DePaul University Libraries
E-books: Resources

1Books 24x7
Description: An extensive e-book collection in the areas of business, finance, government, and information technology. Available to current students and faculty only.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
2Caribbean Literature
Description: Collection of poetry and fiction produced in the Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
3Credo Reference
Description: An online, cross-searchable collection of reference books on a variety of subjects from more than 50 publishers.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
4Digital Texts Project
Description: A collection of works by major philosophers and others.
Restrictions: None
5EBSCO eBook Collection
Description: A large collection of e-books, including content previously accessed through Netlibrary. Mac users should use either Safari or Chrome to view this content. NOTE: E-books are limited to one reader at a time, please be sure to click Result List, New Search, Back, or Exit before closing the browser window, or other users will be locked out of the e-book.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
6Illinois Harvest: Chicago
Description: Extensive collection of full-text books and pamphlets related to 19th and early 20th century Chicago, digitized by the Open Content Alliance.
Restrictions: None
7Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Description: The LNCS series reports the latest results from all areas of computer science and information technology research. Titles include both conference proceedings and individual books. DePaul also owns many of these titles in print.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
8Literary Text Collections
Description: Listing of several resources that provide the full-text of fiction, poetry and plays--from the classics and classical to more modern works.
Restrictions: None
9NBER Books
Description: National Bureau of Economic Research offers several hundred older books online.
Restrictions: None
10NCBI Bookshelf
Description: The National Center for Biotechnology Information offers this collection of searchable biomedical books and government reports.
Restrictions: None
11Oxford Scholarship Online
Description: Provides access to the full-text of over 400 Oxford University Press e-books in the Literature, Biology and Social Work areas of this collection.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
12Perseus Digital Library
Description: A large digitization project based out of Tufts University, this collection includes documentary papyrii, primary and secondary sources for Greek & Roman classical and Renaissance texts, 19th century American primary source documents, and texts in Old English and Old Norse for the study of the Germanic peoples, among others.
Restrictions: None
13Safari Books Online
Description: Access to thousands of books, certification manuals, and articles from top software & technology publishers; also includes a number of business, management, and finance titles. Limited to 7 concurrent users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
14Science E-Books from CRC Press
Description: A continually-updated and growing collection of electronic format science books published by CRC Press and accessible through their CRC NetBASE platform. Content includes many highly useful handbooks, guides and data sources, in addition to texts covering specific science topics.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
15South & Southeast Asian Literature
Description: Collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focuses on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
16Springer Computer Science E-Book Collection
Description: Collection includes over 3000 titles published from 2007 to 2012: book series, monographs, textbooks, and major reference works. Also consider Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
17Springer Medicine E-Book Collection
Description: Collection includes all English/International Medicine titles published by Springer from 2005 through 2010.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
18Synthesis Computer & Information Science Collection
Description: Comprised of over 100 Synthesis lectures from series in Artificial Intelligence, Communication Networks, Architecture, Graphics & Animation, Human-Centered Informatics, Information Security, Mobile Computing, and Quantum Computing.
Restrictions: DePaul users only