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Collections of E-books

St. Louis Community College subscribes to several ebook collections, in addition to holding many individual copies of ebooks. Individual titles and many of the books held in collections can be found using the Classic Catalog. For a more complete listing of available ebooks, use Search It.

eBooks on EBSCOhost
Search and view the full text of eBooks.

Search and view the full text of eBooks by keyword search or browsing categories, highlights, or featured books.

Faculty: Use this URL within Blackboard: http://ezproxy.stlcc.edu/login?auth=ezpr0xy&url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=nlebk
Ebook Central
Do not use Internet Explorer (IE). Provides full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with tools to find, use, and manage the information.

Faculty: Use this URL within Blackboard: http://ezproxy.stlcc.edu/login?auth=ezpr0xy&url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/stlcc-ebooks
O’Reilly for Higher Education
Information technology books online. Users must set up an account using institutional e-mail.

Safari Tech Books Online provides access to over 7300 titles from the tech industry's two leading publishers.
Sage Knowledge
Reference books including social science, green issues, and criminal justice.
Sage Knowledge provides an interface to search the following:
- 21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook by J. Mitchell Miller (2009)
- Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage by Carl A. Zimring & William L. Rathje (2012)
- Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment by David Levinson (2002)
- Green Business: An A-to-Z Guide by Nevin Cohen & Paul Robbins (2011)
- Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide by Nevin Cohen & Paul Robbins(2011)
- Green Consumerism: An A-to-Z Guide by Juliana Mansvelt & Paul Robbins (2011)
- Green Energy: An A-to-Z Guide by Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins (2011)
- Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide by Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins (2011)
- Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide by Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins (2011)
- Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice by Marilyn D. McShane & Frank P. Williams III (2003)
- Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives by David S. Clark (2007)
- Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement by Larry E. Sullivan, Marie Simonetti Rosen, Dorthy Moses Schulz & M. R. Haberfeld (2004)
- Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime by Eric Hickey(2003)
- Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities by Mary Bosworth (2005)
- Encyclopedia of Race and Crime by Helen Taylor Greene & Shaun L. Gabbidon (2009)
- The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Larry E. Sullivan (2009)
- Encyclopedia of Terrorism, First Edition by Harvey W. Kushner (2003)
- Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime by Lawrence M. Salinger, Ph.D. (2005)
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Faculty: Use this URL within Blackboard: http://ezproxy.stlcc.edu/login?auth=ezpr0xy&url=http://knowledge.sagepub.com/

Search for E-books in the Library Catalog

When you search in the Library Catalog, any e-books that match your search are included in the results. Look for the e-book icons. Note: some e-books are not listed in the Classic Catalog, they are only available through Search It!

From the Classic Catalog home page, before you search you can click a checkbox to limit to E-books only.

Classic Catalog

Or, you could use Search It! After searching, look at the Refine Results column on the left. You'll see a section headed "Limit to..." Just check the box labeled eBooks to limit your results to eBooks.

Search It!

eBooks and Texts, Internet Archive

eBooks and Texts, Internet Archive
The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
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