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Library and Information Services provide access to a large and growing collection of e-books through a variety of online suppliers.
MyiLibrary
Subject coverage: Multidisciplinary
Information type: Full text
Description: Over 1200 full text e-books from a range of academic publishers; Links to individual e-books are also provided in the Library catalogue.
Special instructions: E-books are protected by copyright law. You may print / copy / save individual pages or sections of an e-Book, but not the entire book.
* A small number of titles published by Pearson can only be accessed by one person at any one time. If a title is already in use a message will display indicating that it is unavailable. Please try again later.
EBSCO eBook Collection (Previously called NetLibrary)
Subject coverage: Multidisciplinary
Information type: Full text*
Description: Over 600 full text e-books from a range of academic publishers; Links to individual e-books are also provided in the Library catalogue.
Special instructions: E-books are protected by copyright law. You may print / copy / save individual pages or sections of an e-Book, but not the entire book.
* Only one person can access the full text of specific book title at any one time. A message will indicate if someone else is using the same title.
DawsonEra Resource
Subject coverage: Multidisciplinary
Information type: Full text
Description: Access to over 400 full text e-books from a range of academic publishers; Links to individual e-books are also provided in the Library catalogue.
Special instructions: E-books are protected by copyright law. You may print / copy / save individual pages or sections of an e-Book, but not the entire book.
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Humanities E-Books (ACLS)
Subject Coverage: Humanities, including American and European history, women's history, Jewish studies, performance studies, film & media studies, religion, literary criticism and biblical studies.
Information type: Full Text
Description: Almost 3,500 books in the Humanities, selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching, including both both in-print and out-of-print books. The collection has been created by a collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent member learned societies of the ACLS, and over 100 publishers, and adds hundreds of new titles a year.
Institute of Hospitality
Subject Coverage: Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
Information Type: Provides full-text access to almost 300 e-books.
Description: In addition to a growing collection of e-books from a variety of publishers, IOH provides access to over 50 e-journals and covers a wide range of information formats including video-recordings, Pamphlets, Reports, etc. It importantly provides Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Management students Affiliate membership of IOH who are there to provide support via their Information Service and further encourage the formation of Student Groups.
Oxford Reference Online
Subject coverage: Multidisciplinary and subject specific reference sources
Information Type: Full text dictionaries, thesauri, maps & illustrations, timelines and encyclopedias.
Description: English and bilingual dictionaries (European), and a wide range of subject-specific dictionaires and encyclopedias: from arts and humanities to sciences and business.
Sage Research Methods
Description: SAGE Research Methods is an award-winning tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them. SAGE Research Methods' taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms links to authoritative content, including:
Over 640 books Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks
The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series
Two major works collating a selection of journal articles
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
Subject Coverage: Humanities
Description: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature includes individual titles covering key literary genres and periods. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is published in parts.
Part One contains over 1,000 entries and comprises:
The Encyclopedia of the Novel.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, which covers British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction.
The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, which covers Literary Theory from 1900 to 1966, Literary Theory from 1966 to the Present, and Cultural Theory.
Part Two comprises The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature and The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature.