CTU LibGuides: E-books at CTU: Browse E-book Collections

Purchased eBook Collections

An alternative to searching via the catalog or EBSCO Discovery Service is to go directly to the web sites of our e-book vendors. These collections require login with an Open Athens ID (set up for current CTU students, faculty, and staff by the IT department).

ACLS Humanities E-Book
A collection of 5,400 books in the humanities and social sciences, downloadable by chapter.
Digitalia Hispanica
Includes e-books among more than 13,000 documents in Spanish. Subjects includ religion and philosophy, psychology, literature, anthropology and the social sciences. After opening the link above, look for EBOOKS in the menu near the top on the left.
ESBCOhost eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
EBSCO’s eBook Collection contains full text books, such as reference works, scientific monographs, literature and fiction. This eBook Collection contains more than 20,000 titles.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Materials are all full text.
Project Muse
Project Muse contains more than 27,000 ebooks in the humanities and social sciences, all from academic publishers. To limit your search to e-books (omitting the journal articles), check the box in the left column that says "Books."
ProQuest Ebook Central
This collection of popular fiction and non-fiction includes e-books selected for all Illinois libraries, as well as religion titles selected by the Bechtold Library. Books in the collection are available for download to your computer or device for a period of 14 days.

Open Access E-Book Collections

Directory of Open Access Books
More than 11,000 books from 260 academic publishers. Accessible without login; books downloaded in PDF format.
Google Books
Google Books includes full views of books in the public domain, and limited previews of select books.
HathiTrust Digital Library
A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world
Open Library eBook Lending Library
The Open Library catalog includes public domain full text books, as well as a lending library of ebooks that can be borrowed for two weeks.