The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a digital collection of over 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books, essays, and primary sources in the Humanities, with a broad selection of subjects and fields, ranging from Women's Studies and Politics, to Literary Criticism and Religion. Allows users to save and email citations, as well as link directly to titles.
These reference books from the American Psychological Association (APA) provide a one-stop shop for both overviews and in-depth analyses of a variety of sub-fields within psychology. Individual chapters are available in PDF format. Titles include:
ebrary is an information delivery service that features a growing selection of more than 36,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers.
ebrary allows an unlimited number users of any one book in the database at any given time. Portions of books may be downloaded as PDF files, and entire books may be downloaded and read using the Adobe Digital Editions reader.
Access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. EBSCO eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction (at Brooklyn College, almost 6,000 titles), and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
EBSCO books are viewable online and may be checked out and viewed or downloaded using the Adobe Digital Editions reader. The reader is available free at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/. The list of compatible devices is available at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices.
Access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. EBSCO eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction (at Brooklyn College, almost 6,000 titles), and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
EBSCO books are viewable online and may be checked out and viewed or downloaded using the Adobe Digital Editions reader. The reader is available free at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/. The list of compatible devices is available at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices.
Palgrave Connect offers an ebook Collection with over 9,500 titles offered in the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business. These ebooks ebooks are available in collections organized by year of publication and by discipline.
Springer’s eBook Collection covers the subject areas: Architecture, Design and Arts; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Business & Economics; Chemistry & Material Science; Computer Science; Earth & Environmental Science; Engineering; Humanities, Social Science & Law; Mathematics & Statistics; Medicine; Physics & Astronomy; Professional and Applied Computing.
| Subscription Ebook Collections | What subjects are Covered? | Can you Read Online? | What can you Print? | What can you Download? | Details: How to Download | Requires Installation of Specialized Software? |
| ACLS Humanities Ebook | Humanities | Yes--through CUNY Catalog or Ebooks Page | No Printing | No Download capabilities | No Download capabilities | No |
| Ebrary | Broad scope of subjects: from technology to law, fine arts, etc. | Yes--through CUNY Catalog or Ebooks Page | Can print a maximum of 60 pages per session | After signing in to Ebrary account, either a part of the text (up to 60 pages or a chapter at a time) or the whole book for limited amount of time | Option 1. For partial download of a portion of the ebook, sign into Ebrary account and then can download up to 60 pages as a PDF. Option 2. For full download of the entire ebook, sign in and then use Adobe Digital Editions software to access the full text for a limited time | Yes--see Option 2--Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) |
| EbscoHost (formerly NetLibrary) | Broad scope of subjects: from literature to reference, etc. | Yes, but sometimes if another patron is viewing/using a book it will become inaccessible. Available through CUNY Catalog or Ebooks page | Can print a maximum of 60 pages per session | After signing in to Ebsco account, can download the whole book to Adobe Digital Editions for a limited amount of time | After signing in to Ebsco account, download options become available. You can download the full text for a limited time (1-7 days). It says it will save as a PDF, but it actually saves as an .acsm file, and only opens with Adobe Digital Editions | Yes--Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Collection of Reference materials with a broad scope | Yes--through CUNY Catalog or Ebooks Page | Yes--parts/sections or chapters at a time | Will download whatever is displayed on the screen as a PDF (no clear rule about page limit, seems random and about 3 pages at a time) | Can download small parts of books as a PDF (one encyclopedia entry, etc.) | No |
| SpringerLink | Arts, Humanities and Sciences | Yes--through CUNY Catalog or Ebooks Page | Texts with a green square can be printed in full, one chapter at a time | Anything to which we have access can be downloaded in full text as a PDF, one chapter at a time | All content can be downloaded as a PDF | No |
Did you know that almost all of our ebooks can be found via the CUNY library catalog? You should be prompted to log in to read ebooks straight from within the catalog using your off-campus login information (the same information as you would use for library databases).
If you are off-campus and would like to browse through our ebook collections, you will need to log in first to authenticate yourself as a Brooklyn College affiliate.
To do this, before you open an ebook collection, go to the library's home page and then click on the red lock icon on the middle left side of the page. After you enter your off-campus login information (the same information as you would use for library databases), any ebook you find can then be viewed in full from off-campus (the red lock icon should turn green once you are logged in).
The Directory of Open Access Books organizes ebooks that are available to read free of charge on the internet. It includes books published by academic, peer reviewed books via Open Access licenses.
950 open textbooks; search by ISBN or subject.
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide. There are 5,419,598 book titles and 268,899 serial titles currently digitized.
Over 3,000 books are available for free online from the National Academies Press, which publishes reports by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
OAPEN includes open access academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
SurLaLune offers over 40 eBooks, including fairy tale and folklore anthologies, critical texts, poetry and fiction. The index is divided by subject matter and region.
The University of Adelaide's Barr Smith Library has established the University of Adelaide Press, a digital academic publisher. The electronic editions are Open Access and free. All titles are internationally peer-reviewed.