Electronic Books

Many electronic books can be found by searching the Library's on-line catalog. The web sites listed below are major packages for science electronic books. Access to most titles in these packages is limited to the University of Chicago community.

General and Multidisciplinary Collection

Google Book Search: Search full text of books. If a book is out of copyright, or Google has obtained permission from the publisher or rightsholder, you will be able to page through the entire book. If a book is still under copyright, you may see a limited or snippet view of the full text. For any copyrighted title, search the Library's online catalog to determine if we own it.
National Academies Press
NetLibrary: Full-text access to books on computers, elementary mathematics, basic statistics, and other subjects.
The Online Books Page: An extensive list of freely available online books. List can be browsed by author, title, and subject; can be searched by author and title.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses: Includes citations for materials from the first U.S. dissertation (1861) to those accepted as recently as last semester. Starting in 1997 full-text is often available. If full-text is not available information about ordering the document is provided.
Springer Electronic Books: Full text of most titles published from 2005 to present. [Access limited to U of C community]
Wiley Reference Works: Wiley InterScience's expanding collection of Reference Works deliver unimpeded access to multi-volume encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries within every category of scientific, technical and medical endeavor.

Specialized Subject Collections

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Knovel: Collection of science and engineering reference books with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Access to an aggregated collection of online full-text books from a variety of science/technology publishers. This resource is enhanced with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Covers subject areas of chemistry, materials science, chemical safety, life sciences, food science, and engineering. Basic keyword and advanced fielded searching is available.; Biological Sciences
Current Protocols: Laboratory procedure manuals for the following disciplines: Molecular Biology, Immunology, Human Genetics, Protein Science, Cytometry, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Cell Biology, Toxicology, and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Field Analytical Chemistry, Food Analytical Chemistry, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuroscience, and Pharmacology. Protocols may be searched individually or in combination, or they may be browsed
EBSCO Animals: EBSCO Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Knovel: Collection of science and engineering reference books with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Access to an aggregated collection of online full-text books from a variety of science/technology publishers. This resource is enhanced with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Covers subject areas of chemistry, materials science, chemical safety, life sciences, food science, and engineering. Basic keyword and advanced fielded searching is available.
NCBI Bookshelf: A growing collection of freely available, online versions of selected biomedical books.; Chemistry
Knovel: Collection of science and engineering reference books with interactive tables, graphs, and equations.Access to an aggregated collection of online full-text books from a variety of science/technology publishers. This resource is enhanced with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Covers subject qreas of chemistry, materials science, chemical safety, life sciences, food science, and engineering. Basic keyword and advanced fielded searching is available.; Computer Science
ACM Digital Library: Full-text of ACM publications including conference proceedings.
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library: Full text of all IEEE Computer Society publications, including proceedings; 1988 to present.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Full text of most volumes in this series; 1997 to present.
Safari Books Online: Full-text electronic versions of a broad range of technical, computer software and programming books. Browse by categories such as applied sciences, hardware, and programming etc. Search specific book by author, ISBN, title or publisher. Includes many O'Reilly publications.; Environmental Studies
BNA Environment & Safety Library: Provides full text of environmental laws and regulations, for the United States, Canada and Mexico; the full text of European Union directives and regulations; the complete text of thousands of legal decisions made by federal, state, and administrative courts; and thousands of interactive forms, guidance documents, directories, agency memoranda, and international treaties and agreements to ensure ready access to all relevant and required information.
Knovel: Collection of science and engineering reference books with interactive tables, graphs, and equatiions. Access to an aggregated collection of online full-text books from a variety of science/technology publishers. This resource is enhanced with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Covers subject areas of chemistry, materials science, chemical safety, life sciences, food science, and engineering. Basic keyword and advanced fielded searching is available.
SourceOECD: The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Resources include books in areas of energy, environment & sustainable development, and other areas concerned with environmental issues.; Geophysical Sciences
Lyell Collection: Full text versions of Geological Society of London books and journals, including books in the Special Publications, Memoirs and Engineering Geology Special Publications Series.; History of Science
EFTS: Electronic Full Text Sources: EFTS provides the primary means of access to, as well as information on, full-text scholarly resources available at the University of Chicago. Texts are arranged by language, subject, and searching interface. EFTS, unlike EOS, does not point to digital facsimiles of texts; rather, it directs patrons to "searchable" encoded texts and texts where one finds added value through hypertext links and the like. Examples include American Film Scripts Online, Diderot's Encyclopidie, English Poetry, Goethes Werke, Italian Women Writers, the Patrologia Latina Database, North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, the William Blake Archive, and more.
Intelex Past Masters: An extensive collection of philosophical texts, plus access to Stith Thompson's revision of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literatures and other reference sources.
Making of the Modern World: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: Full-text version of the Goldsmith-Kress microfilm collection, a comprehensive collection of economics and business literature dating from the last half of the 15th century to the early 20th century. Combines Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration-along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University. The collection presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. The collection focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. The collection includes works by major economists as well as political pamphlets, government publications, proclamations and other ephemera. Broad subjects covered include: Agriculture, Colonies, Commerce, Corn Laws/Navigation Acts/Mercantilism, Finance, Politics, Population, Slavery, Social Conditions, Socialism, Trades and Manufactures, and Transport.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Provides full-text access to selected books in philosophy, religion, economics and finance, and political science published by Oxford University Press. Currently includes over 700 titles, and 200 titles will be added annually.; Mathematics
AMS Books Online: A collection of AMS books freely available online; can be browsed by author or subject.
Cornell University Library Math Book Collection: Full-text images of 576 classic mathematics books; can be browsed by author or title.
Electronic Library of Mathematics: This online collection from EMIS includes journals, monographs, and other electronic resources that are freely available.
GDZ, Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum: Digital collection of 18th and 19th century German mathematics books and journals.
Lecture Notes in Mathematics: Full text of most volumes in this series; 1997 to present.
Links to Mathematics Books Online: AMS site that provides links to research-level mathematics books online.
Online Mathematics Textbooks: A list of mathematics textbooks freely available online.
The University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection: A growing collection of digitized books from the University's mathematics collection; can be searched or browsed.; Medical Sciences and Nursing
AccessMedicine: Contains the latest editions of clinical medicine texts, such as Harrison's Online, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Online, and Schwartz's Principles of Surgery Online. Offers the Lange Basic Science and Lange Current Clinical Science Series for on-going study, review, and reference. Also has the USMLEasy self-assessment tool, a drug index, an image index, the differential diagnosis tool Diagnosaurus, Current Practice Guidelines, diagnostic tests, and patient education information.
ACP Medicine-- formerly Scientific American Medicine: Current medical information covering the subspecialties of internal medicine. Good resource for current and summary information on a topic as well as for medical illustrations.
EBSCO Animals: EBSCO Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Harrison's Online: Provides access to complete text, illustrations, and expanded features from the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Updated daily with additional references and informtion.
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT): The Health Services Technology/Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a free, electronic resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups. HSTAT is also available through the NCBI Bookshelf.
ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification: ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with U.S. hospital utilization. It consists of a numerical list of disease code numbers, an alphabetical index to diseases, and a classification system for surgical, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures.
Integrated Medical Curriculum: Links together the study of anatomy, physiology, histology, pharmacology, immunology and medical ethics. Especially applicable to the first two years of medical school
Knovel: Collection of science and engineering reference books with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Access to an aggregated collection of online full-text books from a variety of science/technology publishers. This resource is enhanced with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Covers subject areas of chemistry, materials science, chemical safety, life sciences, food science, and engineering. Basic keyword and advanced fielded searching is available.
MD Consult: Provides a set of full-text, peer-reviewed resources from biomedical publishers, medical societies, and government agencies, including online textbooks, full-text biomedical journals, practice guidelines, and patient education handouts.
NCBI Bookshelf: A growing collection of freely available, online versions of selected biomedical books.
PsycBooks (APA Psycnet): PsycBooks is a full-text database (.pdf) of more than 700 scholarly books and 12,200 chapters of books published by the American Psychological Association (APA). It also includes the texts of a selection of classic books from additional publishers, some dating to the 19th century. It is the only source for the electronic version of the 8-volume Encyclopedia of Psychology, co-published by APA and Oxford University Press in 2000 (print copies in RR and RR4). The intent is to eventually include all APA-published scholarly titles since 1953, as well as additional classic works. Additional content is added to the database monthly, both for recent works and archival ones. However, there is approximately an 18-month embargo on the texts of newly-published titles. In addition to the standard OVID search interface, the PsycBooks database offers a browse function where you can access lists of books by title, books by subject, and an alphabetic title list of the classic books. Cited Reference linking is also a feature of the database.
STAT!Ref: Cross-searchable healthcare reference that integrates core full text titles with evidence-based resources including ACP's PIER (American College of Physician's Physician Information and Education Resource).; Physics
Knovel: Collection of science and engineering reference books with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Access to an aggregated collection of online full-text books from a variety of science/technology publishers. This resource is enhanced with interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Covers subject areas of chemistry, materials science, chemical safety, life sciences, food science, and engineering. Basic keyword and advanced fielded searching is available.

General and Multidisciplinary Collection

Specialized Subject Collections

Medical Sciences and Nursing