LibGuides: Offsite/Online Research: Finding eBooks

eBooks Databases at ECU Library

The library provides access to eBooks that you can access from off campus. To search for eBooks, type your search terms into the General Search box and click "Search". On the search results page, select "eBooks" under "Format" in the left column.

You can also browse or search in one of the eBooks databases:

Art Canada Institute Online Art Books This link opens in a new window
- The Art Canada Institute is a non-profit research organization based at Massey College, University of Toronto. Founded in 2012, the ACI is the only national institution whose mandate is to promote the study of an inclusive multi-vocal Canadian art history to as broad an audience as possible, in both English and French, within Canada and internationally. The ACI works with more than 50 of Canada’s leading art historians, curators, and visual culture experts who are dedicated to the creation of authoritative original content on the people, themes, and topics that have defined Canadian art history.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
- Art & Architecture Source features full-text articles—as well as detailed indexing and abstracts—for an international array of journals, books, podcasts, images and more. Content includes over 640 full-text journals and more than 225 full-text books. Includes: Art Index / Abstracts / Full Text / Retrospective (formerly Wilson Databases) plus Art & Architecture Complete (EBSCO Database).
EBSCO eBooks This link opens in a new window
- Multidisciplinary collection of eBooks
- Material from this resource may NOT be used to assemble a print coursepack. You may create a link to the reading. You may NOT post or upload an electronic copy. You may create a link to the reading.
Getty Publications Virtual Library This link opens in a new window
- Welcome to the Getty Publications Virtual Library, where you will find digital copies of select Getty publications spanning our forty-year publishing history, including many titles that are now out of print. All publications appear as they were originally published, with no changes made to the content or design. We hope you enjoy them. Publications in the Virtual Library are available to individuals for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only; reproduction and distribution, even for non-commercial use, is prohibited. Downloading material for any commercial use is prohibited.
Guggenheim E-Books This link opens in a new window
- Selections from key museum titles dating back to the founding of the Guggenheim in 1937 are now freely accessible to the public through guggenheim.org/publications. Over 60 catalogues were scanned in their entirety with the help of the Internet Archive project and can now be read online. Visitors can flip through pages of classic titles such as Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, published in 1964; Lawrence Alloway’s groundbreaking 1963 catalogue Six Painters and the Object; or the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, one of the museum’s first publications.
MET Publications This link opens in a new window
- MET Publications Titles with full-text online. Spans a 50 year publishing history.
O'Reilly for Higher Education Online Books This link opens in a new window
- O'Reilly is a digital library providing over 21,000 technology, digital media, business books and video tutorials. Full text of many technical books including those from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, DK, Elsevier, For Dummies, Peachpit, Wiley ...
Online Scholarly Catalog Initiative This link opens in a new window
- The Getty Foundation is pleased to share that nearly all of the digital publications supported through the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) have been catalogued in WorldCat. Online catalogues are now available from the following OSCI museums: Art Institute of Chicago Los Angeles County Museum of Art National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Seattle Art Museum Tate Walker Art Center
Open Textbook This link opens in a new window
Open Textbooks found here may be read online, downloaded as an epubs or a paper copy may be purchased at a low cost.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
- Offers over 42,000 free ebooks in the public domain: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.