ACLS, eight learned societies and a select group of University Presses, initiated the History E-Book Project with eight goals in mind. These goals are outlined on the “About the Project” page that can be accessed at http://www.historyebook.org. Goals focus on encouraging historians to plan and write e-books and scholarly presses to experiment with electronic publishing. Other goals include archiving scholarly text, fair use issues, promotion and review of e-books and other related professional concerns.

Titles in the History-E-Book database can be accessed via the “Databases” link on the library’s homepage, http://library.svsu.edu. Searches can be done through four search options including, a simple search, Boolean search, proximity search and bibliographic search. A “search history” option is also provided to track past search strategies. In addition, users can browse titles alphabetically by author, title or subject.

For more information, or questions call the Reference Desk at (989) 964-4242.