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Reference Desk
Books and Literature
Bibliography
- Bibliomysteries
www.bibliomysteries.com
- Books in Print
infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/broo39667
Not available for use outside of CUNY campus without a subscription.
Book Reviews
- Booklist
www.ala.org/booklist/index.html
The electronic version of the American Library Association publication; offers current and past reviews of adult and children's print and non-print materials. Multiple access points include indexes to volumes, issues and archives (since 1996). For any issue or volume selected, choose a review group such as adult or children and then browse through subject categories such as Philosophy and Psychology or Geography and Travel; titles arranged alphabetically by author; entries include price and publisher address as well as standard bibliographic information and review. Excite search engine will search complete Booklist site (useful if seeking a review of a particular title).
Online Books
- Banned Books On-Line
www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/banned-books.html
- Concordances of Great Books
www.concordance.com
- InformIT
www.informit.com/itlibrary
View a list of electronic books from Macmilliam subsidiaries including SAMS and Que and others; register for The "Add To MyInformIT" link on each content page which allows you to save the chapter you are reading or save the entire book you are reading. Full-text and sample chapters cover web publishing and programming, JAVA, web servers and networks.
- Online Books FAQ of 6/1/93
www.cs.indiana.edu/metastuff/bookfaq.html
Links to archive sites for books and electronic texts, non-linking list of 92 known books freely available and list of related Usenet newsgroups; a plain-looking site, not up-dated but a useable starting point for finding electronic text information.
- On-Line Books Page
digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
- Project Bartleby Archive
www.bartleby.com
Links to works by nearly 50 American and British poets, playwrights, essayists, novelists and lexicographers ranging from the 18th century Mary Wollstonecraft through the early 20th century W. E. B. DuBois; also includes inaugural addresses of the U. S. presidents from Washington to Bush; quick and effective search engine.
- Project Gutenberg
promo.net/pg
The comprehensive site for full, electronic texts; includes thousands of titles; browse listings by author or title. Site offers both FTP and HTTP options and links to mirror sites.
- The Reading Room
www.wnyc.org/new/togo/shorts/readingindex.html
A collection of first chapters from books recently discussed on WNYC.
Bookstores Online
- Addall.com
www.addall.com
Book search and price comparison.
- Advanced Book Exchange
www.abebooks.com
Used books.
- Alibris
www.alibris.com
- Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
- BarnesandNoble.com
www.barnesandnoble.com
- Bibliofind.com
www.bibliofind.com
Search for old, used, and rare books offered for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world.
- bigwords.com
bigwords.com
- BookCloseOuts.com
www.bookcloseouts.com
- BookFinder.com
www.bookfinder.com
- BookPool
http://www.bookpool.com
- BookSense.com
www.booksense.com
- Collegestore.com
www.collegestore.com
- Efollet.com
globaltext.efollett.com
- Fatbrain.com
www.fatbrain.com
- Half.com
www.half.com
- National Academy Press
www.nap.edu
Covers publications of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council; includes online books, blurbs, reviews and a search engine; Bookstore accessible with a subject index, primarily covering the sciences, but also including topics such as education, international studies, urban development, and others; attractive and appropriate graphics but low-bandwidth access option is ideal for users with slower modems.
- StudentMarket.com
www.studentmarket.com/textbooks.html
- Varsity Books
www.varsitybooks.com/
Option to order textbooks online. Includes list of texts for classes at specific colleges.
- WizeUp
www.wizeup.com
Textbooks in digital format only.
Poetry
- Electronic Poetry Center
wings.buffalo.edu/epc
Links to full-text poetry magazines and author libraries including poetry, archives, manuscripts, events, essays, reviews, biographies and personal homepages; participate in collaborative poetry writing.
- Internet Poetry Archive
sunsite.unc.edu/ipa/
Includes a limited number of contemporary authors; full-text of poems, bibliography, biography and other documents.
- Literary Kicks
www.charm.net/~brooklyn/LitKicks.html
The complete site for the Beat poets; includes biocritical information, bibliographies and lists of links to publications; all text well-connected with many internal, topical links.
Publishers
- Acqweb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
www.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr.html#alph
- Publishers' Catalogs Home Page
www.lights.com/publisher
Link to commercial and university presses worldwide and find books synopses and other information; search geographic index or use the search engine.
- PubList
www.publist.com/browse
Database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals.
Other Web Sites
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