SOAS Library provides access to several large e book platforms:
Cambridge Core
500+ e-books from Cambridge University Press available to all Library users on-campus, and SOAS staff & students off-campus (with SOAS id and password). User guides
Ebook Central [on or off campus] Available to SOAS students and staff only.
Access to over 150,000 electronic books covering Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences subjects.
Make sure to download Adobe Digital Editions to your device before downloading your e-book, it is free.
Ebook Central video guides and print guide Ebook Central (pdf; 2mb)
VLe-books Available to SOAS students and staff via institutional login.
Access to 2,000+plus titles. To dowload e-books from VLe-books platform you must download Adobe Digital Editions to your computer, it's free, see guidance.
ACLS Humanities E-book (HEB)
ACLS Humanities E-Book HEB is an online, fully searchable collection of 5,590 books of high quality in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These titles are recommended by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies. Users may also access online book reviews from the major journals.
On-campus / Off-campus
JSTOR Open Acces e-Books
More than 950 Open Access ebooks are now available at no cost to libraries or users. These titles reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content; we’ve partnered with leading publishers such as University of California Press, University of Michigan Press, ANU Press, and Cornell University Press.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Full-text, electronic versions of selected University of California Press books in a range of subjects and areas, including recent publications relating to African, Middle Eastern and South Asian studies.