Ebook FAQ for VCU Libraries

Licensing Overview

• User Licenses: Unlimited simultaneous users, DRM free.
• Subscription or Permanent Access? We have permanent access to all SpringerLink ebooks. 
• DRM-free? Yes. None of the titles in this collection have viewing, printing, or downloading restrictions, nor do they require a vendor login.

List of all Ebook Titles in This Collection

• Information forthcoming.
  • Current VIVA collection: "Behavioral Science and Psychology".
  • VCU Libraries' collections include: "Biomedical and Life Sciences", "Chemistry and Materials Science", "Computer Science" (including Lecture Notes in Computer Science), "Economics and Finance", "Engineering", "Intelligent Technologies and Robotics", "Mathematics and Statistics", and "Medicine".

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

A VPAT for SpringerLink is available online. 

YES. SpringerLink's ebooks are recommended for use as required and recommended course materials.

More information on this topic is available at our Library Ebooks as Course Materials research guide.

Entire Ebook Download: 

Chapter Downloads: 

The best ebook link to provide library users is the Primo (library website) permalink. Finding a permalink that includes "VCU_ALMA" or "alma" (rather than "cdi") in the last part of the URL is your best bet, since those records are more likely to be stable.

If you require a direct link to the ebook, however, you can follow either of the instructions below to provide library users with links that should work on and off campus. Please be aware that if the publisher changes their ebook URLs that the links you generate below may stop working.

On campus
If you are creating this link on campus, use the following instructions to generate a URL that will allow your on- and off-campus users to access this ebook.

1. Copy the book or book chapter's URL directly from the browser's address bar
2. Add VCU Libraries's proxy address to the front ( http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url= ).
   • Sample URL: http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4899-7568-3

Off campus
If you are creating this link off campus, use the following instructions to generate a URL that will allow your on- and off-campus users to access this ebook.

• Copy the URL directly from your browser's address bar for your book or book chapter. It should include "VCU" in the URL somewhere.
  • Sample URL: https://link-springer-com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4899-7568-3

• Patrons can print out a hard copy of any of the content we already licensed for $29.95