Electronic books or e-books are electronic versions of physical books which can be read online on a computer, mobile phone, laptop or tablet. Some e-books you have the option to download the content to read offline.
The College has access to the content of over 50,000 e-books many of which are recommended on module reading lists. The majority of e-books are available on three main platforms or websites – Ebook Central, VLeBooks and O'Reilly Learning Platform.
These are some of the advantages of using e-books:
they are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on or off campus,
for the majority of titles you don’t have to wait for a copy to be returned,
you can easily search the content of an e-book, including the text, table of contents, appendices, and bibliography
