Ebooks

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

Accessibility

Ebook Central doesn’t offer a Read Aloud or text-to-speech function. Ebook Central advise that text-to-speech is available through most web browsers and digital devices.

Platform

ProQuest

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

Accessibility

VleBooks has a Read Aloud feature, with inbuilt text-to-speech, available through ‘Read Online.’

Platform

VLeBooks (Askews and Holts)

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