A further 253 e-books across most subject areas have been added to DiscoverEd. Cambridge Core hosts books from a variety of publishers including Edinburgh University Press, Cambridge University Press, Boydell & Brewer. A list of the new titles and subject areas can be found in the spreadsheet here.
A further 173 e-books are available from Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press and Boydell & Brewer across a wide variety of subject disciplines. Please see the title list here. The e-books are now available on DiscoverEd.
We have added to DiscoverEd, 304 new monographs and 113 new coursebooks from the following subject areas: American History, American Literature, Anthropology, Archaeology, Astronomy, British History, Classical Studies, Computer Science, Drama and Theatre, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, Engineering, English Literature, European and World Literature, European History, Film, Media, Mass Communication, History Cross Discipline, History Other Regions, Language and Linguistics, Law, Life Sciences, Management, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Statistics and Probability. Most of the e-books are published by Cambridge University Press but some of the monographs are also published by Edinburgh University Press, Boydell & Brewer and the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute.
A list of the new titles can be found in this spreadsheet with the monographs on tab 1 and the coursebooks on tab 2. Columns can be filtered by subject discipline.
This is the first batch of e-books to be loaded into DiscoverEd since Cambridge University Press launched Cambridge Core. This new website replaces the separate websites they previously maintained for their e-journals, e-books, Cambridge Companions series, Cambridge Histories series, University Publishing Online.
We have purchased the following e-book collections to add to our existing Oxford Handbooks Online holdings:
These new purchases now bring us fully up to date with all Oxford Handbooks Online content until the end of 2016. Title lists for the entire collection or subject specific title lists are available at http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/page/title-lists
Basic records for each e-book have been added to DiscoverEd, these will be overwritten with fuller records. Additional titles will be added throughout 2016 as further titles are published.
An entry for Oxford Handbooks Online is also listed on the E-book AZ list and the Databases AZ list.
A further 130 monographs and 32 coursebooks have been made available in September. A list of the additions can be found at the links below. These are now available via DiscoverEd.
September Coursebooks Additions
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
For this academic year we have expanded our holdings to include coursebooks – we have now loaded 8000+ e-books across most subject disciplines to DiscoverEd. A list of the additions can be found here.
A full list of our Cambridge Books Online can be found here. We will provide monthly updates on new titles added.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
Following a successful trial last year we now subscribe to the Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
This is a package of e-books in archaeology. Around 10-15 new books are added each month. Subscribed and open access e-books will be added to the library catalogue/Searcher. The current list of titles can be found here and future updated lists will be available from our A-Z lists on the library website.
Online access requires the use of our library link listed in the EASE protected password page and then the Archaeopress login listed there.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
A further 260 new titles have been added to our Cambridge Books Online Collection across the following subject areas; American History, Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, British History, Classical studies, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, Education, English Literature, European History, General Science, Geography, History Cross Discipline, History Other Regions, Language and Linguistics, Law, Life Sciences, Management, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Politics and international relations, Psychology, Religion, Sociology . See the list here.
Dawsonera – We have purchased a further 73 e-books across most subject areas and from a variety of publishers. These are all on our catalogue. See the excel list of titles here.
EBL – We have purchased a further 98 e-books from a variety of publishers across most subject areas. These have been added to our catalogue. See the list of titles here.
Ebsco/MyILibrary – 
A further 45 titles have been added to our catalogue. See the list here.
We have added a further 201 titles to our Oxford Scholarship Online Collection. Subject areas include: Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Palliative Care, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion, Social Work and Sociology. See the list here.
We have access to a further 464 titles from Palgrave in the following subject collection areas: Business & Management Collection 2015, Economics & Finance Collection 2015, Education Collection 2015, History Collection 2015, International Relations & Development Collection 2015, Language & Linguistics Collection 2015, Literature Collection 2015, Media & Culture Collection 2015, Political Science Collection 2015, Religion & Philosophy Collection 2015, Social Sciences Collection 2015 and Theatre & Performance Collection 2015. New titles will be added weekly until September when the collections will become complete. See the latest new titles added to our catalogue/Searcher here.
Elsevier Science Direct – We have added a further 16 e-books to our catalogue. See the list here.
On the Taylor & Francis e-book platform we have access to a further 674 titles primarily in the subject areas of Education, Environment and Sustainability, Philosophy. See the title list here.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
The following have seen additions to content and have been or are in the process of being added to our catalogue.
Access Engineering has seen about 30 title additions as well as new calculators and videos over the last couple of months – see the new titles listed at http://ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://accessengineeringlibrary.com/pages/updates
We have added 1156 e-books to our Cambridge Books Online package (includes some partner press titles). Titles have been added to most subject areas. Access the list here.
Cambridge Histories Online – we have purchased the 2014 published titles and these are in the process of being added to our catalogue as the titles are published (final titles due 5th Dec). The list can be browsed here.
Dawsonera – A further 223 titles were added to our catalogue over the last couple of months. See the title list here.
EBL – A further 140 titles were added to our catalogue over the last couple of months. See the list here.
Ebsco/MyILibrary – A further 59 title have been added to our catalogue during Sept and Oct. See the title list here.
IEEEXplore – we have added a further 21 titles published by IEEE-Wiley. Titles listed here.
Oxford Handbooks Online – Archaeology, Classical studies and History modules (6 titles). We have purchased the 2014 published titles listed here.
We have added a further 90 titles from Oxford Scholarship Online to our catalogue. A list of the new titles is here.
From Palgrave Connect we have 164 new titles in Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Education, History, International Relations & Development, Media & Culture, Political Science, Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences and Theatre & Performance. We have received the final update for 2014. Further titles will become available to us in March 2015. See the list here.
Royal Society of Chemistry – We have added 14 more titles to our catalogue recently. A list is here.
From Springer we have access to a further 521 e-books across most subject disciplines. See the title list here.
From Taylor & Francis we have added an additional 172 titles in Education to the catalogue. See all 4 tabs on the excel list here.
University Press Scholarship Online has an additional 1226 titles added to our holdings in a wide range of subject areas and academic publishers. These have been added to the catalogue but see also a title list here.
Wageningen – we have a further 14 titles, subject area life sciences. Access the list here.
A further 100 new Wiley Online Library titles have been added to our catalogue. A list of the titles is available here.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
We have trial access to Archaeopress E-books until 28th October. Access on or off campus via the username and password listed on our password webpage (use EASE to access this).
Archaeopress digital subscription service currently includes over 300 archaeology e-book titles, including British Archaeological Reports. Around 10-15 new files are added each month.
Feedback and further info
We are interested to know what you think of this e-book package and platform as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.
A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.