Laurea LibGuides: Business information technology: Books & e-books

Print books

Laurea Library's print books can best be found through Laurea Finna. Search results will also include other 3AMK libraries' (Haaga-Helia, Metropolia) print books.

You can also search all 3AMK libraries' print books through national Finna.fi service. Finna.fi finds print books of almost all Finnish libraries and lots of other materials.

Library licensed e-books

Most Laurea Library licensed international e-books can be found through Laurea Finna when searched by the name of the book. However, if you are searching for e-books on certain topic, it's better to conduct the search in the e-book databases and especially in Ebook Central.

International e-book databases

Ebook Central
Multidisclipilinary e-book collection that holds more than 200 000 e-books. Subject areas cover business, information technology, health care, social sciences etc.
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Collection contains 800 ebooks from Harvard Business Review Press and some other books. Books can be read online or they can be downloaded for limited period of time. Downloading requires creating an Ebsco account & having Adobe Digital Editions installed. Note! Reading online does not currently work outside Laurea's network. In remote use downloading is the only option.
Kogan Page Complete
Kogan Page Complete contains roughly 1000 business ebooks from Kogan Page. All newest titles are indcluded.
SAGE Research Methods
Sage Research Methods contains ebooks, handbooks, dictionaries, videos, podcasts etc. on research methods and conducting research. Note that Laurea's subscription does not cover Cases and Datasets and some of the videos. No limitations in number of simultaneous users.
Taylor & Francis ebooks
Specifically for Laurea curated collection of nearly 2000 ebooks from Taylor & Francis, CRC Press and Routledge. NOTE! Search results cover by default also T&F ebooks that Laurea has no license for. Filter the search results to 'Licensed Content' to see the Laurea curated collection only. Filtering by 'Content I have access to' adds also Open Access ebooks and ebook chapters to the search results.
VLeBooks
VLeBooks is a platform onto which Laurea Library acquires individual e-book titles. Currently there are 21 e-book titles in Laurea's collection. Full text search is not supported on collection level. Limitations in number of simultaneous users.

Instructions

E-books in Laurea
How to find Laurea Library licensed e-books and some instructions on how to use them

E-book services subject to a charge

Perlego
Thousands of international textbooks from e.g. Pearson and many other leading textbook publishers. Monthly payment (8-12 €). Free 1 week trial period available.

Dictionaries

MOT Dictionaries
MOT Dictionaries contains dictionaries of dozens of languages and tools for translating and text proofing.

Free e-books

Google books Google books advanced search page.
DOAB Free academic peer-reviewed books.
EU Bookshop Thousands of freely downloadable publications authored by EU institutions such as the European Commission, European Parliament, Council of the EU, EU agencies and other bodies.
Open Library Textbook Freely available e-textbooks for higher education. Books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.