All ebooks to which the library provides access are discoverable in the library's catalog, OneSearch. Many scholarly Open Access ebook collections are also indexed in OneSearch.
The following search will bring up only ebooks.
Broome Library provides access to more than 500,000 ebooks from across academic disciplines through our catalog, OneSearch.
This guide explains the varieties of ebooks, how to access them, and how they can be used in research and learning.
Ebooks are published in a wide variety of models which greatly determine what users can do with them.
Ebook models affect:
Publishers, due to copyright and piracy concerns, will often only release popular book titles as ebooks with Digital Rights Management (software which applies various restrictions on their use).
Broome Library policy is to prefer unlimited-user DRM-free ebooks, the least restrictive and most user-friendly model, if available. PDF downloads of DRM-free ebooks can be retained by the user.