This LibGuide is in introduction finding and accessing ebooks at Coastal Carolina University's University Libraries. This page categorizes and links to the different ebook collections that are available:
Full text of Cambridge history volumes. Covers subjects across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history. Dates of coverage: 1970-current.
Electronic books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences.
Contains scanned images of virtually every work printed in English in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America, and elsewhere from 1473-1700 – starting with the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the English Civil War.
Full text of scholarly, reference, and professional books.
Collection of authoritative books and other documents from leading academic, trade, and professional publishers.
Find social work ebooks along with streaming videos on complimentary topics. Includes content related to children and families, older adults, crisis and trauma, immigration, diversity, school and social work, substance abuse, mental health, and health care.
Coverage of world fashion from reference titles, journal articles, ebooks, and images. Interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion.
From the Harold Bloom Literary Criticism series: biographies, overviews and synopses, analyses and criticism, literary topics, themes, and videos.
Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works written from the medieval period through the Victorian era.
Find working papers, policy briefs, current analysis and commentary, as well as scholarly journal articles, e-books and videos on politics, security studies, and related topics.
More than 180,000 English-language and foreign-language books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects from the United Kingdom and the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.
Full text books, articles, and primary source documents covering U.S. and world history from pre-civilization to present.
Find scholarly journals, magazines, books, biographies and other sources offering a multidisciplinary view of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present.
Contents include books, articles, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements from the twentieth century to the present day. The collection includes documents ranging from letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, letters and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community.
Full-text content for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents.
General science articles, books, and encyclopedias.
Ebooks and peer reviewed journals covering all subjects, but particularly strong in business and economics, medicine, and the natural sciences.
Index of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, magazines, trade publications, case studies, and books for teachers and administrators.
Full-text content from reference books covering every major subject.
Collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.
Dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
A collection of American Civil War letters, diaries, memoirs and biographies written between 1855 and 1875. Covers the military, social, economic, and political aspects of the war.
Digital images of books, pamphlets, and periodicals covering the history of women, rights, suffrage, and feminism from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.
More than 2,000 authors contribute approximately 100,000 pages that provide a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
Collection of autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Presents the entire spectrum of native peoples' experiences from their own point of view.
Collection of diaries and letters from more than 1,000 individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, as well as biographical sketeches of people represented in this database.
Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The database covers subjects in arts, music, and leisure, civil rights, counter-culture, law and government, mass media, new left and emerging neo-conservative movement, student activism, Vietnam War, women's movement, etc.
Legal materials on slavery in the United States including US statutes passed by colonies and states on slavery, federal statutes dealing with slavery, and state and federal cases on slavery. There are also books and pamphlets about slavery, abolition, and the law pre 1920. Includes some non-US English language sources. From HeinOnline.
As told through women's voices, thsi collection has primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, reviews, pamphlets, personal narratives, advice literature, training guides, interviews and teaching tools covering the themes of conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality.