E-book providers

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ACS Symposium Series Online
Subjects: food chemistry, organic chemistry, materials science, etc
Contents: all volumes of conference proceedings from symposia of the Technical Department of the American Chemical Society (ACS) from 1951 onwards

AGU (American Geophysical Union)
Subjects: geological sciences
Contents: all book series published from 1956 onwards

ASM Handbooks
Subject: materials science
Contents: all the handbooks of ASM International (formerly American Society for Metals)

Begell Digital Library
Subjects: thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, fluid mechanics
Contents: all volumes of the "Series in thermal and fluids science and engineering"

Brill Academic Publishers
Subjects: materials science, surface chemistry
Contents: all e-books in the above subjects published between 2007 and 2010

CABI (Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International)
Subjects: agricultural sciences, veterinary medicine, environmental sciences, health and nutrition, leisure and tourism
Contents: books published from 2000 onwards. The chapters are indexed in the CAB Abstracts database and linked directly to the full text via SFX. Several encyclopaedia.

Cambridge Books Online
Subjects: chemistry, biology, mathematics, physics, astronomy, engineering, environmental sciences, management, art
Contents: all e-books in the above subjects published from 2009 onwards

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Subjects: biology, medicine
Contents: all monographs published between 1970 and 2009

CRC Press
Subjects: natural sciences, technology, medicine, economics, information technology
Contents: all titles in the SCI-TECHnetBASE, CHEMLIBnetBASE and ECONOMICSnetBASE

De Gruyter
Subjects: natural sciences, technology, medicine, economics, information technology
Contents: all e-books and e-journals in the above subjects, the reference work "Bergmann/Schaefer Physik Online", the "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online" as well as the package "Best of Mathematics" containing classics in mathematics

ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
Subjects: natural sciences, technology, medicine
Contents: All titles in the above subjects (collection 1 and 2). Literature from the 18th century, printed in the United Kingdom, plus some American works

Edward Elgar
Subjects: business, management
Contents: all handbooks in the above subjects published between 2004 and 2010

Elsevier E-Books
Subjects: science, technology, medicine, health sciences, social sciences, economics
Contents: all monographs, a number of major reference works and handbooks published from 1995 onwards

Emerald
Subjects: business, accounting, finance, strategy planning
Contents: over 80 series of books totalling more than 650 volumes from the "Business, Management and Economics" collection

European Mathematical Society
Subject: mathematics
Contents: all titles published from 2004 onwards

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Cengage Learning)
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Contents: numerous reference works from various publishers

Geological Society of London
Subjects: geological sciences
Contents: all volumes of the series "Special publications" published from 1964 (volume 1) onwards

Giardino di Archimede
Subjects: mathematics and related sciences
Contents: all titles, significant historical works dating from the second half of the 15th century to the 18th century

Hanser
Subjects: civil engineering, construction, electrical engineering, computer science, plastics technology, mechanical engineering, mathematics and natural sciences, quality management, economics
Contents: all titles in the above subjects

IEEE/IEE electronic library
Subjects: electrical engineering, information science, electronics
Contents: access to the whole content of the “IEEE Xplore” platform

IET (Institution of Engineering Technology)
Subjects: engineering, technology
Contents: all e-books published between 1990 and 2009

IGI Global
Subjects: information science, computer science, management
Contents: all titles published from 2000 onwards

Industrial Press
Subjects: engineering, technology, production
Contents: all titles in the above subjects published between 1936 and 2009

Informa Healthcare
Subjects: pharmaceutical sciences, neurology, oncology, toxicology
Contents: all e-books in the above subjects published between 2002 and 2011

IOS Press Books Online
Subjects: science, technology, medicine
Contents: all e-books in the above subjects published between 2001 and 2011

ISA (International Society of Automation)
Subjects: technology, automation
Contents: all e-books published between 2008 and 2010

ITIL (Best Management Practice)
Subject: computer science
Contents: five essential works on "Good Practices" that describe how to implement an IT Service Management system (ITSM) and represent the international standard

Karger
Subjects: medicine, natural sciences
Contents: all e-books published until 2009

Knovel E-Books
Subjects: technology, natural sciences
Contents: All resources, with the exception of the Life Science Collection and the Merck Index. Online reference books from various publishers. Special feature: interactive charts and tables which can be directly edited and modified.

McGraw Hill
Subjects: engineering, computer science

Contents: all e-books in the above subjects

Momentum Press
Subjects: mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, manufacturing engineering
Contents: all e-books in the above subjects published between 2009 and 2010

Morgan & Claypool
Subjects: engineering, computer science, life sciences
Contents: All subject-based series of 50- to 100-page "lectures". These each deal with a specific subject and are written by experts.

MyiLibrary
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Contents: selected titles from various publishers

OECD iLibrary
Subjects: economics, economic trends
Contents: all studies, books, papers und statistics released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)

Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag / Akademie Verlag
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Contents: all titles, including many textbooks, from the collections "Engineering", "Mathematics", "Computer Science", and "Natural Sciences" published between 2000 and 2011

Oxford University Press
Subjects: biology, mathematics, physics, neurosciences, business studies, economics, finance, philosophy, politics
Contents: Titles from the modules on the above subjects available on "Oxford Scholarship Online". There are also searchable summaries and keywords at book and chapter level for all e-books. Access to the "Encyclopedia of the middle ages".

Palgrave Connect
Subjects: business, management, economics, finance
Contents: monographs, textbooks and handbooks in the above subjects published from 2006 onwards

Penn Well
Subjects: energy market and management
Contents: all e-books published between 1984 and 2009

Referex Engineering
Subject: engineering sciences
Contents: all titles from the Elsevier publishing house available via the "Engineering Village" platform

RSC eBook Collection
Subjects: chemistry and related sciences (e.g. biology, environmental and materials Sscience)
Contents: all titles published from 1968 onwards

SAE Digital Library
Subjects: automotive engineering, aviation and space technology
Contents: All titles. Technical papers, conference proceedings, standards, specifications and regulations published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) since 1906.

Safari Tech Books Online
Subject: information technology
Contents: all e-books (without videos)

Siam Reference Collection
Subject: applied mathematics
Contents: all e-books produced by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Smithers Rapra
Subjects: polymer technology

Contents: all textbooks, guides and conference proceedings published between 1996 and 2011

SPIE E-Books
Subjects: electrical engineering, instrumentation and control engineering, natural sciences in general, technology in general
Contents: all titles published by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) from 1989 onwards

Springer E-Books
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Contents:monographs in English and German (including many textbooks), document series (e.g. various lecture notes) and reference works published from 2005 onwards by Springer and its imprints (Birkhäuser, Gabler, etc.) and numerous older titles

Taylor & Francis
Subjects: natural sciences, technology
Contents: all titles in the above subjects, e-books from the publisher Marcel Dekker, now part of the publishing group Taylor & Francis, published between 1999 and 2004

Thieme
Subjects: biology, chemistry, toxicology
Contents: selected textbooks in the above subjects

Thomas Telford
Subject: civil engineering
Contents: all reference works, technical works, conference proceedings and contract documents that are available via the "ICE Virtual Library" (Institution of Civil Engineers) platform

UTB
Subjects: natural sciences, geosciences, business economics, macroeconomics
Contents: all textbooks in the above subjects

Wiley Online Books
Subjects: natural sciences, technology, medicine, economics, humanities, information technology
Contents: Numerous selected titles from the publishers Blackwell Publishing and Wiley. All e-books published from 2011 onwards in the collections "Agriculture, Aquaculture and Food Science", "Art and Applied Arts", "Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting", "Chemistry", "Computer Science and Information Technology", "Earth and Environment", "Life Sciences", "Mathematics and Statistics", and "Physical Sciences and Engineering". All major reference works in the subjects science, technology, and medicine.

WISO
Subjects: business management, social sciences
Contents: All resources, references and full text versions from journals as well as e-books from the Deutscher Fachverlag, Gabal Verlag, Rainer Hampp Verlag and Rudolf Haufe Verlag, published from 2001 onwards. Most of the works are in German.

Woodhead
Subjects: materials science and engineering, textile technology, food science, technology and nutrition
Contents: all e-books in the above subjects published from 2003 onwards

World Scientific eBooks
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Contents: all works published from 2009 onwards, plus numerous older titles



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