San Jose State University eBooks

Subjects:  General interest reference books including popular culture, multicultural studies, and the American immigrant experience.

Format:  HTML

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Subjects:  A collection of  scholarly humanities titles

Format:  Page Images of print books (OCR scanned); Pdf format for downloads.

Compatible with: Standard web browsers and mobile devices.

 

Subjects:  Psychiatry, Mental Disorders, handbooks, study guides

Format:  HTML and pdf

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Subjects:  American Psychological Association (APA) handbooks.

Format:  pdf and HTML

Compatible with:  Standard web browsers; link for mobile version at website

 

Subjects:  Humanities, social sciences, business and management reference works.

Format:  HTML

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Subjects:  24 books covering politics and development studies.

Format:  HTML, pdf, page image

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Subjects:  interdisciplinary titles, including politics and development studies.

Format:  HTML, pdf, page image

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Subjects:  Politics, international development and sociology.

Format:  HTML, pdf, page image

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Subjects:  interdisciplinary collection, with a strong emphasis on politics, sociology, development studies and new medi.

Format:  HTML, pdf, page image

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Subjects:  Science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences.


Format: pdf and HTML

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The library subscribes to a small selection of handbooks, encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Format:  HTML, PDF

Compatible with:  Any standard web brower and on any mobile device.

 

A collection of scholarly ebooks across the humanities, sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences. Here is a list of the content available to SJSU. Also available are open access/free ebooks.

Format:  HTML

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Subjects:  Browse subject areas and available peer reviewed, academic books.

Format:  pdf

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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 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.  This subscription is supported by an NEH Challenge Grant: "Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this database do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities."

Format:  Image, pdf

Compatible with:  Standard web browsers and mobile devices.

 

Subjects:  Covers many subject areas from academic, scientific, technical, medical and professional publishers.Note:  This platform is integrated with your SJSUOne account. Requires: Adobe Reader to view, print and copy content and Adobe Digital Editions (or Bluefire Reader for phones) to download entire books.  Some ebooks may be restricted and not available to download.

Format:  ePub, pdf, html.

Compatible with: Standard web browsers and mobile devices.

 

Provides the full-text of thousands of recently published ebooks and audiobooks from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain. Requires Adobe Digital Editions to download and read items offline.

Format:  html, ePub, pdf. 

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Offers an online collection of reference materials including encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library

Format:  pdf, HTML

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Getty Publications produces titles that result from or complement the work of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute. This wide variety of free books covers the fields of art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities for both the general public and specialists. Publications include illustrated works on artists and art history, exhibition catalogues, works on cultural history, research on the conservation of materials and archaeological sites, scholarly monographs, critical editions of translated works, comprehensive studies of the Getty's collections, and educational books on art to interest children of all ages.

Format: PDF.  No DRM required since these are free/open access titles available for personal use.

Compatible with: Standard web browsers and mobile devices.

 

IGI Global is an international publishing company specializing in scholarly research publications and databases covering all aspects of information science technology utilization and management. The library subscribes to the following collections: Gaming Technologies, Library Information Science, Online Social Behavior, and Privacy & Protection in the Digital Age.

Format:  DRM not required (digital rights managment software) to download pdfs. Content also available in html format.

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The library subscription includes 35 titles from the Institute of Physics Concise and Expanding collections.

Format:  HTML, pdf and epub

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A selection of titles from scholarly publishers in the following collections:  Business and Economics,  Education, Film Studies, History, Language and Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science and Technology, Sociology, Sustainability.

Format:  DRM-free, unlimited concurrent use and unlimited chapter downloads and printing.

Compatible with: Standard web browsers and mobile devices.

 

MetPublications is a portal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications that include the collections of The Metropolitan Museum Libraries and Metropolitan Museum Archives. All known publications from 1869-1949, along with a selection of later titles, are part of this collection. Additionally, thanks to the Museum's Digital Media and Editorial Departments, all 400+ full-text titles from the MetPublications project (including Watson Library Digital Collections) from 1964 to the present are available.

Format: Books are available to download in PDF.  No DRM required since these are free/open access titles available for personal use.

 

A collection of 2500+ MIT Press scholarly monographs covering the humanities, social sciences, science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Format: Books are available to download in PDF.

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The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes over 4,000 books and reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States.

Format: Read books online in your browser. Free registration is required to download in PDF format. You can download a book as a single pdf, or by each chapter.

 

Freely available peer reviewed college textbooks.  OpenStax is an initiative from Rice University. 

Format: pdf

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Offers dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It also has a range of key titles from the acclaimed Oxford Companion Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Format: pdf

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Access to scholarly works from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law.

Format:  pdf

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Access to 900+ drm free ebooks in the areas of social sciences and the humanities.  Books are in English, French and German.Format:  pdf and epub

Compatible with:  Standard web browsers and on any mobile device

Safari features a curated library of the best technical books today—including titles from Pearson, O’Reilly Media,and more—organized by the most popular subjects, from web development and mobile apps to entrepreneurship and UX/IA, and more.

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Compatible with: standard browsers.  Get the app for iOs and Android

 

Encyclopedias for a variety of subject areas.

Format: The front and back matter of an encyclopedia is a pdf but the content of each encyclopedia is plain text that is displayed in your browser. Printing permitted.

Compatible with: standard web browsers and most devices.

Critical Insights series provides classic and current literary criticism of the world’s most-studied literature. Each volume in the series focuses on an individual author’s entire body of work or on a single work of literature. Edited and written by some of academe's most distinguished literary scholars, Critical Insights provides authoritative, in depth scholarship suitable for students and teachers alike.

 

Subjects:1) Agricultural, Biological, and Food Sciences; 2) Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; 3)  Biomedical Science and Medicine; 4) Chemical Engineering; 5) Chemistry; 6) Computer Science; 7)  Earth and Planetary Sciences;  8)Energy;  9)  Engineering;  10)  Environmental Science;  11)  Finance;  12)  Forensics, Security & Criminal Justice;  13) Health Professions; 14)  Mathematics;  15) Materials Science; 16) Neuroscience; 17) Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science; 18)  Physics and Astronomy;  19)  Psychology;  20) Social Science; 21) Speciality Medicine; 22) Veterinary Medicine.

The library also has subscriptions to Elsevier ScienceDirect Reference modules in BioMedical Sciences, in Chemistry, Molecular Science and Chemical Engineering and Earth Systems and Environmental Science

Format:  PDF and HTML.  ScienceDirect ebooks are DRM free.

Compatible with: Standard web browsers and mobile devices.

 

Springer eBook Collections offer pdf or html reproductions of Springer print book publications. The collections include the following subjects: 1) Behavorial Science, 2) Business & Economics, 3) Computer Science, 4) Earth & Environmental Science, 5) Engineering, 6) Humanities, Social Science, & Law 7) Medicine.

DRM not required (digital rights managment software) to download pdfs.

 

Taylor & Francis publishes books for all levels of academic study across a wide range of subjects and disciplines.   FORENSICnetBase, also on Taylor and Francis's website, features works by esteemed criminologists and forensic practitioners in homicide investigation, expert witnessing, forensic pathology and more. 

Format:  Each chapter of these ebooks is presented as a separate, downloadable PDF

Compatible with: Android, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch using Bluefire Reader app.

 

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while more than 700 of the titles are available to the public.

Please look for the Public icon next to each of the freely available titles.

 

A collection featuring Blackwell Publishing, IEEE Press, and Wiley-VCH that includes a broad range of subject areas.

Format: Books are in pdf and chapters may be read in the browser using Adobe reader plugin. Chapters may also be downloaded and printed.

Compatible with: Android, Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Bluefire Reader app.