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Freely available e-book collections

An increasing number of e-books and texts, usually classic works of history and literature, are freely available on the internet.

 

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The Library subscribes to a growing number of e-books.

You can use the Library catalogue to search for e-books subscribed to by the Library. Search for the e-book in the same way as you would a printed book. From your results page, select the refining tool on the right to limit your results to "Computer File". Items showing a book icon next to the title are e-books.

You can also browse our e-book collections in the list below.

 

Our e-book collections

  • Cambridge Books Online - History and Theatre
    This collections includes: Twentieth century British history; Colonial American history; Early republic and Antebellum history; American history 1861-1900; History of native American peoples; American Theater; British Theater and European Theater.
  • Cambridge Histories Online
    Contains more than 250 volumes covering histories of the US and Britain, as well as more general areas covering economics, politics, religion, music, literary studies and language.
  • ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
    Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
  • EEBO (Early English Books Online)
    Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Fully searchable. You can print and download the page images. The contents of EEBO is now accessible through the Library catalogue.
  • MyILibrary
    We have purchased a number of e-books covering a range of subject areas, available from the MyILibrary interface.
  • NetLibrary
    We have purchased a number of e-books across a variety of subject areas.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online History E-Books Collection
    A collection of E-books published by OUP. Subjects include American History from early to 20th Century; British Early Modern, Medieval and Modern History; Cultural History; Economic History; European Early Modern, Medieval and Modern History; History of Ideas; History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Military History and Social History.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online Linguistics E-Books Collection
    A collection of E-books published by OUP. A collection of electronic books published by OUP. Subjects include English Language; Historical Linguistics; Language Families; Phonetics/Phonology; Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics/Cognitive Linguistics; Semantics and Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics/Anthropological Linguistics; Syntax and Morphology and Theoretical Linguistics.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online Philosophy E-Books Collection
    A collection of e-books published by OUP in the field of Philosophy. Subjects include: Aesthetics; Ancient Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; General; History of Philosophy; Logic / Philosophy of Mathematics; Metaphysics / Epistemology; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science and Political Philosophy.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science E-Books Collection
    A collection of e-books published by OUP in the field of Political Science. Topics include American politics, European Union, international relations, political economy and Russian politics. You can browse by title or search the collection.
  • Palgrave Connect
    Two collections of books from Palgrave in the subject areas of Business and Management and Economics and Finance, offering access to 650+ titles.
  • Safari Technical Books
    A fully searchable collection of 464 full text e-books in the field of computing. Four concurrent users permitted.
  • Science Direct (for Elsevier E-book titles)
    We have bought access to a number of e-books from Elsevier which are accessible via ScienceDirect. To browse e-books, click on Browse along top green menu. From next screen, select "Full text available" and limit to "All books" on lefthand menu. A list of all e-books will then be displayed.
  • Springer Behavioural Science E-Book package
    A collection 350+ books published between 2008-2011 in the subject area of Behavioural Science.
    PLEASE NOTE - this link offers access to all Springer E-Books however, the University Library only has purchased access to the Behavioural Science collection 2008-11. If there are other items that you would find of value to your studies please email library.learning.teaching@sussex.ac.uk
  • Taylor and Francis Business and Economics E-Book Collection
    A collection of 100 bestselling titles from Taylor and Francis on Business and Economics.
  • Taylor and Francis Media and Film Studies E-Book Collection
    A collection of 248 leading textbooks, reference works and research monographs on Media and Film studies .
 

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