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Books/Media
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PILOT Library Catalog
For print books, note the article title and page number; then follow the book title link to discover the library location (call number). The articles in most E-Books can be viewed online.
Note: some E-Books from Gale and Oxford may not be available. If you encounter a dead-end at the publisher site, return and click on book title to see title information in the PILOT Library Catalog.
Renew your WCU Library books online .
If you need a book and the Library does not have it, you can borrow it from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
Online books purchased by WCU Libraries :
Blackwell Reference Online
Credo Reference
A cross-searchable set of over 550 reference books online in a wide range of subject areas. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations include such diverse titles such as the CIA World Factbook, Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English, Dictionary of E-Business, Guide to Global Hazards, & Oddbins Dictionary of Wine.
CQ Press Electronic Library
Congress A to Z
Elections A to Z
Presidency A to Z
Supreme Court A to Z
U.S. Constitution A to Z
CQ Press Political Reference Suite
Guide to Congress
Guide to Political Campaigns in America
Guide to the Presidency
Guide to U. S. Elections
Guide to the U. S. Supreme Court
Historic Documents Series
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online
Companion to Ancient History, A
Companion to the Medieval World, A
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
DSM-IV-TR
Practice Guidelines
DSM, previous editions
Directory of Philosophy
Select "Directory of Philosophy" on the dark blue top horizontal navigation bar.
eBook Collection in EBSCO
Titles previously available through the NetLibrary platform are now in EBSCO, as well as many new e-books.
ebrary
E-books from ebrary. The link will take you to a list of books that have been purchased by WCU Libraries. New titles are added on a regular basis, so check back again soon.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Online
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Online
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Currently 17 e-books in the environmental sciences, such as Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Environmental Encyclopedia, and Climate Change in Context. Enter terms in the Search box to search all books or go to "Basic Search" to select and search in a specific book.
Handbook of Research on Assessment Technologies, Methods & Applications in Higher Education
Handbook of Research on ePortfolios
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Online
NetLibrary
NetLibrary books are now available in the eBook Collection from EBSCO (see above).
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Oxford Handbooks Online - Philosophy Collection
Access is for 2 simultaneous users. If you are prompted for a username and password when you select full-text, someone else is using the collection: please try again later!
Safari Books Online
Read online books for computer applications, programming and security issues: e.g. Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2010, Wikis, C++, Perl, PHP, RFID, Ruby on Rails, XML, JavaScript...
Salem Press Reference Books Online
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events
Milestone Documents in African-American History
Great Events from History
Ancient World, Pre-History to 476
Middle Ages, 477-1453
Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600
Seventeenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Great Lives from History
African Americans
The Fifties in America
The Sixties in America
The Seventies in America
Historical Encyclopedia of American Business
Free Online Book Collections - Explore More!
WCU Special Collections in the Internet Archive
Digitized WCU catalogs (undergraduate and graduate) back to 1871; yearbooks; books by Russell L. Sturzebecker
Electronic Literature Collection
Published by the Electronic Literature Organization, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Volume 1 includes a medley of recent works of varied forms.
Google Book Search
Did you know that the WCU Libraries catalog, PILOT, now links to Google Books, if available? Google is providing access to books through the Library Project and Partner Program. Note: not all books are completely available; access may be limited to the book's table of contents and selected pages.
ManyBooks.net
Find free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, eBook reader or cellphone.
[The] Online Books Page
Search over 30,000 free books on the Web, by author, title, or subject.
Project Gutenberg
Thousands of volunteers have provided the free ebooks in this groundbreaking project which now provides over 125,000 titles through their catalog and their affiliates.
[The] Universal Digital Library - Million Book Collection
Search or browse books published from the 11th to the 21st centuries.
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