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E-books

Published and licenced e-books:

Name of Service Subject Coverage
The Academic Library Culture and Media Studies
Blackwell Reference Online Business, Management, Economics, Psychology and Sociology
Books24x7 Business, Finance, Computing and IT
CREDOreference Multidisciplinary
Ebrary Academic Complete Multidisciplinary
Lexis®Library (formerly LexisNexis Butterworths) Law and Taxation
MyiLibrary Multidisciplinary
NetLibrary Multidisciplinary
PsycBOOKS Psychology
Oxford Reference Online Multidisciplinary
SourceOECD Taxation Taxation
Westlaw UK Law
World Tourism Organization e-library Tourism

With the exception of titles in the Books24x7, Lexis®Library (formerly LexisNexis Butterworths) and World Tourism Organization collections, entries to individual e-book titles can also be found on the Library Catalogue.

Freely available e-books:

The sites listed below are freely accessible and as such the Library has no influence on the content or access. In addition the Library cannot troubleshoot access problems, or communicate with the service provider on your behalf.

There may also be a requirement to register to use some of the services and/or install plugins to view the content. Details are provided on the services web sites.

Name of Service Subject Coverage
American Mathematical Society Mathematics
Bartleby.com Reference, verse, fiction and non fiction
Biodiversity Heritage Library Biodiversity
California Digital Library eScholarship Editions Multidisciplinary
Classic Reader Classic books, plays and short stories
Cornell University Historical Monographs Collection Multidisciplinary
EU Bookshop European Union publications
Eurostat EU Statistics
Free Books Multidisciplinary
Freebooks4doctors Medicine
FreeComputerBooks.com Computing
FreeTechBooks.com Computing
Google Book Search Multidisciplinary. Some books available in fulltext but mostly able to browse up to 20% of the content
House of Commons Library Research Papers Government
Microsoft e-books catalogue Multidisciplinary
National Academies Press Science
OnlineComputerBooks.com Computing
O'Reilly Open Books Computing
Oxford Text Archive Literature, Language and Linguistics
Project Gutenberg Multidisciplinary
Read Print Literature
Turning the Pages Multidisciplinary
UK Government publications Government
Universal Digital Library Multidisciplinary
University of Chicago Digital Activities & Collections Multidisciplinary
University of Pennsylvania list of free online books Multidisciplinary
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Multidisciplinary

In addition, Ebooks(OCLC) is a bibliographic database of electronic books.

Any copying or printing of books or e-books must be within copyright guidelines. For the purposes of your own private study, you may make a single copy of one chapter or a maximum of 5% of a book or e-book - whichever is less.

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