{"id":8,"date":"2020-09-08T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:36:07","slug":"e-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/e-books\/","title":{"rendered":"E-books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of individual ebook titles can be accessed via <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.kent.ac.uk\/client\/en_GB\/kent\">LibrarySearch<\/a> to filter your search use the ebooks filter on the left.<\/p>\n<p>The library has access to <a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/www.bloomsburyarchitecturelibrary.com\/\">Bloomsbury Architecture Library<\/a>. This resource has a wide selection of works on architecture and design and related disciplines including urbanism, landscape and interiors.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes access to the new edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www-bloomsburyvisualarts-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/encyclopedia-work?docid=BAL_reference_SBF\"><em>Sir Banister Fletcher\u2019s Global History of Architecture <\/em><\/a>in two volumes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www-bloomsburyvisualarts-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/encyclopedia-work?docid=BAL_reference_SBF\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-137\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/files\/2025\/01\/Architecture-ebooks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"351\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Log in link for<a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/www.bloomsburyarchitecturelibrary.com\/\"> Bloomsbury Architecture Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RIBA and Routledge ebooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We also have a collection of ebooks available to read online and download through the database called Construction Information Service (CIS).\u00a0 The two main publishers included in this database are Routledge and RIBA (over 850 titles).\u00a0 To access CIS, go to the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/online-resources\/\"> \u2018Online resources\u2019 link<\/a> which you can find at the top of the homepage.\u00a0 Once logged in, you can use the search box to look for an individual title or use \u2018Browse\u2019 (by Publisher) on the left of the page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference ebooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordartonline.com\">Grove Art Online \u2013 available via Oxford Art Online<\/a> is an authority on all aspects of the visual arts including artists, architects, designers, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations and periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of individual ebook titles can be accessed via LibrarySearch to filter your search use the ebooks filter on the left. The library has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/e-books\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/architecture-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}