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NU Library owns or subscribes to over five hundred thousand e-books individually or in packaged collections. Use the library Scholar OneSearch discovery system to identify and link to individual titles by keyword, title or author.
Faculty members may place e-books on course reserve in the library.
The E-book collections described here come from a variety of vendors and publishers, and each has its own look and feel. However, most have some functions in common, such as:
Browse the collection by title or topic
Search the collection
options may include keyword searching of the full text, or limiting to a specific field, such as title, author or subject.
Search for a keyword or phrase within a selected book
Browse a selected book by table of contents
Personalization options, such as:
save searches
create a bookshelf
annotate a book, adding highlighting and notes
Books can be read in a browser and in some cases can be downloaded for a specified borrowing period to compatible e-book readers. Specifics are noted in the descriptions of individual products.
In most cases, printing and downloading are limited. Specifics are noted in the descriptions of individual products.
See the individual subject research guides created by librarians for links to more e-books.