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≡ E-Books

  • Access
  • Publishers' platforms
  • Further E-books
  • Legal Regulations

Access

E-books can be accessed directly from the publishers' platforms via the links below. For the most part, and with some delay, the individual titles with access links can also be found in swisscovery. It is best to filter the hit list by "Resource type" = "Books" and "Show only" = "Online".

E-books are freely available within the ZHdK network. To access them remotely, you need to install a VPN client. Some E-books can be accessed via Switch edu-ID.

Publishers' platforms

Berg Fashion Library
220 titles on the subject of fashion and fashion studies

BFI Film Classics
37 film scripts of the British Film Institute

Bloomsbury
45 titles on the subject of film and media studies

Cambridge Companions to Music
93 titles on the subject of music (composers, instruments, etc.)

Cambridge University Press Art Collection
57 titles on the subject of art

Cambridge University Press Music Collection
290 titles on the subject of music

content-select
Around 530 purchased and open access titles in the humanities, media, communication and music from publishers such as Edition Text + Kritik, WBG or Beltz.

deGruyter
Transcript (nearly 5048 titles)
Individual titles on art, architecture and music (nearly 5600 titles)
Bauwelt Fundamente (131 titles)
Le Corbusier Online (22 titles)

Ebook Central
Individual titles from various publishers and on all topics

JSTOR Subject Collection Music
24 titles on the subject of music

MIT Press
More than 3,800 licensed and open access titles in fields such as design, digital humanities & new media, computer science, game studies and cultural studies.

Springer
Around 40,000 titles on various subjects (including engineering and IT, humanities, social sciences, law, economics and medicine)

Springer Reference
Collection of more than 100 "Living Reference Works" in German - constantly updated handbooks.

utb elibrary
Around 370 titles in areas such as art, society and social sciences, history, economics, literature, etc. from various publishers (Waxmann, Herbert von Halem, Brill, UVK, and others).

Very Short Introductions
An e-book series with concise introductions to a wide range of subject areas. The texts, written by experts, combine facts, analyses and new ideas on compact 160 pages. They explain challenging topics in an understandable way.

Further E-books

DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books
Search portal for books subject to peer review and published under an open access licence.

Open Research Library
Platform managed by Knowledge Unlatched with the aim of providing a worldwide central access to peer-reviewed Open Access publications.

Legal Regulations

Please note the legal regulations on the use of e-resources.