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Writing and Information Resources
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics "More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. "
FedWorld Information Network " The FedWorld.gov web site is a gateway to government information. This site is managed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) as part of it's information management mandate."
National Archives and Records Administrations "Our Mission. . . to ensure ready access to essential evidence . . . that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience . . . "
ScienceDaily Magazine -- Your link to the latest research news
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence "On April 18, 1997, President Clinton asked Federal agencies to determine what 'resources you can make available that would enrich the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning.' In response, more than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of federally supported education resources available at this web site."
EOE Home Page "The Educational Object Economy (EOE) is a community of Educators, Developers and Businesses working together to use, create, and collaborate upon Educational Java objects on the web. Currently, there are over 2400 educational Java objects in the library, covering virtually every subject area. These interactive simulations, illustrations, and exercises are available at no cost for anyone with web access to use."
Webpages of Scholarly Societies "The Editor has been converting gopher links to webpage links since 1995, May 5, and is pleased that only one gopher resource has not yet been replaced by a website: that of the the American Antiquarian Society."
Britannica Internet Guide "The Britannica Internet Guide is a World Wide Web navigation service that classifies, rates, and reviews more than 65,000 Web sites. Britannica editors search the Web to identify quality Web resources, which are clearly and concisely described, rated according to consistent standards, and indexed for superior retrieval."
Perseus Project "The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Planning for Perseus began in 1985; the project was formally established in July, 1987. Since then, the Perseus Project has published two CD-ROMs and created the on-line Perseus Digital Library. Recent expansion into Latin texts and tools and Renaissance materials has served to add more coverage within Perseus and has prompted the project to explore new ways of presenting complex resources for electronic publication. "
Shakespeare Online "In September 1999 I launched Shakespeare Online with hopes of providing free and original information on Shakespeare to students, teachers, and Shakespeare enthusiasts in general. The site has grown very fast and now receives over 2 million hits/month."
National Museum of American Art Here you can brows their collection of over 3000 images.
Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG "The Internet has become an invaluable tool for supporting education and research. More and more key information providers such as academics, researchers, governments and organisations are now using the Internet as a means of disseminating or publishing information. However, the vast quantity of information available, together with the fact that this information is located on computers around the world, makes it very difficult for users to find and retrieve relevant information. SOSIG aims to offer social scientists a quick and easy way of finding quality networked information that can support their work."
H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine "An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources. "
ADAM: Art,Design, Architecture, Media Information Gateway " ... is a service being developed to help you find useful, quality-assured information on the Internet "
National Museum of th American Indian "The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Established by an Act of Congress in 1989, the museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming traditions and beliefs, encouraging contemporary artistic expression, and empowering the Indian voice."
Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style is one of the classic books and references put on the Internet by the Project Bartleby Archive.
Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD gives you search capabilities for word definitions as found in the 1912 edition of Webster's dictionary.
Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations is another classic text with search capability put on the net by Project Bartleby.
Dictionary.com "Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet."
yourDictionary.com " .. provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. More than 1,500,000 people a month visit YDC.
Information Please "Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Information Please places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips. Our staff of editors and researchers continuously update and refine this enormous body of information – as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends – to bring you the most reliable and authoritative information. We will keep you up-to-date."
Encyclopedia.com "Welcome to Encyclopedia.com - the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia! This site conveniently places an extraordinary amount of information at your fingertips. More than 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition have been assembled to provide free, quick and useful information on almost any topic."
Martindale's 'The Reference Desk A highly awarded site with links to an incredible variety of resources.
Yahoo! Reference This page contains links to reference sites, dictionaries, libraries, and much more.
Britannica.com The complete Encyclopædia Britannica is now free online.
Electronic Journals and e-Zines
BestEzines.com "Our motto is "Choose Your Ezines Wisely." We help you do just that with our database of high-quality email newsletters and our biweekly newsletter, which spotlights four worthwhile newsletters in each issue."
The ETEXT Archives "Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Our mission is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content."
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ACCESS (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries) "This home page provides a title and subject organization of electronic serial publications (e.g. journals, newsletters, magazines, e'zines, webzines) on the Internet."
Editor & Publisher "Editor & Publisher is a 114-year-old, privately-held company that publishes magazines for the newspaper, free publication and online news industries; a line of annual newspaper industry reference books and market data reports in both print and CD-ROM formats, and maintains an online industry news Web site."
Arts & Letters Daily -ideas, criticism, debate "At this stage in its evolution the Web resembles a typical Australian goldfield, with vast mountains of low-grade ore.
Mining in both cases can be arduous. On the Internet it means sifting through endless streams of verbose, under-edited, often self-indulgent prose, frequently accompanied by tedious graphics that negate the "instant information" advantage of the Web.
Precious nuggets of real content are there to be found, however, and it's the mission of Arts & Letters Daily to extract them for our readers."
Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - University of Houston Library
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications as such, including electronic serials. More than one million ISSN numbers have so far been assigned.
Bartleby.com - "great books online"
Project Gutenberg " .. is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)."
The Online Books Page - "Celebrating 10 years listing free books on the Web."
National Academies Press - "read more than 2500 books online FREE"
EServer.org "The EServer (founded in 1990 as the English Server) attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work. We offer 44 collections on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing and current political and social issues. In addition to written works, we publish hypertext, audio and even video recordings. Our collections grow as we welcome new contributions, and as we teach new members how to publish works to the Web and to the million or so readers who visit our site per week."
Internetbookinfo.com - "News, views, and opinions for book-lovers"
Booklist "For book readers bored with the limited selection of reviews available in daily newspapers and mass-market magazines, here is your source for more current, more concise information on a wider range of new books. Check this site every couple of weeks as new reviews continue to appear".
Book Links "Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms."
New York Review of Books "As a complement to electronic reading lists and course packets, or as a wide-ranging research tool, The New York Review of Books on-line is the perfect resource for professors, teachers, and students. Fully searchable by author, book under review, date, or keyword, our ever-expanding on-line archive -- 15 years will be on-line by Fall 1998 -- offers exceptional depth as an on-line source."
The New York Times: Books (Note: First time users must fill in a free subscription form.)
PublishersWeekly "Publishers Weekly is the international news magazine of book publishing and bookselling. Industry professionals depend on PW for in-depth interviews with top authors, publishing industry news, bestseller lists, and early reviews of adult and children's books."
Library of Congress Home Page One of the best resources on the Web.
WWW Virtual Library "The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, created by Tim Berners-Lee, who also created the web itself! Unlike other catalogs and search engines, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert. While it doesn't have the same breadth of coverage of the commercial or robotic indexes, pages in the VL are usually far more useful, due to the care and expertise that has gone into writing them. "
LibrarySpot "LibrarySpot is a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. LibrarySpot was designed to break through the information overload of the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, user-friendly spot."
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE " This site has links to collections, art, photographs, and links to other SunSites.
ibiblio.org "- home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. ibiblio is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies."
The Michigan Electronic Library "The Michigan Electronic Library (MEL) is an online information system that provides residents of Michigan with no-charge Internet access to a basic set of electronic resources. MEL's 'virtual library' is selected by librarians and is designed to be a significant information tool for the state's libraries and its citizens."
Sailor's (Maryland's Public Information Network) " The primary focus of the Sailor Web site is information about Maryland, information in Maryland libraries, and databases to which Sailor subscribes on behalf of the citizens of Maryland. While the focus is on hosting and providing links to Maryland resources, Sailor provides links to resources around the world on just about every topic, creating a virtual online library of authoritative information available on the Internet."
The Internet Public Library "The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet. As librarians, we are committed to providing valuable services to that world. We do so for many reasons: to provide library services to the Internet community, to learn and teach what librarians have to contribute in a digital environment, to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries, and to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians."
U.S. National Library of Medicine
D-Lib Forum and D-Lib Magazine "Facilitating and supporting the community
developing the technology of the global digital library."
- D-Lib - Ready Reference
- Usability of Hypermedia Educational e-Books (March,2003)
- D-Lib Magazine (September 1999)"A monthly magazine about innovation and research in digital libraries. "
Excelsior College Virtual Library (ECVL) "The mission of Excelsior College Virtual Library is to support the teaching and learning activities of Excelsior College with information resources and services. We fulfill our mission through four activities: selection of pertinent information resources, organization and delivery of information, reference assistance, and instruction in the use and evaluation of information."
'Open Access' is the Wave of the Information Future, Scholar Says (The Chronicle 8/18/00) "Someone told me that about 20 or 25 percent of the information in his field was available with open access. But he said I should have asked him, "Of the information that you use, what percentage is available through open access?" It's about 80 percent, he said. The stuff that's available with open access, he uses. The stuff that he has to go out and get with special permissions doesn't get used. That, to me, was very revealing."
ebrary "ebrary provides a cost-effective, efficient way for libraries and other organizations to give users online access to authoritative information and unique research capabilities, while providing new sales and marketing opportunities for publishers and content providers."
GrammarNOW! A Grammar, Composition, Editing, Proofreading Resource "This is a free site dedicated to answering any grammar, composition, research or formatting question you might have. Send me a grammar question by filling out the form below, and I'll e-mail you a response."
Free University Project "The mission of the Free University Project on the Internet is to produce directly, or through links, guided independent study materials that can lead to college credit by examination."
Readers and Writers Resource Page This site contains links of interest to both readers and writers.
Word Wizard " We offer you a round trip across the language, answering your questions about word or phrase origins, offering a selection of new words, snappy quotes and elegant insults and slang synonyms (coming shortly), as well as our Public Scribe Service and amazing competitions."
HTI American Verse Project "The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920."
Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) "The EPC serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics produced at the University at Buffalo as well as elsewhere on the Internet. Our aim is simple: to make a wide range of resources centered on contemporary experimental and formally innovative poetries an immediate actuality."
Kairos - A Journal For Teachers of Writing in a Webbed Environment "Kairos is an electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature."
- Volume 7.3 Fall, 2002
- CoverWeb · Beyond Normal: Teaching and Learning in Virtual Spaces, C & W 2002
- Issues in Online Teaching and Learning
- Technology and Pedagogy
Center for Digital Storytelling "The Center for Digital Storytelling is the artistic and administrative home to Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen. We are a husband and wife team working with a large number of community collaborators, and our mission is to assist people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives, with source material generated from their personal image archives. We are based at UC Berkeley with an ongoing program of activities and workshops for the campus community and general public."
Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom (January/February 2002)
The Fray " .. is a place for people who believe the web is about personal expression and a new kind of art"
StoryNet "Bringing together and nurturing individuals and organizations that use the power of storytelling in all its forms."
AICTUniversity "Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) began as a personal project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community. While the AICT site is maintained and distributed under the general auspices of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD), this institution is not responsible for content or use thereof. All work on the AICT project has been voluntary, and MCAD-affiliated personnel have contributed innumerable hours of research, clerical, and design effort on a pro-bono basis. Use of the images displayed on this website has also been contributed on a non-royalty basis for the public good."
Corel Magazine, The Graphics Resource is the on-line site for Corel Magazine which focuses on various versions of Corel Draw, a widely used graphics program.
Resources for Icons, Images, and Graphics This page is maintained by Susan Brumbaugh, web site developer, Aphids Communications. "Resources for Icons, Images, and Graphics is a collection of resources for people who either want to find, or learn how to use, graphics on their web pages. Contained here are links to many image archives, general and specific. Where possible, I have indicated archives that are copyrighted or have limited use. You will also find links to references, tools, and other image indexes."
- Very Basic Help with Inline Images "This web site contains very basic instructions for using graphics and images in web documents. It is directed toward beginners, and contains easy to understand language without a lot of jargon and technical terminology."
Chapter 6 Adding Images to Your Site by Philip Greenspun, part of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing A very interesting and informative site after you scroll through the first few paragraphs. See the comments from readers at the end of the page.
The Internet Design & Publishing Center "Welcome to The Design & Publishing Center . . . Design, typography, graphics, illustration, writing, printing, publishing, advertising, signs, displays and information for graphic communicators of all kinds!"
LizardTech "Our award-winning Genuine Fractals™ plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® and compatible image editing programs enable photographers, retouchers, service bureaus, graphic artists, prepress professionals, and printers to produce the highest-quality digital photo enlargements and repurpose artwork at various sizes and resolutions from the same low- to medium-resolution originals."
Drawing Materials and Drawing Techniques, a Guide and Glossary by Michael Miller
Home site of the JPEG and JBIG committees "This site is used for document distribution and discussion by the international JPEG and JBIG groups, who represent a wide variety of companies and academic institutions worldwide. They meet at least three times a year to discuss and create the standards for still image compression."
- JPEG 2000 - Links to information
Graphics Software This is an about.con site run by Sue Chastain.
- PhotoShop Resources
- Knock It Out... with Photoshop! "Learn about specific tools and techniques for removing backgrounds from images. Recently updated with 5 step-by-step tutorials for Photoshop using the background eraser, magnetic lasso, pen tool, channels, quick mask, and more."
Web Graphics on a Budget - Paint Shop Pro Tips and Tricks
Abstract Dimensions - PSP Tips
Clipart.com "Clipart.com is a list of the best clipart, photo, font and web graphic sites on the net."
GoGraph.com - "Your Ultimate Source of Web Graphics!"
ditto.com - the premier visual search engine "ditto.com provides a visual mechanism to search the web using pictures instead of text. Users are directed to the originating web site on which the pictures are located. Should you wish to use any picture, photograph or artwork you see during the search process, you must obtain the appropriate permission from the owner of the material."
IconBAZAAR "Permission is granted for limited use of up to 20 copyrighted images in the construction of personal WWW pages so long as appropriate copyright notification is given and the source is acknowledged in your credits."
- IconBAZAAR - Guide to Other Graphic Collections An extensive list of rated sites containing graphics collections.
Animation Factory - Free Clipart, Animated gifs, graphics, images, icons, buttons and 3D animations They claim to have over 10,000 free animations available.
Millanimations "Please do not alter my animations in any way ( i.e capture single frames,change commentblock, alter size, etc ) and be so kind not to use more than a couple on your site ( I want the collection to be here at Millan Net, where it belongs )." This site contains over 150 animations.
Barry's Clip Art Server contains a large collection of free clip art, images, and graphics. It also has extensive links to other graphic collections and graphic software. "If you want to use these images in your own WWW pages, I request that you NOT make direct links to individual image files. Please copy the files you want to your own server."
Web GraFX-FX: 7000+ FREE GIFs "Animations may not be resold, placed on any location where a membership or entrance fee is required to access them, or used on commercial/business web sites (including intranet and extranet sites) without the knowledge and prior permission of the artist. ........ If you utilize any animations on your web site please provide a link or credit to the creator (when known) somewhere on your web site."
MediaBuilder This site contains free graphics, free online image tools, animated GIFs, and tutorials to help you create Web pages.
Annabella's HTML Help - Graphics Collections
Camera Reviews
Darwin Meets the Digital Camera by David Pogue, New York Times - Technology (6/13/02)
Digital Camera Resource Page - " ...designed to be an unofficial resource for current or future owners of digital cameras."
Digital Photography Review " ... is an independent resource dedicated to the provision of news, reviews and information about Digital Photography and Digital Imaging.."
PEI Magazine "PEI magazine welcomes you to our web site--designed for electronic imaging professionals. Here you'll find some of the best from PEI, and we're always busy planning hot new articles for future issues."
Imaging Resource This site contains digital camera reviews, image comparisons, scanner reviews, and news.
Steve's Digicams This site has an extensive compilation of links to news, hardware, and software related to digital cameras, digital camcorders, scanners, and photo quality printers.
SayCheese.com "We, at Lexar Media, created this Web site not only to address the needs of consumers buying their very first digital cameras, but also to share the experiences of all digital camera pioneers, planning to take full advantage of their digital environment"
Short Courses in Digital Photography by Dennis Curtin. This is an outstanding example of a site that offers free tutorials on a specialized topic.
PCPHOTO - Your Guide To Better Photography Using Computers This is the online site for PCPhoto Magazine. Some of the articles from previous issues are available online.
The photo.net Web service operated by Philip Greenspun Explore this site that has something to say about practically every topic in photography.
Photo District News - PDN Online "Photo District News' online site brings to you electronically the same comprehensive coverage that has, for almost two decades, made PDN/PIX the most important chronicler of the professional photography business. PDN Online taps the power of the Web to complement its printed counterpart by keeping pros constantly updated with late-breaking news on the industry's important marketing, legal and technological developments. It also showcases photographer portfolios and posts reader services such as, new product news, event listings, key links, contest result & entry information, classifieds and article archives -- All in a searchable format."
Digital PhotoCorner - Home of Digital Photography, Digital Imaging, and Digital Cameras
PCPhotoREVIEW - The Ultimate Resource for Digital Cameras
Digital Photography Exhibit - Bradley University
Wild Things Photography This site was created by Theresa Husarik who "is a wildlife and nature photographer living in Utah. She has won numerous local and international awards for her photography depicting natural scenes, and her work has been exhibited in various venues across the country. She travels extensively throughout the western US states and occasionally around the world to find her subjects."
Seven Tips for Better Digital Portraits (12/7/00)
Lexar media - The Digital Film Company "Lexar Media is the only company that focuses exclusively on designing and marketing digital film for digital cameras. We offer CompactFlashTM, PC Cards, and SmartMediaTM products, the three industry-standard formats in widespread use by digital cameras today. Lexar also offers Digital Film Readers and PC Card Adapters which dramatically accelerate the transfer of images to your PC."
Sandisk Corp "The company has five flash data storage product lines: the PC Card ATA FlashDisk, CompactFlash, MultiMediaCard, IDE FlashDrive and the IDE Flash Chipset. In addition to high density, patented SanDisk flash chips, all of the products include an intelligent controller which effectively places the burden of card management on the card itself, not on the host system in which it is used."
CompactFlash Association "The CompactFlash Association is a non-profit, mutual-benefit corporation that promotes adoption of CompactFlash as a worldwide, ultra-small, removable storage standard for capturing and transporting digital data, audio and images. The CFA, which makes the CompactFlash and CF(logo) trademarks and CompactFlash Technical Specification available royalty-free to member companies, is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA."
USB CameraMate - Digital Film Reader
Jasc Software, Inc. "Jasc Software provides web designers and advanced users with leading, Windows-based digital imaging and management solutions that are powerful, easy to use, and affordable."
Scantips.com "My goal is to help newbies with basic scanning procedures. We were all newbies at first. But my goal is NOT about purchasing or installing or troubleshooting scanners."
The IR Guide to Desktop Scanners
Scanning Tips and Related Sites
Getting Started Scanning - an About.com site
TWAIN Working Group "is a not-for-profit organization which represents the imaging industry. TWAIN’s purpose is to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices. The ongoing mission of this organization is to continue to enhance the standard to accommodate future technologies."
General
Presenters University ,developed by InFocus, presents several free tutorials on electronic presentation techniques
- Courses These are free online articles and tutorials on how to make effective presentations.
- Ask the Professor
Presenters Online - Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Successful Presentations
Kodak Presenter's Forum - Tips, Techniques and Lessons
Presentation Software
- Tips & Tricks: Save time with PowerPoint shortcuts
- Tutorials: Complete tasks faster with help from the Assistance Center
- Media Creation
- Resources and Support
- Starting Out
- Tutorials
- How to Create Internet Business Presentations Download PDF
Web Resources for PowerPoint
A Bit Better - is a small consulting firm helping companies communicate and create products with maximum impact.
PowerPoint Q/A, Tips & Tricks Resource Page was established by the BitBetter design group to help PowerPoint users.
See CALT Tutorials for additional PowerPoint URLs.
Desktop Publishing by Jacci Howard Bear , provides links to desktop publishing sites and information about desktop publishing.desktopPublishing.com: The ULTIMATE Desktop Publishing Site contains "over 23,000 pages" of information related to desktop publishing.
CompInfo - The Computer Information CenterPublish "-the online magazine for electronic publishing professionals"
AllGraphicDesign.com - a Graphics Portal and Desktop Publishing Directory of DTP resources
Digital Printing and Imaging Association
Designer-info.com - provides reviews of several desktop pubishing programs
Quark
Adobe
- Print publishing
- Web publishing
- Expert Center "...your source for great instructional content and downloadables. Learn at your own pace with our expert tutorials. Download free templates, stock art, and more."
Cleveland library to launch eBook system (January 6, 2003)eBook Crossroads "Your source for eBooks, Audio Books, Writing and Publishing resources, Software, Marketing tools, Articles and so much more..."
rocket-ebook "About the size of a paperback, the Rocket eBookTM holds some 4,000 pages of words and images. That's about 10 novels. Weighing just 22 ounces, the Rocket eBook nestles easily in the curve of your palm. And it goes wherever you go - so you can take off in any direction and never be far from what you want or need to read. "
KnowBetter.com "Your home for ebook news, reviews, and information since 1999."
MemoWare -The PDA Document Repository "MemoWare is a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) specially formatted to be easily added to your PalmOS device, Psion PDA, TI Avigo, or WinCE device. The documents available here come in a variety of formats and cover a wide range of topics. Click here to read the MemoWare FAQ document."
WiZeUp Digital Textbooks " .. are more powerful than print. They contain all of the content of the required textbook for your course, enhanced with powerful study tools that make learning more efficient.
MightyWords "MightyWords (www.mightywords.com) is the new secure digital marketplace for unique written content. We provide you, famous authors, undiscovered authors, academics and professionals, the control to instantly publish and sell your intellectual property directly to an eager audience."
ebooksonthe.net "Welcome to ebooksonthe.net where you can experience pure reading pleasure via the ebook. eBooks are electronic books in their complete text that you download to your PC or hand-held electronic reading device where they can be instantly enjoyed. The choice of HOW to read is now yours."
The Seven Virtues of eBooks (November, 2002)
Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia "The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)"
- Free E-Book Library for the Microsoft Reader and Palm
"1,600 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more."Microsoft Reader "Microsoft Reader offers the pleasure of reading enhanced by the benefits of technology. Try the first electronic reading software with ClearType™ technology and enjoy an unmatched on-screen reading experience." "Microsoft Reader offers the pleasure of reading enhanced by the benefits of technology. Try the first electronic reading software with ClearType™ technology and enjoy an unmatched on-screen reading experience."
- Microsoft Releases Version of eBook Reader Optimized for the Tablet PC (November 7, 2002)
Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader 2. 2 "Are you ready to enjoy the portability, versatility, and interactivity of electronic books? The free Adobe® Acrobat® eBook Reader™ enables you to read high-fidelity eBooks on your notebook or desktop computer - no special hardware is needed! Only this reader software reads eBooks with the pictures, graphics, and rich fonts you've come to expect from printed books. Combining a vivid, elegant reading experience with an intuitive interface, the Acrobat eBook Reader gives you all that eBooks have to offer."
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