Ebooks are digitised copies of print books with the added advantages of easy navigation, copying, printing and searching. The tabs below identify our main collections and key subject-specific collections.
Ebook platforms differ and often have embedded controls on the amount of copying and printing you can do. If you need any help finding or using ebooks, please contact an academic librarian . If you are a lecturer and want to identify ebooks to add to your resource lists, please see our guidelines on resource lists .
You can search all of our ebooks on Discover . You can then narrow the results by selecting Resource type: Books and Availability: Full text online in the right hand Refine menu.
Multidisciplinary collections
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As well as using Discover , you may like to browse or search for content directly through the platforms listed below. These allow you to create bookmarked lists for easy quick reference.
Ebooks by subject
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Remember that, in addition to these subject-specific collections, you can search across our multidisciplinary collections for subject-specific content. See the multidisciplinary collections accordion panel for details.
Business and management Oxford Academic business and management collection.Find the Cengage collection of 20 specialist business and management titles by doing an author search for Cengage on Discover . Criminology and forensic investigation CRC ForensicNetBASE includes books on arson and fire investigation, computer crime, criminal justice and law, forensic pathology, forensics, law enforcement and security management.Oxford Academic collections for law, political science and psychology. Search by keyword or browse the collection.Engineering and computing IEEE Xplore including bioengineering, power and energy, and communication technologies, among other growing areas of research.Knovel is a web-based collection of ebooks, technical information and tools for engineering students.Lecture Notes in Computing Science publishes new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.Safari Books Online is a small collection of technical and computing titles.Law Brill online books and journals : Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Collection includes human rights, refugee law, immigration law, health law, children's rights, minority and group rights, humanitarian law and international criminal law.Brill online books and journals : International Law Collection includes public international law, law of the sea, international trade law, international labour law, environmental law, European law, international relations, international organizations, terrorism, legal history and Islamic law.HeinOnline legal classics collection includes more than 4,500 works by key historical figures including Joseph Story, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, William Holdsworth, Henry Maine, Federick William Maitland, Frederick Pollock and Benjamin E. Cardozo.Oxford Academic law collection includes recently published OUP textbooks.Scottish institutional writers are included in the JISC Historic Books : Nineteenth century books from the British Library collection . Search by title or author, or see the individual links on the law subject pages.
Open textbooks
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An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public. Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
Here are some of the main providers:
Definition from Learn more about Open Textbooks , the Student PIRGs (Accessed 13.12.17)
