E-books and audio books

E-books and audio books

Overview

Leasure reading

You can access a wide selection of e-books and audiobooks via the Onleihe, Libby and Numilog platforms, brought together under the ebooks.lu service. These platforms offer a broad range of titles in three languages. Launched in 2015 at the initiative of the High Council of Libraries and the National Library, ebooks.lu brings these online resources together in one place for easier access.

E-books can be read on tablets, smartphones or e-readers.

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Specialist literature

In addition to general-interest e-books, a wide range of academic literature is also available. It covers all fields of knowledge.

Bloomsbury Law

Bloomsbury provides academic content in the arts, humanities and social sciences through Bloomsbury Collections. Access includes around 2,600 Bloomsbury Law titles, including publications from Hart Publishing and Verlag C.H. Beck.

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Brill

Brill is a Dutch academic publisher founded in 1683. Its electronic book collection covers subjects including history, religion, philosophy, international law and the social sciences. In 2024, De Gruyter Brill was formed following the merger of De Gruyter and Brill.

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Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core publishes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students. Access includes the Cambridge Companion as well as the Cambridge Histories series.

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O’Reilly

O’Reilly offers tech and business content from more than 250 publishers, world-renowned innovators and corporate leaders. This platform includes more than 45,000 book titles plus over 30,000 hours of video, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly’s global conferences and of the world’s best publishers

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Oxford Scholarship Online

The Oxford Scholarship Online platform offers more than 19,000 e-books from the world-renowned scholarly list of Oxford University Press, spanning subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

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Wiley

Wiley is an international academic publisher. The available collection includes ebooks published between 2023 and 2025 across disciplines such as science, technology, medicine and the social sciences.

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Curated selections

Onleihe

With Onleihe, you can borrow and read e-books in German. You’ll find exactly what you’re looking for in its vast catalogue of titles ranging from novels, non-fiction works, travel guides or cookery books.

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