E-books
Karlstad University Library has access to approximately 400 000 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
3 titles on Psychology
Download: Chapter as pdf.
One package from 2018, ca 20 titles in Computer Science.
Download: Book as epub or pdf, chapter as pdf.
A few perpetual titles bought buy the library.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
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
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Download:Articles as pdf
- IEEE Xplore
- Wiley-IEEE Press 2018, 41 titles about Engineering
- MIT Press Ebooks 2019, 34 titles about Engineering and Computer Science
- Princeton 2022
- Wiley Cybersecurity collection 2013-2025
Download: Chapter as pdf.
48000 titles mostly in humanities
EBA-package yearly. Only the most used titles will be acquired in perpetuity.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
Access to the collections Manchester Gothic and Manchester Literature Studies.
Download:Book or chapter as pdf.
3 packages with 46 titles in Economics and Psychology
Download: Chapter as pdf.
Reference books from Oxford University Press covering many subject areas, english dictionarys and encyclopedias. About 240 titles.
Download: Articles as pdf.
A social sciences digital library containing about 5000 e-books.
EBA-package yearly. Only the most used titles will be acquired each year.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
Read more about SAGE Knowledge.
A part of Sage Knowledge with handbooks and encyclopedias in the social and behavioral sciences.
Download: Chapter as pdf.
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
E-books published by Elsevier. We have access to around 100 titles on Computer Science, Finance, Media Technology, Psychology, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Most of them with copyright years 2010-2012.
Read more about Science Direct Books.
Ebooks published by Springer. The library has EBA (Evidence based Acquisition) access for a six subject collections for copyright year 2021-2025: Education - Literature, Media, Culture - Social sciences -Business and Management - Computer Science - Engineering.
From december 2022 reference titles are no longer included in the packages, but from 2025 we also have the Humanities reference module.
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.
Read more about Springer eBooks
Perpetual access to about 250 books published by Routledge.
We also have an EBA-deal with abourn 400 titles whera only the most used during a year will be acquired. There are also about 1600 Open Access books.
Download:Book or chapter as pdf.
Perpetual access to about 35 books published by Wiley.
Download:Book or chapter as pdf.