You have access to thousands of online books. Our ebooks are hosted by external platforms such as VLeBooks, Ebook Central, Taylor & Francis and O'Reilly Online Learning.
You can search across all of our ebooks using the search box below.
Publishers decide whether to make individual titles available as ebooks for libraries to purchase, and how much to charge. Libraries cannot buy 'direct to consumer' ebooks, such as Kindle ones.
What you can do with an ebook varies depending on the platform, and the licence we own. There may be restrictions on copying text, printing or downloading chapters, or downloading whole ebooks.
Ebooks are protected by copyright, so usually you cannot give downloaded content to someone else, or upload it online.
Some ebooks have limits on how many people can use them at the same time.
If you see a message saying the ebook is in use, please try accessing it again in ten minutes or so - or the platform may let you 'reserve' it, and send you an email alert when the ebook is available.
You may see a 'Preview' button on some ebooks on the VLeBooks platform. These ebooks will be automatically purchased only if they are used.
Click 'Preview' to access the whole ebook. After five minutes, a pop-up will appear, asking if you want to 'Request Access'. If you do, the ebook is purchased behind the scenes, and when you next access it, you will see 'Read Online' instead of 'Preview'.
We recommend accessing ebooks via Moodle or this guide. These routes should tell the platform that you are from Leeds Trinity University, and so are allowed to use ebooks that the Library has purchased.
If you can't access an ebook, close your browser and re-open it, then search for the ebook using the search box above, click through to the platform and see if you can access it.
If you still can't access it, please contact us giving the title of the ebook, and a description of the problem. Include error messages and screenshots if possible.