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April 8, 2026 • 11:58 am

eBook Collections – Best Bets

  • ABC-Clio eBook Collection Included in Library Search
    Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism, including a large collection of narratives by enslaved people. More info
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO) Included in Library Search
    Virtually every work printed before 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere. More info
  • eBook Central Included in Library Search
    Scholarly ebooks on all subjects, with over 250,000 titles available. More info
  • eBook Collection (EBSCO) Included in Library Search
    Includes over 140,000 titles in a wide variety of subjects, including literature, technology, career and self help, how-to books, and much more. More info
  • Gale eBooks Included in Library Search
    Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. More info
  • Hoopla Included in Library Search
    Users must create a Hoopla account to access. Choose "Appalachian State University" as your library. For "Library Card" enter your email address, and then register with *the first 21 characters only* of your App State email address. Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. More info
  • JSTOR Included in Library Search
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • MackinVIA Included in Library Search
    Offers a growing collection of ebooks for students from pre-kindergarten through middle grades. More info
  • NC LIVE Home Grown eBook Collection Included in Library Search
    Provides access to fiction and nonfiction content from North Carolina publishers. More info
  • O’Reilly eBooks (Safari Books Online) Included in Library Search
    From "Select your institution," choose "Institution not listed" and enter your App State e-mail, or log in with an existing account. Provides access to 30,000+ technical books, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths, and audio books on business, technology, and science topics. More info
  • Open Education North Carolina Collection Included in Library Search
    Free, open textbooks for college courses More info
  • Open Library Not included in Library Search
    Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time. Find ebooks from libraries across the country. More info
  • OverDrive (Libby) Included in Library Search
    Allows faculty, students and staff to borrow ebooks and audiobooks and download them to computers and portable devices. More info
  • Oxford Scholarship Online Included in Library Search
    Offers access to about 18,000 Oxford ebooks in a wide range of subject areas. More info
  • Recent Researches in Music Online Included in Library Search
    Provides access to the complete content of the seven Recent Researches in Music series, scholarly performance editions of music. More info
  • Sage Knowledge Included in Library Search
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • Taylor & Francis eBooks Included in Library Search
    Approximately 36,000 ebooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities, and social science. More info
  • Wiley Online Library Books Included in Library Search
    Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series. More info