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San Jose State University eBooks
What's an ebook?
An ebook is an electronic book that can be read by using a personal computer or other digital device.
The Collections
The University Library ebook collections are available to the SJSU community 24/7. SJSU users will need either their Tower card or their library card to access the SJSU collections off campus. Here are instructions for how to access the library's resources from off campus.
The San Jose Public Library also has its own separate ebook collection. All users need a SJPL library card to access the San Jose Public Library collections remotely. SJPL customers may access the University Library electronic resources only while in the King library on either personal computers or wireless devices.
Which devices work with the library's ebooks? Use this chart for hardware and software requirements. As of Spring 2012, we suggest the Bluefire Reader app for iOS and Android mobile devices -- It is compatible with the Digital Rights Management (DRM) used in some of the library collections. Also, view a list of devices and mobile phone applications that are compatible with Adobe Digital Editions, the DRM used in some of the library collections.
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ABC-CLIO eBook collection Offers authoritative reference books on general interest topics including popular culture, multicultural studies, and the American immigrant experience across the secondary and higher education curriculum. |
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ACLS Humanities Ebook Project A collection of full-text scholarly humanities titles offered in collaboration with twenty learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. |
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Blackwell Reference Online A collection of reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and business and management. |
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Cambridge Books Online Cambridge Books Online offers titles that cover subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences. |
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CRCnetBASE Provides access to engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Formerly known as ENGnetBASE.
Format: Each chapter of these ebooks is presented as a separate, downloadable PDF
Compatible with: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Bluefire Reader app. See individual titles from this collection in the library catalog |
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Digital Textbooks The California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) provides educators with a repository of supplemental electronic learning resources such as free digital textbooks that are aligned with the State Board of Education academic content standards. Most resources are available as downloadable pdfs. |
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Directory of Open Access Books The DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. The Directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access. The Directory is a service of OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague. See individual titles from this collection in the library catalog |
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EBL Ebook Library Offers content across subject areas from academic publishers. These ebooks are only available to SJSU students, faculty and staff. They cannot be accessed by public library patrons. |
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ebrary Academic Complete Titles from a range of academic, scientific, technical, medical and professional publishers. |
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EBSCO Audiobooks and eBooksProvides the full-text of thousands of recently published ebooks and audiobooks from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain. Requires Adobe Digital Editions to download and read items offline. You will also need to create an Ebsco account to download an ebook. Compatible with: Android, Blackberry, Kindle, Nook, Sony Readers, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Bluefire Reader app.See individual titles from this collection in the library catalog | Help |
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Emerald ebook series The collections focus on the social sciences, business, management and economics. Browse the Social Sciences titles list and the Business titles list or see individual series titles from this collection in the library catalog. The titles are available in pdf and html formats and a green checkmark indicates access. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library A collection of reference materials from various publishers (Emerald, ABC-CLIO, etc) |
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IGI Global IGI Global is an international publishing company specializing in scholarly research publications and databases covering all aspects of information science technology utilization and management. The library subscribes to the following collections: Gaming Technologies, Library Information Science, Online Social Behavior, and Privacy & Protection in the Digital Age. DRM not required (digital rights managment software) to download pdfs. Content also available in html format. |
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National Academies Press The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes over 4,000 books and reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. |
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Oxford Reference Offers dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It also has a range of key titles from the acclaimed Oxford Companion Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. |
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Palgrave Connect Subjet collections from Palgrave Macmillan, a global academic publisher, include Economics and Finance, Politics and Internat'l Studies, Language and Linguistics, Theatre and Performance, Education, History, Literature, Media and Culture, Religion and Philosophy, Social Science, Business and Management. See individual titles from this collection in the library catalog |
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Safari Tech Books Offers books on information technology. After 15 minutes of inactivity, you will be timed out and your session will end. See individual titles from this collection in the library catalog |
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Sage Knowledge Encyclopedias for a variety of subject areas.
Format: The front and back matter of an encyclopedia is a pdf but the content of each encyclopedia is plain text that is displayed in your browser. Printing permitted.
Compatible with: Android, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Bluefire Reader app. See individual titles from this collection in the library catalog |
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Springer eBooks Springer eBook Collections offer pdf or html reproductions of Springer print book publications. The collections include the following subjects: 1) Behavorial Science, 2) Business & Economics, 3) Computer Science, 4) Earth & Environmental Science, 5) Engineering, 6) Humanities, Social Science, & Law 7) Medicine. DRM not required (digital rights managment software) to download pdfs. |
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University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Collections Pitt Press has selected 521 monographs for open access, including titles from the Pitt Latin American Series, Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, and Composition, Literacy and Culture.
Format: You have the option to view content in as a pdf or as an image. Printing permitted. |
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Wiley Online Books A collection featuring Blackwell Publishing, IEEE Press, and Wiley-VCH that includes a broad range of subject areas.
Format: Books are in pdf and chapters may be read in the browser using Adobe reader plugin. Chapters may also be downloaded and printed.
Compatible with: Android, Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Bluefire Reader app. See individual titles from this collection in the library catalog |