E-books Academic Subscription Collection (EBSCO)

The EBSCO Academic Subscription Collection contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects.

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E-books Academic Subscription Collection (EBSCO)

The EBSCO Academic Subscription Collection contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects.

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This subscription package offers more than 206.103 e-books. The collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier, Ashgate Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Sage Publications and John Wiley & Sons.

Subject coverage includes:

Art
Business and economics
Education
Language arts and discipline
Law
Literary criticism
Medical
Performing arts
Philosophy
Poetry
Political science
Religion
Social science
Technology and engineering
Other academic fields

All titles are available with unlimited user access, new titles are regularly added to the collection.

Setting up a Personal Account
To download e-Books, save preferences, organise your research with folders, share your folders with others, view others’ folders, save and retrieve your search history, create email alerts and/or RSS feeds and gain access to your saved research remotely you must have a personal MyEBSCO folder account. Click the Sign In link in the top toolbar and then click the Create one now link. Fill in the fields on the Create Account Screen.

When you create a new MyEBSCO folder account or are updating the existing password for your account, you are required to create a strong password.

Need more information about how to create and manage a MyEBSCO Account? Read the article “How to Create and Manage a MyEBSCO account“.

How to check out and download EBSCO eBooks
If you see a Download icon it means you’re allowed to check-out and download the e-Book and read it on your computer when you are not connected to the Internet or transfer it to your Thorium Reader E-Book Reader device.

Note: To download EBSCO e-Books, you must have the Thorium installed on your computer. This software is free & open source.

Click the Download icon to begin downloading an eBook to your computer.
Select a Download Duration from the drop-down menu when available.
The e-Book is added to the Checkout area of your folder.
Open Thorium Reader and Import the file.

Some e-Books may be available without DRM (Digital Rights Management) restrictions. These eBooks do not require you to sign in to MyEBSCO to download them.

To learn more about checking out and downloading e-Books view “EBSCO eBooks – LCP & Thorium FAQ”