E-books

ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACLS American Council of Learned Studies E-book collection contains more than 1,700 digitalized, full-text books in the humanities, selected by acknowledged scholars.

Cambridge Companions Online
Cambridge Companions are lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods.

Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Early European Books
Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

Ebrary
Ebrary is a collection of high-quality books in electronic form, from all subject areas. Remember to download the ”ebrary-reader” (follow the link in “Getting Started”). By clicking on the “browse” button, the menu opens, which contains further links to the history section. To see which areas the history section includes, you need to click on the plus sign.

EBSCO eBook Collection

Gale Virtual Reference Library
This is an online collection of different encyclopedias, relevant for the humanities and the social studies. In the history section you can find: Ancient Europe, 8000 BC to 1000 AD: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, Cold War Reference Library, Encyclopedia of European Social History, Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, Encyclopedia of Russian History, Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, Vietnam War Reference Library.

MyiLibrary

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.

Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection (Number of users: 5)
Oxford University Press’s online reference library. It contains dozens of Oxford dictionaries and reference works, covering all subjects. It is possible to search across the entire database, or to do an “advanced search” by focusing on a specific field or an individual reference work. The collection consists primarily of reference works, and it is thus suitable for providing a quick overview of a chosen topic, or a brief explanation of a certain concept.

Oxford Scholarship Online
E-books in the social sciences, philosophy, religion and other subjects.

The Online Books Page
An access point to over 30,000 digitalized books in English.

Palgrave Connect

Projekt Runeberg
The Runeberg project contains over 350 e-books, among them the Salmonsens encyclopedia (so far digitalized only for letters A-F).

Project Gutenberg
The oldest archive of e-books on the Internet, with over 20,000 books and e-texts. It is possible to search by language, author or title. The collections also contains the Dansk biografisk Lexikon.

UC Press E-Books 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.

Wiley InterScience

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