Vendor Book Strengths Leasing? Purchasing? Downloadable? User MARC? Other
Account
Reqd?
Baker & business, reference, fiction, Yes ? Yes Yes Yes designed for remote use
Taylor e- non-fiction, consumer law
Content
Delivery
Books 24X7 IT, business, engineering, Yes ? Yes (only select Yes ? Keeps user history of recently
finance content) accessed books
Ebooks fiction & nonfiction, graphic No Yes Yes Yes ? allows for simultaneous, multi-
Corporation novels, children’s books user access
ebrary business, computers, Yes No No Yes Yes allows for simultaneous, multi-
scholarship, career user access
development
FictionWise/ fiction, nonfiction, children’s Yes No Yes No ? can validate on library card
LibWise titles, business, history number
NetLibrary 40,000 books available, Yes Yes Yes (if you buy Yes Yes soon to distribute Penguin titles
consumer health, computers, additional & audio books, strict single-
business, travel, consumer software) user model
law, study aids
Overdrive best sellers & audiobooks No Yes Yes No Yes designed for remote use, can
validate on library card number
Ovid medical, clinical, nursing, & ? ? ? ? ? offers several specialized
pharmaceuticals texts packages
Proquest 2,000+ technology books Yes No No Yes Yes single-user model
Safari
Tumbleweed animated storybooks (with Yes No No No ? allows for simultaneous, multi-
Press audio) and large type user access
EBSCO: 2,000 J & YA nonfiction Yes No No No ? can search by Lexile score
BookSource: books
Nonfiction
Gale Virtual e-versions of Gale’s No Yes No No Yes purchase each title separately
Reference reference books
Library
Ebooks Update, November 2004 – Produced by Sarah Houghton for the Infopeople Project
[http://infopeople.org/], supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library
Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Free Ebook Book Strengths Leasing? Purchasing? Downloadable? User MARC? Other
Provider Account
Reqd?
Escholarship UC Press titles, monographs N/A N/A No No No project of the California Digital
from the UC International and Library, 400 titles available to
Area Studies Digital the public
Collection, experimental
interactive publications like
ECAI, and legacy content like
the DOJ.
National 3,000 books online free, non- N/A N/A 900 books No No reports issued by the National
Academy fiction, academic scholarship available for Academy of Sciences, the
Press download National Academy of
(though not free) Engineering, the Institute of
Medicine, and the National
Research Council
Online Books 20,000 e-Books—non-fiction, N/A N/A No No No a consolidation of e-books
Page classical literature found on other websites—a
good one stop shop
Oxford Text classical literature, non- N/A N/A Yes Yes No primarily academic materials
Archive fiction, various languages
Project over 6,000 books published N/A N/A Yes No No the first (& many consider the
Gutenberg pre-1923, classic literature, best) free e-books resource for
non-fiction, books by authors the general public
who have made their books
available for free
Electronic 70,000 humanities texts in N/A N/A No No No University of Virginia Project
Text Center various languages
Internet Chinese classical texts, N/A N/A Varies Varies Varies a selective listing of two dozen
Public Aesop’s fables, literary other collections & individual
Library’s List classics, religious classics, texts (including some listed
of other small mythology, philosophy, etc. above)
collections
Ebooks Update, November 2004 – Produced by Sarah Houghton for the Infopeople Project
[http://infopeople.org/], supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library
Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.