Copies of science, social studies, mathematics and other textbooks that students can download to their school computer.  (Remember not ALL publishers provide electronic copies, so only some textbooks are available.)

  Students must have a district network login and password to access these installers.

eBooks

eBooks available through the Irving ISD library online catalog for single use in preview mode or download on a particular computer. Click on a title from within the list generated.

Click here for HELP with eBooks From Follet.

Digital children’s books complete with illustrations. Can search by language as well as level and interest. Titles available in 16 languages including Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, French, and Thai.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.  Within each online book title, sections of the book can be downloaded or emailed to an account.  Your librarian (or the link below) can provide you the remote access password.       

Click here for GALE remote access password.

Baen Science Fiction Library (Free)

Choose from a Free list of current/new science fiction books that can be downloaded and read in a variety of formats.

Gutenberg Project  (Free)

Choose among our 16,000 free ebooks in the Project Gutenberg Catalog.  All Project Gutenberg ebooks are free for anyone living in the United States: You may download all our ebooks for your personal use for free.

Wiki Books  (Free)

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project, set up on July 10, 2003. Since then, volunteers have written around 11,312 book modules in a multitude of books and more are added every week.

Wiki Junior  (Free)

The idea behind Wikijunior is to produce a series of full-color glossy booklets (48 pages, 8 ½ x 11) for a young audience (ages 8-11) on a variety of topics that interest kids.   These booklets will be richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. They should be appealing to kids, and the writing should be light and friendly.

At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.

Selected course notes, assignments, and syllabi from MIT courses

Rice University's course material available for distribution and reuse

Bookshare.org works closely with schools, educational agencies, libraries and other nonprofit organizations to provide accessible electronic books to individuals with qualifying disabilities. This Organizational Agreement sets out the key terms of working with Bookshare.org.

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Lookybook focuses on sharing pictures books with viewers. Over 300 books in English from new authors and familiar authors are available. Searchable by author, illustrator, subject, and genre.