Do you want to borrow an e-book?

The Anna Lindh Library has access to more than 200,000 e-books from various publishers. Many of the e-books are course literature.

Search for your e-books

You can search for e-books in our search service Primo, where you limit the search to Books - Available online. You can also search directly in the e-book databases if you click on e-books in the menu under Borrow & Read.

» Our search tool for e-books in Primo

How to access e-books

The e-books are available on the Anna Lindh Library website for all employees and students. For external visitors, e-books are available for reading on the public computers in the main library of the Swedish Defence University.

Loan periods, printouts, copying and downloading

Loan periods, printouts and downloads vary depending on which supplier and publisher the book comes from. All our e-books can be read online and many can also be downloaded to your own computer, tablet or mobile for a certain length of time. When you download a book, you choose the loan period. The loan period varies but is usually between 1 and 28 days. When the loan period is over, you cannot read the book any longer, even if the file remains on your computer. If you want to borrow the book again, you need to download it again.

Most books can be read by multiple users at the same time, but some books are limited to one, two, or three simultaneous users. If the book has been borrowed, you can join a queue for it by entering your e-mail address. You will then receive a message when the book is available again.

E-book databases

More information about features and opportunities to print and download from our various e-book databases can be found here. For a detailed guide on downloadning from Ebsco and Ebook Central, please scroll to the next section below.

» Cambridge Books Online

» Cambridge Higher Education

» Ebsco

» Ebook Central

» Taylor & Francis ebooks

» Sage Research Methods

Download e-books from E-book Central and Ebsco Ebook Academic Collection

Here you will find a detailed guide on how to download e-books from these two databases.

To download e-books from E-book Central or Ebsco, you need to create an Adobe ID and need to have the Adobe Digital Editions program installed on your computer. On SEDU computers, the program is already installed, otherwise you can install the program for free here: https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html.

If you want to read the e-book on a mobile phone or tablet, you need to download an e-book reader application, such as Bluefire reader, and then connect your Adobe ID to it.

In Ebsco you first need to create a personal account to be able to download books, and in E-book central you first need to log in with your SEDU account.
You can create a personal account in Ebsco by going to the home page of the database and clicking on "Sign in", then "Create an account", and then filling in your personal details.
When you log in to Ebsco, you need to select Swedish Defence University as your department.

Adobe has its own step-by-step guide that explains how to create an Adobe ID here: https://helpx.adobe.com/se/manage-account/using/create-update-adobe-id.html
Scroll down the guide and follow "Create an Adobe account with your email address". You can choose to create the account with your private email address or with your FHS email address.
Once the account is created, you'll need to verify the email address.

Once you have downloaded an e-book, you need to open it using Adobe Digital Editions. On SEDU computers, the program is already installed, otherwise you can install the program for free here: https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html
In the program, you will see a box that says that you need to authenticate your computer. Select "Adobe ID" in the eBook Vendor, and then fill in the email address and password that you chose when you created the Adobe account. Then click "Authorize".
Now the e-book should start to open in the program. It may take a few minutes.

Software for reading e-books

Adobe ID is needed for authentication if you use Adobe Digital Editions (computer, tablet, smartphone) or an app like Bluefire Reader and ReadEra (tablet, smartphone) to read e-books. You can download the apps here.