You can identify and access ebooks through our catalog, using either method below:
Select "ebooks" as the Material Type, under Search Scope choose "WU Libraries," and then do your search. (Publisher licensing requirements prevent access to ebooks purchased by other SUMMIT libraries.)
Run a search in the catalog and then apply the limiters (located on the left hand side of the results page.)
You also may search separately any of the collections below.
Provides access to hundreds of well-known and trusted dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books, in a single cross-searchable web database. Offers resources in the sciences, humanities, and the social sciences.
Ebook Central is a platform for e-books offering titles in a wide variety of subjects featuring content from hundreds of publishers. The library now has over 15,000 e-books as part of the Orbis Cascade Alliance's Demand Driven Acquisitions Project. Access to Ebook Central is limited to current students, staff, and faculty of Willamette.
A digital library of all sorts of different kinds of materials including lots of books. "Books published prior to 1923 are available for download, and hundreds of thousands of modern books can be borrowed through our Open Library site." (listed below)
Offers over 1,000,000 free ebooks. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
Offers over 46,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. Most books are in the public domain,free of copyright restrictions, mainly published prior to 1923.
Contains books from academic presses on a range of topics. About 700 of the titles are open to the public. Be sure to "Browse Public Titles" or limit to "Show Public Access Books" on your results page.
