ABOUT THE AGREEMENT
Overview
The EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription Collection offers cross-searchable access to a multidisciplinary library of over 210,000 high-quality, unlimited-user e-books from leading university presses and academic publishers such as Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, Elsevier, Harvard University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford University Press, Sage Publications, State University of New York Press, Taylor & Francis, and University of California Press.
New titles are added monthly at no extra charge. Access is via EBSCOhost which offers user-friendly functionality and customization options to support the needs of the widest possible range of users. A mobile interface is also available.
Subject coverage
Business and economics
Education
Language arts and disciplines
Political science
Religion
Literary criticism
Medical
Social Science
Philosophy
Technology and engineering
World history
Key features
- More than 88,000 titles published in 2009 or later
- No limit on the number of simultaneous users
- Multiple authentication methods are supported, including remote access by patterned IDs, patron ID files, referring URL, user ID and password, cookies, Athens, Shibboleth and https.
- Access via the powerful and intuitive EBSCOhost service enables the Collection to be cross-searched alongside other EBSCO databases including the EBSCO Publishing Premier Package
- Rich user features including search within, note taking, citation support, browse, permalink, and flexible printing, Google Authentication, Google Drive Integration, Easy Chapter Level Downloading and downloading an entire eBook
- High quality MARC records available free of charge
- Counter-compliant usage statistics
- Configurable checkout duration for downloaded e-books
- Configurable maximum simultaneous checkouts/downloads per user
Further information
- Download title list
- Support for EBSCO e-books
- Tutorials: Searching e-books, Reading e-books, Downloading e-books, Mobile interface
- LibGuide on EBSCO eBooks
- Presentation with overview of the collection (Jan 2019)
- Watch recording of the EBSCO E-books webinar (May 2017)