Guides @ UF: Distance Learners and UF Online: Finding eBooks

Off-Campus Access

Learn how to connect to resources off-campus.

eBooks

eBooks can be found by searching the library catalog and checking the "books" and "available online" filters.

The following list provides you direct access to eBook libraries.

ABC-CLIO EBook Collection This link opens in a new window
ABC-CLIO is comprised of approximately 3,000 reference, academic and general interest e-books from Praeger, Greenwood Press, and Libraries Unlimited.
AccessDermatology This link opens in a new window
Dermatology books from McGraw-Hill
AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
Engineering books and textbooks from McGraw-Hill

AccessMedicine
McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine provides access to more than 60 medical texts, including Harrison's Online and Hurst's The Heart

AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window
McGraw-Hill's Access Pharmacy is an online curricular resource that allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, and search across leading pharmacy online references.
Courtesy of the College of Pharmacy
ACLS Humanities EBook This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and academic books in the humanities.

ACS Symposium Series
UF has access to the series from 2014-2017. The ACS Symposium Series are the high-quality, peer-reviewed eBooks developed from ACS technical divisions' symposia. Each chapter is carefully authored by an expert in the field, and the collection of chapters edited by an internationally recognized leader in the field. The series covers topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and many others.

APA PsycBOOKS This link opens in a new window
Over 3,000 titles from the American Psychological Association
Books@Ovid This link opens in a new window
Medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts from a variety of publishers

CABI eBooks
Selected e-books from the publisher CABI, includes books in the fields of agriculture, veterinary medicine and tourism.
Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core has many open access e-books and UF has access to Cambridge University Press' Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology e-books. TIP: Do a search and then use check boxes to limit to Books and content you have access to.

CHEMnetBASE This link opens in a new window
Chemistry books from CRC, including the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
De Gruyter Online This link opens in a new window
UF purchased the Architecture books from De Gruyter. Unfortunately, their system cannot limit to only UF owned content. Searcher beware.

Duke eBooks
E-books from Duke University Press' scholarly collection

Early American Fiction 1789-1875 This link opens in a new window
Early American Fiction 1789–1875 offers the full text of hundreds of first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain
Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700
EBSCO ebooks This link opens in a new window
E-books from a variety of disciplines and publishers on the EBSCOhost platform
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Over 136,000 works published in the UK and elsewhere during the 18th century.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new window
A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Electronic reference books from Gale and their publishing partners
HathiTrust (Public Domain & Copyright Works) This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. The University of Florida is a member and many of UF's collected works can be found digitally through HathiTrust.
IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library This link opens in a new window
E-books in the fields of engineering and technology
IGI Global This link opens in a new window
E-books from IGI Global, most on education

Internet Archive
UF Libraries collections digitized by Internet Archive
IOP eBooks
E-books from the Institute of Physics
JSTOR E-books
Open Access and state purchased e-books on the JSTOR platform
Knovel
Knovel is a scientific resources focusing mainly on Engineering and Technology fields. Its unique features involve integrating technical information with analytical and search tools.

Merck Index Online This link opens in a new window
The Merck Index is one of the most authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Search this resource by Name, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula or Molecular Weight.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new window
The content is sourced from the world's preeminent libraries and archives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new window
A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903. Major novelists of the period include Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Brontës.
Oxford Academic - Books This link opens in a new window
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
UF has access to handbooks from Oxford University Press in the subject areas of Business, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion

Project Muse E-books
There are a few hundred Open Access books and UF has a small amount of humanities and social science titles in the Project Muse interface

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Books from all disciplines. Includes books formally in ebrary and EBL. Users will be asked to authenticate with their Gatorlink ID..

RSC e-books
UF has access to the 2015 e-books from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Safari E-books (now O'Reilly for Public Libraries)
ALACHUA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY card needed to access. Find out how to get a card at https://www.aclib.us/cards. Over 50,000 e-books focused on business, computers, engineering and math.

SAGE Reference This link opens in a new window
Reference books, encylopedias and handbooks from SAGE.

ScienceDirect
Encyclopedias, handbooks, and texts from the publisher, Elsevier.
SpringerLink
Books, references and protocols from Springer and associated publishers. TIP: Perform a search and then limit to "book"

Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
Includes e-books from CRC and Taylor & Francis

Thieme MedOne Education
Medical e-books from Thieme

UFDC: University of Florida Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 8 million pages of unique manuscripts and letters, antique maps, rare children's literature books, theses and dissertations, newspapers, historic photographs, oral histories, and more.

Wiley Online Library
Includes books and book series from the publisher, John Wiley & Sons. TIP: Perform a search and then use the Book filter.
World Scientific E-books
UF has select e-books from the publisher, World Scientific

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) This link opens in a new window
This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.