Q. What ebook subscriptions do we have at LJMU?

Ebooks that are made available via a subscription are reliant on stable funding and continued high usage. The Library regularly reviews subscriptions to ensure cost per use and renewal charges are acceptable. In each instance the titles are made available at title level via the Library Discover to enable users to retrieve and link through to full text content.

Example packages we have a subscription for during 2024/25:

• Academic Complete as part of ProQuest One

  The largest collection, 200,000+ cross curricula ebooks. Initial subscription established 2019 until 2025.

• Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies Core collection and the Comparative & International Education collection

  Composed of market-leading titles from Bloomsbury’s Education list and 650+ original articles overseen by a well-rounded editorial board, this platform allows students and scholars to study and compare topics and education systems from multiple countries. Education and Childhood studies is available until September 2025. Comparative & International education is available until September 2026.

• Elsevier ScienceDirect ebook package

  Includes 40,000+ ebooks, available until June 2027.

• O’Reilly
  Includes 35,000+ ebooks covering IT, Business, Computing and Mathematics. Also addresses the Digital Skills agenda at the University. Established 2021 until 2025.

• Oxford Research Encyclopedias

• Criminology and Criminal Justice

  New collection as of 2023.

• Oxford Reference Online

  Includes the English Dictionary, until September 2025.

• Oxford Law Trove

  Essential texts for Law, until September  2027.

• Oxford Scholarship Online

  Law ebook titles, until September 2025.

• SAGE Research Methods, Knowledge and Reference Online

  Includes 8,000 titles presenting research definitions and methods, until May 2025.

Please note: Collaborative partner access to library resources varies from partner to partner and resource to resource. Collaborative Staff and Students (Partner Institutions) may not have access to all library resources.