E-books can be accessed through the Archabbey Library’s online catalog. Once you have the results from your initial search, open the “Source type” dropdown menu and choose e-books. You can then click on the link below each item to access the e-book.
Another way to access e-books is directly through the publisher’s and provider’s websites. Archabbey Library provides e-books from Oxford, Cambridge, Proquest, JSTOR and Project MUSE, among others. Links to our e-book providers can be found here.
After you open a ProQuest e-book, you will notice that you have a lot of options. You can download the whole book for a few weeks, print a limited part of the book, download a PDF of a few chapters, or read the book directly online. When you download the whole book for a few weeks, you cannot print from the download and it disappears in a few weeks. Downloading chapters of the book gives you permanent files that you can keep forever and print later if you want to. Downloads of chapters are limited by pages (usually 40% of the book), but the limitation resets every day. You can download 40% of the book every day and have the whole book in a few days. So, downloading by way of PDF chapters is usually the preferred way to get the book on your computer or to get it printed.
If you have any trouble accessing Archabbey Library e-books please let us know at library@saintmeinrad.edu.