Read online or borrow to read in the app or another device
Borrow for 1-7 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. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Download Limits | Download chapters or whole books for 1-7 days in PDF format. User account required to download. Books can be read online without check-out. |
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.
You will need:
Most devices will have an application for both of these functions already installed.
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.
You will need:
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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.
You'll need to download Adobe Digital Editions. This free software will allow you to read ACSM (Adobe Content Server Manager) files on your desktop.
To use your EBSCO e-book across devices (e.g. on your computer and on your iPad) you will need to use an Adobe ID for this authorization. Once you have authorized your devices using your Adobe ID, your checkouts and bookmarks will remain across devices.
The EBSCO Mobile app provides access to e-books (and articles and whatever content you can read through EBSCO).
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.
This is an easy process -- you just have to know where to look!
1. Click into the item record of your desired book by clicking the title in your search results.
2. Without opening the book, scroll down about halfway. At the bottom of the book information (after author, publication year, summary, etc) you'll find a line with information for Concurrent User Level. This lets you know how many people can borrow or read the book at the same time: it could be 1 user, 3 users, unlimited users, or other variations.
If you don't see this field right away, just wait a couple more moments -- it's the last thing to load, typically.
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