Your digital library in English
Use our electronic resources and databases
Roskilde Libraries offers a wide variety of e-books, electronic resources and databases available at your fingertips 24 hours a day.
Home access to databases
Using your computer, tablet or smartphone you have access to a number of licensed databases free of charge. Remote access is available to registered Roskilde borrowers (Requires home address in the municipality of Roskilde) with a Personal Identification Number (PIN code).
Borrow and read e-books from home at your leisure. Roskilde Libraries offers electronic books in a number of ways and a selection of our online resources are shown below.
E-Books and magazines
E-Book Central (Formerly known as Ebrary)
Online access to e-books in areas such as economics, the humanities, natural science, history and social science.
Language: English.
eReolen Global (also called Libby)
eReolen Global is a digital service and contains e-books and online audio books in English. eReolen Global is similar to eReolen (in Danish) and its app is called "Libby". It is developed and operated by the American company OverDrive. You can also access e-magazines.
Newspapers
Digital newsstand featuring 7000+ of the world's most popular newspapers & magazines. As a licensed user of Roskilde Libraries, you have access to newspapers from around the world before the printed copy is available in the country of origin.
Dictionaries
Online dictionaries in english, german, french, spanish, italian, swedish, norwegian, chinese, finnish, greek, danish etc.
