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April 8, 2026 • 11:58 am

eBook Collections – Best Bets

  • ABC-Clio eBook Collection
    Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism, including a large collection of narratives by enslaved people. More info
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    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
    Scholarly ebooks on all subjects, with over 250,000 titles available. More info
  • eBook Collection (EBSCO)
    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
    Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. More info
  • Hoopla
    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
    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
    Offers a growing collection of ebooks for students from pre-kindergarten through middle grades. More info
  • NC LIVE Home Grown eBook Collection
    Provides access to fiction and nonfiction content from North Carolina publishers. More info
  • O’Reilly eBooks (Safari Books Online)
    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
    Free, open textbooks for college courses More info
  • Open Library
    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)
    Allows faculty, students and staff to borrow ebooks and audiobooks and download them to computers and portable devices. More info
  • Oxford Scholarship Online
    Offers access to about 18,000 Oxford ebooks in a wide range of subject areas. More info
  • Recent Researches in Music Online
    Provides access to the complete content of the seven Recent Researches in Music series, scholarly performance editions of music. More info
  • Sage Knowledge
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • Taylor & Francis eBooks
    Approximately 36,000 ebooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities, and social science. More info
  • Wiley Online Library Books
    Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series. More info