MA HiLi Reid Hall: E-Books at Columbia

The below databases include full-text e-book collections- these e-books are fully accessible to you in Paris and most are downloadable onto the device of your choice. The majority of these are interdisciplinary and include materials in various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. I've included brief descriptions for some that would be of particular interest in relation to history and history.

• Gallica (E-books and so much more. A digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science.)
• ProQuest EBook Central
• EBSCOHost
• Project MUSE (Great resource for contemporary English-language scholarship in the humanities/social sciences; added bonus that you can download whole e-books or just chapters as PDFs)
• Oxford Scholarship Online (E-books published by Oxford University Press and other American university presses; again, we don't have everything on here but certainly the vast majority)
• Cambridge Books Online (Scholarly e-books published by Cambridge University Press; we don't have access to every single book on the platform but we do have quite a lot...)
• Torrossa (Italian e-books)
• Cairn.info (Comprehensive database of contemporary Francophone scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; the first place to go for French-language research)
• Digitalia hispanica (Thousands of e-books from Spanish and Latin American publishers; primarily Spanish-language but some English content)
• Revues.org (Francophone academic journals and e-books; much is available openly but Columbia pays to have a broader range of content)
• ACLS Humanities E-books (e-books published by/for American Council of Learned Societies; lots of history content; mostly university press publications)
• SpringerLink (includes Macmillan and other major humanities publishers)
• Wiley Online Library