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E-Resources

E-Books and E-Texts

Off-Campus Access Instructions

These are selected large e-book/e-text collections and services. For more complete and detailed holdings, search Socrates using the "Electronic Resources" tab, or consult various subject-specific lists such as:

Digital Collections at Stanford

Humanities Digital Information Service

Science and Engineering Electronic Texts

General Reference Resources


ACLS Humanities E-Book

Formerly known as the "ACLS History E-Book Project," now includes university press and learned society books across the humanities. Over 1,700 titles as of August 2008.

Books24x7

Books on computing and information technology from nearly 150 publishers.

Cambridge Histories Online

The complete collection of this well-known reference series, covering regional and world history, as well as topical histories.

Casalini EIO

Casalini Editoria Italiana Online is a set of current (1970s-present) monographs, journals, and proceedings covering history, classics, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, and other topics.

Dissertations and Theses

Information about locating dissertations and theses, both those completed at Stanford University and those from other universities.

ebrary

Full-text searching and retrieval of over 35,000 titles in various disciplines, with rich "information toolset." Browser plug-in required. Stanford's subscription allows printing and copying from ebrary at no charge, although some titles have restrictions on the number of pages that may be printed or copied.

Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)

More than 150,000 books and pamphlets published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages from titles in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Elsevier ScienceDirect Books

More than 6,000 reference works, handbooks, monographs, and series, primarily in the sciences (including some social science titles).

Gutenberg-e

Full-text scholarly monographs in history, available originally and exclusively as digital books, presented by Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.

 

Knovel

Engineering and scientific online references, including the CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics.

Linking the Americas

Latin American studies from the Stanford University Press and Stanford University Libraries.

Literature Online (LION)

Over 350,000 full-text titles in English-language poetry, prose, drama, criticism and theory, as well as related author materials

MyiLibrary

E-books from selected commercial publishers, most notably Springer, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press, as well as intergovernmental publications from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Labour Organisation, and others. Works best in Internet Explorer.

National Academy Press

Full text searching and viewing of more than 3,700 titles (as of August 2008) in various disciplines.

The Online Books Page

Index of online books freely readable on the Web, maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of Pennsylvania.

Oxford Scholarship Online (New!)

More than 1,200 monographs (as of September 2008) from Oxford University Press in Religion, Philosophy, Economics and Finance, Political Science, Biology, Business and Management, Classics, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, and Music.

Safari Tech Books

O'Reilly publications on technology. SULAIR's Mathematical and Computer Sciences Library maintains a browsable list of current titles. Stanford's subscription allows for 7 simultaneous users, so please log out of Safari when you're done.

Sci-Technet Base

This collection includes over 4,000 full-text e-books covering scientific and technical information, many of
which are handbooks and single volume reference sources.

SpringerLink

Books, journals, protocols and reference materials, in all subject areas, from Springer. As of August, 2008, includes more than 27,000 e-books in 959 series.


Please note that most of these commercially distributed e-book and e-text collections are licensed for the non-profit educational use of the Stanford community, and access to them is restricted. Their use is governed by copyright law and individual license agreements. Systematic downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of licensed information is prohibited.

 

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