Ebook Central is a collection of full-text electronic books with 24,000 titles from reputable publishers in multiple academic subject areas that allows you to browse, search, copy or print.

For an EBook Central user guide visit this page. 

A Simple Search is a basic keyword search that searches all Ebook Central ebooks. 

Tip: If your search involves more than one word -- for example, labor unions or college debt -- you will want to put the words together in quotes. This way, the results will only include books which include that exact phrase.

Narrow your search results by using filters on the left-hand side of the screen. 

From the list of results, click on a book title that you want to view. Different viewing options appear.  

You can create a PDF of particular chapters of the book, download the whole title for a 21-day viewing period, or browse each chapter using the online reader.

If you choose the online reader option, you can flip pages, search within the book by keyword, or go directly to a chapter you're interested in reading.