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 E-books
 
  The Library currently subscribes to a number of databases which provide access to thousands of e-books across a variety of disciplines.
 
  E-books available via the Library
 
 
New Oxford Scholarship Online Psychology Collection Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to 80 full text e-books in the areas of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive development. It features all titles from the renowned Oxford Psychology Series. Full title list here.
 
New Oxford Scholarship Online Public Health & Epidemiology Collection Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to 102 full text e-books in the area of public health & epidemiology which discuss the development and assessment of public health issues that affect a diverse range of populations world wide.  Full title list here.
 
New PsycBooks PsycBooks is the APA's full text e-book collection in the area of psychology. It provides access to 778 books published by APA, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950–2002, 1,027 classic resources in psychology and exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
 
     RSC eBook Collection Over 800 chemical science e-books published by the RSC (1968-2008)
 
  Safari Books online Computer Science e-books. Listing of the individual titles (with direct links)
 
  ACLS Humanities E-Book History, Art, Women’s Studies and other subject areas
 
  Literature Online Over 6,000 works of poetry, prose and drama
 
  The Making of Modern Law Access to thousands of UK and US legal treatises covering the period
1800 -1926
 
  Women’s Writers Online Texts by pre-Victorian women writers (1400 to 1850)
 
   
  Online Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries via the Library
 
 
    Oxford Reference Online  - encyclopaedias and dictionaries covering a number of subject areas 
    Oxford English Dictionary
    Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy Online
    Wiley InterScience - check out a number of useful science related encylopaedias
 
  Selected E-book resources via the Web

Of course there is also lots of e-books available free to everyone via the web for example….
 
    Corpus of Electronic Text (CELT)
The online resource for Irish History, Literature and Politics
    Google Book Search
Google has joined forces with a number of Libraries and publishers to provide free access to books, if you don’t get the entire book, you might get to see a sample chapter or the table of contents.
    The Online Books Page
Features links to over 30,000 free books on the web 
    Project Gutenberg
The Internet's oldest producer of free e-books
    Universal Digital Library
Free digitized collection of over 1 million books and other material
     

 

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