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20 Databases Found for:eBooks

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Biography Reference Source provides thousands of unique and reliable full-text biographies, including the complete full text of Biography and Biography Today. In addition to keyword search, users can locate biographies by subject occupation, activity, nationality, gender, birthplace and more.

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This companion to Biography Reference Source encompasses a rich selection of biographic titles, covering popular and important figures in business, film, history, music, politics, sports and more.

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eBook database providing abstracts and searchable full text for thousands of popular nonfiction books.

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Child Development & Adolescent Studies features full text articles and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses, and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide. 

Features full text articles on nursing and allied health topics.

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Titles from university presses around the world covering a broad range of topics, including technology, science, literature, and humanities.
Features a broad range of titles across a variety of disciplines.
Over 52,000 titles for the needs of community colleges.
The titles in this collection are targeted toward students and professionals in clinical settings.

Energy & Power Source is a comprehensive full-text database designed to support the informational needs of the energy and power industries at all levels. This collection provides unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to the energy and power industries, encompassing all component industries within, including those focused on petroleum, natural gas, electric power, coal, nuclear power, renewable energy, and others.

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Gale eBooks
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Alternate Name(s):Gale Virtual Reference Library

Formerly called Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Multidisciplinary database of full text encyclopedias and reference sources for research and ready reference. Enables one search that covers all sources. Subjects include arts, sciences, medicine, and the humanities.

Alternate Name(s):Gale eBooks

Now called Gale eBooks.
Multidisciplinary database of full text encyclopedias and reference sources for research and ready reference. Enables one search that covers all sources. Subjects include arts, sciences, medicine, and the humanities.

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Access audiobooks, eBooks, and magazines via the Libby app.
Read about the Libby app and download it to your device.

You can also read and listen online

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This database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

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Until June 30, 2025, CCC via its Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) membership will have access to titles in six subject areas: Biology, History, Law, Music, Political Science, and Religion with online publication dates of 2020–March 2025.

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A list of ProQuest databases subscribed to by CCC.

Electronic books covering a wide variety of academic and professional subject areas.

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Collection has more than 4000 books in the social science areas of: business, management, counseling, criminology, education, geography, health, media, communication, politics, international relations, psychology, and sociology. Bibliographic searches only.
Collection of 2200 full text medical e-books published by Springer from 2005-2010. These may be read online or downloaded. Some titles are in the library catalog and may be searched just like a print title.
This resource contains some paywalled ($) content. Be sure to uncheck the "Include Preview-Only content" box in the upper right corner of the database to exclude from your results.

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Until June 30, 2025, CCC via its Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) membership will have access to online books in all subject areas that have been added to the Wiley Online Library from 2020–June 2025.

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