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

E-books can be found by searching the Library Catalogue Finding and using e-books [SWF 2.3MB]
If accessing e-books from EBL, NetLibrary, Safari, ScienceDirect or Taylor & Francis homepages, users can search across the UOW licensed e-books available from each publisher.

Reading and using e-books

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

Last reviewed: 11 January, 2010

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