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Electronic Books are available only to UCA students, faculty, and staff. If you access these books from off campus, you will be asked for your Name, UCA ID number, and Library PIN. For more information, please refer to Creating a Library PIN.
For research and reference help, e-mail the Cybrarian. If you need immediate help, contact the Reference desk at 450-5224.
Electronic Books and Media
Health Films Online
Torreyson Library has access to 20 health-related films on demand lasting from 20 minutes to over 3 hours.
Titles include:
- COPD: The Struggle to Breathe;
- Echoes of Autism;
- Hookworm;
- Immune from Harm: Discovering Vaccines;
- Infectious Diseases: More Mobility, Greater Danger;
- Living with Alzheimer's;
- Measles;
- MRSA-Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus
Aerus;
- NewsHour Medical Ethics and Issues Anthology;
- Outbreak in America: When the Flu Pandemic Hits Home;
- Outbreak in Asia:
How a Flu Pandemic is Born;
- Pneumococcal Disease; Rotavirus; Science in Everyday Life:
- Health and Wellnes Video Clips, Part 2;
Seeking Perfection;
- Understanding Hepatitis A, B and C;
- Understanding Mental Illness and Schizophrenia;
- Who's Normal Anyway?
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Torreyson Library has access to 10 health-related reference sets. Encyclopedia entries include images, graphs and charts.
Titles include:
- Complete Human Diseases and Conditions, 3v, 2008;
- Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Learning about Addictive Behavior, 3v, 2008;
- Encyclopedia of Health and Aging, 2007;
- Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases, 2006;
- Encyclopedia of Women's Health, 2004;
- The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition, 2008;
- Infectious Diseases: In Context, 2008;
- Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z, 2004.
Handbook of Chemistry
and PhysicsThe Handbook of Chemistry and Physics provides quality and up to date physical science
data used by scientists and engineers.
NetLibrary
Provides access to 10,912 eBooks and 3,407 publicly accessible eBooks. Subject areas include: American History, Literature, Computer Science, Education, Library Science, Bibliographies, Publishing, Medicine/Health, Law, Psychology, Women/Gender Studies, Ecomonics & Business, Film/Media Studies, Languages/Philology/Linguisitics, Music, Sociology, Ecology/Environmental Studies, Bilogy/Natural History/Microbiology, Agriculture, travel guides, testing guides, and more.
Nutritional Care Manual (ADA)
(On Campus Access Only)
The ADA
Nutrition Care Manual is published by the American Dietetics Association.
The Nutrition Care Manual is consistent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services’ Interpretive Guidelines for the Hospital Conditions of
Participation. NCM also meets the Joint Commission’s Hospital Accreditation
Standards 2007. Additionally, NCM has been named the preferred diet manual
by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the
most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes
the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000 tracks, including
Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
Naxos Music Library - Jazz
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available
online. It offers close to 22,600* tracks of jazz from over 2,300* albums.
 R2 Library
Provides e-books in Nursing and the Health Sciences. Currently there are a limited number of titles, as we are building this collection. However, as usage increases, purchases will be based on those titles users want/need to access.
Web Resources
Electronic Text Collection
University of Virginia Library. Provides full-text of resources that are available on the public domain; not all collections/works are available to the public, but these are so noted. Collections inlcude: Middle English, Modern English, Poetry, Shakespeare, and Bibles. Text also available in other languages, including Latin, French, Japanese, and German.
Internet Classics Archive
Offers 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
Luminarium
Designed to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Offers three categories: Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century. Each category includes links to full-text versions of books and other works by selected authors as well as articles and essays.
The Online Medieval & Classical Library
a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Can be searched by Title, Author, Genre, and Language.
Project Gutenberg
The Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). No text are published that are still in copyright. Because of this, texts are generally taken from books published pre-1923. You will find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.
Shakespeare.com
Offers content on the life and work of the world's greatest author, including eNotes to more than 20 titles. Includes study guides, information on his life and world, translations, an encyclopedia, and topical essays on Shakespeare's most popular plays.
Victorian Women's Writers Project
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, to include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Site can be searched by keyword or by title or author.
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