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Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management - E-book conversion - Syncing to e-book reader devices - Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form - Comprehensive e-book viewer - Content server for online access to your book collection

Disponibile su password per un unico utente simultaneo Questia presenta il full-text completo di oltre 67.000 volumi e oltre un milione e mezzo di articoli su riviste, giornali e quotidiani appartenenti a tutti i settori scientifici. L'apparato di letteratura critica disponibile è integrato dalla possibilità di uso gratuito della versione online della Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed.) e da una serie di strumenti funzionali quali un generatore interno di bibliografie e note, scaffali virtuali personalizzabili, possibilità di ricerche guidate orientative costruite da bibliotecari per 'research topics' e una classe virtuale destinata all'uso didattico per i docenti.

Tutorial sulla rimozione del DRM dagli e-books Kindle per trasformarli in pdf stampabili e fruibili da tutti i devices. La guida richiede l'installazione di Adobe Digital Editions e Calibre

he primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

In un contesto mondiale globalizzato contrassegnato da un eccezionale aumento della circolazione della letteratura straniera, nasce nel 2008, a cura del Centro Traduttori e con il patrocinio dell'Index Translationum dell'UNESCO, la World Directory of Children's Book Translators. Intesa come strumento di valorizzazione delle diversità linguistiche e culturali, questa banca dati, che raccoglie traduttori di libri per ragazzi di tutto il mondo, si configura come un punto d'incontro tra editori e traduttori specializzati. A partire dalle 55 lingue attualmente presenti, la World Directory propone una molteplicità di combinazioni linguistiche che comprendono sia le lingue più diffuse che le lingue minoritarie. A disposizione di chiunque sia in cerca di traduttori, la consultazione è libera attraverso un semplice login iniziale. Vi sono diversi criteri di ricerca fra i quali: nome del traduttore, paese di residenza, genere letterario, lingua di partenza, lingua di arrivo, lingua madre.

Come si cita un e-book per supporto Kindle/Ipad e altri dispositivi di lettura mobile. Indicazione a cura della MLA

The primary goal of the Text Creation Partnership is to create standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early printed books. We transcribe and encode the page images of books from ProQuest's Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints.This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide. Ultimately, all of the TCP's work will be placed into the public domain for anyone to use.

Versione online della Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft altrimenti nota come "Otto Klapp" la più importante e completa banca dati bibliografica citazionale (senza full-tex) dedicata alla francesistica ......................................................................................... Facts Size of the database: 94,776 book articles, 14,8961 journal articles, 92,774 monographs and reviews, 1,420 processed periodicals Annual update of the database with approx. 16,000 titles The bibliography is "annotated", i.e. it contains notes including the following information: Notes identifying forewords and epilogues, appendices, bibliographic details, discussions etc. and authors covered, works, topics etc. Three language versions: German, English and French. The years 1956-1990 have been retro-digitised and are available as searchable PDF files.

Motore di ricerca specializzato negli e-books

The British National Bibliography (BNB) lists the books and new journal titles published or distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1950. It also lists forthcoming book titles and hand-held electronic publications e.g. CD-ROMs, deposited with the Legal Deposit Office since 2003.

OpenEdition Books est une plateforme de livres en sciences humaines et sociales. Plus de la moitié d'entre eux est en libre accès. Des services complémentaires sont proposés via les bibliothèques et institutions abonnées.

"OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation"

Demo sull'utilizzo di google Books per cercare libri in full-text e per fare ricerca per argomento (letteratura critica)

Der Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. wurde 1955 als Dachverband der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in Deutschland gegründet. Zu seinen Aufgaben gehören die Organisation und Bekanntgabe des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises, Leseförderung und Orientierungshilfe zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in Form der Fachzeitschrift JuLit und andere Publikationen. Außerdem ist er als deutsche Sektion des International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) international tätig.

Named after the Great Library of Alexandria the Alexandria Library is a translation industry knowledge hub created by translators for translators, interpreters and all players of the translation industry. It offers an array of resources for continuous professional development (CPD) and services, such as:- live webinars, online courses, online workshops and online training for translators, interpreters and language services providers (LSPs) - on-demand training videos - various types of resources such as glossaries, termbases, e-books…

Brycchan Carey is an academic and author specialising in the history and culture of slavery and abolition in the British Empire. This site offers pages dedicated to black British writers before 1850, in particular Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, and Ottobah Cugoano, as well as resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, British Abolitionists, and e-texts of otherwise difficult-to-obtain texts, such as eighteenth-century poems about slavery. You will also find images and opinions about Cornwall, Brycchan's childhood home, and Gamlingay, Brycchan's current home. Brycchan's most recent book, on the birth of American antislavery, is From Peace to Freedom.

The contemporary poetry section of the University of Heidelberg's Digital Archive for Chinese Studies is contributed by its University of Leiden division, and explores the developments and debates in the art form in print and, increasingly, online. An introduction to the project by poetry expert Dr Michael Day explains the precarious presence of Chinese poets on the web, and from this main page authors can access a number of more specialised topics. The foremost of these is an e-book by Dr Day on avant-garde poetry in Sichuan province from 1982 to 1992

Portale di risorse elettroniche in open access per le scienze umane costituito da 4 sezioni: OpenEdition Books, Openedition Journals, Hypothese, e Calenda.