E-Books
The Library has more than 80 e-book titles, and the collection is constantly growing.
The easiest way to access e-books is to search for them in the library catalog just as you would for printed books, or browse for them. If the title is available electronically, it will bear the classmark “E-book” and fulltext in the particular collection:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Includes 46 titles viewed online (access to each book is limited to one or two simultaneous users) and offline with the possibility of borrowing (downloading them onto a PC or e-reader for 7 days). Printing of each book is usually limited to about 60 pages.
To learn more about downloading e-books to a PC with Windows operating system, see the help sheet.
If downloading to another device – Mac, iPad, iPhone, etc. see the website of EBSCOhost e-book Support Center.
ScienceDirect - Handbooks in Economics
Covers 30 titles and reference works for economics, all available online. Each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey summarizing the most recent discussions in journals, and elucidate new developments. Although original material is also included.
Gale eBooks
Covers a selection of encyclopedias online from Gale Virtual Reference Library.
ebrary Academic Complete
Covers more than 70.000 e-books divided into 16 subject databases – e.g. business & economics, history & political science, interdis
ciplinary & area studies etc.
ebrary - Karolinum Press e-books
Charles University's publisher, Karolinum, makes cca 70 titles accessible free via ebrary (9 titles in English) for Charles University members.
Remote Access for CERGE-EI members is currently administered by Charles University and is possible for all collections above. A netID and password are required. For remote access to particular e-book collections see the “E-books” section on the library website.
E-books Copyright allows you to copy reasonable amounts of a copyrighted work for non-commercial private study or research. Copyright terms need to be observedand where the law does not specify how much you are allowed to copy, it is recommended that you not copy more than 10% of a single work for these purposes.
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