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About eBooks

A lot of the eBooks available from the University Library can be downloaded as PDF files to your personal device. This eBooks guide will help you work with the eBooks that aren't so straight forward. If you have questions we haven't answered here, you can always Ask!

Most eBooks will let you:

Search by chapter, or browse through the table of contents (TOC)
Search the book by keyword, highlighting where your terms appear
Read sections of the eBook online
Download a limited number of pages as a PDF, as determined by the publisher and by copyright
Print a limited number of pages, as determined by the publisher
Highlight text and creating notes on the e-pages (will require you to make an account with the publisher in most cases)
Download the whole book for a certain length of time based on limits set by the publisher

Books@Ovid This link opens in a new window
This is a collection of seven sources of evidence-based healthcare information. To browse the books, select the Books tab along the top of the page.
CSA Online This link opens in a new window
CSA Online provides access to standards developed by the Canadian Standards Association.
Duke University Press This link opens in a new window
Duke University Press focuses primarily on the humanities and social sciences.
EBSCO ebook collection This link opens in a new window
The EBSCO eBook Collection is a searchable collection of electronic books, both historical and recent. Users may browse the contents of the ebooks, or they may create an account which will then allow them to check the ebooks out for a defined period of time. For most ebooks, only one user may browse or check out the ebook at a time.
English historical documents This link opens in a new window
English Historical Documents is a collection of texts regarding the political, social, religious, and economic history of Britain.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
The IEEE publishes hundreds of peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings each year. Our subscription includes the All Society Periodicals Package and the Proceedings Order Plans disciplines include communication, energy, computer science, robotics, geoscience, transportation, and biomedical engineering.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
OECD iLibrary is the gateway to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) books, papers, and statistics, including health data.
Oxford handbooks This link opens in a new window
Containing specially commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in business and management, and a useful reference resource for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners.
Sage knowledge This link opens in a new window
Select authoritative titles regarding business and psychology from the Sage Knowledge collection.
Association of Canadian University Presses ebooks This link opens in a new window
The Association of Canadian University Presses collection includes books on a wide variety of subjects we have access to ebooks published since 2014.
Scientific notebook This link opens in a new window
Scientific Notebook lets you create attractive documents combining text, graphics, and mathematics in natural mathematical notation. It makes learning, teaching, and sharing mathematics easy. Mathematical equations in your documents are easily solved, symbolically or numerically, using the point-and-click interface to the included MuPAD computer algebra engine.
This software is available in the library's first floor lab, on the machine closest to the fire extinguisher.
SpringerLINK ebooks This link opens in a new window
The SpringerLink Ebook Collection includes thousands of ebooks that focus on computer science, mathematics, chemistry, and business and economics, among other topics.
SpringerLINK ebooks This link opens in a new window
The SpringerLink Ebook Collection includes thousands of ebooks that focus on computer science, mathematics, chemistry, and business and economics, among other topics.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central hosts a collection of over 20,000 titles published or reprinted by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis between 2000 and 2010. These books cover a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to business, economics, education, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, and social science.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central hosts a collection of over 20,000 titles published or reprinted by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis between 2000 and 2010. These books cover a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to business, economics, education, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, and social science.
Oxford Academic books This link opens in a new window
Oxford Academic Books includes selected recent titles in many subjects including business, history, political science, religion, and philosophy.

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FAQs

Do I have to be connected to the Internet to read e-books?

Not if you have already downloaded the book. You will need the Internet to download the book to your personal device.

How long can I read an eBook I've downloaded?

Each publisher sets custom borrowing periods. When you download the eBook, the number of days you have the book "checked out" will be displayed.

Can I renew an eBook?

Not really. Once the borrowing period expires, if you want to keep the book longer, you will have to go to the platform and check it out again if it's available.

Can I put a hold on an eBook?

Not at this time. The loan periods for eBooks are shorter, and non-renewable.

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