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Books and eBooks
Library Search enables you to search across all print and eBook collections. However, if you want to search/browse eBooks from a particular supplier or collection, you can find links to subject specific eBook collections below.
- ACLS Humanities ebook Collection This link opens in a new windowFull text of over 5,400 ebooks in the humanities, with new titles added regularly.
- BAR Digital Collection This link opens in a new windowThis online collection, from one of the world’s largest academic archaeology publishers, gives full text access to over 3,100 titles published from 1974 to date. It includes both BAR’s British and international series, and covers archaeological research, excavation reports and other important series from around the world.
- Blackwell language and linguistics e-books online This link opens in a new windowOver 30 full text reference books in various fields of language and linguistics
- Bloomsbury Popular Music This link opens in a new windowComprehensive resource covering all genres of popular music, including ebooks, books about significant LPs, artist biographies and interactive timeline and map.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowSearch over 360 volumes of this major series, covering worldwide history from ancient to modern, literature, language, music, and more. All volumes are also individually listed on Library Search. NEW! We have just added 11 more volumes, covering Ireland, Communism, modernism and slavery.
- Pluto Press Collections (Academic Library ebooks) This link opens in a new windowOver 650 ebooks in politics, media, and cultural studies
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new windowContains 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 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
- Early European Books This link opens in a new windowDraws together a diverse array of printed sources from major European libraries, covering 15th to 17th century.
- ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowContains the digital images of every page of books printed in the United Kingdom 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. Includes 18th Century Acts and Statutes of Ireland made in Parliamentary Sessions in Dublin.
