Includes books selected by the ISU library for permanent purchase as well as books from a rotating collection. Some books have unlimited users and others may only be accessed by 1 user at a time. Click on the book title to see how many users it allows.
This collection of ebooks is focused primarily on computing and technology subjects as well as a small collection of personal and professional development books.
Please note that this resource is not available to members of the public visiting Parks Library.
SpringerLink provides full-text access to ebooks published by Springer. Non-subscribed titles are identified by locked padlock symbol. Springer e-Book Collection tutorial
Researchers can purchase access to locked content, but we recommend you place an Interlibrary Loan request for these items as we can usually supply copies of them to you for no charge within 24-48 hours.
Any current ISU student, staff, faculty member or holder of the ISU Library Visitor's Card can request materials from other libraries from Interlibrary Loan, or ILL (say it "eye-ell-ell").
A library meta-catalog; ~90% of all U.S. libraries submit their collection records to WorldCat. FirstSearch is a more nuanced and higher quality search engine than the free WorldCat.org version.
This is the version of WorldCat.org with ISU login enabled to provide interlibrary loan and full text links. Use WorldCat to learn which libraries have an item, by searching across thousands of libraries at once.
