E-books Guide @ HKBU Library: E-book collections

eBook platform: Bloomsbury Collections 

Subject areas:   Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download:  Yes , individual chapters in PDF format

Printing:  Yes , individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account?  No

Remarks: Tutorial video

eBook platform: Brill Online Books

Subject areas: Humanities

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF and HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: Cambridge Books Online

Subject areas: Humanities and Social Sciences

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format. Includes export to Mendeley.

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: Cambridge Companions Collection

Subject areas: Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Religion

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format. Includes export to Mendeley.

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: De Gruyter

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or EPUB

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: / Access available for library subscribed ebooks only.  

eBook platform: Duke University Press Books

Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format. Includes export to Mendeley.

Printing: Yes

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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eBook platform: EBSCOhost ebook Collection

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Varies from 1 user to unlimited simultaneous users

Formats available: PDF, HTML or EPUB

Download: Yes. partial download: ≤ 100 pages (PDF or EPUB). Full-title download only (1-day loan, maximum of 50 titles). Requires both personal EBSCOhost account and Adobe Digital Editions.  An EBSCO eBooks app is available on the App Store^® or Google Play™ for reading offline on Apple or Android devices (or use Bluefire Reader).

Printing: Yes, partial printing: ≤ 100 pages. It depends on publisher's permission. 

Do I need to create a separate account? Yes, a personal EBSCOhost account is required to check out and download e-books for offline reading. (Create an EBSCOhost account)

Remarks: User guide.   A small number of titles are not available for download. For these titles, you simply do not see the "Download this ebook" option.

eBook platform: Elgaronline E-books

Subject areas: Economics, law, business, management, social science, and political science

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

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eBook platform: Gale eBooks (formerly "Gale Virtual Reference Library")

Subject areas: Reference works focusing on a variety of subjects.

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes. 1 section in PDF format

Printing: Yes, 1 section

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: Tutorial videos

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eBook platform: iG Library

Subject areas: Law, Computer Science, Philosophy & Psychology, Social Sciences, Language, Technology, and Literature

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or EPUB

Download: Yes, full-title in PDF format

Printing: Yes, full-title in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: IGI Global

Subject areas: Information Science, Technology, and Management

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, full-title in PDF format

Printing: Yes, full-title in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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eBook platform: Institute of Physics (IOP) ebooks

Subject areas: Physics

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF, ePub

Download: Yes, some full-title in PDF format; individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, some full-title in PDF format; individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: Responsive display on mobile devices; PDF and EPUB can be viewed on various mobile devices and e-readers

eBook platform: JSTOR e-books

Subject areas: Humanities, and Social Sciences

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

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eBook platform: O'Reilly - Safari

Subject areas: IT networking, Project Management, Graphic Design and Business Strategy.

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: HTML

Download: No

Printing: Usually limited to one page at a time

Do I need to create a separate account? Login with your HKBU SSOid to automatically create a personalized account on the O'Reilly platform

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: Ovid e-books

Subject areas: Chinese medicine

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, one chapter in PDF format at a time

Printing: Yes, one chapter in PDF format at a time

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: Oxford Academic (Oxford Scholarship Online)

Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Medicine, Law

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: Tutorial video

eBook platform: Peter Lang

Subject areas: Humanities and Social Sciences

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF and EPUB

Download: Yes, full-title in EPUB format; individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: ProQuest Ebook Central (formerly 'ebrary")

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Varies from 1 user to unlimited simultaneous users

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes. Partial Download: 30% of the title in PDF format

Printing: Yes, printing limits vary from title to title

Do I need to create a separate account? No, but you can create a personal account, sign in to download, highlight and annotate documents, take notes, save favorites, create folders on the personal bookshelf.

Remarks: User guide.  Tutorial videos.  A small number of titles allow for a full download for a 7-day loan. However, this requires you to install Adobe Digital Editions.

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eBook platform: ScienceDirect ebooks

Subject areas: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF, HTML or EPUB

Download: Yes, full-title in PDF format, individual chapters in PDF, EPUB, or MobiPocket

Printing: Yes

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: PDF, EPUB, and MobiPocket can be viewed on various mobile devices and e-readers

eBook platform: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics e-books

Subject areas: Applied Mathematics, Computational Science, Engineering, Discrete Mathematics, Design and Control, Mathematical Modelling and Computation, Optimization, Statistics and Applied probability, Software Environments and Tools

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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eBook platform: Springer Link e-books

Subject areas: Computer Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Engineering, Medicine & Public Health, and Education

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, full-title in PDF format; individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, full-title in PDF format; individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: Tutorial video , not subscription all titles

eBook platform: Taylor & Francis eBooks

Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment and Law

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, full-title in PDF format; individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, full-title in PDF format; individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

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eBook platform: Wiley Online Library

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: Tutorial video

eBook platform: World Scientific eBooks 

Subject areas: Asian Studies, Business and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Finance, Engineering, Environmental Science, General Interest, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine and Health, Nanotechnology, Nonlinear Science, Physics, and Social Sciences

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF or HTML

Download: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Printing: Yes, individual chapters in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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eBook platform: iRead eBooks 華藝電子書 (formerly "AiritiBooks 華藝中文電子書")

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Each e-book title supports 7 concurrent users (3 for online reading, 4 for download reading)

Formats available: Default plug-in eBook Viewer compatible with most web browsers

Download: Yes, full-title download only (3-day loan; maximum of 4 titles)

Printing: Yes, the Printing limit based on an institutional quota. It will be indicated on the specific title.

Do I need to create a separate account? Yes, users require to create a personal Airiti Books account and install the iRead eBook for offline reading

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: HyRead ebook

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: 1 user to 3 users

Formats available: Default plug-in eBook Viewer compatible with most web browsers

Download: Yes, full-title download only (7-day loan; maximum of 5 titles) and requires the HyRead PC Reader for offline reading

Printing: No

Do I need to create a separate account? Yes, requires you to log in with your HKBU SSOiD

Remarks: User guide.  Mobile compatible via the HyRead 3 mobile app on both Android and iOS

eBook platform: 瀚文民國書庫

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: Default plug-in eBook Viewer compatible with most web browsers

Download: Yes, 5,000 pages per day institution-wide

Printing: No

Do I need to create a separate account? No 

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eBook platform: Chinamaxx超星數字圖書館

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: Default plug-in eBook Viewer compatible with most web browsers

Download: No

Printing: Yes, printing limit is 5 pages per title 

Do I need to create a separate account? No

Remarks: User guide

eBook platform: Ovid e-books 中文

Subject areas: Chinese Medicine

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: Default plug-in eBook Viewer compatible with most web browsers

Download: Yes, one chapter in text or EPUB format

Printing: Yes, one chapter in text or EPUB format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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eBook platform: CNKI ebooks

Subject areas: Chinese Medicine

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: Default plug-in eBook Viewer compatible with most web browsers or PDF

Download: Yes, full-title in PDF format

Printing: Yes

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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eBook platform:  CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library) 大學數字圖書館合作計劃 [on-campus access only]

Subject areas: Multidisciplinary

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: Default plug-in eBook Viewer compatible with most web browsers

Download: No

Printing: No

Do I need to create a separate account? Yes, a personal CADAL account is required to check out

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eBook platform: 中國經濟社會大數據研究平台

Subject areas: Chinese yearbooks

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF

Download: Yes, one section in PDF format

Printing: Yes, one section in PDF format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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eBook platform: 中國工具書網絡出版總庫 

Subject areas: Chinese statistical yearbooks

Simultaneous user: Unlimited

Formats available: PDF

Download: Yes, one chapter in PDF or Excel format

Printing: Yes, one chapter in PDF or Excel format

Do I need to create a separate account? No

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