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Bond University Library has over 300,000 eBooks available to students and staff.
The eBook collection covers a range of disciplines as well as general interest topics.
This guide covers the basics of finding, printing, copying and downloading eBooks.
On Bond student computers, an eBook can only be read online, not downloaded. The software required to read eBooks offline (Adobe Digital Editions) is not installed on Bond student computers.
eBooks and digital rights management (DRM)
Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems prevent the unauthorised use and copying of digital resources. While many of the library's eBooks are protected by DRM, these terms of access are set by the eBook vendor, author or publisher - not the library.
The most common form of DRM for eBooks is Adobe DRM. Ebooks on third-party aggregators (such as Proquest Ebook Central) are protected by Adobe DRM, which monitors and limits printing and copying/pasting allowances.
Library Resources for ebooks
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Database of electronic books (eBooks) across a wide range of titles on a lending platform. Includes all titles on former EBL and Ebrary platforms.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowCredo Reference provides access to 100 reference books in a range of subjects.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia Britannica Online contain the text of the 32-volume Encyclopedia Britannica plus additional articles and images.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new windowOxford Reference Online Premium contains over 250 reference works including key titles in the Oxford Companions series.
- Oxford Scholarship Online - Law This link opens in a new window
OSO is a cross-searchable library providing access to the full text of selected Oxford titles in the area of Law.
- PsycBooks This link opens in a new windowFull-text database of books and chapters from titles published by the American Psychological Association from 1950 and updated monthly. Includes archival resources and the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
- PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new windowPsychiatryOnline Premium provides information on diagnosis, treatment, guidelines, and research including the DSM Library, and selected APA journals and ebooks. Bond University does not subscribe to all content on the website.
- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) ebook collection This link opens in a new windowOver 90 ebooks focusing on architecture, design and construction.
- Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
SRMO is a research tool that links content and methods terms and includes full text content from books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks and journals.
- Bloomsbury Architecture Library This link opens in a new windowEbook titles to support the study of Architecture, urbanism, professional practice, studio and interior design together with case studies, technical drawings and images.
- CCH eBooks This link opens in a new windowA selection of CCH and Kluwer Law ebooks is available via the Wheelers platform. Bond staff and students can browse, borrow and read eBooks anywhere, anytime on multiple devices via the Wheelers ePlatform eBook lending library. For information on access and downloading, click the Support button at the top right of the ebooks home page.
- Ebsco Databases This link opens in a new windowSelect the eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) to refine to ebooks.
- Informit This link opens in a new window
Informit provides access to full content from a range of Australian and Asia-Pacific journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials.
- Kluwer Arbitration This link opens in a new windowKluwer Arbitration is an online resource for international arbitration research. It contains commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials together with the ITA Arbitration Report, and International Council for Commercial Arbitration cases and awards. The KluwerArbitration.com online database is developed and maintained in conjunction with the International Council for Commercial Arbitration and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.
- Exercise Science LWW Health Library This link opens in a new windowBook/multimedia package, including ACSM titles, covering exercise physiology, biomechanics, sports psychology, and motor control.
- Occupational Therapy LWW Health Library This link opens in a new windowThe Occupational Therapy LWW Health Library contains a core collection of ebook content together with videos and cases. Ebooks include Willard & Spackman's Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy for Physical Disfunction.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowThe online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).Bond University does not subscribe to OECD iLibrary and therefore not all content is available.
- Oxford Handbooks Online Political Science This link opens in a new window
Includes titles on:
- political science (efforts empirically to document how politics occurs and to develop theories about its regular patterns)
- political theory (the study of ideas and the history of those ideas in political discourse)
- international relations (the study of all aspects of global society including organizations and relations between states).
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowThe National Library of Medicine bookshelf contains free online eBooks on life science and healthcare. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books
- Screen Studies This link opens in a new windowScreen Studies includes screenplays, books on film from the late nineteenth century to the present and an interactive timeline of cinema history.