A large collection of English-language e-books in various scientific areas.
E-books are in EPUB format. You can read them in your browser (Read Online) or downloaded to a reader. You can change the colours and enhance the contrasts of the e-books both in the browser and in the reader.
Some e-books can be used by 1-3 people at the same time. Some e-books have unlimited access.
You can listen to e-books that open in your browser using the Read Aloud functions in your browser.
To listen, you need to activate a separate Accessibility mode in Ebook Central (Profile > Accessibility Settings). In accessibility mode, images may not be visible.
Download availability varies from book to book, not all books can be downloaded. Downloading a book may be blocked if the e-book is on loan or you have 10 downloaded books in your account.
To download, you will need Adobe Edital Digitions. If you do not have the Adobe Digital Editions reader, please download and activate it.
In Ebook Central, select the device you are downloading on (computer, mobile device). If you already have the reader on your device, select "Done with this step", the loan period and "Download". The downloaded e-book file is in the format .acsm.
It is also possible to download individual chapters of the book.
Printing and copying for your own personal use is allowed. There are differences between printing and copying per book, you can see them in the service.
Additional features, such as underlining, require you to log in with your Metropolia username.
E-resources may be used for teaching and study purposes by Metropolia students, staff and local library customers. Redistribution and commercial use of the content is prohibited. By using the e-resources, you agree to the terms of use and commit to abide by them.
Includes e-books on a variety of subjects.
Search by topic, or browse ebooks in the eBooks section at the top. Click on the PDF Full Text or EPUB Full Text link to read the eBook. You do not need to create an Ebsco account to read the books. The book will automatically close if it is not read for 30 minutes.
Restrictions are per book: usually no more than 1-3 simultaneous users.
Only some e-books are accessible. Books can be listened to for example with the Read aloud function in the Edge browser. If you want to use a separate screen reader, download the book to your device in EPUB or PDF format.
To download you need
Not all books can be downloaded. Downloaded books have a loan period of 1-7 days and are in PDF or EPUB format.
In the book details you can see how many pages you can print. Printing is allowed for personal use only.
Create a personal Ebsco account if you want to access features that require user authentication, such as book downloads and adding notes to e-books.
E-resources may be used for teaching and study purposes by Metropolia students, staff and local library customers. Redistribution and commercial use of the content is prohibited. By using the e-resources, you agree to the terms of use and commit to abide by them.
Ellibs is a multidisciplinary service, with around 350 e-books in the Metropolia collection.
You can find these e-books in the Ellibs service under Library Collection. The books are mainly in Finnish. Some of the books can be read in the browser. If a book cannot be read in a browser, you can download it to your device or read it in the Ellibs app. The number of simultaneous users of the books varies.
E-books can be downloaded to your own device, in which case you will need Thorium Reader.
In Thorium Reader, books are opened with a user-specific password that you can check in Ellibs Library > My Bookshelf.
If you have problems with downloading books, see instructions in Ellibs.
You can also access Ellibs e-books with the Ellibs app. Download the app from your app store (App Store or Google Play).
Log in to the app with your Metropolia username.
Listening should be possible if the e-book is in EPUB format. Thorium Reader has a Text-to-Speech function that reads the text of books in EPUB format.
E-books are protected by DRM software, which may prevent you from listening to them. There is no read-aloud function in the mobile app.
If all the copies of the e-book you want are on loan, you can reserve it on the service. You will be notified when your booking has been received at the email address you have entered in the service. If you use the Ellibs app, you can also activate the app's notifications for reservations.
If you want to time the arrival of the book you have booked to a time that suits you, you can lock your place in the booking queue.
Printing restrictions vary from book to book. On the Ellibs website, the information for each book indicates whether printing is allowed.
The e-resources may be used for teaching and study purposes by Metropolia students and staff. No on-site use for customers outside Metropolia. Redistribution and commercial use of the content is prohibited. By using the e-resources, you agree to the terms of use and undertake to comply with them.
O'Reilly contains tens of thousands of e-books, audiobooks, videos and online courses, especially in the fields of technology and business.
You can read the books in your browser or with a mobile app. Books read in a browser can be listened to using the Read aloud functions, or add-ons, in browsers. The reader view can be adjusted from the book's nut icon (Reader Settings).
The service offers a large number of audiobooks in various fields. You can listen to them in your browser or in the mobile app.
E-resources may be used for teaching and study purposes by Metropolia students, staff and local library customers. Redistribution and commercial use of the content is prohibited. By using the e-resources, you agree to the terms of use and commit to abide by them.
E-books in various fields, including education, chemistry and materials science, behavioural science, business, medicine, engineering, social sciences and law, and information technology.
Read the books in your browser or download a chapter or the full book in PDF or EPUB format. To download EPUB, you need Adobe Digital Editions application.
Listen to books using the Read aloud add-on in your browser.
The e-resource may be used for teaching and study purposes by Metropolia students, staff and local library customers. Redistribution and commercial use of the content is prohibited. By using the e-resources, you agree to the terms of use and you are committing to abide by them.
E-books from the publisher Pearson.
You can read e-books without creating an account. Select “Continue without an Account” and agree to the terms of use.
You can find available e-books under Explore. Books are read in a browser. Click on Borrow and then Open Book.
If all copies of the e-book are in use, access may be blocked. You can find information about the number of concurrent users in the Book details section of the book.
Listening is also possible. You can find the Read Aloud function in the top right-hand menu.
You can print out parts of the book. Printing options can be found in the menu in the top right-hand corner. Allowed for your own personal use only.
To download an e-book to your device, you will need to create a personal account with VitalSource and download the VitalSource Bookshelf app to your device. Creating a VitalSource account and using the app is optional.
E-resources may be used for teaching and study purposes by Metropolia students, staff and local library customers. Redistribution and commercial use of the content is prohibited. By using the e-resources, you agree to the terms of use and commit to abide by them.
Multidisciplinary e-book service.
You can read books in your browser and some books can be downloaded to a device.
Read books in your browser. Listening is also possible. The browser reader has a text-to-speech feature that can be used on your computer and mobile device.
E-book access may be blocked when the number of users is exceeded or credits are used up.
Books are available for download in Adobe Digital Editions.
The book details show how many pages of the book you can print. Permitted for your own personal use only.
E-resources may be used for teaching and study purposes by Metropolia students, staff and local library customers. Redistribution and commercial use of the content is prohibited. By using the e-resources, you agree to the terms of use and commit to abide by them.
You can also find e-books on MetCat Finna. You can access e-books online or remotely by logging in with your Metropolia username and password.
Most of the e-books can be found in the basic search of MetCat Finna.
You may need Adobe Digital Editions to download e-books for offline use:
Links to Adobe instructions:
Metropolia Library and Information Services | Accessibility Statement
