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EBooks at BGSU

All titles published by the American Psychological Association since 2017.
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All Cambridge UP titles published since 2015, plus a few 2014 imprints. Includes the new Cambridge Elements series.
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ProQuest Ebook Central has over 32,000 books, mostly in business and education.
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Over 200,000 titles in all subjects, selected for colleges and universities
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95 books published by the Institute of Physics.
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Nearly 50,000 full-text titles from university presses, plus thousands of open access titles
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The OhioLINK Electronic Book Center consists of the Scholarly & Reference Collection (with over 70,000 titles) and the American & English Literature Collection (which has nearly 300,000 works).
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These collections include over 14,000 online books published by Oxford and six other university presses in a variety of disciplines, including history, religion, other social sciences and humanities.
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70 purchased full text books plus a number of open access titles
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Over 48,000 current titles covering software applications, programming, web development, computer hardware, etc.
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Nearly 100,000 full-text ebooks from Springer and Palgrave publishers, mostly in the STEM areas.
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77 full-text ebooks purchased by BGSU and nearly 500 open access titles.
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Over 8,000 full-text books, mostly in the sciences.
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Oxford's Very Short Introductions encompass over 600 short books on all topics.
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Ebooks at BGSU Handout

This 2-page handout includes brief info on most of our ebook collections plus information on proxying, persistent links and troubleshooting.

Ebooks at BGSU (pdf handout)

Temporary Free E-Resources due to COVID-19

The library has purchased expanded access to ebooks and some other online content for a limited time from the following collections. You can find content from these collections in Summon.

Ebooks and Databases Available for a Limited Time

eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection provides access to a large selection of nearly 200,000 multidisciplinary ebook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter including titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, MIT Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier Ltd.; Brill Academic Publishers; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Sage Publications, Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Available through September 1, 2021.
HeinOnline Academic
HeinOnline Academic features more than 100 million pages of content and covers more than 100 subject areas, providing access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. The package also includes Fastcase, a next-generation legal research service which provides subscribers access to a wide array of case law at the federal and state levels and enables users to access the full text of cases through their HeinOnline subscription without having to access multiple separate research databases. Trial to this full HeinOnline Academic package will be available through June 30, 2021.
JoVE Science Education: Chemistry
JoVE is a video library of scientific experiments, dedicated to teaching scientific practice and theory through visual demonstrations. The Chemistry Education module includes sections on general, organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry, as well as biochemistry. Our access includes the JoVE Chemistry Video Journal, which publishes peer reviewed research in a unique video format. Purchased with CARES Act funds to support online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic; access available through December 31, 2021.
JSTOR Ebooks
BGSU has purchased access to over 100,000 ebooks on JSTOR for academic year 2020-2021. These are high-quality ebooks published by scholarly university presses. Most were published between 2010 and 2019, though some titles are older. They can be accessed alongside other JSTOR journal and ebook content. Some books have been purchased so access will be perpetual. Others are only available through June 30, 2021.
MIT Press Ebooks
The complete collection of MIT Press ebooks published through 2021, with over 3,000 titles. Key subject areas covered include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, design, neuroscience, new media, philosophy, and more.