Quick Reference: Books, Book Reviews, and Ebooks
- Book Reviews
- Help on Writing a Book Reviews
- Ebooks ( Full Text Books Online)
- Online Bookstores
- Publisher Information
Book Reviews
H-Net Reviews
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/
H-Net Reviews is an online scholarly review journal of books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Also reviewed are multimedia, films, and software.
The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/
Reviews from 1996 onward from "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language."
New York Times Book Review
http://search.nytimes.com/books/search/
Full text reviews, news articles, bestseller lists, author intervies, or first chapters of that have been discussed in the New York Times. You can search the current database or the archives (for books mentioned since 1980). You must register to use this site (free registration).
Help on Writing a Book Review
LEO Writing Book Reviews
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/bookrev.html
Writing Book Reviews
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/book_reviews.pdf
eBooks - Full Text Books Online
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Alex is a "collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com
Features a searchable database of about 100 books, most of which are multivolume reference books or classics of literature and poetry.
Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
Offers about 5,000 public-domain texts, including English literature, manuscripts and newspapers from 1500 to the present. Also includes texts in more than a dozen other languages.
The Internet Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/
Hundreds of ancient Greek and Roman texts, in English translation.
Library of Southern Literature
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/
Part of "Documenting the American South", a project of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, Booker T. Washington, and more.
NetLibrary
Appalachian State University Library provides access to over 22,000 eBooks available directly from NetLIbrary or from the Library Catalog . Included in this collection are hundreds of Reference eBooks .
The On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
A searchable index of more than 11,000 books available on the Web.
Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/index.html
Thousands of books in the public domain and readable on the Web (or available for download). Generally books published pre-1923.
Safari Tech Books Online
Available to students and faculty only
Access to over 3,700 online information technology books to help you with virtually any programming or technical issue.
Online Bookstores
abebooks.com
http://www.abe.com/
The world's largest network of independent booksellers.
Alibris
http://www.alibris.com/
Search for hard-to-find books from hundreds of independent booksellers from around the world.
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com
The first big bookstore on the Web.
Barnes & Noble
http://www.bn.com
Search for millions of books, including out-of-print books.
Biblio
http://www.biblio.com/
Over 14 million used and out-of-print books.
BookWeb.org - American Booksellers Association
http://www.bookweb.org/bookstores/
Searchable directory of over 4,500 booksellers with URLs, email addresses and descriptions.
Powell's Books
http://www.powells.com/
The world's largest used and new bookseller.
Publisher Info
AcqWeb
http://www.acqweb.org/
Site for "librarians and other professionals interested in acquisitions and collection development," including links to publishers and vendors.
The Association of American University Presses
http://aaupnet.org/
Searchable catalog of books from over 60 university presses.
http://www.ipgbook.com
A book distributor for independent publishers throughout the U.S. and worldwide.
Content editor: John Boyd, boydjd@appstate.edu, Electronic Resources Librarian