E-Books
E-Books are available through remote connections to subscribed databases. Some e-books are also accessible through our networked CD-ROM server.
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New E-Books: Monthly lists of individual e-book titles added to the Library Catalogue
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Selected E-Book Collections:
The ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a collection over over 3,300 books of major importance in the Humanities. All parts of the world and all periods are included. The aim is to include "books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature."
The fields currently included in the database are Area Studies, Historical Studies, Art History, Literature, Political Science and Religion. Some 300 titles are added to the collection annually.
Users can search the whole collection or individual books, using words or phrase within the full text, title, subject, or author. You can browse by subject, author, or title and read all or part of the e-book.
A collection of open-access e-books hosted by WWW-VL History Central , based at the EUI.
A collection of of selected Digitale Bibliothek titles has been included in the EUI Library Catalogue which may be of interest to EUI members. Some of the titles are included in the EUI CD-ROM network, while others are available for loan from the Library Loan Desk.
Digital Book Index (free registration required to access site)
Digital Book Index provides links to more than 165,000 title records from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free of charge.
N.B. EUI members should check the Library Catalogue for titles where full-text is not available, as the EUI Library may already own the title or be able to request a copy via InterLibrary Loan, while many others are available at very modest cost.
Digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides full-text images of almost all the books printed in England and her colonies from the beginning of printing to 1700 (about 125,000 titles).
You can search for books on your topic by author, title,and keyword, or search just for illustrations from these books if you wish. EEBO includes the items listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and additional supplementary materials.
EBL is a platform for full-text e-books from wide range of publishers. The EUI Library has selected individual titles of interest to EUI members.
Search engine for the full text of books, some of which then provide the actual full-text in the results. Note that some results return only citations and links to private sites for purchasing the books.
N.B. EUI members should check the Library Catalogue for titles where full-text is not available, as the EUI Library may already own the title or be able to request a copy via InterLibrary Loan.
The Gutenberg-e prize winning PhD theses represent the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology.
These theses have undergone a rigorous academic review process by distinguished historians brought together by the American Historical Association and cover a wide range of subjects including: Africa, colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, military history, and history of foreign relations.
These digital theses can be printed out and read in the traditional way, but the electronic versions offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print (e.g. extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites). New titles are added to the collection each year.
"The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
A collection of bibliographic sources for the study of Portuguese history in general, and the age of the Discoveries in particular. Although the Ophir project has ceased, its content has been preserved in the Internet Archive.
This is a "single cross-searchable web database which brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books, plus an Encyclopedia."
This is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of selected books published by Oxford University Press. The EUI Library has subscriptions to the following modules: Economics & Finance, History, Law, Political Science, Philosophy and Religion.
This is a cross-searchable collection of selected reference books, hosted on the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) platform. The EUI Library provides access to the following titles:
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Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
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Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction
This multilingual platform of legislation and case law from over 100 countries contains over 1,900 full-text ebooks, in addition to more than 3,000 full-text journals. It also includes an automatic translation tool and the interface is in 10 languages.
This database from the Brown University Women Writers Project contains full-text editions of more than 100 texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830.
It also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. The site also includes links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi.