eBook Collections: General Subjects

Books from Blackwell Wiley online.

Collection made up of over 8,000 online books that span over 40 disciplines

Ebook Cental provides a cross-platform, multiple-devices, online-or-offline ebook system for academic and research libraries. Ebooks can be viewed online or downloaded to a computer or mobile devices. Login with UCI NetID. Can be downloaded for a set number of days. Copy: 40% of the book.

UC eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.
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Reference books in many different disciplines.

Google Books allows researchers to search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers around the world by searching through the full text of Google's massive online collection of digitized books. For more information, visit About Google Books.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles. Make sure to LOG IN under UC Irvine to get access to the largest number of books.

Provides access to ebooks from some academic publishers. More info here: https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/.

MyiLibrary provides access to over 1,000 ebooks owned by UCI.

Oxford Handbooks are review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic. Currently we have online handbooks in Business, Criminology, History, Law, Literature, Music, and Political Science. (We have many more subjects in print. Search Library Search for "Oxford Handbooks.") IMPORTANT: the library might not have access to every chapter in an online book. Look for a lock icon next to the chapter: green open lock = accessible. Red closed lock = not accessible.

We access to a about 1500 titles through OSO but not the full collection. To see individual titles, go to Library Search https://uci.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Oxford%20Scholarship%20Online&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01CDL_IRV_INST:UCI&lang=en&offset=0

The full text of all titles published by O'Reilly on different aspects of computer programming, development, many applications, different software packages, etc.
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A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics...
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Mostly covers the sciences and social sciences. Format: PDF / Download: Section

Over 400 eBooks in areas of electrical engineering, computer science & related & applied subjects. A basic search will return book chapters as well as articles on the topic. The left-hand "Content Type" facet indicates how many of the hits are from books, in addition to the other types. Currently, there are >8,200 book items in the eBook content.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Format: PDF / Download: Whole Book