EBooks

E-books are an electronic version of a traditional print book. We offer a comprehensive selection of e-Books from well known publishers.

Brill
Brill is delighted to offer the library world more and more of our titles in e-book format. These e-books are in full-text, searchable electronic format. New titles will be regularly added through 2010.You can access Brill e-books in two ways, either as a special e-book collection, purchased directly from Brill, or through one of our e-book vendors.

De Gruyter
Their eBooks – together with their eJournals and some of their databases – are available via their integrated online platform ReferenceGlobal. A continuously growing number of electronically published book titles are available: each year approximately 800 new titles will be added to the platform.

Duke University Press
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection includes between 100 and 120 new electronic books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. In years in which they purchase the collection, customers also receive access to over 1,200 backlist titles. 
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection is hosted on the ebrary® platform. Duke content is not included in any other ebrary® aggregation but is cross-searchable with other ebrary® content.

Columbia
Columbia University Press was founded in 1893 and is the fourth-oldest university press in the United States. The purpose of the press expressed in its Certificate of Incorporation is to "promote the study of economic, historical, literary, scientific and other subjects and to promote and encourage the publication of literary works embodying original research in such subjects."

Informa Healthcare
Informa Healthcare is the medical publishing division of Informa PLC, a global media company. Informa Healthcare is one of the leading publishers in the medical, pharmaceutical, and life sciences category.

Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE)
They publish a wide range of print books, ebooks and manuals, including design guides, reference works, technical monographs, textbooks and conference proceedings. They also publish the ICE and NEC3 forms of contract.

Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET)
IET e-books give professionals access to 300+ electronic titles across 21 specialist disciplines, covering all key areas of engineering and technology including Power, Renewable Energy, Control, Telecommunications, Circuits and Electromagnetic Waves.

McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill Professional helps individuals excel in their learning and occupations by providing timely and authoritative knowledge to professionals around the world.  We offer digital tools, services, and books through four core publishing programs

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
The RSC eBook collection, dating from 1968 to 2011, includes 1,039 eBooks, only available on the RSC Publishing Platform.   The RSC eBook Collection is an expanding online reference library containing over 1,000 high quality, chemical sciences eBooks published by the RSC.

Springer
Springer’s eBook Collection uses the portability, searchability, and unparalleled ease of access of PDF and HTML data formats to make access for researchers, as convenient as possible. Springer eBook Collections offer accurate reproductions of high quality Springer print book publications, together with all the added benefits of an online environment, including exceptional search capabilities and bookmarks.

Taylor and Francis
With our new eBook subscription packages you can maximise your resources effectively, with quick and efficient access to the right material at the right time, where and when you want it.

Thieme
The Thieme E-Library provides a resource for learning, review, and research in medicine and the life science subject areas to meet an institution's needs

Wiley
Wiley Online Library features thousands of high-quality, prize-winning and top-selling book titles across the scientific, technical, medical, business and social science disciplines. Handbooks, companions, monographs, guides, reference works, and classic book series are all available online plus we now offer discounted subject collections so you can build your e-library quickly, easily and at low cost.
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