An E-book is a book (full-text) in digital format. E-books at UB can be read on any computer or laptop. A special device (like Kindle or SONY Reader) is NOT needed.

E-books are produced by governments, organizations, companies, educational organizations, or they are books made available through a commercial publisher or database.

It is possible to download some E-Books to a device.

See Selected Downloadable "E-Book" Collections for guidance.

Some of the commercial databases whose E-books are findable through the UB Catalog include:

• Bloomberg BNA - legal looseleaf services & other publications
• Early American Imprints I
• ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online – Law Module
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (includes many encyclopedias)
• Hathi Trust Digital Library
• HeinOnline -American Indian Law Collection, New York Legal Research Library, Legal Classics Library, and others (but not all)
• LEXIS Treatises (available to law students & faculty only)
• LLMC Digital
• Oxford Scholarship Online  - Law Collection(only some show up in the UB Catalog due to updating schedule)
• ProQuest Congressional - Congressional documents in pdf format
• Westlaw Treatises (available to law students & faculty only)
• AND MANY MORE!

Note: The Libraries' Catalog may not completely represent the E-Books in these databases at any given time-- the databases are continually updated, and the Catalog records do not appear in the Online Catalog immediately.

Do all E-books in UB databases show up in the Libraries' Catalog?

No. There are some databases at UB whose E-Books are not findable in the UB Catalog at this point in time.  They include:

• AILA Link (immigration law resources)
• Early English Books Online
• HeinOnline - Selected materials not included in our Online Catalog
• AND OTHERS

 So, it is necessary to search these databases separately to discover the E-Books they contain.

Additional EBooks available at UB (but not all) may be found using the Discovery Tool, "Everything": 

Everything Search (locate books, e-books, articles, and more)

Are there other E-book resources?

YES! For the some of the resources listed above, you need to be affiliated with UB to access the E-books. But there are MANY additional E-book resources that are FREE to anyone, from anywhere! They include:

• Google Book Search
• Internet Archive (texts & E-books)
  • Internet Archive Advanced Search
• E-Books on the Web MultiSearcher (searches multiple E-book sources with one search)