Using eBooks @ HCC: HCC eBook Platforms

Explore millions of artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

Research on the arts and its impact on and value to American communities is contained here. All documents are in PDF format.

Indexes several million ebooks available for personal use

Access over seventy-five thousand free ebooks from the original ebook project. (Full-text)

The majority of the resources are provided in Spanish. “...draws its content from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the largest national project ever to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form, from colonial times to 1960.”

Bloomsbury Fashion Central provides access to Berg Fashion Library as the leading resource for students and researchers of fashion studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, with great visual and integrated content, it is invaluable for researchers in the areas of fashion, museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and more. Content highlights include the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, consisting of images and in-depth articles, Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion, the A-Z of Fashion, and The Dictionary of Fashion History, academic books that cover important writings on fashion, museum exhibitions from museums around the world, and color images from prestigious partners such as the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Mode Museum, and the Commercial Pattern Archive (Full-text).

Large collection of academic eBooks in Spanish. Learn to Use e-Libro, ebrary and ProQuest eBook Central.

This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses. Removes access barriers with hundreds of thousands of DRM-free options that can easily be read on any device.

If you see a Bad Gateway error from on-campus, try this alternative link to Mometrix:

* Access study materials and practice tests for over 1800 different standardized exams.
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* Improve workplace skills such as business, finance, and computer skills.
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* Improve or refresh basic skills in English, Language Arts, and Math. 

Master nursing best practices with the premier source for evidence-based information designed specifically for nurses. Unmatched in scope, nurses use Nursing Reference Center Plus to get answers to questions quickly, access care plans, watch video demonstrations, strengthen nursing skills, earn continuing education credits and much more.

Signed articles covering both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more). Also includes over 30,000 links to colour images from high-quality museum and other art sites, plus over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.

An extensive encyclopedia of music, featuring over 51,000 articles from Bach to Beyonce, and continual updates, reviews and contributions from over 9,000 scholars around the globe. (Full-text)

Find credible content from authoritative, scholarly sources, to support every program at HCC. Be sure to click the facet for HCC-owned and subscribed items. Many chapters can be downloaded DRM-free. (Full-text)

Hundreds of thousands of ebooks, ejournals, and other materials on every scientific discipline with some arts and humanities. (Some full-text)