E-books collections (Selection)
In English and other languages
Cambridge University Press
E-books from all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Wiley Online Library
Humanities and social science reference works and handbooks including Blackwell Handbooks.
Elgar
E-books on economics and business administration.
Taylor & Francis
E-books on law, political science and social sciences.
Bloomsbury
E-books from all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Ebook Central
E-books by various publishers on a variety of subjects.
► Generally speaking, up to 40% of the books are free to download.
Brill
E-books from all fields of the humanities and social sciences, main emphasis theology.
Elsevier Reference Works
A selection of reference works and handbooks on the humanities and social sciences.
Gale EBOOKS
Religious studies, philosophy and humanities encyclopedias.
HeinOnline
U.S. law database, e.g. e-books, law, judgment collections and materials collections.
Oxford University Press: Reference Online
Lexica and dictionaries from all fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
Oxford University Press: Scholarship Online
E-books from all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Open-Access Text Archive
A collection of freely available online texts. In addition, the Internet Archive also provides access to film and audio materials, software and various resources on education and development.
Open Book Publishers
Open access monographs in HTML; also available as PDFs within the ZHB Uni/PH network.
Overdrive / E-Books-Switzerland
Lending portal for English-language fiction and non-fiction books.
In German
DeGruyter
E-books by De Gruyter, including imprints (Birkhäuser und Oldenbourg) und publishing partners (transcript, Duke University Press, Harvard University Press, e.g.).
beck-online
German legal database of laws, books, journals, case law, forms and study aids in full text.
Content Select
E-books by publishers including Beltz, Campus, Klett-Cotta, Kohlhammer, Lambertus, Suhrkamp und Waxmann.
Mohr Siebeck
E-books on law.
Duncker und Humblot
E-books on law, social sciences and economics, political science and philosophy.
Nomos Elibrary
E-books on law, political science and social sciences.
Peter Lang
E-books from all fields of the humanities and social sciences, main emphasis law.
Springer Link
E-books by the Springer publishing group, covering the humanities, social science, law, psychology and economics.
utb elibrary
Access to UTB textbooks and introductions covering all subjects.
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
E-books on theology, religious studies and Jewish studies.
Wiso Wissenschaften: E-Books
E-books by Deutscher Fachverlag (dfv), Haufe, Hampp and Gabal; covers marketing, organization, human resources, law, sociology, economics and business psychology.
Economics e-books by Vahlen, UVK and Schäffer-Poeschel and Haufe.
DiBiZentral
Lending portal e.g. for e-books (fiction and non-fiction), e-papers and e-audiobooks. This collection is run in cooperation with other libraries in Central Switzerland.