http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/tags/N/ebook-packages.html en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:22:02 -0400 webmaster@lib.vt.edu webmaster@lib.vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/ebooks/national-academies-press.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/N/S_nap.jpg" alt="National Academies Press" height="137px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.nap.edu/" title="National Academies Press" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.nap.edu/')" shape="rect">National Academies Press</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>National Academies Press</i> provides over 4000 free PDF ebooks (most of their published titles). 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Subject areas include British politics and society, religion, education, international relations, economics, and English, French, and German literature. 1789-1914. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1001235"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/N/nineteenth-century-collections-online-from-gale.html">Full record</a></p> Wed, 30 May 2012 11:42:00 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/N/nineteenth-century-collections-online-from-gale.html Article searching Countries and cultures Ebook packages Governance Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users Screencast tutorials available http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/N/ncbi-national-center-for-biotechnology-information-bookshelf.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/E/S_entrez.jpg" alt="Entrez databases from NLM" height="146px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books" title="National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books')" shape="rect">National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>NCBI Bookshelf</i> hosts full-text books (mostly as PDFs) that can be searched or browsed. Titles are also linked from other NCBI databases such as <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/pubmed-medline-from-nlm.html">PubMed</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/N/ncbi-national-center-for-biotechnology-information-bookshelf.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/N/ncbi-national-center-for-biotechnology-information-bookshelf.html Ebook packages Freely accessible databases