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OhioLINK Electronic Book Center

The OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC) contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books from several publishers, covering many subject areas.  Publishers include:

ABC-CLIO: educational reference books – encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides – on many specialized topics, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

Gale: reference books published by Thomson Gale; also includes a few reference books from Macmillan, Saur, and Scribner.

Oxford University Press: important scholarly books, both classic and newly-published works, in the humanities and social sciences. Oxford imprints include OUP Oxford, OUP USA, and Clarendon Press.

Sage: encyclopedias and reference handbooks from the Sage eReference catalog, mainly in the social sciences.

Springer: high-quality scientific, technological and medical books. Springer imprints also include Apress, Birkhäuser, Physica-Verlag, Steinkopff, and others.

 

OhioLINK Library Catalog

The OhioLINK Library Catalog is a virtual statewide library listing items owned by OhioLINK libraries. The catalog provides descriptions of books, journals and periodicals, audiovisual materials, sound recordings, electronic resources, government documents, archives and manuscripts, maps and music scores.  It also indicates where copies are located and whether copies are available. For more information about the OhioLINK Library Catalog, see its Frequently Asked Questions page.

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online contains a breadth and depth of technical content for IT, developers, web designers and creative professionals.  It includes books from publishers such as O'Reilly Media, Adobe Press, Peachpit Press, Microsoft Press, Wharton School Publishing, Que, Sams and Addison-Wesley.