Research Guides: SGPS: School of Graduate and Professional Studies: Find Books

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Find E-books

Ebook Databases

EBSCOhost E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
Ebook collection containing high-quality academic and popular titles from a broad range of subject and topic areas.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A digital library from various scholarly and university presses that offers authoritative ebooks covering a wide range of subject areas.
Books @ JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of eBooks that can be accessed via JSTOR's one search integrated platform, along with the JSTOR archival collections.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project Muse is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Project MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and eBooks from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.

Ebook Websites

Project Gutenberg
The original e-book site containing over 17,000 titles, most published 75 or more years ago.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries.
Internet Archive
Archive of digital texts, audio, moving images, and webpages.
Online Books Page
Links to 25,000 free e-books on the Web, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania.

Audiobook Websites

LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.
Audible
Audible is offering select titles for free during the pandemic.

Find Books Beyond Etown

WorldCat
Search more than 2 billion records of items owned by libraries around the world. Its user-friendly search will indicate items owned by Elizabethtown and will link you directly to Interlibrary Loan.

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Access WorldCat through First Search for more advanced search functionality.

Area Colleges (ACLCP libraries)
Search the catalogs of libraries in the area. These colleges have an agreement with Etown which will let you borrow books directly from them. You can also request their books through Interlibrary Loan.
AccessPA Libraries
Search the catalogs of libraries across Pennsylvania.
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan)
Request books from other libraries, for free, using this system.

Book Borrowing Partners

The colleges listed below have an agreement with Etown which allows you to borrow books directly from their libraries. Their individual policies may vary, so check with the library you are interested in visiting. You will need to present an Elizabethtown College ID card, which can be obtained from Etown's Campus Security.

Books from other libraries can also be requested through Interlibrary Loan to be delivered to our Elizabethtown campus.

Area colleges (ACLCP libraries)

Albright College
Alvernia University
Bucknell University
Dickinson College
Elizabethtown College
Franklin & Marshall College
Gettysburg College
Harrisburg Area Community College
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Juniata College
Kutztown University
Lebanon Valley College
Lycoming College
Messiah College
Millersville University
Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Penn State Harrisburg
Shippensburg University
State Library of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna University
US Army War College
Wilson College
York College

Lancaster Students

Students in Lancaster are also allowed to use the Shadek-Frackenthal Library at Franklin and Marshall. You may borrow up to five items at a time, but you must show an Elizabethtown College ID.