Textbook Alternatives & Open Educational Resources (OER): E-books

You can add a link to a library e-book to your Canvas course site or share it with your students.  All of our e-books will have a record in Miami University Libraries Search.  If you were interested in having students read from the e-book Exoplanets: hidden worlds and the quest for extraterrestrial life, you could add the Permalink to its location in Miami University Libraries Search by capturing the link highlighted in orange below. Students will be prompted to enter their Unique ID and password when accessing the title.

The Miami University Libraries Search includes thousands of e-books. Here's how to find them:

Search By: Keyword 

To See Only Ebooks: Below the search blank with your keyword, click the option for "Books."

Then after you run the search for books on your topic, click the box next to "Available online" (circled in orange in the screenshot) in the "Filter Your  Results" menu on the left-hand side of the page. Be sure to click "Apply filters" at the bottom of that column. You may also use other filters, such as the Publication Date, to narrow your search.

Click on the title of an item to find out more information about that item and to get the citation for that item. To find the citation, click on "Citation." Then choose the citation style you would like to use. Clicking "Copy citation into clipboard" will let you paste the citation into another document. Always be sure to double-check your copied citations.