When you know the title of the item you are seeking, the first step is to search by title in an online catalog.
The library provides access to hundreds of thousands of ebooks from a variety of sources. For information about ebooks, see the online guide to Ebooks linked below.
eBook Academic Collection provides access to thousands of 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.
Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to a wide-ranging library of monographs and other research books from Oxford University Press’s collections, with new titles added monthly.
Coverage: Oxford books: mostly 2004 to present; UPSO books: 2015 to present for most publishers
Users: Unlimited
Contains: Full text of over 10,000 books published by Oxford University Press, University of California Press (2015-19), University of Chicago Press, MIT Press (2015-19), New York University Press, and Yale University Press, purchased by BGSU through OhioLINK. These titles cover a range of subjects, including economics and finance, philosophy, political science, and religion. Hundreds of new and recently-published books are added each year.
Best for: A wide range of academic subjects
Printing: Print pages from a chapter or an entire chapter via PDF; print chapters via HTML
Download: Chapters only, limit on number of chapters
Compatible with: Anything with a web browser, pdf