eBook Collections: General Subjects

Books from Blackwell Wiley online.

Collection made up of over 8,000 online books that span over 40 disciplines

Ebook Cental 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.

Reference books in many different disciplines.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles. Make sure to LOG IN under UC Irvine to get access to the largest number of books.

Provides access to ebooks from some academic publishers. More info here: https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/.

MyiLibrary provides access to over 1,000 ebooks owned by UCI.

Contains 48,000 technical ebooks + related content/ More info about access, holdings, permitted use: https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2020/06/09/oreilly-for-higher-education-now-available-for-uc/

Oxford Handbooks are review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic. Subjects include: Archaeology, Business, Classical Studies, Criminology, Economics, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology. IMPORTANT: the library might not have access to every chapter in an online book. Look for a lock icon next to the chapter: green open lock = accessible. Red closed lock = not accessible.

Includes access to about 1500 titles through OSO but not the full collection. To see individual titles, go to Library Search https://uci.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Oxford%20Scholarship%20Online&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01CDL_IRV_INST:UCI&lang=en&offset=0

Mostly covers the sciences and social sciences.

Over 5,000 UC Press titles from 1928-2020.

Over 400 eBooks in areas of electrical engineering, computer science & related & applied subjects. A basic search will return book chapters as well as articles on the topic. The left-hand "Content Type" facet indicates how many of the hits are from books, in addition to the other types. Currently, there are >8,200 book items in the eBook content.