McLaughlin Library

Research Databases

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66 Databases Found for:eBooks

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A

Alternate Name(s):Humanities Ebooks, HEB, ACLS History E-Book Project
Online collection of over 5,000 ebooks covering a variety subjects in the humanities.
Full-text collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, books, and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature.
Alternate Name(s):American Chemical Society Publications
The full suite of ACS journals and book chapters, in most cases back to the first volume. Covers all areas of chemical research.
Alternate Name(s):American Chemical Society Symposium Series Ebooks
Ebook collection developed from the American Chemical Society symposiums, covering a broad range of topics in chemistry and engineering.

A collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.

Publications of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Includes complete journal collection, eBooks, and conference proceedings.

B

Alternate Name(s):BEP
Provides access to over 400 practical eBooks on a variety of business topics.

C

Alternate Name(s):CABI Digital Library, CAB Ebooks

Ebooks covering topics in agriculture, applied life sciences, and global health.

Over 10 million abstracts for articles, books, proceedings, reports, and other materials in agriculture, applied life sciences, and global health.

Provides access to ebooks covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
Series of guides and ebooks offering introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods of history.
  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access

Provides access to a fully searchable version of the works of Ben Jonson.

350 volumes offering big picture perspectives covering subject areas across the humanities and social sciences.
Alternate Name(s):Canadian Public Policy Collection, Canadian Health Research Collection

Contains reports, studies, and working papers from Canadian public policy and research institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres, and other public interest groups. Includes the Canadian Public Policy Collection and the Canadian Health Research Collection.

Ebook titles from Canadian University presses covering subjects in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine and law. This collection is accessible through the Scholars Portal Books platform.
  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access
A searchable open access repository (virtual library) for 850 social sciences and humanities journals in Latin America, sponsored by the Latin American Council for the Social Sciences. Also includes references to books, working documents, papers, thesis and multimedia.
Includes books, journals and reference works in the brain and cognitive sciences published by MIT Press.

D

Alternate Name(s):DeGruyter, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell
Access scholarly eBooks and online journals for the humanities and social sciences disciplines, including many eBook titles from Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell's university presses.
  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access
An online directory that indexes and provides access to open access, peer-reviewed books and chapters.
  • Alumni Access
Alternate Name(s):Duke Books, Duke Journals
Over 40 journals and 2,300 ebook titles covering subject areas in the humanities and social sciences.

E

Alternate Name(s):EEBO

Contains page scans of books printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, as well as English-language works printed elsewhere from 1473–1700.

Material from the British Isles and Europe (1450-1700). Search across Early English Books Online and Early European Books to view materials from over 225 libraries worldwide.

Full-text ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.
Provides access to the Business and Management, Economics and Finance, Law, and Social and Political ebook Collections.
Provides access to journals in Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.
Direct access to the library's Emerald eBooks and journals collection, covering the business and social sciences disciplines.
Alternate Name(s):Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection, Environmental Science Collection

Supporting research and learning in environmental science and related fields. Cross-disciplinary content includes engineering, biotechnology, and bacteriology.

  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access

Europeana provides access to wide range of digitized cultural heritage from across Europe and beyond.

G

Alternate Name(s):Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes selected encyclopaedias, dictionaries and reference works from a variety of disciplines.
A bibliographic database of articles on horticulture, garden and landscape design and history. Topics covered include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.

I

  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access

The IMF eLibrary includes journals, books, working papers and studies, data and statistical tools. Includes a wide range of topics including economics, global trade and development, and demographics.

Alternate Name(s):IGI Global
Online collection of peer-reviewed ebooks and journals published by IGI Global. Covers a variety of core subject areas.
  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access
Research on federalism and intergovernmental relations in Canada and in other countries around the world. Topics covered include national unity, Canada-Quebec relations, fiscal federalism, constitutional reform, and the social union. The Institute is interdisciplinary in orientation, drawing on the latest research in political science, economics, philosophy, law, and sociology.

Bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews, and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Incorporates over 100 languages and countries.

  • Alumni Access
Scholarly book and ejournals published by the Institute of Physics.
  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access
Resources for Indigenous studies including books, articles, theses, documents, photographs, anthropological field notes, diaries, correspondence, archival resources, and maps.
Alternate Name(s):vLex
Provides access to all the books published by Irwin Law, a Canadian legal research publisher.

Citations of books, journal articles, essays and book reviews on topics relating to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), written from 1784 onwards. No full text.

J

Archive of articles from scholarly journals for arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities. Includes selected book chapters and primary sources.

L

A virtual library of 520 volumes (and growing) of Latin, Greek, and English texts. The texts are presented in a modern and elegant interface which supports easy browsing, searching, annotation, and searching of their content.

M

Contains hundreds of original medieval history documents. In addition to Manchester University Press publications, it serves as a portal to other online resources.

N

Provides access to the working papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

O

  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access
Contains academic books mainly in the areas of humanities and social sciences.
  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access

Full-text access to the reports, books, papers and statistics produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) about such topics as globalization, sustainable development, economic aid, developing countries, education, and social issues.

A search platform to explore the library's physical and (many of our) electronic collections.
  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access

Peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly ebooks published in the U.K.

Alternate Name(s):Oxford Handbooks Online, University Press Scholarship Online, Oxford Scholarship Online
Online library offering access to ebooks and other academic works covering subjects in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Over 700 handbooks books covering subject areas in the humanities and social science, which provide critical examinations and overviews of progress and debates existing on topics and events.
Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects. Each volume provides trenchant and provocative discussions of the central issues in a given topic.

P

Abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of literature in political science, public administration/policy, and related fields. Includes journal articles, reports, dissertations, and more.

Alternate Name(s):Ebrary Ebooks
Full-text eBooks in a wide range of subject areas.
Alternate Name(s):APA
Full-text books published by the American Psychological Association. Also includes entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.

R

Provides an overview of classic and current research and future trends on topics in the social sciences and humanities.
  • Alumni Access
1,300 ebooks covering topics in the field of chemistry and other related fields.

S

  • Alumni Access

Books, encyclopedias, and videos published by SAGE in many social sciences.

Technical Requirements: Adobe Digital Editions
Dates of Coverage: Varies

Provides access to scientific articles, protocols and reference works.

T

Provides full-text access to journals covering a variety of disciplines.
Full text access to ebooks covering a variety of disciplines.

Users must register for an individual account to access some of the collections in this database.

A collection of digitized literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium.

U

  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access
Alternate Name(s):OSTI.GOV

Publications on science, technology, and engineering research from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Alternate Name(s):United Nations World Tourism Organization

Contains tourism related books, journal articles, and statistical reports. Includes the Tourism FactBook, the World Tourism Barometer, and more than 1,100 multilingual reports.

W

Covers life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Contains journal articles, online books, and reference works including laboratory protocols and databases.
Collection of early women’s writing in English and includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
  • Alumni Access

Brings together diaries and oral histories for the study of the lives and experiences of less well-known women, told through their own words. Featuring content from both regional and national archives across the UK and Ireland, users can explore the life course of hundreds of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds.

  • Alumni Access
  • Open Access
Alternate Name(s):OKR, Open Knowledge Repository

The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Contains annual reports, books, journal articles, background papers, and more.

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