E-book Packages available in the Library
- Books@ Scholars Portal - See Scholars Portal Books This link opens in a new windowIncludes almost 70,000 commerciale e-books and over 280,000 open access titles.
- Britannica eBook K-12 Collection This link opens in a new windowThis K-12 ebook database provides access to 1,400 Britannica ebook titles from 40 popular Britannica series/collections. This database can be searched by keyword, grade and reading levels. It covers 39 specific subjects that are included in Kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum from the areas of science, social studies, and language arts.
- Canadian Electronic Library (via Scholar Portal Books) This link opens in a new windowIncludes Canadian E-books.
- Canadian University Presses (ACUP) This link opens in a new windowCollection of several hundred e-books from Canadian University Presses.
- Education Source This link opens in a new windowEducation Source includes the full-text for more than 1,900 English language journals, and provides indexing for nearly 3,500 journals with coverage dating back to 1929. Provides scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. Information on all educational specialties is included as well as all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education. Education Source also includes access to books and education conference proceedings.
- Elgaronline Collections This link opens in a new windowA collection of close to 1000 e-boooks on law, public policy, geography, sociology etc.
- IEEE/Xplore This link opens in a new windowA collection of over 400 e-books in Engineering, Robotics and Communications
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text multidisciplinary archive of journal articles. Includes over 500 open access e-books.
- Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) This link opens in a new windowCross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,200 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowCollection of e-books from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis.
- SpringerLINK E-books This link opens in a new windowCollection of over 15,000 e-books in many different subject areas
- Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science This link opens in a new windowInformation service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. Lakehead has access to Collections 1 and 2.
- TeenBook Cloud (formerly TumbleBookCloud) This link opens in a new windowTumbleBookCloud is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: E-books, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic!), and Audio Books suitable for middle school and high school grades. Lesson plans and quizzes accompany the books.
- Tumblebook Library This link opens in a new windowThe TumblebookLibrary is a collection of electronic animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles for children. The Tumblebook collection includes read alongs (chapter books) ebooks, puzzles and games and TumbleResources for teachers and students.
- UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online) This link opens in a new windowOver 2600 e-books from University Presses. They include: Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Edinburgh University Press, Policy Press (University of Bristol), University Press of Florida, University Press of Kentucky, Fordham University Press, American University in Cairo Press, Hong Kong University Press, and Manchester University Press
Putting a Hold on an Ebsco e-book
Did you know that you can put a hold on an Ebsco e-book?
If you are looking for an e-book from Ebsco (formerly NetLibrary) and the book is currently being used, you can put a hold on the e-book.
How do you do that?
First you will need to create a free username and password by clicking on the Sign in link at the top of the page.
Click on Create a new Account and fill out the form.
Then click on the link to the e-book and a new window will open indicating that the e-book is in use.
Click on the sign-in option and put a hold on the e-book.