University Library

E-books on offer at the University Library

E-book access platforms

E-books can be accessed from a variety of platforms, as each offers its own portfolio of e-books.

E-book access platforms

Cambridge University Press

https://www.cambridge.org/core

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DeGruyter

https://www.degruyter.com/

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Ebsco eBooks

http://search.ebscohost.com/

Online reading
Unlimited. You can download or print up to 100 pages of the book per login. 

Off-line use
For 2 weeks. Use only when necessary, as this will prevent other users from accessing the title for the duration of the loan. You must have an Adobe Digital account and an EBSCO account in order to borrow the book.
For offline reading, the Adobe Digital Editions app (available for free) is required.
On mobile devices, it is available in the App Store or Google Play.
The borrowed book will only be downloaded to the device from which it was borrowed.

The books are purchased for permanent use, so you can also find them in the library on-line catalog Aleph and the Summon System.

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Emerald

The eBooks Business, Management & Economics (2013-2017) collection is purchased, containing over 700 titles.

https://emeraldinsight.com/

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Jstor

Over 400 e-book titles in the humanities and social sciences have been purchased.

https://www.jstor.org/

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Oxford Handbooks Online

We have purchased nearly 200 textbooks on philosophy, linguistics, law and criminology.  

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/

List of purchased e-books
Philosophy e-book collection:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/browse?t1=ORR:AHU02720
Linguistics e-book collection:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/browse?t1=ORR:AHU01290
Law e-book collection:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/browse?t1=ORR:LAW00010
Criminology and Criminal Law e-book collection:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/browse?t1=ORR:SOC00500

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ProQuest Ebook Central (previously called Ebrary and MyiLibrary)

We have access to over 2,700 e-books, mostly in the humanities.

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/zcup-ebooks/

On-line reading
Unlimited. You can download or print up to 60 pages of the e-book per login.

Off-line use
Possible duration of the loan (depending on the license type of the particular title) is 1-21 days (use only in case of emergency, as this will prevent other users from accessing the title for the duration of the loan). In order to borrow a e-book, you must be logged into ProQuest via Shibboleth and have an Adobe Digital account.
For offline reading, you need the Adobe Digital Editions app. On mobile devices, it is available in the App Store or Google Play.
The borrowed e-book will only be downloaded to the device from which it was borrowed.

The e-books are purchased for permanent use, so you can also find them in the library on-line catalog Aleph and the Summon System.

You must use direct links to the e-book collections. ProQuest has two different platforms for journals and e-books.

For remote access via Shibboleth you use the same link:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/zcup-ebooks/

List of OA titles (as of 16 Feb 2022, DRM free and for unlimited simultaneous access).

Science Direct (e-books from the Elsevier publishing company)

For the year 2023, as part of the Elsevier ScienceDirect Freedom Collection contract, we received free additional access to the Elsevier eBooks Collections, which includes approximately 1,200 e-book titles from the collections:

Biomedical Engineering 2022
Biomedical Science and Medicine 2022
Chemistry 2022
Chemical Engineering 2022
Engineering 2022
Energy 2022
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2022
Environmental Sciences 2022
Immunology and Microbiology 2022
Mathematics and Computing 2022
Materials Science 2022
Neuroscience and Psychology 2022
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2022
Social Sciences 2022

https://www.sciencedirect.com/

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Springer Link

We have access to more than 22,000 e-books and 12,000 conference proceedings. 

https://link.springer.com/

If you use the following link, you will only see the e-books we have access to:
https://link.springer.com/search?showAll=false&facet-content-type=%22Book%22

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Taylor&Francis

Nearly 1,500 e-books, evenly distributed among technical fields, social sciences, including economics, and the humanities.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/

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Wiley

100 e-books, a third of which are in the field of technology.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

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Remote access

If you are on the university premises (i.e., within the range of IP addresses of UWB), there is no need to log in. If you are elsewhere, you need to use remote access. For most platforms, access via Shibboleth is enabled, i.e., you get to the Orion WebAuth page, where you log in the same way as to the UWB systems. You can use the links provided here or log in from the main site of the respective platform following the instructions.

Off-line use

EBSCO and ProQuest allow you to borrow e-books for offline reading. To do this, you need to have an Adobe Digital account and have the Adobe Digital Editions book reading app installed on your device, where e-books borrowed from both platforms are stored. You can only access the material on the device you downloaded the e-book to. Only use this option when necessary, as this will block the title from being available to others.

Unavailable books

Is the e-book you need unavailable? Contact us (eiz@uk.zcu.cz).