E-book collections
E-books can also be found by subject, book title, or collection name in the library catalogue. See this help guide on searching for electronic books by topic or keyword
On this page: General e-book collections | Subject-specific e-book collections | Reference works
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ACLS Humanities E-book This is a large digital collection of full-text Humanities titles offered by the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) in collaboration with other societies and publishers. |
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| Apabi eBook Collection This is a collection of full-text electronic books in Chinese language. It contains books published in China, in different subject areas. Users can search using Chinese characters. It allows searching any keywords within a book as well. Apabi allows unlimited copying and pasting of the ebook contents, but printing is not permitted. Apabi Reader is required to view fulltext ebooks. Apabi Reader is free of charge from the Website. Users can choose to view fulltext online for 10 minutes, or borrow for 1 day. A maximum 5 books can be borrowed at a time. For further information, please contact East Asian Collection staff on level 7, Fisher Library. |
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| e-Library This is an e-press for Australian and Asia-Pacific information. e-Library provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. |
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| Knovel Library A collection of online engineering reference books covering aerospace, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and general engineering and including information about adhesives, biochemistry, biotechnology, ceramics, electronics, environment, food science, metals, oil & gas, plastics, pharmaceuticals, power, safety, textiles and more. |
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| NetLibrary More than 500 books covering all subjects, with an emphasis on titles in high demand in the Library |
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| Taylor and Francis Online eBook Library Hundreds of titles covering psychology and psychotherapy, education practice and theory, health and society, medicine and pharmacy |
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| Oxford Scholarship Online More than 1,000 titles published by Oxford University Press, covering Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, Music, and Religion. Economics & finance title list Philosophy title list Political science title list Religion title list Music title list |
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| SourceOECD books Country Studies, Annuals and Outlooks, and Statistics, covering 20 thematic areas including Aid, Energy, Agriculture, Education, Health, Social and Economic Issues, transport, Governance, and Development. |
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| Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Book Collections @Wiley Interscience | Terms & conditions |
| Blackwell Reference Online Includes the authoritative Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, plus access to Handbooks and Companions on aspects of management, economics, and econometrics. |
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| Books@Ovid
Books covering Health and Medicine. Includes the Oxford University Press Brain Science Collection. (Please Logoff when finished) |
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CAB eBooks Books on agriculture, tourism, and the environment published by CABI. |
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| ScienceDirect ebooks The Library subscribes to the following Book Series: Chemistry, Life Sciences,& Methods in Enzymology, Neuroscience, Veterinary Science, and Veterinary Medicine. |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online Search the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century |
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| EEBO: Early English Books Online EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. |
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| Health Sciences encyclopedias via Gale Virtual Reference Library Search Encyclopedia of Aging, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Encyclopedia of Disability, Encyclopedia of of Public Health, Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior, Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z. |
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| Knovel Library A collection of online engineering reference books covering aerospace, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and general engineering and including information about adhesives, biochemistry, biotechnology, ceramics, electronics, environment, food science, metals, oil & gas, plastics, pharmaceuticals, power, safety, textiles and more. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1983 -
Medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching - quickly, informally, and at a high level. Full text access to issues from v. 1 (1973)- Not all the issues published in print are available electronically |
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| Lecture Notes in Mathematics (1964 - present ) New developments in all areas of mathematics and their applications |
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| Lecture Notes in Physics (1969 - 1996, 2000 - present) New developments in physics research and teaching, with the explicit aim to summarize and communicate current knowledge in an accessible way. Books published in this series are conceived as bridging material between advanced graduate textbooks and the forefront of research. |
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| Medical e-books by topic Electronic textbooks and dictionaries arranged by topic, by the Medical Library. |
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| New Pauly Online The New Pauly has become a recognized standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. It provides comprehensive coverage of the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean (2nd millennium BCE) to late antiquity (600-800 CE). A special section of the encyclopedia is devoted to the reception of the ancient world until the present day and the history of classical scholarship. It gives special attention to the interaction between Greek and Roman culture and the neighbouring Semitic, Celtic, Germanic etc. cultures. Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs. Click Logon to New Pauly Online. Requires download of New Pauly font. |
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| Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Book Collection @Wiley Interscience | Terms & conditions |
| Polymers, Materials Science and Industrial Chemistry Book Collection @Wiley Interscience | Terms & conditions |
| PsycBOOKS via OvidSP 1806 - PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of books and chapters produced by the American Psychological Association. |
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Royal Society of Chemistry eBook Collection (1940 - current) Ebooks published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, covering all aspects of chemical science. |
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Safari Tech Books
(Click Bookshelf to access subscribed titles) A collection of online computing and technical books for programmers and IT professionals. |
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| STAT!Ref -
Find Stat!ref titles STAT!Ref includes more than 20 full text resources in the areas of medicine, pharmacy, health sciences and dentistry.. Contents include: ACP PIER Physician's Information and Education Reference, Basic & clinical pharmacology, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV, Goodman & Gilman's the pharmacological basis of therapeutics, Review of medical physiology. |
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| Blackwell Reference Online Includes the authoritative Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, plus access to Handbooks and Companions on aspects of management, economics, and econometrics. |
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| Brill Encyclopedia of Islam, Encyclopedia of the Qur’¯an |
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| Dictionary of Australian Artists Online Constantly being updated, the foundation data focuses predominantly on Colonial artists; women artists to 1950; black and white artists; Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and the Sydney region. |
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DOE: Dictionary of Old English Searchable vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language, from the letters A to G. |
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| Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics Online Covers the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics. |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library More than 20 encyclopedias covering religious studies, modern history and politics, health and public health, nutrition, popular culture - film, music, fashion, sociology and psychology, life sciences. |
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| Macquarie Dictionary Search the Macquarie Dictionary Fourth Edition - Australia's national dictionary and thesaurus. The Macquarie Dictionary is constantly updated with new words as they enter our language. |
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| New Pauly Online The New Pauly has become a recognized standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. It provides comprehensive coverage of the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean (2nd millennium BCE) to late antiquity (600-800 CE). A special section of the encyclopedia is devoted to the reception of the ancient world until the present day and the history of classical scholarship. It gives special attention to the interaction between Greek and Roman culture and the neighbouring Semitic, Celtic, Germanic etc. cultures. Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs. Click Logon to New Pauly Online. Requires download of New Pauly font. |
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| Oxford English Dictionary The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. |
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| Oxford Reference Online: Premium plus Western Civilization Collection Oxford University Press reference works, including English and bi-lingual dictionaries, a Visual English Dictionary, Maps, the World Encyclopedia, and subject-based dictionaries and encyclopedias on: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics & Business, Food & Drink, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Military History, Mythology & Folklore, Names & Places, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Philosophy, and Science. |
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| Major Reference Works @ ScienceDirect Access to 13 Elsevier Major Reference Works: Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II, Encyclopedias of Applied Plant Sciences, Applied Psychology, Biological Chemistry, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Biological Chemistry, Human Nutrition, Language & Linguistics, Materials: Science and Technology, Ocean Sciences, Social Measurement, Soils in the Environment, and Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, and the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences |
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| Wiley Interscience Reference Works (access to selected titles only) |
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