Looking for electronic access to a specific book while the library is online only? Complete our e-book search request form. We will search for an electronic copy of the requested book and let you know as soon as we have completed a thorough search. We try to respond within a few business days. Please note, however, that not every print book has an electronic equivalent.
Lists of content opened due to COVID-19
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Public Books DatabaseWith universities and libraries shuttered because of the COVID-19 crisis. In response, many academic presses have made hundreds of their titles freely accessible online. The Public Books Database aims to list such resources in a single location. The list will be updated regularly as materials are made available.
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Publisher Access Changes, COVID-19Community list of resources opened for COVID-19, continually updated.
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UP Social Distancing CollaborationThe University Press community is opening a wide variety of resources, books, and journals to support student learning and scholarly research in these difficult time. More than 80 publishers have contributed information about those open or free access materials here. This list is maintained by the UP network on Humanities Commons, a MLA platform for open access scholarship in the humanities.
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E-Resources Temporarily Available During COVID-19Temporarily accessible resources that have been added to the A-Z Databases list. We have set up access to these resources for the GC community, including those that require a university affiliation.
Electronic Books at the New York Public Library
Many of NYPL's Articles & Databases include electronic texts--see each collection's description for full details. Search the NYPL catalog if you have a particular title in mind to search across collections.
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New York Public Library Electronic BooksThousands of electronic books, including many scholarly titles, are available from the New York Public Library.
Audiobooks
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LibriVoxLibriVox is a crowd sourced project in which volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then release the audio files through their website without restrictions. All LibriVox audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish.
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Overdrive via the New York Public LibraryLog in with your New York Public Library credentials to access movies, video, audiobooks, and e-books via this third-party app for use with a wide variety of e-readers including Kindle, portable devices, PCs, and Macs.
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AudioBookCloud via the New York Public LibraryLog in with your New York Public Library credentials to listen online to audio books in many different categories: fiction, non-fiction, classics and Spanish language. There are 1,000 books in the collection. These books are always available, never on hold, and no need to download.
Quick Tips about GC Ebooks
- Find most CUNY and Graduate Center eBooks in OneSearch, with links to the full text.
- Some ebooks are licensed for CUNY-wide use; others are licensed only to invididual CUNY campuses
- Graduate Center students and faculty do not have access to ebooks owned by other campuses.
- Printing and downloading is often prohibited or limited by ebook vendors, and may vary by platform or publisher.
- See also our tips for locating e-books blog post.
- If there’s an e-book you can’t find, complete our e-book search request form, or try Interlibrary Loan (ILL):
- Requests for chapters of books are often sent as electronic files through Interlibrary Loan, whereas whole ebooks are often not available via ILL due to licensing and digital restrictions of library ebooks. Try a request for a chapter or section!