What is an "Electronic Book"?
An e-book is a book published in digital format for reading on electronic devices such as e-readers, computers, tablets, and mobile phones. It is available in ePub, PDF and Mobipocket formats.
The Hellenic Open University (HOU) Library provides access to the following electronic resources:
• ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete και Ebook Central University Press Collections: These two collections comprise 215,673 academic e-books covering a variety of subjects, and can be accessed by an unlimited number of users. Most of these books can be downloaded in full via Ebook Central, ProQuest's new e-book hosting platform. Copy and print rights on Ebook Central are as follows: each user can copy or print a certain percentage of any book's pages per day. The percentage of pages that can be copied or printed varies depending on the title. Copying and printing by one user within a single day does not affect the copying and printing limits for the same book by other users. For access instructions, click here..
Electronic Books of the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (Heal-Link):Provides access to over 215,000 electronic book titles from leading international publishers, including Wiley, Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, and Taylor & Francis. The collection covers a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines and can be accessed simultaneously by an unlimited number of users. Users can download / print chapters or entire books in PDF format for personal use.
1,447 electronic book titles purchased by HOU are available to search for in the Library Catalogue (OPAC) using the keyword "electronic book".
Open Edition Books : 31 e-books in the humanities, in French and English, purchased by the HOU. To access these e-books, please click here. Open access is also available to a further 9,106 e-books in the Humanities and Social sciences. Click on "Hellenic Open University access" to view the subsequent two sections. The first section contains 8,462 titles that can be read online. The second contains 644 titles that can be read online or downloaded as an ePub or PDF file.
3,451 electronic books are offered for free by EBSCO Information Services and can be accessed by searching for FB Y.
You can search for all the e-books available via the library's federated search service. The Summon Discovery Service, a ProQuest search tool, allows you to search all the electronic journals, e-books and bibliographic and full-text databases included in the Hellenic Open University's subscriptions. It also searches all digital resources from the HEALink consortium of Hellenic academic libraries, as well as open-access material.
Please note that e-books can be accessed using the username and password provided to members of the HOU academic community for digital educational services. Further information can be found in the General Access Guide to E-Books and the Summon Discovery Federated Search Service User Guide
Printing and Copying
Please note that electronic books are protected by international copyright law. Excessive printing or copyright infringement will result in warnings for both the user and the library, and serious penalties may be imposed.
Finally, for freely available material to the general public, please visit the Freely Accessible Electronic Material page.