Books & E-Books

Find books at RWU Library, in Rhode Island and beyond:

E-Books

The RWU libraries have purchased a number of E-Book collections which may be searched individually or via the HELIN Library Catalog.

For help viewing or downloading an e-book see our e-Book Libguide.

Selected e-Book collections currently available to the RWU community include:

• ACLS Humanities Books
  An online collection of high quality titles in the humanities.
• eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
• ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more published in the UK in the 18th century.
• EEBO – Early English Books Online
  Contains digital facsimile page images of English language works from 1473-1700
• eBook Central
  A collection of academic electronic books.
• JSTOR
  A collection of scholarly e-books.
• NCCO – Nineteenth Century Collections Online
  Primary source collections of the 19th century.
• Project Muse
  E-books from University Presses.
• Credo Reference
  Search across hundreds of reference titles.
• Gale's Virtual Reference Library
• Oxford Handbooks Online
• Oxford Reference Online

Free E-Book Collections on the web:

• DPLA: Digital Public Library of America
  A portal for students, teachers, and scholars bringing together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums.
• Project Gutenberg
  Provides free online access to out-of-copyright texts.
• Google Book Search
• Hathi Trust 
  A shared digital repository of major research libraries.
• Internet Archive
  Free books and texts.