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eBooks include selected full-text electronic books and online reference works. To find print copies of books in the Case libraries, search the online catalog. The catalog also has links to more ebooks.

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Case/OhioLINK eBook Collections

The OhioLINK Electronic Book Center
Search across thousands of scholarly and reference ebooks covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Includes netlibrary, Safari Tech, Oxford References, more...

Safari Tech Books Online
Online books in computer science, information technology, business, and related fields.

netLibrary / (Help with netlibrary)
A large collection of online books available for reading. Usage info: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes.

eBook Collections Available Only at Case

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series I is a major resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Early English Books Online--Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership has proposed to create 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding image files in the EEBO (above). In combination, the text and image editions of these works provide a powerful research and instructional tool of unquestioned enduring value.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Includes 138,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 and covers, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Major Sci/Tech References Available Only at Case

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

e-EROS--Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis

International Tables for Crystallography--OnlineEdition | Interactive Version

 
 
 

Engineering and Scientific References (Knovel): Includes--

Merck Index--The Merck Index is a structure-searchable encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals. More than 10,000 monographs on single substances and related groups of compounds cover chemical, generic, and brand names; registry numbers; physical data and literature references; structures and stereochemistry; toxicity information; and therapeutic uses. To use this database, please register first! Just click the "Register" button on the left hand side of the main page.

Encyclopedia /Multidisciplinary References

Encyclopaedia Judaica, Gale Virtual Reference 2nd ed., 22v, 2007

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

Encyclopedia Of Philosophy (Routledge)

Literary Reference Center-- LRC combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals and includes:

  • plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
  • articles of literary criticism
  • full text of literary journals
  • author biographies
  • book reviews

Oxford African American Studies Center--Provides researchers with more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field.The core content includes:

Oxford English Dictionary --Historical dictionary of the English language.

Oxford Reference Online--Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works.

Oxford Scholarship Online--Contains over 1,150 books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Thesaurus of the English Language

World Almanac

World Book Web--Contains encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, pictures, audio, and video, and more...

Business/Career Related

2007 U.S. Industry and Market Outlook 

2007 World Industry & Market Outlook

Vocational and Career Collection
Index, abstracts, and full text for 350 trade and industry related periodicals.

Selected Plays/Poetry

African-American Poetry
3000 poems by African-American poets in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Includes or has links to full text.

American Poetry
40,000 poems of American writers from the 17th to the early 20th century. Includes or has links to full text.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Full text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, and related works. Includes or has links to full text.

Eighteenth Century Fiction
Full text of 96 works of prose fiction written in the British Isles, 1700-1780.

English Poetry
Full text of over 160,000 poems written in English 600-1900. Includes or has links to full text.

English Prose Drama
Full text of over 1800 plays written in prose for the stage, from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century.

English Verse Drama
Full text of over 2200 works of poetry intended for the stage. Includes or has links to full text.

Images/Multimedia/Texts

AAS@Case--African Americans at Case
A digital exhibit highlighting the presence of African Americans at Case Western Reserve University since its inception.

Digital Case
A collection of materials covering a variety of topics and interests.

 Digital Media Center
Provides collections of electronic images, videos, and sound.

 Annals of American History
Full text of over 2000 primary documents and multimedia files covering American history. Includes or has links to full text.

Style Guides

Citation Style Guides: MLA, APA, Columbia, CBE, etc. 
Help with formatting bibliographies, papers, journal articles, etc.

Freely Available Internet Books

Project Gutenberg--
The first and largest single collection of free electronic books.

Online Books Page
A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

 

 

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What are Electronic Resources?
Electronic resources are generally considered to be Internet-based or online versions of print journals, newspapers, magazines, books, manuals, and other materials. It should be noted that some journals and databases are now published in electronic format only. This trend is expected to continue.
What are electronic or ejournals?

An electronic journal (ejournal, e-journal, ej, etc.) is a digitized or online version of a printed journal, such as the Physical Review A. Like most ejournals, this journal exists in both print and electronic formats. Collectively, the Case libraries provide access to thousands of electronic journals. This includes journals that are licensed independently by the Case libraries, journals in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center, and a select number of journals that are freely available over the World Wide Web.

Users should be aware that many titles licensed by Case are not accessible from the OhioLINK EJC. An example of this is Science Online, the Web version of Science Magazine.

What are research databases?

A database is a collection of information organized into a particular format. Every item in a database has its own record and each of these records is itself divided into specific fields of information (e.g., author, title, etc.) In this respect, a telephone book can be defined as a database.

An electronic research database is a computerized collection of information in digital format. The Case libraries provide access to several hundred research databases, many of which include the full text of journal and newspaper articles. View Research Databases for a complete list of databases provided by the Case Libraries.

Users should be aware that several titles subscribed by Case are not accessible from the OhioLINK Research Databases list. An example of this is IEEE Xplore. IEEE Xplore provides full text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.

How do I access the Databases from Home?

If you are a student, faculty, or staff at Case, you may access the databases with software-free remote authentication to OhioLINK electronic databases and journals. When you're away from your own computer or away from campus, logon to OhioLINK and choose a database or electronic journal.

You'll be prompted to enter Case as your school, your name and Case Account Number (your SS# is no longer used), and your library PIN

For current Case enrolled and employed individuals, it's a simple way to have 2 hours of remote access to OhioLINK-only electronic content, and you can reconnect as often as you need to use the reources! Use any computer with a current web-browsr. (Remote authentication to Case-only resources requires VPN software on your computer.) Use PIN authentication for OhioLINK-only resources across the U.S. and around the world!

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