Ebooks

We subscribe to over a million ebooks. Most of our ebooks are PDFs, and require no additional software. See each entry for formats and restrictions.

If the provider is listed as requiring Adobe Digital Editions, you'll need that software to move the downloaded ebook from your desktop/laptop to an ereader or mobile device. That will require installing the software and setting up an Adobe ID.

Provider	Format	Download?	DRM?
ACS Symposium Series	PDF, by chapter	Yes	No
Ebook Central from ProQuest	PDF and EPUB	Yes	Yes, requires Adobe Digital Editions
Ebooks on EBSCOhost	PDF by page	Some	Yes, requires Adobe Digital Editions
Gale primary source and literary databases	PDF and images	Yes	No
HathiTrust Digital Library	PDF	Yes, for out of copyright books	No
IEEE Xplore Digital Library	PDF	Yes	No
Knovel Online Interactive Library	PDF, by chapter	Yes	No
National Academies Press	PDF	Yes, requires free registration	No
O'Reilly Safari Books Online	HTML and page image	Very few	Only when using the mobile app
PsycBOOKS from E BSCOhost	PDF, by chapter	Yes	No
SAGE Research Methods	PDF	Yes	No
ScienceDirect	PDF, by chapter	Yes	No
Springer ebooks, including Lecture Notes	PDF	Yes	No
Synthesis Lecture Series from Morgan and Claypool	PDF	Yes	No
Wiley ebooks	PDF, by chapter	Yes	No