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December E-Book News

We have additions to the following e-book packages.

WebBanner6Berg Fashion Library – We have added 70 e-books to our catalogue in December.  See a list of the Berg e-books (currently 80 are available) at the e-book page on the Berg Fashion Library.

 

logoCambridge Books Online – We have access to a further 477 e-books across most subject areas, these are in the process of being added to our catalogue.  See the excel list here.

 

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Dawsonera – We have purchased a further 151 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.

 

 

logoEBL – We have purchased a further 94 e-books from a variety of publishers across most subject areas.  These have been added to our catalogue.  See the list of titles here.

 

 

ebook logoEbsco/MyILibrarymyilib_B2B_491X42_hi-res A further 68 titles have been added to our catalogue.  See the list here.

 

 

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Elsevier Science Direct – We have added a further 207 e-books across various subject disciplines to our catalogue.  See the list here.

 

 

 

 

EO_OxfordReference_LRCBannerOxford Reference Online – We have replaced or added 20 titles published in 2014.  Browse a list of our titles here.

 

Further info

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.

 

 

New E-Book Collections – August

We have recently purchased 3 new e-book collections.  The individual titles are in the process of being added to our catalogue but links to the collections are available from the e-book A-Z list.

 

Access Engineeringae-logo

Access Engineering provides access to over 200 engineering reference sources; 5,000 interactive graphs and downloadable tables and charts; personalization tools; instructional videos. Includes Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers.

 

Casalini e-books package

The Casalini full text platform (Torrossa) provides access to a selection of 1,867 scholarly e-books from Italian and Spanish academic publishers since 2000 for Edinburgh University Casalini logousers. The collection consists of 1,188 titles on Italian studies and Italian literature and 679 titles on Spanish studies. The books are in Italian or Spanish and can be either downloaded or viewed online in PDF format (it is necessary to disable pop-up blockers on your web browser and also in your Google tool bar if applicable). The e-book collection is fully searchable, including by words in the full text. Click here to get a full list of the e-book titles.

 

 Wageningen Academic Publisherswag logo

We now have access to the e-books published between 2002 and 2014 on the Wageningen Academic Publishers platform.  Main subject areas include Animal & Veterinary Science, Environmental  & Plant Science, Food Science and Social Science.

Further info

Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks