LibGuides: Organizational Management Research Guide : How to Find eBooks

Find eBooks Through Library Search

To search for material within the EFSC Library Catalog, visit the Eastern Florida State College Library Advanced Search OR log in to myEFSC, click on Library Resources, then Advanced Search.

In the "Enter Search Terms" field, type your search terms, ex: organizational behavior

Select Material Type from the menu on the right (select Books for both books on the shelf and books available online).
Use search filters to narrow down search to subject, author, title, etc.
Click Search

Sample search for eBooks about organizational behavior:

Below are the search results for books on the shelves as well as books available online:

Use the Tweak your results menu on the right to filter to books available online. Click Apply filters to see results:

Click on the title or Available Online for more details.

You will be directed to a page that looks like the picture below. To access the book, click on any of the options listed under View Online.

Note that it is not necessary to download eBooks to view and use them for research. Downloading simply gives you the added ability to read and work with eBooks offline on a home computer or eBook reader.

eBook Collections

Ebook Central (Proquest) This link opens in a new window Free collection of eBooks purchased by the Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative (FALSC) for use by its 40 member institutions in the state. Packt titles deal with computer and information science topics; the R&L titles cover the social sciences.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Provides access to e-books in the topics of Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Economics, Computer Science, Education, Health & Medicine, History, Law, Literature & Criticism, Psychology, Religion, Sciences, and Social Sciences.
eBooks (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window Includes reference, academic and general interest e-books. Among the topics covered by this collection are: Business, Crime and Punishment, Religion, Science, Technology, and the Environment, Society and Education, United States History, World History, and World Issues
Open Research Library (Knowledge Unlatched) This link opens in a new window Search platform that will include all Open Access book content worldwide for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books.
Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window include Business Plans Handbook, International Directory of Company Histories, How to Understand Business Finance, How to Write Reports and Proposals, Gale Encyclopedia of e-Commerce, Career Opportunities in Health Care, and U.S. Health Policy and Politics: A Documentary History.

Other free eBook collections available via the Internet: Bartleby Great Books Online, National Academies Press, Online Books, Project Gutenberg.