Library Research Guides: eBooks at Bond Library: Home

About eBooks

Bond University Library has over 300,000 eBooks available to students and staff. Ebook illustration

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. It includes instructions for using our main eBook provider Proquest Ebook Central.

Using a Bond student computer

An eBook can only be read online, not downloaded. The software required to read eBooks offline (Adobe Digital Editions) is not available on Bond student computers.

Off campus or using your own device on campus

Before you can access the book, you will be prompted to log in using your Bond network user name and password.

Please note: To access Proquest Ebook Central on and off campus, you will need to login in using your Bond University student or staff username and password.

eBooks and digital rights management (DRM)

Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems prevent the unauthorised use and copying of digital resources. While a large number 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 and ebrary) are protected by Adobe DRM, which monitors and limits printing and copying/pasting allowances.

ProQuest Ebook Central
Database of electronic books (eBooks) across a wide range of titles on a lending platform. Includes all titles on former EBL and Ebrary platforms.

As of 31 August 2016 EBL was renamed ProQuest Ebook Central and moved to the new platform. Ebrary content was moved from the Ebrary platform to ProQuest Ebook Central in January 2017.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides access to 100 reference books in a range of subjects.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica Online contain the text of the 32-volume Encyclopedia Britannica plus additional articles and images.
Oxford Scholarship Online - Law
OSO is a cross-searchable library providing access to the full text of selected Oxford titles in the area of Law.
PsycBooks
Full-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.
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) ebook collection
Over 90 ebooks focusing on architecture, design and construction.
Sage Research Methods Online
SRMO is a research tool that links content and methods terms and includes full text content from books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks and journals.

CCH eBooks
A 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.
Emerald Journals
Select "Books" to browse for ebooks only.
Informit
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
Kluwer 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.
OECD iLibrary
The 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.
Ebsco Databases
Select the eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) to refine to ebooks.
SpringerLink Online Journals
Select books to limit to ebooks.