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Mahoney Library

 

Saint Elizabeth University
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960

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Phone:
Main Desk: (973) 290-4237

Library Hours:
Mon-Fri 8am to 12am
Sat, Sun 2pm to 12am

Library services will be unavailable/closed:

  • Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, 2025
  • Monday, May 26, 2025

Ebooks offer convenience, flexibility, and accessibility for students, faculty, and staff. They make it possible to carry a library of information with you as you move between locations and devices. Mahoney Library has over 250,000 ebooks to choose from in our catalog. 

We know that accessibility can look different to everyone, so if you find an ebook that Mahoney Library owns but you want it in a print format, please fill out an Interlibrary Loan request and we will do our best to get it for you. 

Proquest Ebook Central

A collection of over 120,000 authoritative, scholarly ebooks with breadth and depth on a number of topics, Ebook Central helps make research easier by also offering citation and note-taking tools, a user friendly interface, the ability to download and print some sources, and an online bookshelf to keep track of ebooks.

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Sources for Free Ebooks

  • Directory of Open Access Books
    • Community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library
    • The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
  • Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    • The web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
  • Gutenberg-e Digital History Collection
    • Open access site containing award winning monographs to afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories.
  • Internet Archive
    • The Internet Archive hosts over 20 million ebooks, all of which are free to read. Some books will require you to create a free account and "check out" the ebook in order to read.
  • Open Library
    • Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
  • Online Books Page
    • Listing over 3 million free books on the Web.
  • Project Gutenberg
    • Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks to encourage their creation and distribution.
  • National Academies Press
    • The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. NAP publishes more than 200 publications per year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently researched information on important matters in science and health policy.

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