Read online or borrow to read in the app or another device
Borrow for hours or days
Broad, multi-disciplinary academic topic coverage
| Contains | Full e-books on a range of topics, including arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, business, technology, history, language and literature. |
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| Best for | Academic reading and research. |
| Multi-user? | Most books are only available to a single user at a time. How many copies are there? |
| Printing Limits | Up to 100 pages at a time. Permissions vary by title, determined by the publisher. |
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If you haven't done so already, you should create an EBSCO account. You'll need an account to download e-books from the EBSCO database. From any EBSCO access page, click "Sign In" on the top right of the screen. Click on "Create a new Account." For convenience, you may use your Lone Star email and password to set up the account.
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You can read EBSCO e-books in the browser without creating an EBSCO account, downloading extra software, or even checking the book out. However, you cannot take notes, save your place, or read offline.
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Just navigate to the collection, authenticate as an LSC user as needed, and search or browse to locate books. Select "PDF" or "EPUB" Full Text to open the book. (Epub is the more accessible format!)
If you want to read a book offline and/or have exclusive access to a book with limited copies, you can borrow and download it.
You will have to have Adobe Digital Editions installed to view your book.
The EBSCO Mobile app provides access to e-books as well as articles and other EBSCO content.
In order to read EBSCO e-books on your Kindle or in the Kindle app, you can create a PDF of the e-book in full text view and transfer using Send To Kindle. Note: depending on licensing, you may only be able to save a small portion of the book to pdf.
For other e-reader devices, you will need to authorize Adobe Digital Editions on your computer and transfer the files manually. This requires a free Adobe ID. Use an email address you will remember and have access to, as this will also be your Adobe ID. Once you have activated the software on your computer, you are ready to download. Follow the instructions on the tab For PC/Mac tab of this box to download a book to Adobe Digital Editions.
The number of copies and the type of license for a book determines how many people can access the book at the same time.
Books with a finite number of copies are handled like paper books: 1 user may access 1 copy of a book at a time.
Click the "download" button for the book to get options for saving chapters or a specific range of pages, or to download the e-book to read via Adobe Digital Editions.
The book details Permissions section will let you know what the limits are for chapter downloaded and copy/pasting.
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