Books & eBooks

Books

To search for books in our physical collection, search for the item in Page 1+ and apply the ‘Held by Library’ filter.

Need help searching in Page 1+? Learn how to start your search and refine your search.

Need a book that we do not have? Request an Interlibrary Loan – it is free!

eBooks

Fanshawe Library Learning Commons offers access to a continuously growing collection of eBooks for students, faculty and staff. Users can access eBooks on-campus and off-campus by using their Fanshawe credentials.

It is strongly recommended that users use the search bar on the library home page for general research. eBook databases should be used for searching for a specific eBook, or by those who are interested in browsing our eBook collections. The following guides cover how users can download eBooks for offline access:

If you require any assistance using any of the eBook databases below, please email us at llc@fanshawec.ca or chat with us on Live Chat.


eBook Collections

Bloomsbury Collections

  • Discover thousands of titles across 22 subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks with Unlocked symbol & Open book symbol symbols on this platform.

Cambridge University Press

  • Cambridge Core, Cambridge University Press’ platform for academic content, offers over 36,000 eBooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences, engineering, medicine and science.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks that have the Green checkmark with text that reads Access symbol on this platform.

Credo Reference

  • Access hundreds of multidisciplinary encyclopedias and handbooks.
    Note: Select the icon beside the Credo Reference logo on the upper-left of the home page, then select “All Titles” to access the library’s collection.

De Gruyter eBooks

  • Discover thousands of eBooks spanning across 29 subject areas, including architecture and design, medicine, and more.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks with the Green Open Access symbol symbol on this platform.

Canada Commons (formerly Canadian Electronic Library)

  • A collection of books and reports on Canadian public health policy and research from Canada’s scholarly and independent publishers.

EBSCO eBook Collection

  • Thousands of eBooks on a variety of topics in business, the humanities, education, history, art, health and medicine, literature, and more.

EBSCO Academic eBook Collection

  • Access a large multidisciplinary collection of eBooks covering a broad range of academic subjects from leading publishers and university presses

Elsevier ScienceDirect

  • Thousands of titles covering a diverse range of scientific disciplines.

Gale eBooks

  • Gale eBooks offers access to encyclopedia and reference books that focus on the humanities, social sciences, and more.

IGI Global

  • A collection of IGI published eBooks that cover a variety of subjects, such as business and management, education, agricultural and physical sciences, government and law, and healthcare and life sciences.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks with the Green checkmark and text that reads Full-Text symbol on this platform.

JSTOR eBooks

  • Over 90,000 eBooks from renowned scholarly publishers covering various core disciplines, including the arts, business and economics, history, humanities, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks that Fanshawe Library has purchased.

Oxford Scholarship Online

  • Discover 16,000+ scholarly titles covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine and law.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks with the Green lock symbol for Open Access& Yellow lock symbol for Open Accesssymbols on this platform.

Project Muse

  • Access thousands of eBooks within the humanities and social sciences from renowned university presses and scholarly presses.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks with the Green checkmark symbol& Open Access symbol symbols on this platform.

ProQuest Ebook Central

  • Discover thousands of eBooks in a wide range of subject areas from over 750 publishers.

Salem Press Ebooks

  • A collection of reference titles on history and health.

Taylor & Francis eBook Collection

  • Access a large collection of eBooks in the humanities, social sciences, technology, engineering, and more.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks with the Green checkmark symbol& Symbol indicates open accesssymbols on this platform.

Wiley Online Library

  • The Wiley Online Library offers over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, and more in various subjects.
    Note: Users can only access eBooks with the  Padlock symbol with text that says Full Access symbol on this platform.