Listed below are the major general-purpose ebook resources found at the Baylor University Libraries. To find additional collections of e-books, look at this list; for individual ebooks, search OneSearch..
Provides up-to-date and interactive information in medicine and related fields, including content from textbooks, reference works and databases, multimedia content, diagnosis tools, clinical guidelines and tests, case studies, self-assessment tools, and more. Covers topics such as cardiology, family medicine, gynecology, internal medicine, microbiology, obstetrics, pharmacology, physiology, surgery, diagnosis and treatment.
A collection of high-quality ebooks in the humanities which have been reviewed and recommended by scholars.
Provides a full-text searchable index of (primarily) books published between the 13th century and the late 19th century (1893 World Parliament of Religions).
Provides a full-text searchable index of (primarily) books published between 1894 and 1923. This resource provides good coverage of titles addressing various facets of turn of the century American religious interests and subject matter.
A leading series of handbooks providing graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship on key authors and subjects from Antiquity.
A leading series of handbooks providing graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship on key authors and subjects from Antiquity.
Provides a link to the portal site for Brill online reference works encyclopedias subscribed to by BU Libraries, including the Brill's New Pauly (English translation), Der Neue Pauly (German original), Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. Can be dispensed with if only interested in searching these resources individually. However, for those interested in searching across more than one of them simultaneously, the portal site includes an "Advanced Search" feature that enables searching across multiple-subscribed resources. Brill.
Provides globalized electronic access to all Cambridge online collections.
Provides online, searchable access to the well-known Cambridge History series.
Offers comprehensive and signature coverage of Congressional action from 1945 to 2008.
Makes available through a single interface access to a suite of CQ Press online resources including CQ Almanac, CQ Research Plus Archive, CQ Magazine, Encyclopedia of American Government, Politics in America Public Affairs Collection, Supreme Court Collection, Supreme Court Yearbook, and Voting and Elections Collection.
Provides access to authoritative content from subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject.
Database of Hispanic ebooks and ejournals. Access to the Social and Humanities collection, which includes ebooks only in the subjects of Art, Film Study, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Architecture, Political Affairs, Religion, Philosophy, and Social science.
Provides access to psychiatric reference sources such as DSM-5, handbook of differential diagnosis, and clinical cases
Contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in the United States over a 160-year period.
Contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in the United States during the first two decades of the 19th century.
Adds many previously unknown resources to the "Early American Imprints, Shaw-Shoemaker, Series II" materials from the collections of a premier private library of American historical, social, and cultural printed materials.
Produces standardized, digitally-encoded editions of early print books that are indexed in Early English Books online.
This resource traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
Provides access to academic and scholarly electronic books which Baylor University Libraries have purchased. Covers all subject fields.
Provides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.
Provides high quality research works in the areas of Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Quantitative Economics.
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.
A fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800.
Contains texts of American imprints published between 1639 and 1800. A collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America.
Provides online access to a significant number of books and reference works published by Gale.
Provides access to the full text of the Handbooks in Economics series which include agricultural economics, econometrics, economics of finance, environmental economics, game theory, health economics, labor economics, law and economics, and many more.
A large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
Provides a digital edition of Historical Documents, each volume of which includes primary source documents related to the year's most significant events.
Provides access to IEEE and partner publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, standards, books, and courses.
Provides a searchable database of handbooks, data sets and reference sources in science, technology and engineering that can find materials that meet specific physical, mechanical and thermal properties. Includes interactive charts, graphs, spreadsheets, and equation plotters.
Provides digital access to the U.S. Serial Set, a compilation of U.S. government publications collected at the direction of Congress.
Provides access to historical foreign and international legal literature including treatises and monographs from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries.
Provides PDF images of more than 22 000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.
Offers thousands of pages of reference materials on western classical music from many sources including dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference works on individual composers, etc. Spans the entire history of Western classical music, and brings together in one database authoritative reference titles like Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Provides access to all of the Oxford dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference materials to which Baylor Libraries subscribe. Browse by subject (art, film studies, literature, etc.) or by reference type (timeline and quotation seem most helpful), or search for specific keyword(s) to locate entries across subjects. Browse feature limits results to those items owned by Baylor, keyword search returns results from all Oxford resources and you will want to use the limits to “free” and “unlocked” resources to access what Baylor owns. Overview pages provide a definition and summation of the topic searched with links to specific resources. Search results may be limited by specific subject, by content (quick reference or reference sources), and by sources with visual images.
Offers access to over 10 000 academic works, in 20 subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Provides access to freely downloadable books whose United States copyright has expired. Search by title, author, or browse by topic. Download to PC, e-readers, smart phones, and other portable devices. Includes some audio books for books whose copyright has expired, and links to download selected titles to CDs or DVDs. Mobile app available. Project Gutenberg.
Provides full-text encyclopedia articles on psychology and mental health.
Provides full-text access to information in latest editions of medical, chemical and pharmacological texts, dictionaries, and indexes.