The University Libraries provides thousands of ebook titles from many vendors, but accessing and downloading these titles is different than how it is done from the public library:
Ebook major tools and resources
| Vendor | Print Limit | Downloading Possible? | Software / Account Needed | Concurrent User Limit? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eBook Collection (EBSCO) | 100 | Yes | Adobe Digital Editions, myEBSCO account | Unlimited |
| ProQuest eBook Central | Varied | If Download Book link is available | Adobe Digital Editions or Bluefire Reader | Varied |
| 18th Century Collections Online, Parts I & II (ECCO) | None | Yes | None | Unlimited |
| Access Engineering | None | Yes | None | Unlimited |
| Access Medicine | None | No | None | Unlimited |
| Access Pharmacy | None | No | None | Unlimited |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book | None | By chapter | None | Unlimited |
| Books@Ovid | None | No | None | 1 user |
| Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge Core) | None | By chapter | Cambridge Core account needed, use UNM email address to register | Unlimited |
| Chicago Manual of Style Online | Cannot be printed | No | None | Unlimited |
| CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | None | Yes | Account optional for saving searches and bookmarks | 2 users |
| Digitalia | None in HTML view | Yes | Adobe Digital Editions, Digitalia account | Unlimited |
| Early English Books Online (EEBO) | None, print 1 page at a time | Yes | PDF reader for downloads | Unlimited |
|
Gale eBooks (Reference books) |
None | By chapter | None | Unlimited |
| HathiTrust | None | Yes | PDF reader for downloads. Choose University of New Mexico for access to restricted content. | Unlimited |
| Institute of Physics | None | Yes | Must create an IOP account to download. | Unlimited |
| Internet Archive | None | Yes | None | Unlimited |
| NCBI Bookshelf | None | Yes | PDF reader for downloads | Unlimited |
| O'Reilly Learning | Cannot be printed | Yes, with the mobile app O'Reilly | None | Unlimited |
| OED Oxford English Dictionary Online | N/A | No | None | Unlimited |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | None | Yes | Personal Profile optional to save searches | 1 user |
| Oxford Handbooks, Online Archaeology 2012-2017 Collections | None, must agree to copyright notice before printing | Yes | PDF reader for downloads, Personal Profile optional to save searches | Unlimited |
| R2 Library | None | No | None | 1 user per book, log out when finished |
| Springer eBooks in Computer Science | Cannot be printed | Yes | Adobe Digital Editions or PDF reader | Unlimited |
| Springer eBooks on Mathematics & Statistics | Cannot be printed | Yes | Adobe Digital Editions or PDF reader | Unlimited |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Cannot be printed | No | Paid membership required to download | Unlimited |
| Stat!Ref | None | No | None | 2 users per book, log out when finished |
| Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science | None | Some | PDF reader, personal account optional | Unlimited |
| Teatro Espaol del Siglo de Oro | None | Yes | None | Unlimited |
EBooks cannot be accessed off campus without a valid UNM netID.
Some eBook collections can be read online two ways:
For a list of websites with eBooks in the public domain, follow this link.