Research Databases: E-Books & Audio Books

Most Useful:

• eBook Collection - formerly NetLibrary
  (EBSCO) Complete electronic books.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (LSCS Libraries)
  (Thomson Gale) Includes full-text, searchable reference sets in such areas as literature, business, education, game programming, and social sciences.
• Harris County Public Library Digital Media Catalog 
  (Digital Library Reserve, Inc.) Download digital materials (including books and music) with free software to listen at home, at work, or when you travel. To begin using these titles, view the Help-Quick Start Guide. (LSCS access - courtesy of partnership between LSCS and HCPL system).  
• Safari Tech Books Online (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
  (Safari) Safari is the premier electronic reference library for computer users, programmers, and IT professionals.
  NOTE: 5 simultaneous user limit
• STAT!Ref (Healthcare) (LSCS Libraries)
  (Teton Data Systems)
  An electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 35 medical resources. For information on mobile access (via Apple, Android and Blackberry), refer to Stat!Ref under Mobile Apps on this page: http://www.lonestar.edu/library/15366.htm.

Also Try:

• Encyclopedia of Popular Music via Oxford Music Online (LSCS Libraries)
  (Oxford) Features articles on popular music genres such as jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music from 1900 to the present.  Also includes information on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.
• Naxos Music Library (LSCS Libraries)
  (Naxos Digital Services Ltd.) Classical, jazz, world/folk, new age, and Chinese music recordings in 75,000+ tracks plus related text information about the musical works.
  NOTE: requires Windows Media Player version 9 or later - limit of 25 simultaneous users for this resource
• NetLibrary - see eBook Collection