The Greenwood Library now has access to over 11,000 e-books. Most of these are in the recently acquired NetLibrary Shared Collection V, which includes full-text versions of over 6,000 recent books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction as well as 3,400 titles from Project Gutenberg, BiblioBytes and other publicly-accessible digital libraries. Many of the NetLibrary titles are listed in the online catalog; all of the NetLibrary e-books can be searched by keyword, subject, author, title or full-text from the NetLibrary database interface. Longwood users may create a personal NetLibrary account to save favorite e-books with custom notes.
Other e-book collections available at the Greenwood Library include:
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (a growing collection of online subject encyclopedias and reference works)
- History E-Book Project (over 1,000 current and out-of-print books on American, Asian, European, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern history)
- Oxford Reference Online (over 140 Oxford University Press current reference books on a broad range of topics, including bilingual and subject-specific dictionaries as well as world maps and flags)
- Safari Tech Books Online (200 recent technology books from major IT publishers, including O’Reilly and The Pearson Technology Group, browseable by category or search by keyword or code fragment)