While Fulton Library’s book collection is impressive on the shelves, did you know that we have more e-books available than we do print books? Fulton Library has access to several different e-book collections—all of which can be viewed with any device online through your internet browser:
- EBSCO E-Book Collection: This e-book collection contains more than 130,000 works of fiction and nonfiction in all topics. Titles may be downloaded from this collection for up to seven days. For help with accessing e-books, view our tutorials on using the mobile app and downloading content.
- E-Book Central: Available through ProQuest, this collection includes 16,000 books on medicine, nursing, allied health, and other related topics. Titles may be downloaded from this collection for up to fourteen days. For help with accessing e-books, view our tutorial on downloading content.
- Safari Books Online: This e-book collection offers access to nearly 58,000 titles in the field of computer science, information technology, and business publishing. While books in this collection are not available for download, you can read titles online in your browser.
- Gale E-Books: Gale offers reference e-books on multiple subject areas, including business, history, law, and more. While full books may not be downloaded, individual chapters or sections can be downloaded as PDFs for offline reference.
Looking for an e-book and can’t find it in any of the above databases? Try searching these free e-book sites:
- Digital Public Library of America: DPLA provides free digital access to banned books, along with US-based images, text, sounds, and more.
- Europeana: Europeana shares stories, books, and other media to explore Europe’s digital cultural heritage.
- Google Books: Gallica is the National Library of France’s database of several million free and open-access digitized documents from all periods and all media.
- Google Books: Google Books offers the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books, most of which can be accessed partially or entirely for free.
- Hathi Trust: HathiTrust preserves more than 18 million digitized items, some of which have full reading access as allowed by US and international copyright law.
- Internet Archive: Internet Archive is a nonprofit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- The National Academies Press: The National Academies Press includes hundreds of free publications on topics in science, engineering, and medicine.
- OAPEN: OAPEN provides open-access academic books for topics ranging from abnormal psychology to zoology.
- Open Collections Program (Harvard University): Harvard provides access to primary source texts in topical collections about US immigration, expeditions, epidemics, and more.
- Open Library: A subsidiary of Internet Archive, Open Library offers access to borrow millions of fiction, nonfiction, and reference books.
- Open Textbook Library: The Open Textbook Library contains over a thousand textbooks that are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely downloaded, used, distributed, and adapted.
- Perseus Digital Library: The Perseus Digital Library provides access to millions of primary and secondary sources for studies in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, Humanist, and Renaissance eras.
- Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg has a collection of over 75,000 free e-books, with a focus on classic US literature in the public domain.
- University of California Press eScholarship Editions: The University of California Press has a repository of thousands of books, articles, and media available for academic use.
For more information on finding e-books or using our databases, ask a librarian or visit our book search bar on our website.