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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 15,000 general interest titles, most acquired before the year 2000
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95 books published by the Institute of Physics.
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320 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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This 2-page handout includes brief info on most of our ebook collections plus information on proxying, persistent links and troubleshooting.
Temporary Free E-Resources due to COVID-19
Publishers and library vendors are offering universities expanded free access to online content for a limited time. We are adding these resources to our search tools like Summon. Selected resources are listed below. For a full list, see our Databases A-Z page.
Selected Free Ebooks and Databases (Research Resources)
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DocuseekA selection of titles from Bullfrog Films and Icarus Films. Available through August 31st, 2020 for free from Docuseek to support online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Included titles are:
Inquiring Nuns 1 and 2
A Change of Character
El lugar más pequeño / The Tiniest Place
Buyer Be Fair
We Feed the World
Big River
Better This World
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death
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HeinOnline AcademicHeinOnline 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 December 15, 2020.
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JSTOR Expanded (temporary book & journal content)JSTOR and participating publishers are making an expanded set of content freely available to participating institutions where students have been displaced due to COVID-19. Expanded content includes 26 journal archives in Public Health, all Archive and Primary Source collections, and over 20,000 books. This content is accessible to BGSU users alongside our normal JSTOR journal and ebook content. Further details can be found at https://about.jstor.org/covid19/ Available through August 31st for free from JSTOR to support online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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National Emergency Library-Internet Archivea collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.
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The Ohio State University Press PublicationsAll scholarly monographs and the Language Files linguistics textbook will be open and free to use through the OSU Libraries Knowledge Bank. Available through the end of summer for free from The Ohio State University Press to support online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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University of Michigan Press Ebook CollectionThe University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) contains the Press's scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are digitized. Included in the Collection are over 200 titles used in student courses and almost 300 award-winners. Strengths include political science and public (including health) policy, performing arts, classical and medieval studies, American studies, and Area studies (especially East Asian, African, and German studies). Available through August 31st for free from the University of Michigan Press to support online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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