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Our e-book collections cover a wide range of subject areas. Search specific collections via the links below. Many of the books can also be found through Primo.

Off-campus students, faculty and staff may need to sign on to use some of these resources.

This Page: Interdisciplinary | History | Science | Psychology | Literature | Reference

Interdisciplinary

• ScholarsPortal Books
  Scholars Portal Books provides access to the full text of thousands of books. Licensed content includes titles from Springer, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge, Oxford, the American Psychological Association and more. Free content from the Internet Archive and other sources is also available through ScholarsPortal Books.
• NetLibrary
  netLibrary is a collection of hundreds of online books in a variety of subject areas. You can also find descriptions of most titles by searching Primo.
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  EEBO provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics from 1475 to 1700. EEBO contains images of works by such authors as Malory, Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. The database also includes musical exercises by Henry Purcell, novels by Aphra Behn, and prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary resources.
• MyiLibrary
  A collection of ebooks in various subject areas. The content available to Guelph users includes ebooks from Springer and a selection from various other publishers.

History

• American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project
  This project provides online access to the full text of over 500 books in the field of history from eight learned societies and a select group of university presses, including Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Michigan and California.
• John Galt Bibliography
  by Tim Sauer
• The Works of John Galt
  Digitized by Tim Sauer

Science

• Cognitive and brain sciences: MIT CogNet
  CogNet provides searchable, full-text access to over 500 MIT Press books in cognitive science, neuroscience and allied areas in fields such as computing, biology and philosophy.
• Computer science: Safari Tech Books Online
  From the Safari Homepage select "Custom Collection" from the top-left navigation bar to view Guelph's collection of online books on computer science, popular programming languages and "how to" manuals for the top computer programs from leading publishers like O'Reilly. Use the search box to see the whole range of Safari e-books.

  Accessible version for screen and text reader users: http://access.proquest.safaribooksonline.com

• Computer science: Safari Tech Books Online accessible version
  For screen and text reader users. This is a 508 accessibility portal.
• Springer
  The Library has access to 2005-2007 Springer ebooks in the following subject areas: Behavioral Science, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Humanities, Social Sciences & Law, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy.

The Library also has access to the following book series:

• Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
• Advances in Polymer Science
• Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology
• Structure and Bonding

Psychology

• PsycBOOKS
  PsycBOOKS is a new full-text database of books and chapters in the American Psychological Association's array of quality electronic databases.

  To access PsycBOOKS database, scroll down to PsycBOOKS in the alphabetical listing. To access the list of books available via PsycBOOKS, click on the link on the far right — "Browse Full Text"

Literature

• Literature Online (LION)
  LION is a fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature.
• Science Fiction and Fantasy for Children
  Compiled by UG librarian Linda Day.

Reference

You can find a wide variety of online encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, style guides and more in the:

• Electronic reference collection

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