Library Guides: HSP M 634: Theory and Research Seminar in Event Management: e-Book & e-Reference Materials

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E-book Platforms

EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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.

Business Expert Press
“Provides concise applied content in all areas of business. The collection has over 1,100 titles covering the fundamental themes and functions of business….There are books applicable to everyone (Portfolio and Project Management; Communication), and to specific fields – Big Data; quantitative decision making; public relations; sports marketing; retail; and, tourism and hospitality.”

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary e-book collection many subject areas including Anthropology, Business & Economics, Education, Fine Arts, History, Language & Literature, Law, Psychology, Religion, and Social Sciences.
O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
This collection of ebooks is focused primarily on computing and technology subjects. But it also has a robust amount of titles spanning many other disciplines.
Please note that this resource is not available to members of the public visiting Parks Library.
Springer e-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
SpringerLink provides full-text access to books published by Springer. Non-subscribed titles are identified by locked padlock symbol.
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.

Irish Studies Online
"offers over 100 ebook volumes including the following series: Reappraisals in Irish History, Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature, Clemson University Press, Writers and their Work, Eighteenth-Century Worlds, and Liverpool English Texts and Studies."

Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley is one of the world's largest scholarly publishers. You can access ISU’s subscription journals and purchased ebooks, as well as open access publications, through the Wiley Online Library.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
This e-book collection contains numerous encyclopedias and handbooks for the following areas: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, General Reference, History, Information and Publishing, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, & Technology.

Online Reference Databases

Credo Reference: Academic Core Collection This link opens in a new window
This is a good starting place for term papers - to get a basic overview of almost any topic. It also includes short videos and high-resolution art images across all subject areas. Results link out to content in other databases provided by the ISU Library.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Reference source especially strong in the arts and humanities; also covers science, technology, and social/behavioral sciences.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
This e-book collection contains numerous encyclopedias and handbooks for the following areas: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, General Reference, History, Information and Publishing, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, & Technology.
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new window
Data holdings contain 6,000 studies and 500,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as: public opinion polls, survey of mass and elite attitudes, election returns, legislative records, census records, international financial statistics, income dynamics and social welfare program participation.

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Some Open Access Book Platforms

Knowledge Unlatched
"...makes scholarly content freely available to everyone and contributes to the further development of the Open Access infrastructure."
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides an easy-to-use interface for locating and evaluating OER. Along with peer-reviewed textbooks, the OTL provides reviews from faculty who have adopted their texts for courses.
Luminos
"Luminos is University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared."
OASIS
An integrated search tool by SUNY. Contains over 300,000 records
Direct to Open (D2O) - MIT
"D2O harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship."
University of Michigan Press eBook Collection
University of Michigan Press eBook collection filtered by Open Access.
Bloomsbury Collection (Open Access)
Covers many disciplines. Use the subject filter to browse and access titles.
OER Metafinder
"The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) links to a wide array of open content, including open access books and articles"
Directory of Open Access Books (doab)
"The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books .... The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards"
OER Commons
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons currently includes open educational materials in broad subject areas. Materials include lesson plans, textbooks, activities, assessments, readings, and more.

JSTOR: Open Content This link opens in a new window
This is a subset of the full JSTOR collection, limited to content found in the JSTOR Open Collection. It is primarily a collection of book chapters, but it also contains several thousand freely-accessible journal articles.

Open Book Publishers
"Our books are published in hardback, paperback and ebook editions, but we also publish free online editions of every title in PDF, HTML and XML formats that can be read via our website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere."
WAC Clearinghouse (Books & Journals)
"The WAC Clearinghouse is an open-access, educational website supported by more than 150 contributors, institutional sponsors, and the Colorado State University Open Press as well as more than 180 volunteer editors, editorial staff members, reviewers, and editorial board members."
Google Books
You can also use Google Books to look for free online books or sale copies of e-books. Non-copyrighted materials are the obvious strength of their collections.