Access ebooks

  1. You should see a link that says either Full text available or Available online. Click whichever one you see!

  2. Our access to ebooks is provided by several different companies, so you will see different options depending on which company provided the book. Most should give you an option to download all or part of the book, and some will also give you the option to read the book in your web browser. Here are a few examples:

    • Proquest provides a few different options for reading the book. One option is to borrow or "download" the book. To do this, you will need to download Adobe Digital Editions, and an Adobe account. (For more information, please see Proquest's guide on downloading in Ebook Central.) You can also read online, and depending on the book, you may also be able to (permanently) download some chapters. There should be text at the top of the page that tells you how much you can download (see the outlined area in the screenshot below). 

    • Ebsco provides different options depending on the book. In most cases, under the Access options dropdown menu, you should see both "PDF full text" and "EPub full text" as options. Both of these options allow you to read the book online. Sometimes there is an option to download (or "borrow") the book. That is labeled with "Download."

      Like Proquest, Ebsco explains what kind of limits you have in terms of printing and downloading specific pages. This information should be below the Access options and Download buttons. In the screenshot below, you can see that for this book (Life of the Indigenous Mind), there is no limit to how many pages you can download or print from this book.

    If it's not clear how to access your ebook, please reach out to us for more help.