International Politics: Books and E-books

Our extensive collections of electronic journals, databases and e-books remain available to you 24/7 on and off-campus.

If you wish to gain access to e-resources off-campus, you do not need to install VPN; these can be accessed using the browser based Primo VPN.

You will need to:

1. Sign in to https://primo-vpn.aber.ac.uk with your Aberystwyth University (AU) username and password. You must keep the browser open while you work. 
2. Sign in to https://primo.aber.ac.uk with your AU username and password - you will be prompted to do this after connecting to Primo VPN

You will then have off-campus access to the majority of AU-subscribed electronic information resources and their full text. If you close your browser you will need to login again.

For further information on accessing e-resources off-campus see FAQ 163 

Frequently Asked Questions

Useful information for staff and students working and studying from home.

https://faqs.aber.ac.uk/ 

Aberystwyth University libraries subscribe to a wide range of e-books and e-book collections.

We have 1000s of e-books and our collection is regularly growing. You can access our e-books via Primo. In the search box enter one or two key words from the title and the surname of the author. When the search results appear you can choose to click Full text online in the Tweak my results menu on the left to display results for ebooks only.

If we have access to an electronic version of a book, the Primo record will state Online Access

Click on our Electronic Books webpage for further information and for instructions on:

• how to find e-books found in Primo
• how to open e-books found in Primo
• how to read and print e-books found in Primo - links to FAQs on how to read ebooks found from different platforms (e.g. JSTOR, ProQuest, dawsonera)

If you need a book but can't get access please place a request through: 

• Our More Books service (for students only)

• Our Purchase Request service (for staff only - online form on Primo)

We will do our best to source an electronic copy for you.

• You can make multiple requests.

• We will automatically purchase additional copies of any “simultaneous user” e-book that has run out of credits and any “managed-user access” e-book that has more than one person waiting to use it.

If you can’t find a book you’re looking for in the library, you can place a request for it via the More Books campaign (Students only). Each book ordered through the campaign will be placed in the library collection.

More information is available here.

​Below are key databases for e-books:​

• CAB eBooks Current File (CABI)
  • ​Ebooks on agriculture and the applied life sciences from CAB International
• eScholarship Editions (University of California)

  • ​UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics

• Internet Text Archive

  • The Internet Archive offers over 15,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts.

• National Academies Press
  • ​The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
• Pennsylvania Online Books (all topics)
  • ​Listing over 3 million free books on the Web
• Project Gutenberg

  • ​Project Gutenberg offers 59,500 free ebooks to download

• ProQuest Ebook Central

  • ​Use Ebook Central to quickly and easily find relevant ebooks and chapters

• WikiSource

  • ​ Wikisource is a Free Library of source texts which are in the public domain or legally available for free redistribution

• Wiley Online Library

  • The new Wiley Online Library platform hosts content including: ​

    •  Political Science
    •  History
    •  Philosophy