Electronic Books & Journals
The following reference resources are available to the Hotchkiss Community and are reserved for on-campus use only. For free access resources, please scroll down the page or click here.
Library Subscription Access
EBSCOhost Book Collection: Nonfiction — Book Collection Nonfiction is an eBook repository of 3,370 popular nonfiction books from top American publishers. There are full-text books with abstracts. To access Book Collection: Nonfiction click on “EbscoHost Web” and replace “Advanced Placement Source” with “Book Collection: Nonfiction” in the drop-down menu.
The History Cooperative — This database is a collection of 20 scholarly history journals, including The American Historical Review and the Journal of American History. The University of Illinois Press created this free full-text database. The site also contains conference proceedings and the Booker T. Washington Papers.
The Nation Archive — The Nation is the United States’ oldest weekly magazine. The Nation covers foreign affairs, local and national politics, education, law, literature, and the arts. The digital archive contains every issue of The Nation from 1865 to the present. The articles are in PDF format with full color images.
Nature Online is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. This online version of the print journal has coverage from 1997 to the present issue. The online site also features a weekly podcast, news and research highlights.
NetLibrary —NetLibrary is an eBook repository of over 5,500 full-text books including reference books, monographs, literature, and fiction. All of the NetLibrary books are also linked to in BearCAT. The user can browse or check out books in NetLibrary.
Salem History — Salem History is a reference database that contains The Decades Series (the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s sets) and Milestone Documents in American History: Exploring the Primary Sources that Shaped America. The database is fully searchable by keyword or browsed by subject. Print volumes located in the Reference Collection.
Scientific American Archive — Scientific American is a scholarly science journal with articles written by experts in the field. Coverage is from 1993 to the present. All articles are in PDF format with full color images.
Free Access
Google Book Search —This free database is a partnership between Google, Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library. Any book published before 1923 (out of copyright) is found in full-text.
Google Scholar — Google Scholar is a collection of scholarly books, articles, papers, and dissertations. Some of the material is found full-text. Google will give the user a snippet of the material where the search was found in item. It offers full citations, links to Google Book, and links to full-text articles found in JSTOR and Project Muse. Finally, if the item is not full-text, Google Scholar provides a library search through WorldCat.
Project Gutenberg — This is a collection of 17,000 free eBooks. Project Gutenberg is similar to Google Book Search with the majority of the titles from before 1923.
Manybooks.net — This is a collection of close to 13,000 free eBooks. Many of the titles are from before 1923. The books must be downloaded to view in full-text.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals — Created by Lund University Libraries, this is a collection of 500 free full-text journals. The majority of the journals are scholarly, with a focus on the sciences. The coverage of the journals is from the last fifteen years.
eScholarship Repository — This repository is part of the California Digital Library created by the University of California. The eScholarship Repository is a collection of 2.5 million free full-text articles, working papers, seminars, and peer-reviewed journals.
Look Smart: Find Articles — This is a collection of more than 900 full-text free journals. The material is not scholarly and focuses mainly on trade-based journals.