Research Guides: eBook Collections: General Subjects

General eBook Collections

The following electronic resources offer full-text e-books. You can also find e-books from different publishers and/or on different platforms in UC Library Search. See the How to Find e-books tab for specific instructions. Remote UCI users: log in to the VPN first.

Bloomsbury Press
Publishes books in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. UCI has access to books published in 2024-.

Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core provides access to Cambridge University Press's academic content, including books and journals.
CRC Press eBooks
Titles are mostly about engineering, technology, science, and medicine.

De Gruyter University Press Library
Currently UCI has access to all University of California Press ebooks, and ebooks from 2024- from Chicago University Press and Yale University Press.

Digitalia Hispánica
Provides access to Spanish language ebooks and journals in from a variety of disciplines.
Ebook Central
Ebook Central provides a cross-platform, multiple-devices, online-or-offline ebook system for academic and research libraries. Ebooks can be viewed online or downloaded to a computer or mobile devices.
EBSCO eBook Collection
Provides ebooks from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.
Gale Ebooks Provides e-book versions of many reference works, including multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. in a wide range of subject areas. Subject categories include arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, and social sciences.
HathiTrust Digital Library A digital preservation repository and access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Public domain volumes are freely accessible to the public and can be downloaded in their entirety with authentication by persons affiliated with partner institutions. UCI Libraries is a HathiTrust partner institution.
JSTOR
More info here: https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/
MIT Press Direct
This collection includes MIT Press titles that are accessible as ebooks. Key subject areas covered include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education, environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience, new media, philosophy, and social sciences.
O'Reilly (OHE)
Ebooks, videos, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and more. Subjects include: Business, Desktop & Web Applications, Data Science & Management, Digital Media, Engineering, IT & Software, Development & Architecture, Math & Science, and Personal & Professional Development.
Oxford Handbooks Online Searches across Oxford Handbooks. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
Oxford Scholarship Online
This collection includes Oxford University Press titles that are accessible as ebooks. Wide subject areas are covered from across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Oxford Very Short Introductions
This series offers concise introductions to a wide range of subjects, written by experts. Each volume provides an assessment of a concept, field, or body of work, drawing out the central ideas, themes, and approaches.
Project Muse
A broad collection of journals and ebooks with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. Publishers include numerous university presses and scholarly societies.
SAGE Research Methods Aggregates materials from SAGE's journal and reference content, including dictionaries, datasets, case studies, and books. Users can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and other areas of research.
Springer Online Books
Provides access to a multidisciplinary collection of ebooks and reference works that cover science, technology, medicine, humanities, and social sciences.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
A multidisciplinary database of ebooks published by Taylor & Francis. Topics in the humanities, social sciences, behavioral science, natural science, technology, and medicine are covered.
University of California Press
UC Press publishes works in disciplines of ancient world, anthropology, art, environmental studies, economics and 20 other convergent focused studies.
Wiley Online Library
Provides access to a range of multidisciplinary ebooks, book chapters, reference works, and journals .