RESOUR> [NetGold] BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: RESOURCES : REFERENCE: TOOLS: INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING TOOLS: Digital Book Index

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: RESOURCES : REFERENCE: TOOLS:
    INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING TOOLS: Digital Book Index



BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: RESOURCES : REFERENCE: TOOLS: INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING
TOOLS: Digital Book Index

Digital Book Index
<http://digitalbookindex.com/about.htm>

"Over the last decade, a quiet revolution has been going on in the
development of a large library of "digital" or "electronic" books. While
there are still large gaps, a very substantial body of "Western" thought
is available in the form of downloadable or on-line books. Most major
writers, from Plato to Frederick Forsythe, are accessible on the
Internet. Subjects range from the highly scholarly to the contemporary
and popular -- especially as more commercial publishers discover the
virtues of "on-line" distribution. This index is intended to draw
together that large body of resources and make it easier for both
libraries and the public to access.

Digital Book Index provides access to more than 80,000 titles records.
It is the sole index that gathers both commercial and non-commercial
eBooks from more than 1800 publishers and private publishing
organizations. Titles range from the Ancient Agriculture to Space Flight
in most major disciplinesLiterature, History, Science and the History of
Science, Social Science, Medicine, the Arts, Religion, and various Area
Studies (Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Women's Studies), etc. An
extensive Reference section includes more than 2000 Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Timelines,
Chronologies, Literary Histories, and includes, as well, a section on
Writing & Style Guides that would be hard to  surpass anywhere. Library
subscribers to NetLibrary will find most of those eBooks indexed as well.
More than 25,000 titles from public archivesall indexed hereare available
free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Thousands more
contemporary titles, ranging from the Nancy Drew mysteries to Star Trek,
Ernest Hemingway or John Le Carr, are available from many leading
publishers."

<snip>

Using the site. Most users should find the organization of this site
reasonably intuitive. We recommend you begin by reading "Getting Started"
on the main menu after login.

Charges: Use of this site is Free.

* Partial List of electronic Book collections and resources for which the
books available from those sources are indexed by this digital book index.

MAJOR PUBLISHING ORGANIZATIONS & ARCHIVES INDEXED (partial list):

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Gutenberg Project
NetLibrary
Library of Congress eTexts
......American Memory Collection
......Dance Collection
......California Collection
......Mid-West Collection,.etc.
SunSite (University of California)
Bartleby
Bibliomania
National Academy Press
Duke University Library
Mass Institute of Technology
......(Internet Classics)
University of Virginia eBooks & eTexts
University of Michigan
......Making of America
         Humanities Text Initiative
University of North Carolina
..... Documents of the American South
University of Oregon
University of Rochester (Camelot Project)
Cornell University (Making of America)
Tufts University (Perseus Project)
Yale University
Brock University (Canada)
McMaster University (Canada)
The National Library of Canada
University of Toronto (Canada)
......Early Canadiana On Line
York University (Canada)
Creighton University (Canada)
University of Bristol (UK)
The British Library (UK)
Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland)
University of Adelaide (Australia)
University of Sydney (Australia)
 . . and hundreds of others!

PLUS...
Approximately 200 University Presses
and several hundred
commercial Publishers, including:
Random House
Simon & Schuster
MacMillan
Bantam Books
and hundreds of others.

For more detailed information, go to
"Search By Publisher" after logging in.

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The following methods are provided for using this database:

Search by AUTHOR
Search by TITLE (KEY WORDS)
Search by AUTHOR & TITLE
Browse by SUBJECTS
Browse by Authors
Browse American Studies (coming)
Browse by Publishers
Browse NetLibrary by Dewey NEW
Reference Desk
Links to Foreign Language Sites
Links to this Site

To provide some sense of how much is indexed in this resource, an author
search of Charles Dickens produces around 130 links to published resources
by this author. One link for Our Mutual Friend takes the user to this fee
based listing at EBooks.com:

Our Mutual Friend
By: Dickens, Charles
Published By: Modern Library
Adobe Reader Price: $4.95
Microsoft Reader Price: $3.95
Palm Reader Price: $4.95
<http://www.ebooks.com/books/115927.smm>

Another link from the same search leads to a university site of Dicken's
poetry.

Dickens, Charles Selected Poetry of CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) 2002 Html
n/c UToronto
<http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet425.html>

Libraries are subscribing to expensive services from several competing
vendors to track by journal title, international serial number and the
like the electronic journal availability of e-journals that are a part of
various database and journal aggregating services for periodicals that a
specific institution subscribes to.  This very inexpensive service
(free!!!) is apparently well on the way to doing this same kind of role
for electronic book collections internationally and not just in terms of
the owned subscriptions for a particular library or organization.  This
source in a matter of moments can take one to a free copy of a book or a
group of books by an author if such free versions of an author's
publications are indeed available electronically at no cost.  Fee based
electronic book citations are also found through this resource.

NetGold
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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