The ORU Library currently provides access to more than 90,000 eBooks. The eBook collections are listed below in descending order of size; they are also listed in the Database List. With the exception of the school collections, all of the eBook titles in these collections are searchable in the Library Catalog. While most of the eBooks provided in these collections are restricted to use by current students, faculty, and staff only, the Library also offers a web page of free eBooks, which lists a number of open-access eBook collections.
Collections
Ebrary Academic Complete is a collection of 80,202 academic electronic books from a wide variety of scholarly and professional publishers. Concentrations are in the areas of Business & Economics, Computers & Technology, Humanities, the Social Sciences and more. For help in using Ebrary, see this tutorial.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) is composed 10,199 titles, originally from NetLibrary. For help in using the eBook Collection, see this help page.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition contains the full text of 3,100+ nonfiction books. For help in using this collection, see this EBSCOhost tutorial.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition contains the full text of 2,700+ nonfiction books. For help in using this collection, see this EBSCOhost tutorial.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary School Edition contains the full text of 1,300+ nonfiction books. For help in using this collection, see this EBSCOhost tutorial.
Credo Reference is a collection of some 525 online reference titles from various publishers. For help in using Credo eBooks, see this help page.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of some 127 reference works, several of which are in-depth subject encyclopedias and dictionaries. For help using Gale, see this help page.
Books@Ovid includes 19 full-text eBooks related to nursing and the nursing profession. For help in using Books@Ovid, see this help page.
Audiobook Collection (EBSCOhost) is a small collection of downloadable audiobooks, formerly part of NetLibrary. For help using the audiobooks, see this help page.
Selected eReference Titles
Some of the individual eReference titles provided by the ORU Library include:
Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2010
Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 2011
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2d ed., 22 vol., 2007
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2d ed., 10 vol., 2006
The Encyclopedia of Political Science, 5 vols., 2005
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d ed., 15 vol. 2005
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 4 vol., 2005
Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2d ed., 5 vol., 2001
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 4th ed., 6 vol., 2008
International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family, 2d ed., 4 vol., 2003
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2d ed., 9 vol., 2008
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2d ed., 15 vol., 2003, and supplements (2001, 2009, 2010, 2011)
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 6 vol., 2005
Oxford English Dictionary Online, 2011
WorldAlmanac including Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids
If you have any questions about the eBooks provided by the ORU Library, please Ask-a-Librarian.
Updated: October 26, 2012.
