallica est la bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de ses partenaires. En ligne depuis 1997, elle s’enrichit chaque semaine de milliers de nouveautés et offre aujourd’hui accès à plus de 2 millions de documents.
- TROVE: National Library of Australia Find and get over 362,439,667 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more
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