An updated list of freely available e-books maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania Library.
eBooks come in a variety of formats from a variety of places. Some eBooks (usually ones that are no longer copyrighted) are free. Other more recent eBooks are accessible through EBSCO eBooks, ProQuest Ebook Central, and through the State Library of Kansas' Digital Book eLending site..
You can search for ebooks from EBSCO and ProQuest using College Library's book catalog (Voyager) Look for book records with the phrase "electronic resource" as part of the title OR for the location ebrary, ProQuest, Netlibrary, etc. You can tell an ebook is an ebook because it doesn't have a physical location and the status will be "No information available."
is an electronic book collection that spans all academic subject areas and grows at a rate of about 6,000 new titles per year. The College Library has access to ebrary's Academic Complete Collection that currently includes over 138,000 titles. Users can search for ebooks by title, author, ISBN, LC call number, etc. or browse by publisher or subject. By creating a ebrary bookshelf account, users can manage a virtual bookshelf where they can store, highlight, search, take notes, create folders and even share ebooks.
The College Library owns almost 18,000 electronic books through EBSCOHost.
They are primarily from academic publishers and complement our book collection. Subjects covered in the collection include business, education, history, literature, and more. Most of the books are in .pdf format. You can read these books on your computer or download them to a portable device.
Click below to see a library guide with instructions for using EBSCO eBooks
Why use Google Books?
The advantages:
What is Google Books NOT good for?
The limitations are: