Guides: Ebooks: Library ebooks

About ebooks

Find all the Library's ebooks on Library Search.

Browse some of our general ebook supplier websites containing a wide variety of ebooks on different topics.

Dawsonera
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Access
Log in with your University username and password.

Description
All ebooks we have access to from Dawsonera are listed in Library Search and our library catalogue.
Select Read Online to read an ebook.
Some ebooks have simultaneous user limits set by the publisher. If the book is in use, try again in 15 minutes.
To find out how many pages you can print or copy from a book, select either Print or Copy. The number of pages varies depending on the publisher.
You can:
- Search the full text of an ebook
- Make notes
- Download an ebook for 24 hours. To do this you will need Bluefire Reader (£4 to download) or Adobe Digital Editions (free to download), depending on the title.
Full text availability
ebooks the Library has access to are indicated by a green open padlock icon. To search only for books to which the Library has access, untick the Show unowned content box from the search results page or in Advanced Search, leave the Books not owned by your library box unticked.

Platform
Dawson
Ebook Central
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Access
Log in with your University username and password.

Description
Select Read Online to read an ebook online. Some ebooks limit the number of people using it at one time. If you find one of these, try again in 15 minutes.

Printing
Print up to 40% of an ebook. These limits reset after 24 hours. Printing or downloading a chapter or page range do the same thing - both options create a PDF that does not expire. You can then print the PDF at any time or save to read offline.

Download
You can download a whole ebook to read offline on a personal device for 24 hours.To do this you will need:
- Adobe Digital Editions (free), if you want to download it to a personal (not a University networked) laptop or desktop
- Bluefire Reader app (£4 charge) to download to an iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android phone or tablet
Full text availability
Full-text ebooks

Platform
ProQuest
VLeBooks
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Access
On campus Log in with your University username and password. Off campus select the link that says Shibboleth and then log in with your University username and password.

Description
Select Read Online to read an ebook.
We list all ebooks from VLeBooks in our library catalogue and Library Search.
Some ebooks have simultaneous user limits set by the publisher. If the book is in use, try again in 15 minutes.
Select Copy to find out how many pages you can copy. The number of pages varies, depending on the publisher.
You can:
- Search the full text of an ebook
- Make notes
- Overlay colours
Full text availability
Use Read Online to view full book.
To download ebooks for 24 hours to your Personal NOT University PC, Mac, or mobile device you must have already loaded suitable reader software and registered with Adobe. You can download an ebook to multiple devices, but each device must have suitable software and the same Adobe registered id.
Setup is simple and free. Detailed instructions: PC or Mac, Android devices, Apple iOS

Platform
VLeBooks (Askews and Holts)

Interested in historical ebooks? Historical Texts is a great place to start it has thousands of books from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Historical Texts
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Access
Log in with your University username and password.

Description
The service includes content from three early book collections:
- EEBO (Early English Books Online) - books published in English up to 1700
- ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) - books published in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth century
- 19th Century books from the British Library collection.
Also has the UK Medical Heritage Library collection.

Full text availability
Full text or page images of over 300,000 books.

Platform
JISC