Subject Guides: Electronic Books: Before you start

Important Points:

Many of our ebooks are available only to current faculty, students, and staff at Auburn University and may require a login.

Auburn University Libraries purchases ebooks to support the instructional, research, and outreach mission of Auburn University, consequently most of our electronic books are academic in nature.

Auburn Public Library is an excellent resource for recreational reading; they have a large collection of ebooks in a variety of formats.

AU Libraries cannot purchase books in Kindle format. Books must be available in PDF or EPub format in order to be considered for purchase.

AU Libraries' ebooks can be read on computers, tablets, smartphones or other portable devices with Internet access; however, to download ebooks, you must have an Adobe Digital ID and be able to download Adobe Digital Editions or an app like Bluefire to your device. Click the Adobe Digital Editions tab for more information on downloading Adobe Digital Editions.

eBook Quick Guide

eBook Quick Guide

	EBSCO ebooks	Proquest eBook Central	Springer
Do I need a special account login?	Yes	Yes	No but off-campus users will login with their AU ID and password credentials
Is there a limited loan period?	1-7 days - limited simultaneous users	7 days - limited simultaneous users Users are limited to 5 downloads	None - PDF download Springer eBooks also has a “My Copy” option to purchase a soft-cover book for $25.00
Do I need special software to download?	Download to a computer with Adobe Digital Editions to read there or to move to an eReader device. May be able to download directly to a tablet with the Bluefire app.	You can do a page at a time as simple PDFs. Full Download to a computer with Adobe Digital Editions to read there or move to an eReader device. May be able to download directly to a tablet with the Bluefire app.	Adobe Acrobat - files are simple PDFs with no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions
Can I cut and paste from the online preview?	No	Yes	No, but PDF download is simple and has no checkout period limit.
Can I cut and paste from the download?	Yes	Yes You may print a limited number of pages and copy a limited amount of text. These limits are displayed and tracked in the e-book interface.
Can I keyword search the full-text of the vendor's eBook collection?	Yes, from the EBSCO vendor platform (not from the library catalog) Instructions	Yes, from the eBook Central vendor platform (not from the library catalog) Instructions	Yes, from the Springer vendor platform (limit your search to Books) (not from the library catalog) Instructions

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American Women Speak by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
ISBN: 9781440837845
Publication Date: 2016-10-24
This A-to-Z compendium explores more than 150 American women activists from colonial times to the present, examining their backgrounds and the focus of their activism, and provides examples of their speeches. Throughout history, American women's oratory has crusaded for religious rights, abolitionism, and peace, as well as for Zionism, immigration, and immunization. This text examines more than 150 influential American women activists and their speeches on vital issues. Each entry outlines the speaker's motivation and provides examples of their speeches in context, supplying information about the setting, audience, reception, and lasting historical significance. This collection of women's speeches emphasizes primary sources that underscore the goals of the Common Core Standards. Entries support classroom discussion on a range of topics, from women's suffrage and birth control to civil rights and 20th- and 21st-century labor law. No other reference work compiles examples of female activism and oration across a 400-year span of history along with analysis of the speaker's intent, forum, listeners, and public and media response.