Guides: DOTS Training: Library Resources for Teaching Online: E-book Collections

E-book Collections

Here are some of our largest e-book collections. For a complete list of our e-book collections, please click HERE.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Includes thousands of full text e-books from across all disciplines.
Extent: Multidisciplinary
EBooks (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable collection of over two thousand reference titles from Gale. Previously known as Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Extent: Multidisciplinary
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
A large collection of e-books, including content previously accessed through Netlibrary.
Extent: Multidisciplinary
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Immense, continuously updated digital collection providing enhanced search and availability of millions of public domain, in-copyright, and permissioned digitized books, federal government documents and serial publications in a variety of languages from sources such as Google Books, Internet Archive, Microsoft and initiatives at partner academic and research institutions.
Access note: Freely available to the public. Current DePaul faculty, staff and students get extra functionality when logged in such as full PDF downloads of public domain and permissioned works and options to create and share content collections. To log in, click the LOGIN button and select DePaul from the list.
Extent: Multidisciplinary
O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Current playlists and reading/viewing progress will be unavailable after April 25, 2024 when the library moves to a new login experience. Please set your playlist to public and share it with yourself via email or note your progress before April 25.
Formerly Safari Books Online, O’Reilly for Higher Education is a new platform that includes access to 35,000+ technical books, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths, and audio books. It also includes access to over 30,000 hours of video, including presentations from O’Reilly's global conferences.

Access note: DePaul access is via this Direct Link https://go.oreilly.com/depaul/
Access note: Generic O'Reilly links to shared playlists can be made to work for DePaul University users if you replace the portion of the URL "https://learning.oreilly.com/" with "https://go.oreilly.com/depaul/". The resulting link will then route through DePaul's systems.
SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable collection of more than 100 encyclopedias and handbooks from SAGE.
Extent: Multidisciplinary

What Can I Do With E-books?

Different ebook platforms provide different features. Depending on the ebook platform, you may be able to:

Link directly to a book
Link directly to a chapter

You'll want to be sure to add DePaul's proxy information to the front of the URL to allow for off-campus access.

Proxy Url

When adding links to our subscription resources, you often need to prepend our proxy URL to ensure off-campus access.

http://ezproxy.depaul.edu/login?url=Insert full resource URL