eBook collections

We have a large collection of ebooks which are available for staff and students of the University. They are available via a number of platforms, so ebooks don’t all look the same. In order to use ebooks, you may need to use software such as Adobe Reader or install a plugin via your browser.

We are also investing in patron-driven acquisition, whereby potentially useful titles are loaded into the library catalogue and only paid for if they are used. You won’t know if you are buying a new ebook or accessing one of our existing titles – what matters is that you have information delivered to your desktop when you need it.

You can search within each of these collections by using the links on this page. However, you can also use Discovery or our Library Catalogue to search for individual ebooks, both by known author and/or title details and by keyword. Both of these give you the option to do a search and then narrow the results down by selecting just ebooks.

Please note that there can be a short delay before newly purchased ebooks appear on the library catalogue; if you find one that says it is ‘on order’, you should be able to find it by looking directly in Ebook Central.

The Library subscribes to the Ebook Central ebooks service (formerly known as ebrary), which gives us access to more than 300,000 titles. These are available from anywhere using your University account. Users can highlight text, make notes, create bookshelves, link to definitions and contextual material, and copy or print text. You can do all this using the QuickView reader, which requires no special software plugins.

Browser specifications

Ebook Central works best with any modern browser. In all cases you must have Java Scripting enabled.

AOL users should turn off all browser add-ons (including the AOL toolbar). If this does not work, try using another browser.

Ebook Central Online Help

Ebook Central provides an online help section. If you can't find what you need, contact the Library for help.

Accessibility features

In QuickView (the default reader), you can access Accessibility mode, which converts all Ebook Central books to plain text so you can use a screen reader.

For text-to-speech functionality and a 2-page view, you can install the Ebook Central Unity Reader. You should use Windows or Mac OSX for this, as it does not work well with the Linux operating system. Instructions for installing the Unity reader are in the Ebook Central help section.

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Contains full-text ebooks in many subject areas.

 

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