E-Books
Many e-books (often referred to as online books or electronic books) are cataloged and may be searched via the UC Library Catalog (link to UC Library Catalog) You will find a link to the electronic book via the library catalog record. When conducting a search in the library catalog, you can also limit your search to only “electronic formats” which often helps locate e-books.
Many e-books are accessible via collections that the Library has purchased. Often the title of the collection is listed in the Library Catalog and a link is provided to the collection web site that provides a full listing of the titles. Many of the collections are part of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center which offers thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences
E-Book Center contains electronic books purchased by Ohio academic libraries from these publishers:
- ABC-CLIO: educational reference books – encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides – on many specialized topics, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
- Oxford University Press: important scholarly books, both classic and newly-published works, in the humanities and social sciences. Oxford imprints include OUP Oxford, OUP USA, and Clarendon Press.
- Springer: high-quality scientific, technological and medical books.
Additional e-book collections available to University of Cincinnati users include: include:
- Safari Tech Books Online: Attention MAC users - use the latest version of Firefox
Electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields from O'Reilly and Associates and Pearson Technology Associates.
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1500 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 90 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 in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
- Oxford Reference Online
Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press
- netLibrary: http://www.netlibrary.com/
A library of electronic books on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview 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. netLibrary operates on the library check-out model, where readers check out e-books for a specified amount of time.
- This Web site offers a list of free e-books