E-books
Karlstad University Library has access to approximately 315 000 e-books via various e-book portals. E-books can be read online and often they also can be downloaded to computer or tablet. Different e-book vendors may have different terms of use.
What is an e-book?
An electronic book (or e-book) is a book publication made available in digital form. An e-book can be read on a computer or a mobile device. E-books exist in different formats, among them pdf och epub.
Due to copyright, many e-books have restrictions in how they can be used, so called DRM-protection. (Digital Rights Management).
How do I find e-books?
You can find the e-books by searching in OneSearch or our library catalogue or through searching direct in the e-book portals listed above.
In OneSearch it is possible to limit to only e-books by using the "Source type" limiter in the left column.
Our e-book suppliers
We have access to ebooks partly through the purchase of packages or of individual titles, through subscription, or through various purchasing models such as Evidence Based Acquisition where you for a period get access to a larger number of titles, but then select the ones you want to keep based on how large the use has been. You can access the e-books when you use the university's network, or with the help of your KauID.
Interdisciplinary platforms
For copyright reasons, most e-books have restrictions regarding copying, printing, usage time, downloading, etc. This is commonly referred to as Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. A personal account with the vendor and Adobe Digital Editions or similar programs / apps with an Adobe ID are often needed for download.
EBSCO eBooks
The library subscribes to about 200 000 titles in "Academic Collection". We also buy perpetual titles.
Download: Book as pdf/epub for 7 days. Up to a 100 pages can be printed as pdf. Some books may have other publisher-specified limits.
Read more about EBSCO eBooks.
Proquest Ebook Central
The library buys perpetual tiles or smaller collections. Access to about 3 100 titlar.
Download: Book as pdf/epub for 7 days. Up to a 100 pages can be printed as pdf. Some books may have other publisher-specified limits.
Read more about Proquest Ebook Central.
Publisher platforms
APA handbooks
2 titles on Psychology
Download: Chapter as pdf.
ACM
One package from 2018, ca 20 titles in Computer Science
Download: Book as epub or pdf, chapter as pdf.
Bloomsbury Collections
A few perpetual titles bought buy the library.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
Early English Books Online
Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America including works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Read more about Early English Books Online
Gale ebooks
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Download:Articles as pdf
- Wiley-IEEE Press 2018, 41 titles about Engineering
- MIT Press Ebooks 2019, 34 titles about Engineering and Computer Science
Download: Chapter as pdf.
JSTOR
48000 titles mostly in humanities
EBA-package July 2020 - June 2021. Only the most used titles will be acquired.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
Manchester University Press
Access to the collections Manchester Gothic and Manchester Literature Studies.
Download:Book or chapter as pdf.
Oxford Handbooks
3 packages with 46 titles in Economics and Psychology
Download: Chapter as pdf.
Oxford Reference Online
Reference books from Oxford University Press covering many subject areas, english dictionarys and encyclopedias. About 240 titles.
Download: Articles as pdf.
SAGE knowledge - Books
A social sciences digital library containing about 5000 e-books.
EBA-package for 2020. Only the most used titles will be acquired.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
Read more about SAGE Knowledge.
Sage Reference
A part of Sage Knowledge with handbooks and encyclopedias in the social and behavioral sciences.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
SAGE Research Methods
Search and browse books, dictionaries, encyclopedia, video, journal articles, cases and datasets on research methods to help you learn and conduct projects.
Read more about SAGE Research Methods
Science Direct eBooks
E-books published by Elsevier. We have access to 600 titles on Computer Science, Finance, Media Technology, Psychology, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
Read more about Science Direct Books.
Springer eBooks
Ebooks published by Springer. The library has EBA access for a few subject collections for copyright year 2017-2019: Education - Literature, Media, Culture - Social sciences -Business and Management, Computer Science.
The library also has access to the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ca 10 000 titles) and Humanities Social Science and Law 2014 (ca 800 titles).
Download:Book or chapter as pdf/epub.
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Taylor&Francis
Perpetual access to about 100 books published by Routledge. There are also about 500 Open Access books.
Download:Book or chapter as pdf.
Wiley online library
Perpetual access to about 35 books published by Wiley.
Download:Book or chapter as pdf.