Help for Library users of ebook platforms available at the State Library
We subscribe to a databases containing ebooks and we collect books in digital format through National Edeposit (NED).
The 'Ebook' catalogue filter searches over 200,000 ebooks from the following sources (links to catalogue results):
EBSCOhost and ProQuest ebooks are downloadable (see the tabs in this guide for instructions). Ebooks from other databases can be read online. Access to NED titles is set by the publisher - you may be allowed to download the ebook, or you may only be able to read it onsite at State Library Victoria. Check each catalogue record for access conditions.
View our main ebook databases via A-Z databases.
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Explore world dress and fashion throughout history, including ebooks, articles and thousands of images for clothing and costumes.
Please note: BFL is part of the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform. The State Library does not subscribe to all of the content on the platform.
Spotlight Discover more about this resource in our Online Collection Spotlight: Berg Fashion Library blog post.
Research this extensive collection of reference works covering arts, biography, business, environment, fashion, history, IQ tests, literature, religion, science, sport and more.
Access a wide selection of encyclopaedias and reference works relating to health and medicine.
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Read online or download from a large selection of multidisciplinary ebook titles representing a broad range of academic subjects.
Read online or download (for up to seven days) from a selection of ebooks on topics from film to psychology, environment to memoir. New content is added to EBSCO eBook Collection regularly.
Read online or download (for up to seven days) from a selection of nonfiction ebooks on parenting to pop culture, history to law and everything in between, from Australian and international sources.
There are a number of other sources of free ebooks to read or download. Access will vary for each site.
Download free ebooks in the public domain in Australia. Includes classics, fiction and nonfiction on a variety of subjects, including Australian history.
Download free academic, peer-reviewed ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.
We began digitising our collections in 1993. Since then, we have digitised more than 770,000 Library items including images and books.
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View all digitised books in our catalogue.
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The Australian Slang Dictionary, Cornelius Crowe 1895
The National edeposit service (NED) was launched in August 2019 in a world-first collaboration between Australia’s national, state and territory libraries.
Australian publications in electronic form are to be captured and made available through NED. Book-lovers, researchers and curious minds can find Australian literary works alongside newsletters, fanzines, community and government publications.
Depending on the publication's level of access, Victorian Digital Legal Deposit titles read through our catalogue onsite and from home.
