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AccessMedicine (McGraw Hill) This link opens in a new window AccessMedicine provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships; helps residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care; and allows practicing physicians to brush up on their medical knowledge to ensure the best patient outcome.
African-American Poetry 1760-1900 (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window Now offered as part of the American and English Literature Collection (OhioLINK). Includes the full text of almost 3000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
American and English Literature Collection (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window Subcollections in this database include African-American Poetry 1700-1900; 20th Cent. African-American Poetry; American Poetry 1600-1900; 20th Cent. American Poetry; English Poetry; 20th Cent. English Poetry; American Drama; English Prose Drama 1280-1915; English Verse Dramas 13th-19th Centuries; Early American Fiction 1774-1850; 18th Cent. Fiction 1700-1800; Bibliography of American Literature; Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare; and William Butler Yeats Collection.
APA PsycNet Ebooks This link opens in a new window Browse full-text APA books (approximately 45 titles available).
Cambridge University Press Core Ebooks This link opens in a new window A collection of over 8,000 ebooks from Cambridge University Press
De Gruyter University Press E-books This link opens in a new window Ebooks from Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Toronto, and university presses including U of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, and Penn State. Subject areas include sciences, humanities, technology, medicine, law and more.
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window A collection of academic ebooks covering a range of subjects. Users can preview a PDF version of an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable. This collection also offers a check-out model, where readers check out e-books for a specified amount of time.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window Includes the complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio (1623) to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6. Now offered as part of the American and English Literature Collection (OhioLINK).
Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window Contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books from several publishers, covering many subject areas. Includes titles from Oxford University Press and Springer, as well as other publishers.
Elsevier E-books This link opens in a new window Electronic books in subjects including earth and planetary sciences, engineering and computing, life and biological sciences, medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
MIT Press Direct This link opens in a new window Access the complete collection of more than 3,000 eBooks from MIT Press. Subject areas covered include art and architecture, biomedical sciences,business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education,environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience,new media, philosophy, and social sciences.E-books are DRM-free, downloadable as chapter PDFs, with no simultaneous user limit.
O'Reilly Online Learning This link opens in a new window Provides ebooks, audiobooks, videos, and on-demand courses in computer science, information technology, business, and related fields from O'Reilly, Pearson, Wiley, and other IT and business publishers. NOTE: For first time users of O’Reilly, click on the link above. On the welcome screen, click on the link labelled, “Institution Not Listed?” At the prompt, type in your MSJ email address. Open your MSJ email account and look for an email from O’Reilly. Click on the link to finish setting up your account. Type in your first and last name, and create a password. Once you submit this information, you should see the O’Reilly database homepage. After you create your account, from then on you can login to O'Reilly by clicking on the link above, then click on the “Institution Not Listed?” link, and then click on the “Already a User?” link to login with your MSJ email address and the password you created when you set up your account.
Oxford University Press Reference Ebooks (Oxford Academic) This link opens in a new window A small collection of 60 encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries available as full text ebooks.
Oxford University Press Scholarship Online (Oxford Academic) This link opens in a new window Publishers: University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, MIT Press, New York University Press, Princeton University Press, Yale University PressPackage History: Subscription started in 2016 including 2015 and 2016 content for California, Chicago, MIT, and Yale University Presses. NYU Press added starting in 2017. Princeton University Press added starting in 2018.Notes: UPSO is an e-book aggregator platform from Oxford University Press, hosting content from other university press publishers.
ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window Ebook Central (Proquest) is a database of 500+ ebooks that cover a wide range of topics, including: business, history, literature, social sciences, and fine arts. Books can be read online or downloaded. Downloading books requires signing up for a free Proquest account and installing the free Adobe Digital Editions ebook reader software.
Routledge Handbooks This link opens in a new window Overviews of classic and current research across the humanities, social sciences, education, psychology, engineering, and built environment fro Routledge and CRC Press.
Very Short Introductions (Oxford Academic) This link opens in a new window Concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window A limited selection of ebooks in health sciences, biology, business, and information technology. PLEASE NOTE: Not all titles are full text.

Open Access Ebooks:

Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.

Getty Publications Vitrual Library (J. Paul Getty Museum) Free digital backlist titles from the J. Paul Getty Museum's Publications Archives.

Internet Archive (Open Access) This link opens in a new window Produced by a non-profit group that focuses on archiving digital artifacts included Web pages, film, live music, audio, and books. Use the "Way Back Machine" to browse Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

Google Book Search
LibriVox Free public domain audio and digital books.

Open Access Ebooks on JSTOR This link opens in a new window "JSTOR offers a growing list of Open Access ebooks from respected presses, such as University of California Press and University of Michigan Press, at no cost to libraries or users. More than 100 titles are now available" with additional titles added in the future.

Accessing & Downloading Ebooks

EBSCO Ebooks Collection

EBSCO Ebooks can be read directly in your web browser as PDFs. However, you may want to either download on a laptop or mobile device to use the many tools (highlighting, notetaking, bookmarking, etc.) that EBSCO offers. To download an EBSCO ebook and use those tools on a laptop, you'll first need to set up a MyEBSCO Account and install/download Adobe Digital Editions software. To download an EBSCO ebook on a tablet or phone, you'll still need a MyEBSCO Account and install Adobe Digital Editions and the EBSCO app onto your device. See links below for more in depth instructions.

ProQuest Ebook Central

You can access and read a Proquest Ebook within your browser. However, if you want to download the book to your laptop, you'll need to install additional free software, Adobe Digital Editions. To take notes or highlight the text, you can use the ProQuest Ebook Central html viewer "read online" and create a personal account so you can retrieve your notes. Please refer to links below for additional downloading help from ProQuest.

O'Reilly Online Learning

To access O'Reilly Online Learning ebooks, you will need to first login using your MSJ email address. Look for and click the link "not listed click here," and then login with your MSJ email address.

While you can read O'Reilly ebooks in your web browser, to read them offline, you will need the O’Reilly app for tablets and phones. You can create an account with O’Reilly using the instructions you receive via email from O’Reilly Learning Platform with the subject line “Your O’Reilly Access – Activation Required.”

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