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Use the Library catalogue (QCat) to find individual titles available as e-books. Individual e-book catalogue entries provide links to the relevant online source.

The full text content of each of the packages listed below can also be searched using the links provided.

ACLS Humanities E-Books
Over 1,700 from the American Council of Learned Societies in collaboration with 12 learned societies.

EEBO (Early English Books Online)
Access to scanned full text copies of some 100,000 books published between 1473 and 1700.

ebrary e-book collection
Access to a collection of humanities ebooks.
Ebrary Quick Guide [pdf]

ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
Access to scanned full text copies of 150,000 18th Century books, pamphlets and ephemera.

MyiLibrary
Teaching and research titles for Queen's from a variety of publishers.

Safari Books Online
Books for programmers and IT professionals.

Wiley InterScience
A collection of science titles published by Wiley.

Other sources of ebooks

Full text out of copyright (public domain) are available from Project Gutenberg.

Full text ebooks are also included (along with restricted view items) in the Open Library project from Internet Archive.

Restrict searches or results to 'Full View' in Google Book Search to find more ebooks.