| Title |
Description |
Guides |
ebrary
Academic Complete  |
"ebrary Academic Complete has over 70,000 titles covering business and economics, computers and technology, life and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and humanities. There is simultaneous, multi-user access. A majority of the ebook titles have been published since 2000. If you are accessing ebrary for the first time, you will be prompted to download ebrary reader software."
Downloading eBooks from ebrary. If you experience technical problems installing ebrary reader, please contact the Help Desk. Call (660) 562-1634 or email helpdesk@nwmissouri.edu |
» Creating an eBrary Account (Movie)
» Using eBrary (Movie)
» Fact Sheet
» Quick Start Training Program
(Video demonstration)
» ebrary KnowledgeBase for Users
» ebrary: Help |
| Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition |
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| Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition |
"Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more." |
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| Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition |
"Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 2,440 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more." | |
| Cambridge Companions Online |
"The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers over 1500 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers." |
»Guided Tour  |
| CQ Almanac Online Edition |
"The CQ Almanac Online Edition brings together over sixty years of authoritative congressional reporting in one, easy-to-use resource. The site pairs all of the content from the print volumes with a number of exciting electronic features and functions that make navigating this immense amount of content fast and easy." The online CQ Almanac has the complete series from 1945 to the present. |
»How do I search CQ Almanac Online Edition?
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FollettShelf K-12 eBooks
(Ask at the Library Services Desk for username/password) |
"FollettShelf provides easy web-based access to over 47 Follett eBooks. Many teachers build classroom activities around an eBook that is connected to an interactive whiteboard. Students can search and highlight vocabulary words, read along with the teacher to enhance reading skills, or diagram sentences right in the book on the screen." |
»Using Follett eBooks (Interactive Whiteboards, Classroom Activities, Library Activities)
»FollettShelf Features
»FAQs
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| Gale
Virtual Reference Library |
"Gale Virtual Reference Library includes encyclopedias, almanacs, specialized reference sources and more, providing respected authoritative essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas. This database provides 24-hour 'anywhere/anytime' access to great reference titles in eBook format. The entire collection can be searched simultaneously instead of one resource at a time." |
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| Google Books |
"We're working with several major libraries to include their collections in Google Books and, like a card catalog, show users information about the book, and in many cases, a few snippets – a few sentences to display the search term in context." |
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| Hathi Trust Digital Library |
"As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions.
HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections" |
»FAQ |
Infobase Publishing eBooks
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Infobase Publishing is one of America's leading providers of
supplemental educational materials
to the school and library markets. Owens Library has access to literature criticism eBooks from Facts On File and Chelsea House. |
» Online Help
» FAQs |
Oxford Art Online
(Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Keep trying!)
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Includes the full content of the Dictionary of Art reference set.
"Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location." |
»Quickstart Help
»Guided Tour |
| Oxford Music Online |
"...offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content." |
»Quickstart Help
»Guided Tour |
| Project Gutenberg Online Catalog |
"Project Gutenberg promotes digitization in “text format”, meaning that a book can be copied, indexed, searched, analyzed and compared with other books. Contrary to other formats, the files are accessible for low-bandwidth use. The main source of new Project Gutenberg eBooks is Distributed Proofreaders, launched in October 2000 by Charles Franks to help in the digitizing of books from public domain. Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks." |
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Safari Technical Books
(Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Keep trying!)
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"Safari covers the most essential technologies including... technical certification, software engineering, enterprise computing, programming languages including Java, C++ and operating systems from Windows to Linux and Unix, Web design and development, XML, and more. Search books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding need-to-know information. " |
" Demo |
| ScienceDirect eBooks |
"Offering comprehensive coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines, including those published under...
the renowned Pergamon and Academic Press imprints, over 30 books are now fully integrated with the existing books and journals on ScienceDirect." |
» Interactive Tutorials
» Quick Start Guides |
| Something About the Author
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"Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed... in Gale's™ acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people." |
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