E-Books

E-books:

E-books are a great way to access books while the library is closed. The Scholar's Commons has put together this Q&A about how to access E-Books. This guide also includes a tutorial that details how to find e-books through IUCAT.

You can search for e-books in IUCAT, or through one of the databases listed below:

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The Indiana University online catalog.
IUCAT, Indiana University's online library catalog, provides comprehensive access to millions of items held by the IU Libraries statewide, including books, recordings, US government publications, periodicals, and other types of material. Users can access IUCAT from any Internet-connected computer or device, whether in the libraries, on campus, or off campus.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
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A digital collection of nearly 5,000 titles offered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
ACLS Humanities E-Book includes foundational backlist titles in the humanities and social sciences, with 150-200 new titles added annually.
Ebook Central
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Searchable electronic books in very wide range of disciplines.
Provides access to full text electronic editions of books. Search by specifying subjects, keywords, authors, publishers, publication years, or other information available for the documents. Includes access to the Academic Complete collection, containing over 134,000 scholarly ebooks from leading publishers.
EBSCO eBook Collection
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A collection of over 6,000 full text books in a variety of subject areas, fully searchable by author, title, and keyword.
EBSCO ebook Collection (formerly netLibrary) povides access to a collection of thousands of scholarly, professional and reference full text books in a wide variety of subject areas. The texts are fully searchable by author, title, and keyword.
MacIntosh users will need to install the Schubert PDF browser plug-in.
Google Books
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A tool produced by the Google search engine that searches the contents of books that they have scanned.
Public domain and out of copyright books are readily available through Google Books, in downloadable, PDF format. Items still under copyright may not be entirely viewed, nor may they be printed or copied. Books may be in full view, limited preview, spippet view, or no preview available.
Google Scholar
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Special version of Google's index to scholarly content on the web. Connects to full-text resources available to IU users.
oogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Connecting to Google Scholar from off-campus? The IUB Libraries already provide access to many of the journal articles indexed in Google Scholar. Look for IU-Link, which will lead you to information about full-text content you can access via the Libraries' subscriptions.
HathiTrust Digital Library
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Shared digital library created and designed by partnership of major research libraries.
HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections. HathiTrust will quickly expand to include additional partners and to provide those partners with an easy means to archive their digital content.

Finding E-Books in IUCAT

Quick Tutorial on Accessing eBooks through IUCAT

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eBooks can be accessed via IUCAT, the Indiana University Libraries' online catalog. An eBook item will have an "E-Book" format icon:

To access eBooks through IUCAT, click on the item's title and then click on "Access for [BLOOMINGTON]" in the item's full record:

This will bring up a new page with a link to access the book through its digital library:

After clicking that link, you will be redirected to the eBook itself. In the case of this book, you can read online, download, and view the table of contents. Be sure to check the book's availability, as some eBook vendors have more restrictive usage rights.

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E-books:

E-books are a great way to access books while the library is closed. The Scholar's Commons has put together this Q&A about how to access E-Books. This guide also includes a tutorial that details how to find e-books through IUCAT.

You can search for e-books in IUCAT, or through one of the databases listed below:

Finding E-Books in IUCAT

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