E-books

The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. Many out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from the world’s finest academic and museum publishers are available as eBooks on this site. The site also allows for discovering content by image.

Large collection of e-books. Topics include history, archaeology, area studies, art, folklore, literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion, and women's studies. Individual titles are listed in Virgo.

Full books and chapters from APA books, classic books published by others, and the full electronic release of the Encyclopedia of Psychology. New books are added each month.

Publications from 1840 to 1949 witnessed the radical changes of Chinese society from politics, economy, culture, education and other aspects, which are considered valuable historically and academically.
Among the 120,000 books collected in Books of Modern China (1840~1949), many are rare books, such as first editions of famous writers’ books.

Each of the several hundred Cambridge Companions is a collection of introductory essays on aspects of a writer, artist, philosopher, religious thinker, cultural topic or period.

Cambridge Core is the home of academic content from Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Core is the place to find valuable, useful and inspirational research and academic information. With over 1.6 million journal articles and 36,000+ books, Cambridge Core is the central destination for academic research. We recommend checking the option to search 'Only search content I have access to' for access to full-text content. (Below main search box).

Classiques Garnier Numérique offers online access to databases in the fields of literature and the humanities. Access is available to the following eBook collections: French literature, Francophone literatures, Comparative literature, Foreign Literature, and Minard Modern Literature. The Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionary of Old French Language (9th to 15th century) is also available.

Searchable full-text of hundreds of reference handbooks in engineering, chemistry, biology, medicine, technology and the environment.

Search for ebooks by title, author, keyword, subject, publisher, ISBN, DOI, or full text.

Search the full-text of books printed in Arabic script, English, European and Asian translations (1475–1900) in all subjects.

Over 140,000 recent e-books from university presses and other scholarly publishers. Individual titles are listed in Virgo.
Includes Every Voice: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion collection.

Electronic books by university presses and other scholarly publishers, as well as a collection of older titles by major authors. Individual titles are listed in Virgo.
Requires both Ebsco and Adobe Digital Editions accounts.

Every significant work published in English from 1475 to 1700. Searchable text and page images of books, pamphlets, prayer books, proclamations, almanacs, calendars,etc. in all subjects. See also Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800.

HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository which provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, totaling nearly 11 million titles. All users can view the content online, but only UVa-affiliated researchers can download titles for offline use.

JSTOR provides access to millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. The Archive Journal Collection is included.
API available, more information here: APIs for Scholarly Research

Handbooks and other information on chemistry and engineering. Topics include textiles, adhesives, metals, plastics, and other materials; biotechnology; food science; pharmaceuticals; industrial safety; aerospace; and most areas of engineering. Individual titles are listed in Virgo.

O’Reilly includes tech and business content from more than 250 publishers - along with videos, case studies, expert-curated learning paths and self-assessments.
From the drop-down menu, choose: Not listed? Click here. Then enter UVa email address to access content.
Instructors: If you are using books on O’Reilly as course textbooks, please be aware that O’Reilly can and does pull titles mid-semester without notice to the Library.

Oxford Academic is the home for Oxford University Press’s research books and journals. The platform also includes Oxford Scholarship Online, University Press Scholarship Online, Very Short Introductions, and Oxford Handbooks Online.

Oxford Handbooks Online brings together leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a range of major topics. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. The articles review the key issues and major debates, and provide an original argument for how those debates might evolve. UVa has access to all subjects.

A large collection of basic information on many subjects drawn from reference books published by Oxford University Press.

Recent books published by Oxford University Press. Individual titles are listed in Virgo. The Library has these browsable subject collections: Economics and Finance, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Access to pre-2015 content is limited to 5 simultaneous users, everything else is unlimited.

Full-text e-books of classic works in philosophy, religion, and literature.

Project MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and more than 90,000 books covering the humanities and social sciences from nearly 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers.

Provides access to thousands of eBook and eReference titles, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, and professional development titles.

Full text of articles from most journals and some book series published by Elsevier Science.
API available, more information here: APIs for Scholarly Research

Searchable full-text of journals and ebooks published by Springer and its subsidiaries such as Physica and Birkhäuser in chemistry, geosciences, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, engineering, ecology, law, and economics.
API available, more information here: APIs for Scholarly Research

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese books in all categories are scanned, many provided online for free. Especially valuable are numerous titles in local histories (地方志) throughout the country.

Taylorfrancis.com is a single destination platform for all academic e-book content from Taylor & Francis, Routledge, and CRC Press.

Full text of ca. 600 books on the lives and works of U.S. and international authors. Recommended books and articles.