Tools to help you access eBooks
- Off-campus AccessInstall "Access Anywhere" on your web browser and use it to directly access databases, journals, and e-books that would otherwise be restricted or hidden behind paywalls.
- IF YOU DONT FIND WHAT YOU NEED ONLINEIf you don't find what you need in electronic format, use this link to submit a purchase request. We'll look in all the hard-to-find places for you and if it does exist in electronic form, we can try to purchase access. Let us know what you need & we'll discuss options!
Library Stack
LibraryStack is a database; "a living collection of independent ebooks, audio files, videos and digital documents being published within the fields of contemporary art, design, media studies, cinema, architecture and philosophy."
Art & Architecture ePortal
The Art & Architecture ePortal is a collection of key backlist and out-of-print scholarly works in the fields of art and architectural history published by: The Art Institute of Chicago, The MIT Press, Yale University Press, Harvard Art Museums, and the Yale University Art Gallery. The title list includes books on photography.
The portal allows browsing of all images (by artist, title, or date)
Instructors may easily create custom coursepacks.
Licensed eBook Collections
- Art and Architecture e-portal (Yale UP)Online collection of works in the fields of art & architectural history, including works by E. A. McCauley, S. Sheehi, and M. Lamunière.
- Wiley Online LibraryProvides full text access to journals, reference works, books, and databases published by Wiley. 70+ books on art & applied arts. Also ebooks on archaeology, architecture, literature, philosophy...
Free eBooks
Free eBooks from Guggenheim Museum (via Internet Archive)
Five decades of Metropolitan Museum publications, downloadable, for free.
National Gallery of Art Online Editions
See especially: French paintings of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries
Getty Publications Virtual Library: Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archive.
Canadian Online Art Book Project (original works commissioned by the Art Canada Institute)
National Library of Australia eBooksFree eBook Collections
- Hathi Trust Digital LibraryAs a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
- Open Access eBooks on JSTORMore than 2,500 Open Access ebooks are now available at no cost to libraries or users. These titles reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content and are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Users won’t need to register or log in, and there are no DRM restrictions or limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing.
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