Electronic Books

General
Books in many disciplines

• Eisenhower Library's list of sources for electronic books 
  (scroll down to "Electronic Book Collections")
  
  
• NetLibrary -- A collection of online books from a variety of different publishers, representing a broad range of topics. These books are also in the library catalog.

NetLibrary  (All US JHU)

• 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.

• 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. 

Synthesis Digital Library - Morgan & Claypool  (All US JHU)

Chemistry

• 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.

CHEMnetBASE chemistry database online  (All US JHU)

• 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.

• 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.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science  (All US JHU)

Engineering

• 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.

ENGnetBASE  (All JHU (incl. International))

• Fluid Mechanics Digital Library -- This is the full text of four classic volumes about fluid mechanics. They are:
  -- Theoretical Hydrodynamics by Milne-Thomson
  -- Statistical Fluid Mechanics: Mechanics of Turbulence, Volume 1 by Monin and Yaglom
  -- Statistical Fluid Mechanics: Mechanics of Turbulence, Volume 2 by Monin and Yaglom
  -- A First Course in Turbulence by Tennekes and Lumley
  
  
• McGraw-Hill Engineering Dictionary --  The full text of more than 150 McGraw-Hill  publications, including Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, and Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain. Create a personal profile if you want to bookmark, highlight, add notes, or e-mail articles from the books.

McGraw Hill Digital Engineering Library  (All US JHU)

Materials

• MATERIALSnetBASE -- Provides access to materials-focused CRC books, including materials science, mechanical engineering, and nantotechnology.

MATERIALSnetBase  (Any location)

Mathematics and Statistics

• 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.

STATSnetBASE  (All US JHU)

• 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.

• 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.

Thieme ElectronicBook Library  (All US JHU)

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