During the coming months, you have access to 40,000 extra e-books from three prominent, high quality academic publishers: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Elsevier (via ScienceDirect).

They are available to all Kent students and staff.

Discover and use them for seminar preparation, essays or research. They’re easy to use and download on PCs, laptops and tablets.

To see what’s available, go to the e-book collections page on the Library website.

These e-books are also all in LibrarySearch just do your normal search for a topic and these extra titles will come up.

To narrow your search to e-books, you can set the filters on the right to Full Text Online (at the top) and Books (under resource type).

What happens in August?

The Library will buy the e-books that you used the most from these collections (around 2,000 of them) and they will become a permanent part of the Library e-book provision.

This is a new way of buying e-books that we are trying out. It puts you, our students and staff, directly in charge of selecting what e-books we buy, based on your reading patterns.