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Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Books 24 x 7 (IT Pro Collection). Full-text electronic books with a focus on information technologies.

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Ebrary. A collection of thousands of online full-text books and other materials across a variety of subject areas.

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community History E-Book Project. A collection of online scholarly books in the field of history.

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Knovel Scientific and Engineering Interactive Books and Databases. Aggregated engineering and applied science handbooks, databases, and data that can be accessed full text and by utilizing Knovel's proprietary tabular analysis tools. (individual title records are uploaded into CLIO every month.)

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community NetLibrary. A collection of over 24,000 online books in full-text from commercial and university publishers.

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Safari Tech Books Online. A collection of information technology books, digitized and made available by Safari Books Online in conjunction with the original publishers. Columbia University has access to ONLY O'Reilly, Adobe, Cisco, Addison Wesley & Prentice Hall titles published during the current year + 2 back years. (individual title records are not in CLIO at this time.)

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Online Books Project Texts. Etexts that were made available at Columbia as part of the A.W. Mellon Foundation-funded "Online Books Project" (1995-1999).

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Virtual Reading Room Pilot Project. A test collection of 15 texts from Columbia's Core Curriculum syllabus made available for student study and for use by faculty as supplemental teaching tools.


Columbia University Libraries Electronic Text Service. Assistance in locating, creating, and using electronic texts. A large in-house collection of electronic texts and text software.

  • E-Books Collections. Searchable collections of electronic books and other non-periodical texts available online through Columbia Libraries, along with some of the most outstanding publicly-accessible resources.

  • E-Books on the Internet. A broader selection of e-books in various languages and genres, publicly available on the Internet or in specialized e-book repositories. (The quality and accuracy of these resources may vary.)