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English and Humanities

A guide to English and Humanities resources.

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Databases

A wide selection of academic eBooks from top publishers and presses.

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Formerly Safari Books, O’Reilly for Higher Education is a new platform that includes access to 35,000+ technical eBooks, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths, and audiobooks. It also includes access to over 30,000 hours of video, including presentations from O’Reilly's global conferences.

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Online access to hundreds of eBooks specially curated for our institution. Includes required textbooks for some courses.
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Free eBook Resources

The DPLA is a discovery tool for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. Discover over 45 million images, texts, videos, and sounds.

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, to create "one web page for every book ever published". Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many public domain, out-of-print, and in-print books.

Project Gutenberg is an online library of over 60,000 free eBooks.


Physical Books

Search the USV Learning Resource Center Catalog for physical books to check-out on-campus.