E-books

E-books available through the Mundt Library to DSU students, staff, and faculty may be found by searching the Library Catalog or by searching individual e-book databases such as Ebrary, NetLibrary, Safari Tech Books Online, and InfoSecurityNetBase.

Research databases for e-books that cover a wide variety of subjects include Ebrary and NetLibrary. Research databases for e-books on information systems and assurance are Safari Tech Books Online and InfoSecurityNetBase. E-books from each of these databases may be read on your computer in a web browser and cannot be downloaded. In most cases, multiple people may read the same book at the same time; however, NetLibrary restricts the use of an e-book to one person at a time, rather like checking out a physical book.


All of these databases may be found using the "Database Quicklinks" drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the Library's home page.  When off-campus, you'll need to login with your library ID and password in order to connect to the databases.

Many e-books published prior to 1923 are available on the open web through various websites such as Project Gutenberg. To find these free, no-longer-copyrighted (public domain) books, see the Mundt Library's "Ebooks, videos, and images" web page.  Google Books also provides access to public domain books.  For most books published after 1923, Google Books will only provide previews of the books because of copyright restrictions.

The Mundt Library will soon be adding downloadable e-books and audiobooks!  Watch this blog for an announcement when our downloadable popular books become available.

Children's Literature Resources

New resources for discovering good children's and young adult literature are now available through WilsonWeb. You can link to WilsonWeb in the "Database Quicklinks" dropdown menu at the top of the Library's home page to select any of the 4 resources described below. The items in each collection are selected by educators and librarians, so all are recommended.

Children's Core Collection - For collection development, readers’ advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, here is working data on fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books and magazines recommended for readers from preschool through sixth grade. Listings include sources of reviews and complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.

Middle and Junior High Core Collection - For collection development, readers’ advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, here are thousands of entries for nonfiction works, fiction and collections for children and adolescents, plus review sources and other professional aids. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available. Items in this collection are recommended for grades five through nine.

Senior High Core Collection -- Similar in purpose and design to the previous two collections, this one contains items recommended for grades 9 through 12.

Graphic Novels Core Collection -- The Graphic Novels Core Collection addresses the growing popularity of this literary form. It highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art. Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level.

For additional resources, select the Mundt Library's "Children's Literature" link in the "Course and Subject Research Guides" dropdown menu at the top of the library's home page. Send any questions about these resources to Ask a Librarian, and a DSU librarian will respond.