Faculty Guide to UMass Lowell Library Services

The UMass Lowell Library offers our students, staff, and faculty thousands of full text ebooks.

• Many are available for unlimited use by the campus community.
• Some are limited to 3 or 1 simultaneous users. Ebooks with those limits are not considered eligible to be no-cost course textbooks for OER course-marking purposes.

For more information on how to determine if an ebook in the library’s collection has unlimited users, see below.

Start at the library website:
https://www.uml.edu/library/

1. Under the Catalog tab, enter the title, keywords or subject for the book you are looking for.

2. Filter the results in the left hand column of the results page. 

• Under Held by Library click "UMass Lowell Libraries".
• Under Format click "eBook"

3. To determine whether an ebook  permits unlimited users, click the blue "Access online" OR "View Ebook" button. This will take you to either the vendor's platform or to a menu listing platforms where the title may be found.

• While useful for temporary access, please note that The Internet Archive is not guaranteed permanent access for a classroom textbook. 

On the ProQuest platform, library access to the ebook is described directly beneath the title, as here:
 

On the EBSCO platform, library access is described to the left of the title, as here:

In general these titles allow unlimited simultaneous users, but please pay careful attention to information on the landing page.