E-books

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How to Search for E-books

1. Search for E-books in the search box above.
2. On the results page under Show Only in the left-hand column, select "Online Resources".
3. Next, under Resource Type in the left-hand column, select "Books".
4. This will limit your results to e-books.

How to Link to E-Books

Instructions for linking to e-books.

How to Request E-books for Purchase

Do you have e-book titles you would like added to the library's collection? Please contact Cory Mitchell.

E-books @ UW-Stout

The University of Wisconsin-Stout Library provides access to over 1 million e-books!

Ebook Central (ProQuest)

Books in almost every subject area.
OverDrive E-book Library

Popular e-books and streaming audiobooks. Instructions on how to access
JSTOR (e-journals & e-books)

Journal articles and books, primarily in the humanities and social sciences
ProjectMUSE

Journal articles in literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
Wiley Online Library (e-books & e-journals)

Journal articles and books in life, health, social, and physical sciences and humanities.
Springer E-Books

Scientific, technical and medical e-books.
Taylor and Francis E-Books

Engineering, Environmental Sciences, and Technology e-books.
Knovel Engineering Library (e-books)

Search engineering technical reference books, material property data and more tools to solve problems.
Credo Reference (e-books)

Encyclopedias and dictionaries to provide background information for your research.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (e-books)

Book and encyclopedia search.
Clinical Key (Elsevier)

Evidence based search that provides health care professionals with point-of-care answers.
EBSCO E-Books

Academic and popular books.
SAGE Knowledge (E-books)

E-books about social science topics.
TumbleBook Library

Books for grades K-6. Includes animated, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, non-fiction books, graphic novels, books in Spanish and French, and National Geographic videos.

Free E-books on the Web

The following collections are free to the public:

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Search for open access e-books on a variety of subjects.
Internet Archive (Open Access)

20 million freely downloadable books and texts.

Library of Congress Open Access Books
The books in this collection cover a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. All of the books may be read online or downloaded as a PDF or as an EPUB.

OAPEN Library (E-books) (Open Access)

Search open access books.

Open Library
Open Library is a catalog of over 20 million edition records online with access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books. It also links to sources like WorldCat (links to library holdings) and Amazon to get you as close to the actual document you're looking for as possible.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free e-books. Choose among free EPUB and Kindle e-books, download them or read them online.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
From the University of California Press. About 500 of the 2,000 titles are available to the public. Topics include art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.