Research Guides: eBook Collections: eBook Collections

eBook Collections at Appalachian State

eBook Central This link opens in a new window
Scholarly ebooks on all subjects, with over 250,000 titles available.
eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Includes over 140,000 titles in a wide variety of subjects, including literature, technology, career and self help, how-to books, and much more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
MackinVIA This link opens in a new window
Offers a growing collection of ebooks for students from pre-kindergarten through middle grades.
NC LIVE Home Grown eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to fiction and nonfiction content from North Carolina publishers.
O'Reilly eBooks (Safari Books Online) This link opens in a new window
From Select your institution, choose Institution not listed and enter your App State e-mail, or log in with an existing account.
Provides access to 30,000+ technical books, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths, and audio books on business, technology, and science topics.
OverDrive (Libby) This link opens in a new window
Allows faculty, students and staff to borrow ebooks and audiobooks and download them to computers and portable devices.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Offers access to about 18,000 Oxford ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.
Wiley Online Library Books This link opens in a new window
Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series.

JSTOR ebooks
All mixed up with journals
Taylor & Francis ebooks
also Routledge, CRC, and other imprints

Using ebooks -- EBSCO and (ProQuest) eBook Central

I suggest reading online and then saving chapters and sections as permanent PDFs. But almost all of these ebooks can be downloaded, almost all the time. See these slides with screenshots. Also, the U of New Mexico guide is helpful. And there are links to more EBSCO/ProQuest help pages at bottom here.

However, the main problem I've seen is getting the book, once it's downloaded, actually into the reader. Safari works flawlessly for me. Try that if you have an iPad/iPhone. Chrome, Firefox, and others often do not work. I'd like to hear about problems and successes.

Zoom help, if you need it.

--John Wiswell, August 2020

Encyclopedias and Reference eBook Collections

Subject encyclopedias are a good way to start research on a new topic. Articles in subject encyclopedias are usually written by experts in their field.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences.
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window
Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects.

AudioBooks

Hoopla This link opens in a new window
Users must create a Hoopla account to access. Choose Appalachian State University as your library. For Library Card enter your email address, and then register with your App State email address.
Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more.
OverDrive (Libby) This link opens in a new window
Allows faculty, students and staff to borrow ebooks and audiobooks and download them to computers and portable devices.