Subject Coverage:
covers countless subjects
Dates of Coverage:
1000 C.E. to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 548 million item records
more than 3.3 billion holdings records
Note:
It includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century as well as books cataloged yesterday. It would be a challenge to name a book that would not have a record in this database. Numerous journal articles are also available through WorldCat.
The Library's books are arranged by Dewey Decimal numbers. The Dewey Decimal numbers for Education are:
370 Education
371 Schools & their activities; special education
372 Elementary education
373 Secondary education
374 Adult education
375 Curricula
376 Women and education
377 Religion and education
378 Higher education
379 Public policy issues in education
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
1866 to present
Update Frequency:
annually with a two-year rolling wall
Size:
more than 43,000 books
Notes:
More than 80 publishers.
These have no limits on the number of concurrent users nor do they have any DRM restrictions - they can be freely downloaded and saved.
Subject Coverage:
multi-disciplinary
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
whenever new titles are purchased
Size:
more than 350 books
Subject Coverage:
scholarly monographs, reference titles, computer manuals, and other non-fiction
Dates of Coverage:
2001 to present
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 125,000 e-books
Restrictions:
Access to individual e-books is limited to 1 user at a time.
Note:
An e-book may be viewed for any period of time but will automatically check itself back in after 15 minutes of inactivity. "Activity" is defined as traffic between the PC and the server. Using the scroll bar to move down the page is not activity. Clicking into a new page is activity.
BookServer - Locate books in electronic format from the Internet Archive
Google Book Search - Searches the full-text of books from various publishers and libraries
Project Gutenberg - Library of free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA
OAIster - Digital resources, providing access to a large number of eprints archives and electronic resources