Library Databases
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new window120,000 + scholarly and trade electronic books titles available to read online. From ProQuest.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowAccess eBooks and journals from John Wiley & Sons.
Finding in the Catalog
eBooks are included in 'Whitworth' catalog searches. Once you have entered your search terms, use Refine my Results to limit Resource Type to eBooks.
Free or Open Access
- Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new windowDOAB is a discovery tool for open access academic, peer-reviewed books.
- MerlotThe MERLOT Collection is made up of over 40,000 materials in 20 different material type categories and growing. Employs a thorough peer review process.
- OER Commonsis a digital public library and collaboration platform that offers openly licensed lectures, textbooks, full courses, games and assessments for K-12 and higher ed. Basic and advanced search by subject education level, and standard.
- OpenStaxFree, peer-reviewed college textbooks in math, science, social sciences, and business.
- Open Textbook LibraryOpen Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. Browse by subject.
- Project MUSEIn addition to many open access books more have been made free in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the publishers currently opting to make content free on Project MUSE are Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals), Ohio State University Press (all books and journals), University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals), University of North Carolina Press (all books), Temple University Press (all books), and Vanderbilt University Press (selected books).