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E-books

Benefits of e-books

• Accessible at all hours - 24x7
• Accessible by all students and staff regardless of location
• Ability to search within text
• High quality content
• Extend the Library's collections
• More students can access an e-book within a given time
• No waiting for an e-book to be reshelved.

Finding e-books

1. E-books can be found by searching the Library Catalogue.
2. E-books can be identified by the e-book symbol that appears in the format column
3. To find e-books on a particular topic, try a keyword search and choose the 'limit to' 'Material Type = ebook' option or search for the title of the book if you know it.
4. If accessing e-books from EBL, NetLibrary, Safari, ScienceDirect or Taylor & Francis home pages, users can search across the UOW licensed e-books available from each publisher.

Reading and using e-books

• Bennett ETitles User Guide
• NetLibrary User Guide
• Safari User Guide

Electronic reference books

• AccessMedicine - Medicine
• AccessPharmacy - Pharmacy
• Australian Medicines Handbook - Drugs marketed in Australia
• ChemNet Base - Chemistry dictionaries and handbooks
• Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds - 25,000 most commonly cited compounds in Chemical Abstracts
• Dictionary of Drugs - Drugs and pharmacological agents
• Dictionary of Natural Products  - Naturally occurring chemicals
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online - General information, multidisciplinary
• Encyclopedia of Archaeology Online - Archaeology
• Encyclopedia of Gerontology - Ageing
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - Biochemistry, biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, history of life sciences
• Encyclopedia of Materials - Material science
• Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - All aspects of nanoscale science and technology
• Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science - Quaternary period 
• ENVIROnetBase - Environmental science and engineering e-books
• Europaworld - Political and economic country data. Print equivalent, Europa World Yearbook
• Grove Art Online - Art in all periods and areas. Art forms, styles and movements, civilisations and cultures, subject matters and materials
• Grove Music Online - All aspects of music
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - Scientific data for chemistry and physics
• Handbook of Child Psychology - Child and developmental psychology
• Harrison's Practice - Medical topics
• International Encyclopedia of Communication - Media, psychology and IT aspects of communication.
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences - Psychology and related social sciences
• Macquarie Dictionary and Macquarie Thesaurus - Australian English language
• MDConsult - Over 50 online medical books plus other material
• Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (OMMBID) - Genetic disease
• MIMS Online - Pharmacy - Print equivalent - MIMS Annual and MIMS Bi-Monthly
• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics - Economics
• Optics Encyclopedia - Optics and its applications 
• Oxford English Dictionary - Meaning, history, and pronunciation of words in the English language over the last millenium
• Oxford Reference Online -  General reference, arts, history, business, sciences languages. Fulltext of dictionaries and other reference books.
• Oxford Scholarship Online - Electronic Books from Oxford University Press. The Library subscribes to the Economics and Finance module
• Polymers: a Property Database - Physical properties of polymers, scientific and trade information
• Properties of Organic Compounds - Organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures
• PsycBOOKS - Psychology includes current publications and classics
• Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy Online - Philosophy
• SourceOECD - Country data reports
• Treatise on Geochemistry - Geochemistry
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering - Computer science
• World of Learning - Directory of international universities, museums, research institutes, art galleries and libraries
• World Who's Who - Prominent people

Public domain e-books

• Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg produces electronic books (e-texts) and makes them freely available to the public. Over 5,000 e-books are available.
• Project Gutenberg of Australia - Includes Australian writers, works about Australia and works of interest to Australians.
• Free Books - Links to a range of worldwide e-books.

Content by: Electronic Services Librarian