Guides: eBooks & Audiobooks: eBooks

Purchased Collections

Explore ebooks available exclusively to Gordon students, faculty, and staff.

Children's eBooks & Audiobooks from OverDrive
Download children's audiobooks and eBooks including fiction, non-fiction, comic books, graphic novels, and more.
Audiobooks & eBooks from OverDrive
Download audiobooks and ebooks including fiction and nonfiction for adults, teens and children. Login with your library barcode (the number on the back of your Gordon ID) and password.
eBooks on EBSCO
Ebook titles in subject areas such as art, business and economics, literary criticism, mathematics, performing arts, philosophy, political science, religion, science, social science and more.

Free Online Collections

Early English Books Online
A collection of 25,000 free early English books including texts from Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Milton. This collection is made available through the University of Michigan Library, the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries, and ProQuest.
OAIster
Over 23 million digital resources from 1,100 open-archive collections worldwide. OIAster contains books, journal articles, newspapers, manuscripts, audio, video, images, data sets (downloadable statistical information), theses and research papers.
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
Academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access.
Free Computer Books
Free online computer, programming, mathematics, engineering, and technical books.
Google Books
Google Books helps you search within and discover books. Google is working with several major libraries to scan their collections into Google Books. When you find a book that's still under copyright, you'll see only a small portion of the book. If a book is out of copyright or the publisher has given Google permission, you'll be able to see the entire text and may download a PDF copy. In advanced book search, you can limit your search to titles in which you can view the entire text.
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
Free digital library of children's books from around the world in 54 languages.

Internet Archives: Text This link opens in a new window
A collection of open access texts including scanned books from libraries, children's literature, and projects such as The Million Book Project and Project Gutenberg. The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library offering permanent access to many historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in their collections.
Literature Network This link opens in a new window
Searchable online literature, including over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database contains over 8500 quotes.

ManyBooks.net
More than 25,900 ebooks are available free from this site. For each title you select, you can choose from more than 20 different download formats. There are book reviews written by users, recommendations, a new titles list, and the most popular ebooks of the year.
Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative
The mission of The Ohio State University Press is to disseminate the best scholarship as widely as possible. Towards that end, we are making the complete texts of certain books available from our website. You will need the free Adobe Reader or some other PDF-enabled program to read the text.

Online Books Page This link opens in a new window
Over 35,000 free online books and journals. The page was created by a librarian at the University of Pennsylvania and contains publications that are significant and stable. You can search the list by title or author.

Open Library
Open library is an project of the non-profit Internet Archive. Limit your search to ebooks to read books online. Some titles are free, while others may be checked out or purchased from a bookstore.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg started in 1971 and it is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books. The project continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies. You can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device. Their focus is on books previously published on paper and digitized with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Standard Ebooks
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.

Local Library Access

There are many other libraries within the area that can aid you in your research. Search these libraries to find even more resources for your research.

Boston Public Library
All Massachusetts residents can register for a BPL ecard to access all of Boston Public Libraries resources! Once you sign up for a BPL eCard you can access some of their public databases for further research.
Hamilton Wenham Public Library
Gordon College students must come to the Hamilton Wenham Library in person, with both their student ID and a second form of photo ID, to sign up for a library card.
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
NOBLE (North of Boston Library Exchange)
You can get materials delivered from any NOBLE Library and pick them up at Jenks Library! Just change your search location from Gordon College to NOBLE (All Libraries) and place a hold on materials you want.
Commonwealth Catalog
Through the Commonwealth Catalog you can request book deliveries from libraries throughout Massachusetts.
CLAMS
All Massachusetts residents can register for a 6-month CLAMS ecard.
Minuteman Library Network
All Massachusetts residents can sign up for an ecard for Minuteman Library Network.