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eBooks through Databases

When you find eBooks with a Library Search you are searching the indexing of eBook titles, selected keywords, and tables of contents.  If you want to search cover to cover through every word on every page in every eBook, you need to log into a specific eBook collection through the library databases.

The most popular eBook collections are:

  • Virtual Reference Library (Gale) - includes hundreds of titles and is useful for locating reliable background information to begin a research project. The GVRL includes the literary criticism sets Poetry for Students and Short Stories for Students.
  • eBook Collection (EBSCO) - EFSC's largest eBook collection with 50,000+ titles in all subjects areas.

 Other EFSC collections include: 

  • Digital Collection (ABC-CLIO) - a research collection of approximately 7000 books and reference works from all disciplines.
  • Literature Criticism Online (Gale) - digital versions of Gale literature criticism reference sets including: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Short Story Criticism, & Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
     
  •    Ovid eBooks - a small collection of nursing and allied health eBooks.

Free eBook collections include: Bartleby Great Books OnlineNational Academies Press, Online Books, Project Gutenberg  

Helpful Tips for finding books

Helpful Tips if you get no search results:  

  • think of other words (synonyms) for your topic
  • type in just one or two words for keywords, not an entire phrase or sentence
  • explore the Suggested New Searches option at the bottom of your results screen