E-Books
Guide to E-Book Resources
E-Book Databases
Most, but not all, e-books have records in LibCat (title, author, subjects); to search the full text of e-books use the e-book databases.
- AccessMedicine (medical texts)
- AccessPharmacy (pharmaceutical and basic biomedical educational texts)
- ASM Handbooks (materials science)
- Books@Ovid (medical texts)
- CABI (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau) e-books
- ChemNetBase -- includes Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
- Early English Books Online
- eBrary (multidisciplinary)
- eLibrary (reference texts for k-12 students)
- EngNetBase (~900 CRC engineering handbooks)
- Gale Literature Resource Center (Twayne's Authors Series, etc.)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (general, multidisciplinary reference texts)
- Google Books TAMU EZ Proxy Link (EZ Proxy authentication allows linking to TAMU holdings, Get it for me interlibrary loan requests through WorldCat record; click on the "Find in a library" link)
- Human Relations Area Files Collection of Archaeology
- Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF) World Cultures (full text of works subject-indexed at the paragraph level)
- Jane's online, includes:Jane's Aero-Engines andJane's All the World's Aircraft. Note: the library does not have access to all the titles in this database
- Knovel (>1000 science & engineering books in ~22 subject areas; interactive data interface; new titles added routinely). Note: the library has access to most, but not all of the books in this e-book database.
- Lange Educational Library (medical educational materials, part of AccessMedicine)
- Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature (books on economic and business published from 1460 through 1850)
- netLibrary (multidisciplinary, >51,000 titles)
- PsycBOOKS (psychology texts)
- Psychiatry Online (psychiatry texts, DSM manuals and handbooks)
- Referex (engineering reference titles & texts)
- Safari (computing applications & languages publishers include O'Reily, Prentice Hall, Sams; Cisco; Addison-Wesley; NewRiders)
- Science Direct (reference titles & texts from Elsevier, Academic Press)
- Springer Online (multidisciplinary science, technical, and medical)
- StatRef (medical texts)
- StatRef 2 (medical texts)
- Synthesis Digital Library (engineering, computer science)
- Wiley Interscience (reference titles & texts from Wiley)
