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Ebooks
What are electronic books (ebooks)?
This page is under review, please contact your librarian or check your subject guide for up to date information
These are electronic versions of textbooks or reference books, are usually available as web documents or PDF files. You can search for information across a whole collection of books or within a specific text. They can't be damaged or lost, and you can't return them late, so you never get a fine!
Our ebooks are available through the library catalogue as well as this web page. You can display a full list by running a keyword search for electronic book You can link to our 
RSS feed for new e-books to see new titles added to stock.
Get started by viewing our flash movie on ebooks.
| E-Book Collection | Password | Subject |
|---|---|---|
|
AMS Books Online (American Mathematical Society) |
On-campus access only. Password not required |
mathematical physics, algebra, geometry, logic, number theory and probability |
| ATSDR's Toxicological Reviews | Athens for access off-campus only | toxicological and epidemiological information |
| Books@Ovid | Athens Quick guide |
medical, nursing (To see all books in the collection from the library catalogue, do an author search for 'Books@Ovid') |
| bookboon.com | No password needed |
Free textbook collection covering economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science. |
| Brill E-Books Collections: International Law 2009 | On-campus access only. Password not required |
international law |
| Brill E-Books Collections: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law 2009 | On-campus access only. Password not required |
human rights law |
| Athens for access off-campus only | Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Engineering, Medicine | |
| Cengage Learning |
Athens for access off-campus only | Social Sciences, Science and Technology (To see all books in the collection from the library catalogue, do an author search for 'Cengage Learning E-Book Collection') |
CHEMnetBASE |
Athens |
Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD), Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Polymers, Properties of Organic Compounds, and the Periodic Table |
Athens |
engineering, chemistry, physics, environmental science, IT, mathematics, statistics, food science, neuroscience and forensic science (including law enforcement). | |
| dawsonera | Athens | general |
| EBL (Electronic Book Library) | Athens | general |
| Glasgow Digital Library Ebooks | Password not required | a free collection of ebooks on Glasgow and Scotland. |
| Hague Academy of International Law Collected Courses Online |
On-campus access only. |
Law |
| IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library | Athens for access off-campus only | computing, engineering |
| Knovel E-Books | Athens for access off-campus only | physics, chemistry, engineering and mathematics |
| Athens | Business/Management, Engineering, Media and Medicine/Health (To see all books in the collection from the library catalogue do an author search for 'Jisc National Ebooks Observatory') |
|
| Lecture Notes on Computing Science | Athens | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Software Engineering |
| MyiLibrary | Athens | nursing |
| netLibrary | Athens | general |
| Oxford Reference Online | Athens |
English dictionaries and thesauri, bilingual dictionaries, subject dictionaries and general reference works |
| Oxford Scholarship Online | Athens | Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion, Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Psychology and Social Work. |
| PolymersNetBase | Athens | polymers |
| Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy | get the password | philosophy |
Safari Tech Books Online |
Athens |
business, certification, computer science, databases, desktop applications, software engineering, multimedia, networking, programming |
| Sage e-Reference Collection | Athens | encyclopedias & reference book (mainly in the social sciences) |
| Science Direct e-books | Athens | business, management and accounting |
| Athens | Scots law (includes Stair Society publications) |
|
| Stat!Ref |
Athens | midwifery (To see all books in the collection from the library catalogue do an author search for Stat!Ref) |
| Taylor and Francis Online eBook Library | Athens | business |
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