Ebooks
E-Books are electronic full-text copies of published print materials. E-books are available via the Library's subscription databases and the Web.
ebrary
The collection for Community and Career Colleges contains more than 19,500 titles. Subject areas include: Nursing and Allied Health, Computer Technologies and Business, Law Enforcement, Criminal Law, and Criminology, Culinary Arts, Industrial Arts and more. Please click here to access the tutorial.
Credo Reference
Full text database of articles from hundreds of reference books covering all major topics; includes audio files, images, and maps.
eLibrary
Full text multi-disciplinary database providing access to magazines, newspapers, books, TV and radio transcripts, reference book articles, plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links, and audio/video files. Coverage: 1981 – present (Multimedia: historical to present).
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full text database providing 23 subject specific dictionaries, encyclopedias and general reference books as well as the online version of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Subjects include contemporary fashion, poets and novelists, film, alternative medicine, popular culture, small business and more. Includes two children’s visual reference books on the U.S. and the world.
OverDrive
OverDrive is the SAILS network's host of ebooks. This ebook collection contains hundreds of titles of popular fiction and nonfiction, a limited number of scholarly titles, audiobooks and music files. OverDrive is meant to be used on the patron's home computer. It requires the creation of an account and the installation of software to the user's computer.
Please note that patrons must register from and install to their home computer. Overdrive is not available for use in the library. For further information and instructions go to the SAILS OverDrive homepage.
The TumbleBook Library
A collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, and TumbleQuizzes, as well as TumbleResources for teachers. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 87th edition
This handbook provides current, critically evaluated chemical and physical data. Many of the most heavily used tables receive major updates and expansions, most notably: Physical Properties of Inorganic Compounds; Bond Dissociation Energies; and Chemical Carcinogens was updated in accordance with the recent report from the National Toxicology Program.
Google Book Search
The Google Book Project involves the digitization of several large library collections; these books searchable and discoverable via the Web. Google shows information about the book, and in many cases, a few sentences to display your search term in context.
The Open Library
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal. To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (20 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. We have built the database infrastructure and the wiki interface, and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books.
Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library.
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in their collections.