How to Find Books

Over 200,000 e-books published by academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Some titles can be downloaded for short-term use; some allow chapter downloads. Limitations on copying, saving, and printing vary by title, and reset after 24 hours. To locate ebooks without user limitations use the Advanced Search option. Near the end of the page, you'll find a field for "Number of Copies." Select "More Than 1" or "Unlimited."

Over 200,000 ebooks in a wide variety of subject areas. Limitations on printing, downloading, saving vary by title. Create your own EBSCOhost account to add notes, virtual bookmarks, and download ebooks to read them offline To download, Adobe Digital Editions software is required, and books are only available offline for short-term loans.
To read online, if an eBook is left “open” in a browser window but is no longer being used, then the eBook becomes available to other users after the last user’s EBSCOhost session expires (30 minutes, by default) and the system confirms that they haven’t used the title in 5 minutes (for a total of up to 35 minutes).

(c. 1980 to present) Over 2,200 ebooks published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. All Duke ebook titles are DRM-free: users can print, read online, and download PDFs by chapter and allows for unlimited multiuser access.

JSTOR access includes over 50,000 eBooks; full-text archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals; 19th Century British Pamphlets, a collection of journals, monographs, and manuscripts related to Ireland, and some current journal issues. The eBooks work just like journals, offering unlimited use and DRM-free chapter downloads in PDF format.

MIT Press Direct, a platform that features more than 3,000 titles from the MIT Press’s distinguished front- and backlist. Key subject areas covered in the complete collection include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education, environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience, new media, philosophy, and social sciences.
DRM Free for users to print, copy and paste, and download by chapter PDF, unlimited simultaneous users.

A community project supported by the Davidson College Library and more than 160 other libraries across North Carolina.
Over 3,700 ebooks, including novels by popular North Carolina authors, popular and scholarly nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry, published by eight North Carolina publishers. Ebooks can be viewed in a browser or downloaded to a tablet. Titles are available with unlimited, simultaneous access.

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) offers access to all Oxford University Press ebook monograph titles published to Oxford Scholarship Online.
Ebooks are DRM free (print/save/pdf) and have unlimited user access.
OSO books are searchable along with other Oxford University Press collections on the Oxford Academic platform.

(c. mid-1990s to present) A collection of over 700 full-text journals and more than 65,000 eBooks published by university and scholarly presses. Covers the humanities and social sciences. Titles are DRM-free allowing for unlimited access, downloading and printing, and simultaneous usage.

Over 3,500 full-text journals (c. 1995 to present) and 240,000 e-books (2005 to present) published by Springer. Subject covered include: astronomy, behavioral sciences, biomedical and life sciences, business and economics, chemistry and materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, law, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics, and the social sciences. All eBooks are available DRM free (Digital Rights Management), making them accessible simultaneously by an unlimited number of users.

University of Michigan Press is a leading publisher and distributor of books and digital projects in the humanities and social sciences. Areas of particular focus are performing arts; classical studies; political science; American studies (especially disability and class studies); Asian and African studies. Titles are DRM-free, allow unlimited, muli-users, EPUB 3 reader, EPUB 3 and PDF downloads.

(c. 1997 to present, but varies) This database contains over 1,600 full-text journals, and 22,000+ ebooks, published by John Wiley & Sons and Blackwell Publishing multidisciplinary in scope. Access, view and download full ebooks or chapters individual chapters.
Note: Jan. 2022 we added the 22,000+ Wiley ebooks to our subscription.