UW-Madison libraries have added 1000's of links from the MadCat library catalog to online versions in Google Books and the Big 10's shared digital repository, HathiTrust.
If an item we have in MadCat has been digitized by Google, the MadCat record will include the link: View available text online.
If a cover image is available, it will be shown in the MadCat record with the link: More Information At Google Books - whether or not the text is searchable or can be read online.
More E-books!
The libraries buy 1000's more online e-books, and provide access to many free e-books. Most of these are available through MadCat, and/or the following:
- American Memory - Library of Congress
- ASABE Technical Library - Am Soc of Ag & Bio Engineers
- Digital National Security Archive
- EngNetBase - technical handbooks & textbooks
- FAO Corporate Document Repository
- Kirk-Othmer - encyclopedia of chemical technology
- Knovel - technical handbooks & textbooks
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- National Academy Press - many subjects
- NCBI Bookshelf - health sciences
- NetLibrary - many subjects
- Safari Techbooks - programming
- Stat!Ref - health sciences
- StatsRefBase - statistics handbooks & textbooks
- Synthesis Digital Library - engineering, computer science
- UW Digital Collections - historical, local
