Research Guides: How to Find Books: eBook Collections at Davidson

Popular eBook Collections at Davidson College

Ebook Central
Find scholarly ebooks on all subjects.

Limitations on copying, saving, and printing vary by title, and reset after 24 hours. Some titles can be downloaded for short-term use; some allow chapter downloads. 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."
Ebsco eBook Collection
Scholarly ebooks in a wide variety of subject areas.

Limitations on printing, downloading, saving vary by title. To download, Adobe Digital Editions software is required, and books are only available offline for short-term loans. For ebooks we have licensed for 1-User or 3-User the checkout time is 1 day. Please check back for your selected title, the library is not able to determine when an ebook will be accessible.
eDuke Books Scholarly Collection
Database of 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 multi-user access.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online library of journals, academic ebooks, images, and primary sources. Includes ArtStor licensed images. AI interactive research tool available when logged into your JSTOR account.
MIT Press Direct
Find ebooks published by MIT Press.

DRM Free for users to print, copy and paste, and download by chapter PDF, unlimited simultaneous users.
HomeGrown NC LIVE eBook Collection

Ebooks from North Carolina publishers and authors. Includes fiction, non fiction and poetry.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Access to all Oxford University Press ebooks published to Oxford Scholarship Online.
These are a subset of Oxford University Press collections on the Oxford Academic platform.

Ebooks are DRM free (print/save/pdf) and have unlimited user access.
Project MUSE
Database of humanities and social science ebooks and journals.

Titles are DRM-free allowing for unlimited access, downloading and printing, and simultaneous usage.
SpringerLink
eBooks and eJournals spanning science, medicine, technology, humanities and social sciences published by Springer Nature.

All eBooks are DRM free (Digital Rights Management), making them accessible simultaneously by an unlimited number of users with no restrictions on download/print/copy.
Wiley Online Library
This database contains journals ebooks, published by John Wiley & Sons and Blackwell Publishing, multidisciplinary in scope.