Research Tools: Books & Media

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The 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. (Bartleby.com)

Provided by ipl2. (Drexel University)

(Supported by The University of Victoria and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)

Includes Shakespeare guides that provide side-by-side translations of Shakespeare into plain English. (SparkNotes LLC)

Install the search plug-ins to make it easier to access UH Manoa Library's resources. The plug-ins add the ability to search the Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog and the UH Manoa Electronic Resources Gateway from the search boxes in the Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers.

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Provides links to more than 148,000 full-text digital books from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 120,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. (Digital Book Index)

Provides access to millions of books. If a book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given Google permission, you can see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If the book is in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy. (Google)

Provides access to more than 5 million volumes in digital formats, of which more than 75% is in the public domain. In addition to digitized books, there is journal and (limited) institutional repository content from the holdings of
more than two dozen university research libraries. (HathiTrust)

Provides access to more than 4,300 books, both old and new, in more than 50 languages. (International Children's Digital Library Foundation)

Provides access to more than 2.4 million items. (Internet Archive)

The National Academies Press publishes the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The books cover a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. Many of the titles are offered in PDF format and can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while other books are available for purchase. (National Academy of Sciences)

Provides access to 35,000 free books. (The Online Books Page)

Provides access to works ranging from primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome to early modern English literature to sources on the history of the 19th-century United States and more. (Tufts University)

Licensed for UH Manoa use only. Contains 317 books published by the University of Hawaii Press in digital format. (NetLibrary, a division of EBSCO Publishing)

The Center, located in Sinclair Library, contains a variety of media: videotapes DVDs, CDs, audiocassettes, filmstrips, slide kits, CD-ROMs, phonodiscs, videodiscs, and a large collection of feature films. Items may be borrowed for a period of 7 days with proper UH identification. The Center provides a Reserves service for instructors and faculty to place course materials such as books or test examples on short loan for students. (UH Manoa Library)

Contains information describing 1.5 billion items available through more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. Includes items in digital and physical formats. Includes UH Manoa Library holdings information. (OCLC)