Now available to the NYIT community, The Encyclopedia of Associations is a comprehensive source of detailed information on over 135,000 non-profit membership organizations worldwide. It corresponds to the printed Encyclopedia of Associations family of publications as follows: National Organizations of the U.S., which covers more than 22,200 American associations of national scope; and International Organizations, which covers some 22,300 multi-national, bi-national, and non-U.S. national associations. The Encyclopedia of Associations database provides addresses and descriptions of professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups of all types.  Click here to search it now.

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The oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet, Project Gutenberg includes over 19,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.  These books can be downloaded to your PC, or read on your Palm pilot, or smartphone, and titles include everything from The Art of War by 6th Century B.C. Sunzi, to Bram Stoker’s Dracula.  

If you're interested in seeing who is reading what, take a look at the Top 100 page.  Sections include Top 100 Authors and Top Downloaded Ebooks.

For access to new ebooks still under copyright, create your own personal account to NYIT Library's NetLibrary, and read over 8,000 texts.

# - Sebastien Marion - eBooks - 11/18/06; 1:29:28 PM -

Whether you are uploading a mashup to YouTube, working on your visual portfolio, or producing your latest student film, it's often common to incorporate other peoples work and ideas into your own.  However, when doing so, you must first determine whether or not their work is protected by copyright or is fair to use.

Not sure which rules apply?  Download and read the free and fun comic book Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law, and follow its heroine Akiko as she films her documentary, and "navigates the twists and turns of intellectual property and fair use."

Created by Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Bound by Law considers the history of copyright, as well as what it means to have material that is free to use without permission and/or payment.

• Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law

# - Sebastien Marion - eBooks - 8/8/06; 10:58:49 AM -

Climate Change: Turning up the Heat is being provided with free, unlimited access until July 31.  This E-Book is derived from NYIT Library's NetLibrary subscription service.  NetLibrary is a collection of 8,331 E-Books available exclusively to the NYIT community.

In the news:

This TED Conference presentation is a follow-up to Al Gore's now-famous presentation, featured in the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."  In it, he outlines what we can do to avert a global climate crisis. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA).

# - Sebastien Marion - eBooks - 7/21/06; 9:44:15 AM -

• Read books cover to cover online, or flip directly to the answer or code sample you need.
• Browse books by category to research any technical topic.
• Gain access from either your home, office or the library.

New to the eBook world?  Get started by either accessing the NYIT SafariTech bookshelf in its entirety by clicking on bookshelf, or enter and browse any of our four featured selections below.  Also, all NYIT eBooks can be access by performing an E-Library search in BearCat - The NYIT Library Catalog. 

3ds max® 7 Fundamentals
By Ted Boardman. Read eBook

    

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Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition
By Arnold Robbins. Read eBook

  

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Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition
By Dan Hurwitz, Jesse Liberty.  Read eBook

  

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Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia® Flash® MX in 24 Hours
By Phillip Kerman.  Read eBook

  

# - Sebastien Marion - eBooks - 3/4/06; 11:35:56 AM -

The NYIT Library electronic book collection now includes more than 6,500 electronic titles on a range of topics. Included are scholarly, reference and professional works from leading university, academic and professional publishers. Most of these e-books can be digitally checked out for 2 hours - some for 24 hours - or can be browsed extensively. To search electronic books, access the library’s main catalog and select electronic books from the drop down menu (see graphic below). All electronic books must be accessed with your NYIT mymail username and password. Netlibrary titles require you to log in after having created your own unique username and id. Looking for an electronic newspaper, magazine or journal instead of a book? Try the NYIT Journal Locator.

# - Sebastien Marion - eBooks - 3/29/05; 8:26:59 AM -

SafariTech Books Online is a library of digital books on information technology, digitized and made available by Safari Books Online in conjunction with the original publishers. Safari gives the NYIT community first-hand access to the latest and greatest titles from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Macromedia Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Sun Microsystems Press, Que, Sams, and Microsoft Press.  For a list of current full text selections click "Bookshelf."

# - Sebastien Marion - eBooks - 3/23/05; 9:54:21 AM -