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Peruse our ebook platforms for your favorite fiction, non-fiction, or educational book. Please be aware that some platforms require you to have a valid UT Dallas email address to access them and view their content.
ACS Symposium Series
The American Chemical Society’s Symposium Series contains over 900 high-quality ebooks developed from the ACS technical divisions’ symposia. Each chapter is carefully authored by an expert in their field. The series covers a broad range of topics including food chemistry, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and many others.
De Gruyter
De Gruyter presents a user-friendly interface to search among more than 13,000 scholarly ebooks, or browse across 30 subject areas. University Presses and other academic publishing partners produce content. Downloaded books are DRM-free for unlimited reading across multiple devices.
Ebook Central
Ebook Central provides content from authoritative, scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers.
eBooks on EBSCOhost
A collection of over 300,000 eBook and audiobook titles (formerly from NetLibrary)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
A collection of over 125,000 books and pamphlets published in England and its colonies from 1475-1700.
Emerald Insight
Emerald eBook Series Collection contains over 1,600 volumes and more than 140 book series titles in two key fields, business and economics and the social sciences. Authored by leading academics, each collection offers a breadth of relevant, quality content. Collections are searchable and individual chapters are downloadable as PDF files.
Gale eBooks
Includes full text encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources on a broad range of subject areas. Formerly: Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL).
GeoScienceWorld
The GeoScienceWorld eBook Collection contains over one thousand scholarly earth science ebooks from 10 leading society publishers, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geological Society of America, the Geological Society of London, and the Society of Economic Geologists. A cross-searching feature allows for simultaneous searching for 45 scholarly journals in the GeoScienceWorld Journal Collection as well as all GeoRef records. Book chapters are downloadable as PDF files. The site also features a mobile compatible ebook reader.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a large digital library bringing together materials from sources including Google Books, the Internet Archive, and other commercial digitization projects. This resource is being expanded daily and provides information on more than 10 million volumes with more than a third of these available for full text access and download (primarily books and journals published before 1923 and U.S. Government publications).
Humanities Ebook
ACLS Humanities Ebook Digital Collection provides over 1,700 high-quality ebooks in the humanities, featuring unlimited multi-user access.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE – Wiley eBooks Library provides access to over 400 up-to-date titles, covering emerging technologies, such as bioengineering, photonics & electro-optics and robotics & control systems. Access is provided to individual chapters in PDF format.
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Digital Library contains a collection of professional and academic ebooks on the history of technology, control engineering, electrical technology, management of technology, power and energy, telecommunications, computing, and related fields. We currently only have access to eBook titles published from 1979 to 2019.
Intelex Past Masters
PAST MASTERS is a collection of primary-source full-text electronic editions of philosophical works.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources, with a broad variety of coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, spanning more than 50 disciplines. Collections on JSTOR include the complete archival records of thousands of journal titles.
Libby (Formerly OverDrive)
Via Libby, users have access to thousands of popular fiction and non-fiction titles (e.g., New York Times bestsellers) available as ebooks and audiobooks. Titles can be accessed via desktop browser, or they can be downloaded for reading/listening offline by using the Libby app on Android and iOS devices. (Note: The older OverDrive app has been retired and replaced by Libby.) To complete installation of Libby, users should search for “University of Texas at Dallas” and add it as their library. For additional help with the app, see the Libby Help page.
National Academic Press
Contains more than 4,000 downloadable PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press. Titles cover many subjects including biology, computer science, mathematics, chemistry, and physics.
O’Reilly Online Learning
O’Reilly Online Learning (formerly known as Safari Books Online) grants access to thousands of ebooks on business, management, computer science, programming languages, and technology in addition to interactive online tutorials, training videos, and video “case studies.” O’Reilly provides timely access to materials published by Java, Addison-Wesley, O’Reilly, Que, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Sams, Macromedia, Microsoft, CISCO, and Adobe.
Users must have a VALID UT Dallas email address in order to access O’Reilly. Additionally, users who create an account (free) may enjoy extra benefits such as direct access to www.oreilly.com without logging in through the library site, the ability to bookmark ebook and video content, and access to O’Reilly on tablets and mobile devices through the O’Reilly app (iOS and Android compatible).
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Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online contains electronic versions of the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Oxford Art Online also offers thousands of images from ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society, and other international art galleries.
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
Project Muse
This provides full-text access to hundreds of electronic journals and ebooks from Johns Hopkins Press in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage begins in 1993.
Readex- America’s Historical Imprints
America’s Historical Imprints contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and ephemera printed in early America.
Readex- Early American Imprints (1639 – 1800)
Contains books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera from 1639-1800 listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans.
Readex- Early American Imprints (1801 – 1819)
Contains books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera from 1801-1819 listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
The Royal Society of Chemistry provides access to more than 1200 high-quality chemistry ebooks.
Science Direct (Elsevier)
Millions of publications from full-text journal articles to authoritative books. Journals are guided by eminent editorial boards and articles are rigorously peer-reviewed. Books on ScienceDirect cover multiple subject collections across disciplines such as physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
**Note: This collection does not allow access to ALL the publisher’s journals and books. Only the titles licensed are available.
SEG Digital Library
SEG Digital Library is a collection of geophysics books and other materials published by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
SpringerLink
SpringerLink is a multidisciplinary collection of over 170,000 ebooks from major scientific and academic publishers.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Contains eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science, including publishers such as Routledge, Psychology Press, Focal Press Imprints, CRC Press, and others.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library delivers full-text content for hundreds of leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and the full text of select Wiley print books online. This collection does not include access to all the publisher’s journals and books, only those that the library licenses.