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Searching for e-books on a topic

From the Library homepage ensure you have gained access to the subscription material we own by logging on with your NetID via the off-campus access link.

Beginning at the Library homepage select the Advanced Search option of Summon:

The Advances Search screen allows you to limit your results to Ebooks only. After entering my search terms I select Book/eBook under content type, limit to English language and select items with full text online:

Just below this search box, to the left, I also choose an active filter of Available online. Now I have a set of results which contain my keywords 'Calming strategies' and 'Early Childhood' published between 2000 - 2020, available online.

To the right of the titles you will find management options such as the ability to generate a citation, option to email the record, pin the result to a clipboard and under the ellipses citation management and print options.

e-book collections

  • ACLS Humanities E-book – Full-text, searchable access to over 2,800 books of high quality across the humanities. Includes in- and out-of-print titles.
  • ProQuest Ebook Central – Ebooks from a variety of disciplines published by University Presses and other top publishers.
  • EBSCOhost Ebook Collection – High quality ebook titles from major academic publishers and university presses from around the world.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online – Quality ebook titles published by Oxford University Press in 20 subject areas, covering the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
  • Scholars Portal Books – Ebooks from commercial publishers (such as Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Elsevier), Canadian publishers, government and non-governmental organizations.