eBooks
The library has access to a number of ebook collections.
Use the library catalogue or Discover and type in your keywords or book title then tick ‘eBooks’ on the source types on the left of the results screen. Or choose from the collections listed below to search an individual collection.
Search across eBook Central, Books@Ovid, Gale Virtual Reference Library, EBSCO, ScienceDirect and MyiLibrary using Discover.
Subscription
Bloomsbury Professional Online – Bloomsbury Professional provides access to Employment Law, Litigation, Company Law and Property Law.
Books@Ovid – 76 Nursing titles.
ClinicalKey Student Nursing – Ebooks, videos and images.
Following single sign-on, ClinicalKey Student Nursing currently requires entry of name and email before access is granted to the search interface.
To change your details when logged in, click on My Account – Settings on the top right and edit the fields.
ClinicalKey Dental – Ebooks, videos and images.
Registration and continued login with registered details to access the e-books is enforced by the supplier. To minimise the information given, you can enter your student number for first name and second name fields when registering.
eBook Central (formerly Ebrary) – Over 165,000 titles.
eBook Central training videos.
EBSCO eBooks – all subject areas including 14 Dental Nursing and Audiology titles.
JOVE – Textbook Mapping
Law of Child Care
This book examines the relationships that exist between the State and the family and the restrictions placed by Articles 41 and 42 of the Constitution on State intervention in the life of the family to protect vulnerable and at-risk children.
Printing is disabled on this book. Copy 20 pages every 30 days. Read Aloud is active.
After every 60 days book has to be downloaded again from the link.
Medicines Complete – Provides online access to some of the world’s leading drug and healthcare reference eBooks.
ScienceDirect e-books – Offshore engineering titles.
Freely available eBooks
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- American Institute of Mathematics – Approved textbooks
- Berghahn Books: Open Access – Humanities and Social Science
- BC Open Textbooks
- BookRags
- Biodiversity Library
- Digital Book Index
- Directory of Open Access Books
- eBook & Text Internet Archive
- e-International Relations
- Free Computer Books
- Free-ebooks.net
- Galileo Open Textbooks – University System of Georgia
- Google Book Search
- GoOpenVa textbooks – Virginia Department of Education
- InTech
- JSTOR open access
- Just Free Books
- La Trobe eBureau
- LibreTexts – Browse subject areas from the “Explore the Libraries” link
- Lyryx Open Textbooks – Business, Economics, Mathematics & Statistics
- MERLOT open textbook materials
- OAPEN
- The Online Books Page
- Open Book Publishers
- OpenEdManitoba textbooks
- Open Library Ontario
- OpenStax
- OpenSUNY
- Open Textbooks
- Open Textbook Library – University of Minnesota
- Project Muse Open Access
- RMIT University OER textbooks – Australia
- Scribd
- World Public Library Association
- Refdesk.com
- Virginia Tech VTechWorks
- Writing across the curriculum