LibGuides: Online Textbooks: Textbooks Alphabetically by Title

Textbook Information

Online digital copies of many textbooks are available from the CIA Library or through free Open Educational Resources. Links are provided on this page and/or in your course site in Moodle.

Editions may not match the textbook used in class, check with your instructor for further information.

If you have any questions about finding or accessing your textbook, please contact the reference librarian, Sonia Lisboa-Ochoa.

Textbook Purchasing & Rentals

eTextbooks are available to rent for a term and may cost less than purchasing a book. The eTextbook may be available directly from the publisher and include extra features.

You can search for your textbooks here and review print and digital options:

CIA Bookstore Course Materials

These companies rent digital textbooks:

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Find Textbooks in Course Reserves

Course Reserves in Omnivore, CIA Library catalog
Browse courses or Search by Course or Instructor's name

eBooks & Audiobooks

Log in to the eBooks with your CIA username and password, the same as MainMenu and Moodle (not your full email.)

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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A growing collection of scholarly, reference and professional eBooks in culinary studies and more. Access online--anywhere, anytime.
Firefox Users: In order to view PDF-format ebooks in Firefox, go to Tools Menu > Options > Applications, and scroll down to Portable Document Format (PDF) to select "Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)". You may need to close and reopen your browser for the change to occur.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Access full-text ebooks from a variety of publishers.
Axis360 eBooks & Audiobooks (Baker & Taylor) This link opens in a new window
Fiction and Non-Fiction Audiobooks
Bloomsbury Food Library This link opens in a new window
Bloomsbury Food Library offers cross-searchable access to a broad and expanding range of encyclopedias, references works, e-books, images, and more.
It reflects the interdisciplinary nature of this growing subject, making it an essential resource for students and scholars studying food, on courses as wide-ranging as history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, literary studies, political science, and development studies.
Food Science Reference Module This link opens in a new window
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Encyclopedia entries provide introductions and background information for a wide range of food science topics.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window

Free Online eBooks

Open Educational Resources
free online ebooks

Archive.org
Create a free account to borrow ebooks.
Has a read aloud function.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
EPDF.pub
Free pdf download of textbooks and more
The Open Textbook Library
Supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.
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Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 714 textbooks, with more being added all the time.
CourseHero Textbook Solutions
JSTOR Open Access Ebooks
Project Muse Open Access eBooks
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Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Through our open access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These books and journals are freely available to libraries and users around the world.
HathiTrust Digital Library A collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world, plus a variety of sources including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and more.
Open Library
Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive
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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published
Library of Congress Open Access eBooks