Electronic Books
Comprehensive Resources
Google Book Search
A full-text search tool that allows access to full-text books that are out of copyright and view excerpts from books that are still under copyright.
Dissertations and Theses
Provides access to the full text of all dissertations from UC since 1997 (many
issued in late 1996 are also available). The first twenty-four pages from
all other dissertations for which images exist online are also available.
Also included, with more than 1.5 million entries, is the Dissertation Abstracts
International (DAI) database, the authoritative source for information about
doctoral dissertations. It is possible to search this database by thesis advisor!
ebrary
ebrary is a collection of nearly 40,000 ebooks in a wide range of subject areas, with 9000+ titles on the subject of Agriculture, Medicine, Science and Technology.
It contains popular-level books in all categories, as well as some specialized, technical titles. To access ebrary, user is required to download the ebrary Reader software (visit the site for more instruction).
National Academies Press
"NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science,
engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important
issues in science and health policy."
CRCnetBASE
A selection of electronic books published by CRC Press is available via CRCnetBASE.
Knovel Library
A collection of over 800 scientific reference handbooks, texts, and databases. Areas of special interest are the collections in:
Food and Nutrition
ADA Nutrition Care Manual (American Dietetic Association)
The ADA Nutrition Care Manual (NCM) is a publication of the American Dietetic Association.
It is the preeminent source of research-based nutrition information and clinical tools available to dietitians,
dietetic technicians and other health care professionals.
Feeding
America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
"... an online collection of some of the most important and influential
American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century" from Michigan
State University.
FOODnetBASE
over 200 food science titles
Medicine
Access Medicine
(McGraw-Hill)
A suite of books including Harrison's Online, Hurst's The Heart, Metabolic
and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (MMBID), AccessLANGE, and CMDT Online.
STAT!Ref
Search the full text of many medical reference books, including Mosby's GenRx, Family Medicine, Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Geriatric Medicine, Current
Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology, Current OB-GYN Diagnosis
& Treatment, Current Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment, Smith's General Urology, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, Medical
Immunology, Review of Medical Physiology, and Dictionary of Medical
Acronyms & Abbreviations.
Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
(AKA Merck Manual, or, "The Merck")
Molecular and Cell Biology
PubMed
Bookshelf
The Bookshelf is a growing collection of full-text biomedical books available from NLM.
The following are just a sample of titles available through the PubMed Bookshelf:
- Basic Neurochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects, 6th ed.
- Cancer Medicine, 5th ed.
- The Cell - A Molecular Approach, 2nd ed.
- Developmental Biology, 6th ed.
- Immunobiology, 5th ed.
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3rd ed.
- Molecular Cell Biology, 4th ed.
EcoSal
A continually updated Web resource based on the classic ASM Press publication
Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology.
This project is a comprehensive archive of the entire corpus of knowledge
about the enteric bacterial cell.
NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE
over 200 neuroscience titles
The Prokaryotes
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
OMIM is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. It contains textual information, references, and copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources.
OMIM is intended for use primarily by physicians and other professionals concerned with genetic disorders, by genetics researchers, and by advanced students in science and medicine.
Natural History
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions joined together to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. They are developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections and make it available through a global “biodiversity commons.”
Birds of North America
The electronic version of Birds of North America provides detailed scientific
information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada.
The print version of BNA was completed in 2002, a joint 10-year project of
the American Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the
Academy of Natural Sciences.
Botanicus Digital Library
A freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
Complete Charles Darwin Online (University of Cambridge)
Darwin's complete publications (incl. Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Zoology, & Descent of Man), thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published; also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more.
NOTE: The Bioscience Library has the World's most complete collection of all British and American Printings of Darwin's work during his lifetime. See the Bioscience Library Reference desk for assistance.
Protocols
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