E-books
The Library has made significant progress in employing new technologies and resources to meet the evolving teaching and learning needs of staff and students.
It now subscribes to a growing number of e-books and is actively evaluating several e-Book packages and services, in conjunction with Schools. Further developments will be publicised, as they take place.
What is an e-book?
Electronic books (or e-books) are the online, searchable equivalents of printed books, designed to be read on computer screens or hand-held devices.
e-books offer certain advantages over printed books - they are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; they can be browsed or read at leisure, from both on and off-campus; they offer sophisticated interactive functionality such as the ability to add notes; and enhanced features such as links to extra content - and, of course, there are no fines for late return.
What e-books are available?
You can find many of the e-books in SAULCAT, the online catalogue, by doing an author, title or keyword search. However, since some e-book collections, such as Early English Books Online, contain many hundreds of titles, these are not all individually listed in SAULCAT, at present.
Tip: to see a list of e-Books in SAULCAT, do a Keyword Search for 'electronic book'.
ACLS Humanities E-Book | (Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) | Early English Books Online (EEBO) | Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) | Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences | Handbook of Psychology | Knovel ChemEssentials | LION (Literature Online) | Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) | Medievalsources Online | MyiLibrary | Oxford English Dictionary (OED) | Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy | Oxford Reference Online | Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy | Safari Tech Books Online
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(Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
Online, fully searchable equivalent of the 60-volume published Dictionary. The DNB is an unparalled collection of 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000. Living people are excluded. Over 10,000 images are included. Updated three times a year.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digital facsimiles of over 125,000 books published in the British Isles and abroad, for the British market, between 1475 and 1700 - more than 2.5 million pages, representing a complete corpus of published material in every subject and in every early modern language. The titles are listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection, and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
Titles by author; more information
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
The most ambitious digitisation project ever undertaken, ECCO offers nearly 150,000 full-text English-language and foreign-language books, published in Britain between 1701 and 1800. The multi-disciplinary content makes it an invaluable research resource for history, literature, religion, fine arts, science, etc. Over 33 million facsimile pages are available. Each title is fully searchable, including full-text and illustrations.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences
Developed by the Nature Publishing Group, ELS offers more content than the 20-volume printed Encyclopedia. Over 3,000 original full-text articles written by the world's leading scientists, are provided, as well as daily news, over 8,800 photographs and illustrations, dictionaries, multimedia, glossary terms, extensive links to scientific resources, workgroup and personalisation features, etc.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Searchable online 12-volume reference work covering every aspect of the discipline of psychology. Written by leading international scholars, it covers virtually every core as well as contemporary topic in psychology, from established theories to the most modern research and developments.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Searchable collection of over 1,300 high-quality, full-text books in historical studies, recommended and reviewed by historians.
African Studies, American History, Asian Studies, European History, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies and science/technology are currently covered and forthcoming subject areas include; Australasia /Oceania, Byzantium, comparative/world, methods/theory, Native Peoples of the Americas and Women's Studies. 250 titles will be added every year, and over 250 titles are available in print-on-demand format.
Title list; Print on Demand titles
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Free access to searchable chemistry reference books, made available to Higher Education. Some titles include productivity tools, interactive tables, graphs, etc.
- LION (Literature Online)
The Literature Online English Corpus is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, and other key criticism and reference resources. Complete contents.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
- Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Over 100 digitised full-text historical sources for Medieval and Early Modern Britain. Published by Tanner Ritchie in collaboration with the University of St Andrews Library.
Titles include: the Treasurer's Accounts (Scotland); Acts of the Privy Council (England); Acts of the Privy Council (Colonial); Calendar of Border Papers; Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland; Calendar of Patent Rolls (England); Calendar of State Papers (Colonial); Calendar of State Papers (Foreign); Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland, 1286-1306; Life of James II; Register of the Privy Council (Scotland); Register of the Privy Seal (Scotland), etc.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
- Medieval Sourcesonline
Contains hundreds of original full-text medieval history documents. Developed by Manchester University Press, MSO offers over three thousand pages of medieval sources. 'From the terror of the Black Death to the drama of the Norman invasion, the reality of life in the medieval world is brought alive through these first hand accounts'.
This site also hosts the Manchester Medievalportal, a gateway to other medieval material on the Internet.
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Over 1,240 full-text e-books in classics, German history, international relations, etc.; three concurrent accesses.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Fully-searchable equivalent of the 20-volume printed Dictionary.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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full-text; access to over 1,700 Oxford University Press e-books in Philosophy, Religion, Economics and Finance, and Political Science. All titles are listed in SAULCAT. New titles are added each year.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Covers over 100 full-searchable, full-text language and subject dictionaries and reference works, published by Oxford University Press. General reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professional sources are included.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Searchable, online equivalent of the 10-volume Encyclopedia, REP offers over 2,000 original full-text articles written by some of world's most respected scholars and philosophers.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Over 90 searchable full-text IT, programming and computing science books, published by O'Reilly & Associates and The Pearson Technology Group.
Off-campus access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Please note: there is one simultaneous user access to each title in this database, so try again if you can't access the first time, and remember to logout, once finished
For further information contact Jean Young
