E-books

The Anna Lindh Library has access to around 200,000 e-books from various publishers. Several of the e-books are course literature.

Access to electronic materials

Students and employees of the National Defence University have access to the library's electronic materials by logging in to the school's network or via remote access.

You can search for e-books in our search service Primo, where you limit to Books - Full text. You can also search directly in the e-book databases that can be found in the menu to the right.

Most eBooks can be read by multiple users at the same time, but some books are limited to one, two, or three simultaneous users. If the book is on loan, you can join the queue for it by entering your email address. You'll be notified when the book is available again.

The e-books are available at the Anna Lindh Library for all employees and students, even remotely. For external visitors, the e-books are only available for reading on the public computers at the main library at the Swedish Defence University.

If you cannot download an e-book in full text (e.g. as a pdf), you sometimes need to use the programs below:

Adobe ID is needed for authentication if you use Adobe digital editions (computer, tablet, mobile) or, for example, Bluefire reader, ReadEra or PocketBook (tablet, mobile) to read e-books.

Loan periods, printouts and downloads vary depending on which supplier and publisher the book comes from. All our e-books can be read online and many can also be downloaded for a certain time to your own computer, tablet or mobile. When you download a book, you choose the loan period. The loan period varies but is usually between 1-28 days. When the loan period is over, you will no longer be able to read the book, even if the file remains on your computer. If you want to borrow the book again, you must download it again.

Respect the license terms of the electronic material. Printing, copying and downloading of the library's e-resources may only be done for personal use for study or research purposes.

E-books databases

More information about functions and the possibility to print and download from our various databases of e-books can be found here:

Download eBooks from Ebsco Ebook Academic Collection

The Ebsco ebooks are made for online reading. You can also download chapters. If you need to read the book offline you can download whole books.

Log in with your personal My EBSCOhost account or create one if you do not have one.
Find your book and click Download. Choose Full eBook.
Choose how many days for download.
Choose format, EPUB or PDF. EPUB is generally more accessible for screen reading and the size of the text adapts to the screen size.
If a passphrase for Thorium is shown, copy it. For ebooks without copy protection no passphrase is needed.
Click Download.
Open Thorium and import the downloaded file (if it does not import automatically). Paste the passphrase from step 5.

If you do not have Thorium Reader installed you can use the installation link shown in the download view, image below.

Resources

På en högskola handlar informationskompetens främst om att söka, värdera och använda akademiskt material.

Course literature

You can search for course literature on the library's home page.