E-books
Please select a category to view the titles. To use the e-books remotely you need to activate the VPN.
Open Access e-books
Provides access to more than 27,000 peer-reviewed open access academic books from over 370 publishers, covering a wide range of disciplines.
Offers full-text access to over 10,000 open access academic books from distinguished publishers, with a strong focus on the humanities and social sciences.
Provides full-text access to more than 7,000 scholarly eBooks and other high-quality academic content from trusted open access publishers.
Includes over 2,000 open access scholarly books published by leading university presses and academic societies across the humanities and social sciences.
Ebook Central Platform
A collection of E-books can be accessed via the Ebook Central Platform. The platform offers several features, which you can use in the following ways, provided that, VPN is installed successfully. After accessing the platform, always check the type of license of each e-book before taking any action.
Ways of entering the Ebook Central platform
Α. Access to e-books with VPN use only, without local user authentication
- Available bibliographic data and use license for each e-book.
- VPN activation.
- Enter the platform here.
- Available actions:
- Browse available tittles and e-book table of contents.
- Search for titles and/or e-book content.
- Read online.
- Share link of e-book.
- Creation and export of e-book citation among available citation styles.
- Download part or chapter of e-book.
Β. Access to e-books with VPN use and local user authentication
To get the most out of Ebook Central Platform user registration is required to the Ebook Central Platform locally, along with VPN activation. As a user name use your institutional email and then select a password of your choice. Once your account has been created you can log in after approval by the system administrator.
Available actions:
- All the above (see A section).
- Full e-book download and up to a 365 day loan depending on use license.
- Free download and installment of the e-book reading software (Adobe Digital Editions).
- Ability to select a device when downloading an e-book.
- Ability to get Adobe Digital ID for e-book reading in multiple devices.
- Bookmark creation at page and/or part of the text level.
- Note, comment and annotation creation within the text of the e-book.
- Ability to copy and paste part of the text of the e-book.
- Use of bookshelf for later reading.
- Folder creation within the bookshelf.
- Short and detailed view of notes, comments, bookmarks and annotations.
Economics, Business Administration and Legal Studies
Humanities
Technology
E-books on Business, Management, Tourism and Social Research sponsored by the programme of “Support for Internationalization Actions of the International Hellenic University”
