Broome Library provides access to more than a million ebooks from across academic disciplines through our catalog, OneSearch.
This guide explains varieties of ebooks, how to access them, and how they can be used in research and learning, via the menu tabs on the left.
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Ebooks are published in a wide variety of different types 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.
Most eBook platforms offer built-in tools that make it easy to obtain citations formatted to the most commonly used styles. However, machine-generated citations should always be carefully checked for accuracy. For help checking your citation for accuracy, see our Library Citation Style Guide and the Writing and Multiliteracy Center's Citation Resources.