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Home > Research Help > Physics & Astronomy > E-Books
Many books are available online. Here are some sources of e-books, including those owned by Eisenhower Library.
General | General Science and Engineering | Chemistry | Cognitive and Brain Science | Computer Science
Engineering | Materials | Math and Stats | Medicine
| | - Online Books Page -- A searchable database of 20,000+ book titles, collected from various sources.
- Open Library -- This is the demo site of a project from the Internet Archive (Brewster Kahle). It has the full text of books that are out of copyright as well as excerpts from in-copyright books, and a very nice "page-turning" capability.
- Project Gutenberg -- Project Gutenberg is the first (started 1971) and largest single collection of free electronic books.
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| | - Foundations and Trends -- These are basically long review articles, including bibliographies. Read these if you need an introduction to or refresher for a particular field. FnT publications include Computer Graphics and Vision and Signal Processing.
- Synthesis (Morgan and Claypool) -- Like Foundations and Trends, this collection of 50- 100-page books gives overviews of important research or development, written by an experts in the field.
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| - CHEMnetBASE --The full text of handbooks and dictionaries from CRC, including the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Properties of Organic Compounds, and Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds.
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| | - MIT CogNet -- The CogNet Library (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links, and conference materials. Content and resources are provided by MIT Press and other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals who are willing to share access to online work.
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| - Lecture Notes in Computer Science -- The full text of the books in this series from 1997 (volume 1186). This series also includes Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
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| | - ENGnetBASE -- A collection of hundreds of online engineering books published by CRC Press. Subjects include aerospace, biomedical, civil, computer, electrical, lasers and optical, nanoscience/ nanotechnology, systems, and more. Each chapter is a PDF file and is full-text searchable.
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| | - MATERIALSnetBASE -- Provides access to materials-focused CRC books, including materials science, mechanical engineering, and nantotechnology.
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| | - Historical Math Monographs -- The Cornell Library selected mathematics books whose copyrights had expired and which were falling apart and needed saving. You can browse by author or title, or search.
- Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures -- These are the full text of 13 lectures on mathematics delivered at the University of Notre Dame between 1941 and 1990. They are online free from Project Euclid. (Please note that the search function doesn't seem to work too well.)
- STATSnetBASE -- Has the full text of several CRC books on statistics, including applications in biology, business, computing, engineering, environment, chemistry, physics, and psychology.
- World Digital Mathematics Library -- A global project of the International Mathematical Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC). It also includes journal articles.
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| | - Thieme ElectronicBook Library -- This group of textbooks and reference works deals primarily with human anatomy, physiology, and medicine, and includes many atlases. You can search through all the books or within one book. The books are also in the library catalog.
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For corrections or additions, please contact
Sue Vazakas, svazakas@jhu.edu, 410-516-4153
Last revised: October 9, 2008 |
