LibGuides: eBook Guide: eBook Collections

One Search

One Search is a good place to start searching for books, ebooks, journal articles, and our e-journal content all at once.

Use the Content Type, Subject Terms and Publication Date options on the left to refine your search.

For eBooks tick 'Full Text Online' and 'Book/eBook'.

One Search is also available on the Library home page.

Avalon Project: Documents in law, history and diplomacy
A Yale-based project to provide documents in law, history and diplomacy back to the 18th century and earlier.
CCH - IntelliConnect
Provides access to publications in the CCH tax, corporations, family, torts, and conveyancing law collections. Includes titles such as the Australian Company Law Cases and the Australian Master Tax Guide.

Available to James Cook University users only.
United Nations Treaty Collection
This online database provides the most detailed information on the status of over 560 major multilateral instruments deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Available to James Cook University users only.

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists eBook collection
Collection of 60 pharmacy eBooks published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and hosted on the iG Library platform

Available to James Cook University users only.
ClinicalKey
Comprised of Australian University Base package and Australian University Specialty packages, this is a clinical search engine that supports physicians and nurses in clinical decision making. Resources available include journals, ebooks, drug monographs, guidelines, multimedia, patient education and procedures consult.

From 2018 all users will be required to register for a personal account in order to download full-text book chapter PDFs; use the Presentation Maker; access Search History, Saved Searches and Saved Content; access ClinicalKey remotely and use the Mobile App.
Available to James Cook University users only.
Colloquium digital library of life sciences
COLLOQUIUM is an information resource for research communities in the biomedical/ life sciences. JCU has access to Collection 1 only.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Informit Health Collection
Collection indexes a range of health journals, reports and case studies in subject areas including ageing & age care, child health & breastfeeding, indigenous health issues, mental health and rehabilitation.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Ovid Books
Ovid Books offers a collection of medical eBooks on topics including nursing, clinical medicine, procedures, patient education and pharmacology.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Limited concurrent users; please log off when finished.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is an eBook library offering access to academic works from Oxford University Press. JCU subscribes to the following collections only: Biology, Business & Management, Linguistics, Palliative Care, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Social Work

Limited to 1 concurrent user with a 25 minute time out.
Available to James Cook University users only.
ProQuest Ebook Central
ProQuest Ebook Central contains nearly 150,000 eBooks from the former ebrary and EBL eBook Libraries. Full text access is available on a wide range of topics including life and physical sciences, economics and business, social sciences and humanities, law, and others.

Available to James Cook University users only.
ProQuest Health & Medicine Collection
A pre-defined subject collection offering a one-stop search of full text, A&I, ebooks and journal content available from the ProQuest platform.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Springer eBook Collection
Multidisciplinary collection of nearly 20,000 eBooks.

Available to James Cook University users only.

EServer.org
The EServer is a digital humanities venture, founded in 1990 and based at Iowa State U, where writers, editors and scholars publish over 35,000 works free of charge.
Humanities Text Initiative
The Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided online access to full text resources since 1994.
Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
Multidisciplinary collection indexes a range of peer reviewed journals, monographs, books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials in subject areas including agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology

Available to James Cook University users only.
Informit Indigenous Collection
The Informit Indigenous Collection offers a variety of content on both historical and topical issues within Indigenous studies. The multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework encompasses anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policymaking, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts.

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Digital Library provides ancient Greek and Roman, Arabic, Germanic, 19th-Century American, and Renaissance materials, as well as issues of the Richmond Times Dispatch and Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
The Association for Computing Machinery database includes bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full text for articles published in ACM periodicals, proceedings, conferences and special interest groups (SIG's)

Available to James Cook University users only.
Credo
Credo is a comprehensive full text, online reference collection that includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as subject specific titles from art, to literature, to law. It is a good place to get started on your project. Credo also offers images and concept maps.

Available to James Cook University users only.
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB contains peer reviewed, academic eBooks published on a range of subjects and available under an Open Access license.
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Multidisciplinary collection of 5,000+ eBooks

Available to James Cook University users only.
Emerald Insight
James Cook University's subscription to Emerald Insight includes access to journals and some book series, covering the fields of health & social care, education, and management.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Google Book Search
Google Books finds pretty much any kind of book you can imagine -- fiction, non-fiction, reference, scholarly, textbooks, children's books, scientific, medical, professional, educational, and other books of all kinds.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. Most items are restricted by copyright but about one third of the collection is available as free public domain materials.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg provides free full text access to over 50,000 eBooks that exist in the public domain in America. Each item is available for download or can be read online.

Terms of Use
Project Gutenberg Australia
Project Gutenberg Australia provides free full text access to over 3,500 titles in that are in the public domain in Australia.
ProQuest Ebook Central
ProQuest Ebook Central contains nearly 150,000 eBooks from the former ebrary and EBL eBook Libraries. Full text access is available on a wide range of topics including life and physical sciences, economics and business, social sciences and humanities, law, and others.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Springer eBook Collection
Multidisciplinary collection of nearly 20,000 eBooks.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Text Archive
The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks that can be read in a browser or downloaded for reading offline.
University of California Press eBooks Collection, 1982-2004
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
University of Oxford Text Archive
The OTA collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital resources for research and teaching.

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Technical Library
This collection includes standards, journals, conference proceedings, textbooks and monographs published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. James Cook University has access to information from the period 2006-2016.

Available to James Cook University users only.
CSIRO eBooks
Collection of eBooks published by CSIRO in subject areas including agriculture, environmental management, plant & animal sciences and urban development. Currently being hosted on ProQuest Ebook Central.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
SYNTHESIS is an innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science.

Available to James Cook University users only.

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You can find out more on the Guide to Purchasing Information Resources, which includes a link to the order form below.

If you think we need more books on a particular subject, please contact the Liaison Librarian for your discipline and talk to them about it.