eBooks
The Ryerson Library provides
access to over 100,000 ebooks which can be read in a browser on your laptop or desktop computer.. To find ebooks, you can:
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- Look for them in the catalogue by author, title, subject, etc.
- Browse ebooks by the collections listed below.
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University Press Scholarship Online comprises over 9,000 titles in 23 subject areas from many of the world's leading academic presses. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost
eBooks on EBSCOhost consists of over 6,000 titles on all subjects. You can also Browse eBooks by title. |
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Scholars Portal Books provides access to over 40,000 ebook titles from Springer, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge and Oxford as well as to 100,000 freely available titles from the Internet Archive. |
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The Morgan & Claypool Digital Library consists of 50- to 100- page "lectures" which are self-contained e-books synthesizing an important research or development topic. Each is authored by an expert in the field. |
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Via the MyILibrary service, almost 12,000 (2005-2008) titles in a variety of fields are now available. |
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ebrary
Through ebrary the Ryerson Library provides access to over 18,000 titles in a wide variety of subject areas (Education, Fine Arts, Geography, History, Languages and Literature, Law, Medicine, Political Science, Science, Social Sciences and Technology).
ebrary now also allows people to download ebooks to ebook readers. Wayne Bivens-Tatum has created a step-by-step guide to downloading to an ereader. |
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PsycBooks
PsycBOOKS provides online access to the fulltext from books and chapters published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The collection contains 1264 titles (including 100 out of print titles, 120 archival resources, and 600 classic psychology titles). Also included is the 8 volume Encyclopedia of Psychology. PsycBooks is available via Scholars Portal Books. |
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Safari Tech Books Online
Safari Tech Books Online features over 2,200 titles related to technology including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Unix, Web Development, Windows, XML and more. |
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Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online comprises more than 120
dictionaries and reference titles covering a comprehensive subject
spectrum including: General Reference, Language, Science
and Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and
Professional content. |
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Cambridge Collections Online
Cambridge Collections Online is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 260 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companions series. Covering literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies, the collection complements the Cambridge Companions book series - an established favourite with students and scholars - by providing search, browse and bookmark functionality. Over 2,600 essays are already included in the collection, with more set to be added as new volumes are published. |
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Alexander Street Press
This collection contains a significant collection of electronic texts in the disciplines of history, women's studies, drama, literature, film, black studies and diversity studies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
The ACLS (American Council of Learned
Societies) Humanities E-Book Project (formerly the History E-Book Project) is a digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
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Knovel
Knovel provides a collection of the leading science and engineering
reference handbooks, databases and conference proceedings. Approximately
1,600 titles are included.
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ENGnetBASE
ENGnetBASE  -
Contains the full contents of over 450
engineering handbooks from CRC Press.
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SPIE Digital Library
SPIE Digital Library - is the most extensive resource available on optics, photonics, optoelectronics and imaging, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
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CogNet
Cognet -
is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts for cognitive and brain
sciences. The Library contains works from the MIT Press,
as well as content and links to resources from other publishers,
professional associations, institutions, and individuals
who are willing to share public access to online work.
Cognet includes the full text of 400
MIT Press cognitive science books.
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Public Domain ebooks
 
Hathi Trust Digital Library is a digital repository for the US's greatest research libraries. Over 700,000 volumes have been digitized, 15% of which are freely available to the public.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. It contains over 24,000 books, 21,000 movies and a large number of audio files. The Ryerson Library has contributed to this archive.
The
Internet Public Library Books Collection (formerly known
as Online Texts) contains over 20,000 titles that can be
browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
Project Gutenberg is
the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright
(primarily pre-1923). It consists of over 36,000 classic literary
texts.
Google Book Search -
search contents of books from Harvard, Stanford, the University
of Michigan, the University of Oxford and The New York Public
Library as well as content from publishers. Books in the public
domain may be viewed in their entirety; books under copyright
have access restrictions.
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