Textbooks
The Harrisburg University Library provides access to many textbooks and other course materials through prior individual purchase and subscriptions. Some of these provide annotation and mark-up features. Before you require students to purchase a textbook, search these resources to see if you can save students the full cost of some of these materials.
- EBSCO Discovery Service: Search for individually purchased books. If you find a book you want to use and it has simultaneous user restrictions, contact the library to upgrade the title to unlimited simultaneous users. Titles are routinely added to our holdings.
- Textbook Databases: Several of the Library's Databases provide course textbooks. To search these databases:
- Go to the A-Z Databases page. (Browse Databases from the Library's home page.)
- Change the second dropdown menu from "All Database Types" to "Textbooks".
- You can then search the textbook providers that align with your program.
- Internet Archive: As a last resort, texts can sometimes be found on the Internet Archive, though the reader is clunky and items cannot be downloaded or annotated.