WVU Parkersburg’s library continues to expand its online content including e-books. Many of these e-books can be downloaded for free and are comprised of resources for students and teachers.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
DOAB contains over 3000 monographs from university presses around the world. Many of the titles may be downloaded as PDF files.
Ebook Central
Ebook Central offers full-text, searchable databases of books in all academic disciplines. Combined, our aggregated and publisher-branded databases include more than 100,000 books, maps, reports and more from the world’s leading academic, trade and professional publishers.
Ebscohost Ebook Collections
Ebscohost Ebook is the leading provider of eBooks and Internet-based content management services for the institutional library market.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)
The mission of ICDL is to select, collect, digitize and organize children’s materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children ages three to 13-years-old.
Libby
Libby provides ebooks, audiobooks and videos that may be downloaded to computers, tablets and cell phones.
The Library of Economics and Liberty
The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers and aficionados of economic thought.
Literature for Children
Literature for Children is a collection of children’s literature treasures published largely in the United States and Great Britain. At the core of this collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida.
National Academic Press
National Academic Press provides access to over 5000 electronic books. Many of these ebooks may be downloaded at no cost.
OAPEN Open Access Library
OAPEN Open Access Library provides access to a wide range of electronic books. These ebooks may be downloaded at no cost.
The Online Library of Liberty
The Liberty Fund makes the classic texts which contributed to our modern understanding of the nature of limited government, individual liberty, and the free market more accessible to scholars, students and other interested individuals. The aim is to put online both facsimiles of these classic texts (in PDF format) as well as searchable HTML versions. These texts can be read on their own or in conjunction with numerous study aides such as short biographies of key authors, bibliographies, thematic and historical essays, and course syllabi.
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s largest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
West Virginia Encyclopedia
The West Virginia Encyclopedia offers full-text, searchable databases of books in all academic disciplines. Combined, our aggregated and publisher-branded databases include more than 100,000 books, maps, reports and more from the world’s leading academic, trade and professional publishers.
Video tutorial for Ebook Central.