SVA Library Research Guides: Online Resources and Services: Ebooks

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How to Download Ebooks from SVA Library
by Phoebe Stein Last Updated May 12, 2023 110 views this year

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central's Academic Complete collection contains over 207,000 multidisciplinary ebooks with unlimited, multi-user access, powerful research tools and DRM-free chapter downloads.
ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
ACLS Humanities E-Book is an online, fully searchable collection of over 5,500 books of high quality in the humanities and related social sciences. Users may also access online book reviews from the major journals.
Open Access Monograph Collection This link opens in a new window
This is a DRM-free collection of thousands of Open Access ebooks from university presses and scholarly publishers including University of Michigan Press, Taylor & Francis and Temple University Press.
Library Stack This link opens in a new window
Library Stack is a database and archive of digital arts publications, including ebooks, PDFs, apps, music and video from the fields of contemporary art, critical theory, political science, sociology, architecture, urbanism, graphic design and film studies. It has a particular focus on hybrid works: experimental podcasts, custom type-faces, exhibitions bundled into .zip folders, serial journals, collaborative scholarship initiatives and artists’ software.

Guide to Teaching with Library Stack

Cahiers d'Art Institute (Artifex Press) This link opens in a new window
Cahiers d'Art Institute (formerly Artifex Press) is a publisher of digital catalogues raisonnés. A catalogue raisonné is the definitive, comprehensive, and annotated compilation of all the known works of an artist. Current catalogues include Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Tim Hawkinson, Agnes Martin, Lucas Samaras, James Siena, and Sol Lewitt. Twelve more catalogues are forthcoming.

Internet Archive Open Library
The Internet Archive Open Library is a collection of 1.4 million (and growing) books, which are available to one borrower at a time using controlled digital lending. This collection contains a large number of art and design books.

Free Ebook Sources

HathiTrust This link opens in a new window

LibriVox This link opens in a new window