Ebooks

Electronic books, or ebooks, are generally electronic forms of printed books. They may be reference works, textbooks or any other form of book and, like ejournals, often have added functionality over their print equivalents.

ACLS History E-book

Over 3,000 books in all fields of history selected by scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies, published from the 1820's to date, fully searchable, with 250 new books added a year.

American National Biography

Biographical articles on over 17,000 people who have influenced the USA. As well as ANB's own entries there are 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History.

Early English Books Online

About 115,000 full text Early English books from 1475-1700. Includes titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

ebrary Academic Complete e-book collection

The library has access to the ebrary Academic Complete collection of e-books. This is a growing e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Everything published in letterpress in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland, plus all publications in English printed abroad, between 1700 and 1800. Over 135,000 eighteenth-century printed books, with more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages, are available. Each title has a full citation record from the English Short Title Catalogue and is fully searchable - including full-text and illustrations. Available from Infotrac.

Elsevier Reference Works Online

Reference Works on ScienceDirect offer a comprehensive review of a field, ranging from the specialist studies to the multi-volume broad-based encyclopedias. An ideal starting point for research, the short articles and entries reference primary journal articles for more in-depth study. We currently subscribe to seven titles which are:-

  • Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
  • Encyclopedia of Geology
  • Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (second ed)
  • Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology
  • Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science
  • Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions
  • Treatise on Geochemistry

 

Encyclopedia of Biostatistics

A definitive reference to support the development and use of statistical methods for addressing the problems and critical issues confronted by those working in the life and medical sciences. Contains over 1300 articles across 8 cross referenced volumes.

Encyclopedia of Mathematics

One of the most important general reference works in maths, currently freely available. No search option, but can do this via Google (add the command site:eom.springer.de).

HeinOnline

The books here are "Legal Classics", over 1,000 works from the greatest legal minds, Maritime and Commercial Law (1930); Apologie for Women...an opposition to Dr G. who held that it was lawful for husbands to beate their wives (1609); Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769).

i-law.com

Our subscription to i-law.com includes approximately forty books in the areas of maritime, commercial, insurance and arbitration law.  Examples include Cooke on Voyage Charters, Briggs on Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments, Good Faith and Insurance Contracts by Eggers and the Arbitration Law Handbook by Born.  i-law.com also includes journals and law reports in the same subject areas so these can be searched simultaneously if required.

 

Knovel

We have access to several titles, which are freely available to Higher Education. Keyword searches can be done across the full text of all titles, and 'Advanced Search' allows searching by properties too. Some titles available also include interactive features such as tables and graphs.

LexisLibrary

This legal database, used mainly for law reports and journals, also includes some books, both for the UK and for other jurisdictions. Most usefully, it has the full updated text of Halsbury's Laws of England.

Medieval Sources Online

Developed from the Manchester University Press Medieval Sources series, this is an exciting electronic project which provides the full text of all of the books in the series for students, academics, colleges and universities.

MyiLibrary

The library is developing its collection of ebooks on the MyiLibrary platform. The titles are mostly course texts; subjects covered include education, engineering, health, medicine, management and media studies.

NetLibrary (eBook Collection via EBSCOhost)

The Library has subscribed to many course reading list titles via NetLibrary, which is an internationally known platform for delivering electronic books. These electronic books mainly cover the areas of medicine, health, nursing, social and biological sciences. As a result of this subscription, we also get free access to a further 3,400 publicly accessible electronic books in all subject areas.

Oxford Scholarship Online Law

Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of Oxford books in Law.

Ovid Medical and Nursing Textbooks

These are listed on Webcat with direct links. You will need your University Institutional Login or SUHT NHS Athens username to access the full text. When you are logged into OVID, click on the 'continue' button and then on the 'Books' link to see a list of titles available.

Oxford Art Online

This includes the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and Grove Art Online.

Oxford Music Online

This includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and the Oxford Companion to Music.

Oxford English Dictionary

The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with subsequent additions.

Oxford Reference Online

This is a suite of reference books from Oxford University Press covering a whole range of subjects. Full text searching is possible across all titles, or within an individual or group of titles.

Sage Reference Online

This is a collection of over 40 online encyclopaedias, largely in the social sciences.

SPIE Digital Library

SPIE eBooks is the online source for three valuable series of SPIE Press titles in optics and photonics.

  • SPIE Press Monographs are authoritative reference books, textbooks, and handbooks.
  • Tutorial Texts cover fundamental and emerging topics at introductory and intermediate levels.
  • Field Guides present key information that students and practicing engineers and scientists need in a concise format.
  • SPIE e-Books - No password on campus. Off campus only via VPN

Westlaw

Our subscription to Westlaw includes some legal books, largely from the USA, but there are some notable texts from the UK. These include Archbold on Criminal Pleading, Palmer's Company Law, Redfern & Hunter on Arbitration, and the C.I.P.A. Guide to the Patents Act.

Wiley

Over 30 books are now available (mostly engineering). Also one reference title is currently available, with a searchable database of articles.