This guide is aimed at students and employees who seek knowledge about searching eBooks.
The Ebsco eBook Academic Collection provides access to approximately 170,000 e-books, primarily in English. The database contains e-books on many topics. It mainly contains scholarly literature.
Access
Access to Ebsco eBook Academic Collection(Remote access: Choose institution: VIA University College. Use your login to MitVIA. Remember to fill in your whole email.).
The search language is English. You may find books in other languages in the search results.
? = replaces one character in the search term (eg. wom?n finds woman and women)
* = finds all endings of the search term (eg. market* finds market, markets, marketing, etc.)
- Type your search terms in the search bars.
- All fields: Here you can define the fields that you are searching eg.TI=Title, SU=Subject.
- You can combine your search terms using AND, OR, NOT AND: Finds books that include all the search terms OR: Finds books that include at least one of the search terms NOT: Finds books that include one search term but not the other.
Phrase searching: Put quotation marks around two or more words to search them as a phrase (eg. ”physical activity”).
E-books can be read online in the e-book reader by selecting PDF Full Text or EPUB Full Text under Access Options for the individual book.
In the top toolbar of the e-book reader, you can click the icons for the table of contents, details, or to search within the book.
The books can be downloaded for offline use for up to 20 weeks. To download them, you need to sign in with either an EBSCO account or a Google account. You can sign in or create an account via MyEBSCO in the top right corner.
Please note that some publishers only allow a limited number of pages to be downloaded. Therefore, it is not possible to download the full text of all books.
Need further help? Contact: Anja Egedius Sørensen, [email protected]
Last updated September 2026