Use Omni to discover books available through the library, whether they're ebooks or physical.
Omni even finds chapters within books.
Although our ebooks are included in an Omni search, searching them directly from the publisher site might provide a deeper search, finding your search terms at the chapter or page level.
A collection of e-books available on the EBSCOhost platform.
A collection of scholarly e-books through ProQuest.
Over 4,000 reference e-books in the Social Sciences. Fully searchable as a group or browse by title, subject, or author.
Scholars Portal Books is the largest database of e-books available to the Trent Library. It contains the majority of e-books we purchase and duplicates the content of many of our other providers.
Over 11,000 e-books published by Taylor & Francis, on a variety of subjects. Browse titles by subject, or search the collection by author, title, or keyword. International scope.
UPSO is a collection of tens of thousands of scholarly ebooks, with new books added every month. The books are from prestigious university presses worldwide, including Oxford University Press, Read online or download a PDF of a chapter. You can personalise the site, saving searches and favourite books. These books are also included in Scholars Portal Books.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) has nearly 1600 entries online. From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in our Archives (every entry contains a link to its complete archival history, identifying the fixed edition the reader should cite). The Table of Contents lists entries that are published or assigned. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
There are hundreds of subject-specific encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, etc. available through the library. Look for them in Omni.
EBook Packages
Search within some of our large ebook packages. Some collections are specifically meant for background "reference" information.
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The perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. From Oxford University Press, VSI offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects. Offering a bridge between reference content and higher academic work, all titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.
A selection of online reference books. Each book is only searchable individually.