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Online Book Collections

Some of the books in CONSORT are available online, but you can search for additional ones in these collections:

Proquest Ebook Central (previously known as ebrary)
Collection of thousands of e-books on a wide range of academic subjects.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

Subject Areas: General

Ebrary, now known as Ebook Central, is a collection of e-books on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles with new titles added on an annual basis.

Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest.

To learn more about this database, view the ProQuest training videos and the Ebook Central LibGuide as well.

Format: Full Text Books
Dates of Coverage: Varies
Update Schedule: Regularly
Database Producer: Proquest
De Gruyter eBooks
eBooks from University Presses.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

Subject Areas: All

De Gruyter Online has access to:

- Berghahn Books (up to current)
- Columbia University Press (up to current)
- Cornell University Press (2018 only)
- Fordham/New York University (NYU) combined [NEW 2025] (up to current)
- Harvard University Press (up to current)
- Lynne Rienner Press (up to current)
- Princeton University Press (up to 2023)
- Rutgers University Press (up to 2022)
- Stanford University Press (up to current)
- State University of New York (SUNY) [NEW 2025] (up to current)
- University of California (up to current)
- University of Chicago (up to current)
- University of Hawaii Press (up to current)
- University of Pennsylvania Press (up to current)
- University of Texas Press (up to current)
- Yale University Press (up to current)

Additionally, they provide open access eBooks from various academic publishers.

Format: Full text ebooks
Dates of Coverage: 1650-current
Update Schedule: irregular
Database Producer: De Gruyter

National Academies Press
Freely accessible ebooks on diverse topics.
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The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academy of Sciences to publish the reports of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative information on important matters in science and health policy. The institutions served by the NAP are unique in their ability to attract leading experts in many fields to join panels and committees charged with providing policy advice on some of the nation’s most pressing scientific, technical, and health-related issues.

More than 5,000 titles are available to freely download as PDFs.

Format: eBooks
Deatabase Provider: The National Academies Press

Electronic Book Center
Thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your name and barcode (the back of your ID)

Subject Areas: Humanities, Science, Social Science

The Electronic Book Center contains thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The Electronic Center contains electronic books purchased by Ohio academic libraries from these publishers: ABC-CLIO, Gale, Oxford University Press, Sage, Springer, Wiley, Chadwyck-Healey, Oxford Scholarship Online, . Please note, some new ebooks are only added to the new platform .

Format: full text books
Database producer: varies
Oxford Scholarship Online
Full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press and partner presses, including both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences.
Off Campus Access: Use your Denison ID.

Subject Areas: Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion.

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press and partner presses.

Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Subject collections are available in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. New books are added regularly.

These books are also available through the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center, where they are searchable along with books from other publishers.

Partner presses with selected content available on the Oxford Scholarship Online platform include: University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, MIT Press, NYU Press, Princeton University Press, and Yale University Press, up till 2023.

Format: Full Text Books
Coverage: 1990 - Present
Database Producer: Oxford University Press.
Project Muse
Digital humanities and social sciences books and journals, from university presses and scholarly societies.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

Subject Areas: General

Project MUSE is an online archive of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. Project MUSE contains Open Access (OA) content. To see the title list of OA books and journals, click here.

Format: Full Text Journals and eBooks
Database Producer: Johns Hopkins University Press
Please Note: Project MUSE provides access to alumni as well as current members of the Denison community.
SpringerLink
An integrated full-text and abstract database for science journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series.
On Campus access only.

Subject Areas: Science, business

SpringerLink is an integrated full-text and abstract database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers 2,635 fully peer-reviewed journals and 46,083 books online.

Format: Full Text Books and Journals
Database Producer: Springer
Wiley Online Library
Multidisciplinary collection of full text online resources, covering life, health and physical sciences. Open padlock icon indicates full text access.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

Subject Areas: Science, General

This multidisciplinary collection of full text online resources published by John Wiley covers life, health and physical sciences. This collection indicates full text access by an open padlock icon.

Wiley Online Library includes scientific, technical, medical and professional journals as well as books, reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. In addition, all Blackwell Synergy electronic journals and backfiles have been merged into the Wiley InterScience collection.

Format: Ebooks and E-journals
Database Producer: Wiley

How to find ethnographies

Are you working on an assignment where you've been asked to find an ethnography? Denison's library catalog (CONSORT) has many such works, but they can be hard to find. This is because they typically aren't labeled as ethnographies in the catalog record.

So how to find ethnographies in CONSORT? One way is to search for a geographical area or group of people you're interested in, and then add "social life and customs" to your search.

In addition, you can search CONSORT for the following book series, which tend to include ethnographies:

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues (Cornell University Press)
Contemporary Ethnography (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Culture, Place and Nature (University of Washington Press)
Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium (University of Illinois Press)
Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

See What are the best ways to find ethnographies? for more tips.