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January 10th, 2012
The Purdue community has access to over three million books through the Libraries website, lib.purdue.edu. For the past few years the Libraries has also been adding electronic books, or “e-books,” to the collection. The e-books include over 750,000 digital versions of recent print books, from publishers like Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, and many other academic publishers, as well as older materials in Early English Books Online (EEBO) and the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO). Some of the e-books are purchased as individual titles, selected by library faculty members or suggested by campus faculty and students. Others come as packages from major academic publishers, steeply discounted as part of CIC consortial deals. While many of the e-books are facsimiles of traditional academic monographs, the collection also includes full text access to tens of thousands of US government documents and even more documents available through databases such as ERIC and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. All are available in full-text through the Libraries catalog. And, Purdue’s e-Pubs is a full-text repository of Purdue publications, and includes over 20,000 full-text technical reports
This year, Purdue is participating in two projects with two major e-book vendors, providing access to an additional 80,000 new e-books.
And, finally, as a member of the HathiTrust, a partnership of major research libraries, Purdue has access to the 2.6 million items in the public domain, all of which available through the Purdue Libraries website.
For help with using e-books on the most popular commercial e-book readers, such as the Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader, click here. To recommend an e-book purchase, please contact the liaison librarian for your department.
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