eBook Collections @Pratt
More and more databases include e-books. Here are some featured collections that contain e-books relevant to Information and Library Science research. To browse e-books in PrattCat, click here.
- EBSCO E-Book Collection This link opens in a new windowA collection of nearly 300,000 electronic books that includes numerous titles on Computer, Information, and Library Science. Books can be read online or downloaded to a device for offline checkout.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowBooks at JSTOR offers more than 45,000 ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR's easy-to-use platform.
- Project MUSE - Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowUPCC Books on Project MUSE offer thousands of peer-reviewed digital books from major university presses and scholarly publishers and allow books to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from over 500 journals currently on MUSE.
- Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new windowContains 15 e-books for reference, with an emphasis on literature and history.
- ProQuest Academic Complete Ebooks This link opens in a new windowThousands of ebooks on range of scholarly subjects. This subscription is available to all Pratt users through the Connect NY consortium.
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