You can read thousands of ebooks in the sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts, and the humanities through the UC San Diego Library. Use this guide to learn more about our major collections, the best ways to search for ebooks, how to access on mobile devices, and how to save, copy, and print from ebooks.
To access ebooks from off campus, please use the AnyConnect VPN client. Download the software for your operating system (OS, Windows 10, etc), then login with your email username (without the @ucsd.edu) and password. Make sure the Group setting is on 2-Step Secured - althruucsd
For a list of online resources that vendors and publishers have made available this quarter due to COVID-19: https://ucsd.libguides.com/tempaccess.
What you'll find in this guide:
- How to find ebooks using the UCSD Library catalog, Roger, plus the advantages and disadvantages of using Roger to locate ebooks vs. ebook searching from the publishers' websites.
- How to cite ebooks.
- More information about reading, saving, and downloading ebooks on the ProQuest Ebook Central and EBSCO platforms.
- How to read and download ebooks to computers and mobile devices.
- Overview of the major ebook collections available at UCSD.
- Major collections by discipline or subject area.
- Information on troubleshooting ebook problems, and who to contact for more assistance.
Other libraries are welcome to reuse the content on this guide, no credit needed. But you're welcome to drop us an email that you are reusing it.
Recommend a Purchase
We welcome purchase recommendations (print and ebooks) from all library users with a UCSD email account.
If you want to recommend the ebook version of a title, please indicate on the request form.