E-books

You can access all our e-books from home with the help of your student log in. You do not need a library card.

You can read an e-book online. Sometimes you can also download an e-book and read it offline. The possibility of downloading and the loan period time vary. To download an e-book, you will need to create an e-book account in the specific database which contain the e-book. When the loan period has expired, you will not be able to open the file, so you will need to download the e-book again.

To be able to read a downloaded e-book, you will need Adobe Digital Editions for computers and Aldiko or Bluefire reader for mobiles and tablets.

• Adobe Digital Edition (external link)
• Aldiko (external link)
• Bluefire reader (external link)

To search for the university library's e-books, you will need to use Libsearch (external link). If you already have a title or author of the book you are looking for, use these as search words. If, on the other hand, you want to see which e-books the university has, you can go to the search box on the library's website, press the Search button. You then filter the hit list through Material Types and choose e-books.

Depending on the type of borrowing licence the e-book has, the number of people who can borrow a book simultaneously can vary between one to an unlimited number of borrowers. This information is often available in the information concerning the e-book in Libsearch. If you have questions, please contact the library for assistance.

Sometimes it is possible to print out a limited amount of an e-book for your own personal use. You will find more information on Libsearch's page about the e-book or at the publisher's website.

Depending on which supplier the e-book comes from, there may be an option to listen to the e-book directly in the browser. Note that not all suppliers offer the possibility to listen to an e-book.

You can also listen to e-books using the program TorTalk. TorTalk is a text-to-speech software, and you can download the program from the TorTalk website. To use TorTalk, you need an activation code, which you can obtain by filling out the activation code form for TorTalk in the Student Portal.