Web-Accessible Books:
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Core Historical Literature of Agriculture – from the Albert R. Mann Library,
Digital Book Index – provides links to more than 105,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 66,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.
ESP: Electronic Scholarly Publishing – particularly of interest for history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research.
HEARTH: Home Economics Archive - Research, Tradition, History – from the Albert R. Mann Library,
Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms – Fairly extensive glossary of terms in geology, some with links to color illustrations.
Online Books Page – links to more than 20,000 English language books in various formats in a variety of subject areas, site hosted by the
National Academies Press – reports issued by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council from 1996 to the present. You can choose to purchase paper versions of the books, but they are also available free online.
NCBI Bookshelf – full-text biomedical books
NIST Chemistry WebBook – contains data for various chemicals.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections – contains books and journals about research conducted by
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