Licensed E-books for NLC students, faculty, and staff
- ABC-Clio Ebook Collection
- Reference and general publication titles on a broad range of topics. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username.
- CredoReference Online
- Explore the contents of nearly 500 reference encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources on topics that include fine and performing arts, languages,
business, agriculture and sciences, health and medicine, philosophy, biography, social and behavioral sciences, religion, technology, and more.
- Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia
- Licensed online general encyclopedia. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Licensed database with several current subject encyclopedias and other reference sources. Search individual titles or in all titles by keyword. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username. You can also identify these titles in the ALAMO Library Online Catalog.
- NetLibrary
- Licensed database with over 40,000 fulltext books published between 1913 to the present. Search by keyword, table of contents, or use the index of each book to identify a page number. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username. You can also identify these titles in the ALAMO Library Online Catalog.
- Opposing Viewpoints Center
- Licensed online database with pro and con information on current / controversial topics. To find chapters in books about your chosen topic, select viewpoints / reference. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Licensed online encyclopedia of philosophy. To access off-campus, you must use your library proxy username.
E-books (publicly accessible)
- Google Book Search (fulltext of books in the public domain and brief excerpts of books still under copyright).
- Project Gutenberg
- Perseus Digital Library
- Classics @ MIT
- Bartleby.com
- Digital Book Index
- EServer.org
- eLibrary Open ebooks
- University of Texas Online Books
- Open Access Text Archive
- Texas Digital Library Repositories