Library: ASP101-Murray: Books and E-Books

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Ship Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
Use this search to find articles and books in a wide variety of databases to which Ship Library subscribes. Useful for when you are not finding many results in a more-targeted database.
Access on-campus or off-campus with your ShipID
WorldCat Advanced Search This link opens in a new window
The world's largest book database, WorldCat serves as a shared library catalog for 25,000+ libraries worldwide. Contains links to books, periodical titles, videos, internet resources, and other cataloged resources in libraries. It also contains selected collections of periodical articles. Access from on campus or off campus, with no ID required.
Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
The Library Catalog is the authoritative list of physical items in the Shippensburg University library collections. For access to online journals, please check the Journal Titles List.

Google Book Search
The largest collection of electronic books. It includes both free e-books as well as snippets of books not available for free.
Internet Archive Text Archive
This collection features over 20 million freely available books and texts and "a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account"--website.
Digital Book Index
This site provides access to electronic books from many of the most important web e-book collections. The great value in this smaller selective site is that it includes texts from a wide range of digitization projects. Access is free but very brief registration is required.
Project Gutenberg
A collection of some 36,000+ electronic books in the public domain.
The Online Books Page
A collection of some 1+ million electronic books.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository that provides long-term access for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.