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Using eBooks

The UMSL Libraries have purchased and subscribed to a number of eBooks for faculty, staff and students. These eBooks are restricted to UMSL users.

Many of our eBooks are available to multiple simultaneous users; however, have a user limit (usually 1-3 users).
eBooks at other universities (sometimes visible in the MERLIN or MOBIUS catalogs) are only available to the users at that school.
There are two ways of reading eBooks:
- Read them online. This requires a connection to the Internet. All eBooks can be read this way.
- Read them offline by downloading them. Many, but not all, of our eBooks can be downloaded. Additional software and configuration is usually required..
For help using eBooks from a particular provider, click the appropriate tab at left.
Most eBooks allow a limited number of pages to be saved, printed or emailed, per individual publisher-specified limits.

Ways to find eBooks:

Summon Limited to Ebooks
This is a link into summon where the limits on the left have been preset to search the Library Catalog for material with a Library Location of Online.
Summon
This discovery tool searches many resources at once
UMSL Catalog
UMSL eBook Title Search
This tool can find most (but not all) of our ebooks. If searching by ISBN, please note that many publishers use multiple ISBNs for books and eBooks. For example, an ebook might have one ISBN for a hardcover edition, another for paperback, a separate ISBN for EBSCO, and still another for ProQuest.