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Finding and Using Ebooks at the University of Pennsylvania
Last Updated: Jan 14, 2013 URL: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/pennebooks Print Guide RSS UpdatesEmail AlertsShareThis

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What is an E-book

An e-book, electronic book, or digital book, is defined by The Oxford English Dictionary as a book whose text is available in electronic format for reading on a specialized device or computer screen.

 

Recommend a favorite e-book or e-book site

Directory of Open Access Books

"The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. . .The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards."

 

Introduction

This page is intended to lead you to and guide you through the use of e-books at the University of Pennsylvania.
 

Highly Recommended

  • ACLS Humanities E-Book
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of over 3,300 books of high quality in the humanities
  • Books@OVID
    This is a collection of clinical textbooks and manuals for medicine and nursing, fully cross-searchable, and with links from bibliographies to articles in external databases such as PubMed.
  • Cambridge Books Online
    Collection of over 900 e-books from across the disciplines published by Cambridge University Press. Try also the related collection of e-books, Cambridge Companions online-http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/84298
  • e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection
    This collection of e-books from Duke University Press includes 100 newly published books as well as hundreds of earlier imprints. Every title is searchable in Franklin or from the e-Duke site.
  • Kotobarabia Arabic e-book collection  
      
    Online access to approximately 4000 literature, social science and humanities titles from 1960s to the present, written by Arab authors, mostly from Egypt, with increasing content from other countries.
  • Oxford Bibliographies Online  
      
    A collection of dynamic bibliographies, updated regularly, on a wide variety of topics, from Atlantic history to Victorian Literature, Criminology to Medieval Studies, Classical Studies to Sociology.
  • Safari Books Online
    Penn Libraries subscribe to a collection of 300 titles from the Safari Books Online digital library covering the subject areas of technology, digital media, and business books and videos online to academic and library users
  • Sephardic Editions 1550-1820
    Spanish and Portuguese books written and/or published by Sephardic Jews of Early Modern Europe
  • Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Toronto Series  
      
    A series of books available through the ITER database, which focus on primary renaissance era texts by women. Available through a library purchase requiring Pennkey and password for access.
 

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Questions? Contact:

Rebecca StuhrCoordinator for Humanities Collections
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
stuhrreb @ pobox.upenn.edu

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