LibGuides@Southampton: Parkes Library, Special Collections, Hartley Library: E-Books

Finding E-Books

E-Books available through the Library's subscriptions (access limited to members of the University) are included in Library Search. Select 'Search Only Electronic Books' to limit your search.

You can also find E-Books by directly searching individual collections. For more information see the E-Books LibGuide.

For off-campus access you will need to use the University's VPN service called GlobalProtect. For advice on this see How do I set up VPN on my device?

Reference E-Book Collections (Subscription Services)

Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies offers authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas with articles written by over 6,000 scholars from around the globe. Subjects include; Art History, British and Irish Literature, Cinema & Media, Chinese Studies, Education, Environmental Science, International Law, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Management Studies, Music and Psychology
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, and 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
The resource offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions series...more info

Jewish Studies E-Book Collections (Free Access)

The following sites provide free access to digitised books:

Ben Yehuda Project - free digital library of Hebrew literature

Bibliotheca Sefarad

Center for Jewish History Collections

DigiBaeck - German-Jewish History online

ETANA - core texts in Ancient and Near East Studies

Hebrew Books - religious texts

Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository

Jewish Pamphlets (University College London)

Judaism (Internet Sacred Texts Archive)

Middle East 1916-2001: a Documentary Record (Avalon Project, Yale)

Nuremberg Trials (Library of Congress)

Yiddish Book Center's Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library

Yikkor Book Collection (New York Public Library)

General E-Book Collections (Free Access)

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

Europeana - cultural heritage from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives

Gallica Digital Library of the Bibliotheque nationale de France

Google Books

Hathi Trust

Internet Archive

General E-Book Collections (Subscription Services)

ACLS Humanities E-books This link opens in a new window
ACLS Humanities e-book is an online, fully searchable collection of 5,433 books of high quality in the humanities and related social sciences. Frequently cited in the literature, these titles are recommended by scholars and learned societies and include many prize-winning works. Users may also access online book reviews from leading journals. Further information.
eBook Central This link opens in a new window
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eBook Central is an electronic platform that offers library users access to a large number of e-books (electronic books) areas covered include social sciences, medicine, science, and language and literature.
Pearson have made changes to DRM policies, click below for more information.
Changes to permissions for Pearson ebooks on the Ebook Central platform.
As of 13th May 2021, Pearson has instructed ProQuest to reinstate the 5% print, copy, paste limits on all Pearson textbooks purchased since November 2020. Pearson has agreed with ProQuest to reinstate the 5% DRM limits with immediate effect. This will ensure that Pearson texts purchased since November 2020 will be available with copy/print/paste capabilities; any titles purchased before that date retain the original 5% DRM limits.
If you have any questions please contact the Library via libenqs@soton.ac.uk
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
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Full-text of every significant English & foreign language title printed in Great Britain during the Eighteenth Century plus thousands of important works from the Americas.

The Historical Texts service will be retired when its current licence expires on 31 July 2024. Find out more.
Historical Texts This link opens in a new window
Historical Texts brings together four historically significant collections for the first time: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) 65,000 texts from the British Library 19th Century collection and the UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL).
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) offers access to over 16,000 academic works from the celebrated scholarly list of Oxford University Press, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law... more info.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Lists material covering a broad curriculum base