Ebooks spanning a wide variety of disciplines. It includes many scholarly and academic publishers as well as some non-scholarly content.
The interface for this and all our other EBSCO databases will change mid-2025. Click here to try out the new interface early!
Off campus access restricted to current KPU students and employees.
Ebooks from Canadian university presses published from 2019 onward. Alternately, the Scholars Portal platform provides access to Canadian university press ebooks with earlier publication dates to the present.
Off campus access restricted to current KPU students and employees.
OverDrive provides access to ebooks and audiobooks.
For directions to access OverDrive, please click on "more" below.
When you click to access, you will be asked a series of questions to connect you with KPU's access.
1) Do you have a library card? Answer: Yes
2) Choose: Search for a Library.
3) Search for: Kwantlen
4) Choose: Enter library account details
5) Log in with your KPU computer user name and password
6) You will see that a linked card has been created for you. Click "next" to proceed to the ebooks.
*Please note that no personal information was given to OverDrive. An anonymous token was created to link your OverDrive account to your computer login credentials.*
You can also download the Libby app to your device from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
Off campus access restricted to current KPU students and employees.
10,000 ebooks published by Oxford University Press, in the areas of Business, Management, Economics, Finance, History, Literature, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Archaeology, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Geography, Education, Environmental Science, Environmental Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Public Health, and Epidemiology.
Off campus access restricted to current KPU students and employees.
Information on qualitative and quantitative research methods, mostly focusing on the social sciences. Includes ebooks, cases, videos, sample datasets, and a research project planning tool. The Foundations module provides an encyclopedia style overview of major research methodologies, their originators, and additional topics.
Off campus access restricted to current Kwantlen Polytechnic University students and employees.
Ebooks on multiple subject areas published by Canadian university presses. Access is also available to these books that were published in 2019 to the present on the de Gruyter platform.
Off campus access restricted to current KPU students and employees.
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
Off campus access restricted to current KPU students and employees.
Ebooks published by Harvard Business Review.
The interface for this and all our other EBSCO databases will change mid-2025. Click here to try out the new interface early!
Off campus access restricted to current KPU students and employees.