While many of our e-books can now be found by searching the library catalogue, at this time not all of our titles are located there. While we are in the process of making all of our e-Books available in the library catalogue, you can also search in different e-book platforms listed below.
Some of our ebook platforms require registration for an Adobe ID. This guide walks you through the registration process, step by step.
Books @ Scholars Portal
http://led.uwindsor.ca/scholars-portal-books
Search and access over 200,000 ebooks from open access publishers such as the Internet Archive and over 40,000 titles from commercial publishers such as Cambridge, Duke, IEEE, ITER, Morgan & Claypool, Oxford University Press, and Springer
Canadian Electronic Library
http://led.uwindsor.ca/deslibris
Provides full-text access to over 20,000 ebooks and 75,000 public documents - is a merger of 3 previous collections: Canadian Health Research Collection, Canadian Public Policy Collection, Canadian Publishers Collection.
MyiLibrary
http://led.uwindsor.ca/myilibrary
- over 20,000 ebooks across various subjects including philosophy, psychology, religion, political science, history, social sciences, business, economics, education, science, technology, engineering, medicine, fine arts, languages and literature
- many titles can only be read by one person at a given time
EBSCOHost eBook Collection
http://led.uwindsor.ca/ebscohost-ebooks
- formally known as netLibrary, EBSCOHost eBooks provides ebooks over a multitude of disciplines for a variety of reading levels
Collections by Publisher
- Brill E-Books : Classical Studies and the Social Sciences
- Cambridge University Press e-books (MyiLibrary)
- Colloquium Digital Library (Morgan and Claypool)
- Duke University Press
- Elsevier ebooks
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Oxford University Press (MyiLibrary)
- Oxford Reference Online
- Sage Knowledge
- Springer Books
- Springer Protocols
- Wiley IEEE
Subject Specific Collections
- ACLS Humanities E-Book project
- ASM Handbooks Online
- Books@Ovid Nursing
- Early American Imprints (Evans)
- Early Canadiana Online (ECO)
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- Early European Books (EEB)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
- Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
- Knovel Science and Engineering e-books
- Intelex Past Masters Intelex Past Masters
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Literature Online - Browse Texts
- MIT CogNet Library
- NCBI Bookshelf
- OECD Library
- Project Gutenberg
- Women Writers Online - The Texts
Open Library Lending Program
http://led.uwindsor.ca/open-library
over 200,000 ebooks are available including a growing 20th Century collection of texts
- requires opening an Open Library account first
- readers can borrow up to five eBook titles for up to 2 weeks each
- books are available as pdf or ePub and can be read either online or off-line
- More information about borrowing this program can be found on the Open Library site
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