E-Books

The University of Auckland Library provides access to over 420,000 e-books via the Library catalogue. Use Voyager (the Library catalogue) to search for a particular book or subject.

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E-book Collections

The major cross-disciplinary e-book collections are ebrary and Ebsco.

  • ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection
    A full-text collection of 3000 scholarly books.
  • ACS Symposium Series
    A searchable online collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the American Chemical Society technical divisions' symposia.
  • AGRICULTUREnetBASE
    An online collection of over 70 full-text handbooks and monographs on agriculture, crop science, and related subjects.
  • American Society of Health-System Pharmacists E-book Collection
    A searchable online collection of pharmacy books published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
  • ASM Handbooks Online
    Online version of all current ASM handbooks.
  • ASME Ebooks
    A searchable collection of over 90 books published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1998 to date
  • Austroads Publications Online
    An online collection of technical papers published by Austroads. The focus is on asset management, bridge and pavement technology, road design, project evaluation and delivery, road tunnels, traffic management, and road safety.
  • Bible in English
    Twenty versions of the Bible, from Tyndale to the King James Bible.
  • BIOSCIENCEnetBASE
    An online collection of over 90 full-text handbooks and monographs in the biosciences.
  • Black Short Fiction and Folklore
    Short stories and folk tales from Africa and the African diaspora.
  • Black Women Writers
    Fiction, poetry, and essays by black women from Africa, North America, Europe, and the Caribbean.
  • Blackwell Reference Online
    A collection of e-books from Blackwell Publishers. Many titles in the Blackwell Companions series are included.
  • Books at Ovid
    A selection of around 200 respected texts in medicine, nursing and pharmacology.
  • Bookshelf Collection
    A small diverse collection of New Zealand books and other material digitized at the University of Auckland Library. Selection criteria for this collection include an item's relevance for New Zealand and Pacific studies, existing availability and functionality online, and anticipated usage. Items published at the University of Auckland are given priority.
  • Brill E-Book Collections
    A collection of over 1,400 scholarly books published by Brill 2007-2011. The focus is on Asian Studies, European History, Biblical Studies and Early Christianity, the Middle East and Islamic Studies, Theology, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics, and the Social Sciences.
  • BUSINESSnetBASE
    Online collection of over 400 full-text monographs on business management, ethics, accounting, marketing and related areas.
  • Cambridge Collections Online
    A searchable collection of over 300 books in the Cambridge Companion series and Shakespeare Survey, published by Cambridge University Press.
  • Cambridge Histories Online
    A collection of more than 250 books published by Cambridge University Press.
  • Caribbean Literature
    Caribbean fiction and poetry in English, French, Dutch, Spanish and various Creole languages.
  • CHEMLIBnetBASE
    Online collection of over 180 full-text handbooks and monographs on chemistry.
  • CHEMnetBASE
    Collection of chemical dictionaries and reference works.
  • CLEANTECHnetBASE
    A collection of full-text handbooks and monographs focusing on renewable energy, clean and novel technologies, bio-energy, and eco-friendly agricultural practice.
  • Clin-eguide
    Designed to improve patient care and facilitate continuing medical education, Clin-eguide: Clinical Decision Support provides physicians with immediate access to highly regarded sources of information.
  • COMPUTERSCIENCEnetBASE
    A collection of full-text handbooks and monographs covering most areas of computer science.
  • CRCnetBASE
    Over 3,000 scientific and technical handbooks, reference works, and other texts published by Taylor & Francis.
  • Credo Reference
    An online collection of over 500 reference books covering applied sciences, science, humanities and social sciences.
  • Deutsche Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts Online
    A searchable facsimile collection of first editions and early collected editions of literary and critical works by German-speaking authors of the eighteenth century.
  • Early English Books Online
    Facsimile access to over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection. Covers 227 years of English printing in all subject areas.
  • Early New Zealand Books
    A searchable collection of over 50 important books about New Zealand published between 1800 and 1860.
  • Ebrary
    More than 40,000 recently published books on all subjects.
  • EBSCO eBook Collection
    A multidisciplinary collection of more than 10,000 titles.
  • ECONOMICSnetBASE
    Online collection of over 500 full-text monographs on economics, finance, and related areas.
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online
    Reproduces eighteenth century books. It includes over 180,000 titles or 200,000 volumes - more than 33 million pages of searchable material.
  • Empire Online
    A collection of original documents and printed publications from the period 1492-1969, relating to Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, and South Asia.
  • ENGnetBASE
    Engineering handbooks.
  • ENVIROnetBASE
    Environmental handbooks.
  • ERGONOMICSnetBASE
    A collection of full-text handbooks and monographs covering most areas of ergonomics.
  • FOODnetBASE
    Food Science reference works.
  • FORENSICnetBASE
    Forensic Science collection.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    A wide range of reference books from Thomson Gale and other publishers.
  • Google Book Search
    A wide range of books. Depending on the copyright status of the book, you may be able to view snippets, sample pages or the whole book. Copies at Google Book Search are not recorded in Voyager but other copies may be.
  • Hart Publishing E-Book Collection
    A searchable collection of over 500 academic law books from Hart Publishing in the UK.
  • ICE Virtual Library - Ebooks (Institution of Civil Engineers)
    A searchable online collection of over 300 books published by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
  • Industrial Press E-Book Collection
    A searchable online collection of technical books published by Industrial Press.
  • IndustrialnetBASE
    A searchable online collection of monographs and handbooks on industrial engineering from Taylor & Francis. The focus is on technical issues, quality and standards, and sales, marketing, and service.
  • Informa Healthcare
    Users have full access to around 150 medical books published by Informa Healthcare, 2009-2010.
  • InfoSECURITYnetBASE
    Computer security handbooks.
  • Institute of Southeast Asian Studies E-Book Collection
    A searchable online collection of over 300 books published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1980-2010. The focus is on socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia.
  • ITKnowledgeBASE
    An online collection of books on information technology.
  • JapanKnowledge
    A Japanese language online reference collection.
  • Karnacbooks.com
    A searchable collection of over 300 books on psychotherapy and related subjects published by Karnac Books.
  • Knovel
    Over 1,800 engineering and scientific books from a wide range of publishers.
  • Latin American Women Writers
    An extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama by women writing in Mexico, Central and South America.
  • Latino Literature
    Plays, poetry, and fiction by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.
  • Library of Latin Texts
    Online version is CLCLT-6
  • Literature Online
    Collections of English and American poetry from 600 to the present, drama from 1280 to 1915, and prose fiction from 1500-1900.
  • Making of Modern Law : Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
    Collection of 22,000 British Commonwealth and American legal treatises published 1800-1926.
  • Making of the Modern World
    Collection of more than 62,000 books published 1450-1914 relevant to the study of economic, business, political and social history.
  • Martinus Nijhoff Online
    A searchable online collection of over 300 books on international law and human rights and humanitarian law, published by Martinus Nijhoff, 2006-2011.
  • Mass Observation Online
    A British social history resource for the period 1937-1972 which includes books and other documents.
  • MATERIALSnetBASE
    Materials Science handbooks.
  • Math Solutions E-books
    A searchable online collection of over 40 books on mathematics education from Math Solutions Publications.
  • MATHnetBASE
    Online collection of over 500 recent mathematical books, published by CRC Press, in pure and applied mathematics.
  • MedicinesComplete
    Searchable online collection of drug and healthcare reference works from Pharmaceutical Press, including AHFS Drug Information and the British National Formulary.
  • Medieval SourcesOnline
    Texts on medieval history.
  • MILITARYnetBASE
    Online collection of over 160 full-text monographs on warfare and military history from Taylor & Francis.
  • MIT CogNet
    Electronic community for scholarly research in the cognitive and brain sciences that includes books, reference works and conference proceedings.
  • Momentum Press E-Book Collection
    A searchable online collection of around 30 books published 2009-2010 by Momentum Press on the IG Publishing platform. The focus is on mechanical engineering, manufacturing processes, and materials science.
  • Murtagh's General Practice Series
    Current editions of three of John Murtagh's bestselling general practice books: General practice, Patient education, and Practice tips.
  • NANOnetBASE
    Handbooks on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
  • NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE
    Reference works and classic texts on Neuroscience.
  • New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
    A searchable online collection of New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and images from archives and libraries in New Zealand. Individual works within the collection are linked from Voyager.
  • NIAS Press E-Book Collection
    A collection of 91 scholarly books on Asia, originally published by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1993-2010.
  • NUTRITIONnetBASE
    Online collection of over 70 handbooks and monographs on food and nutrition science.
  • OCCUP-HEALTHandSAFETYnetBASE
    A collection of full-text handbooks and monographs covering most areas of occupational health and safety.
  • OECD iLibrary
    OECD publications on economics, education, finance, investment, migration, telecommunications and trade.
  • Oxford Handbooks Online
    A collection of handbooks published by Oxford University Press covering business & management, philosophy, political science, and religion.
  • Oxford Medical Handbooks Online
    A cross-searchable online collection of medical handbooks published by Oxford University Press.
  • Oxford Reference Online
    The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online
    A searchable online collection of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the areas of business & management, classical studies, economics & finance, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, public health, and religion.
  • Palgrave Connect
    A collection of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences published by Palgrave Macmillan. Users have full access to various subject sets: history books released 2000-2010; language & literature released 2006-2010; political & international studies released 2000-2010; religion & philosophy released 2000-2010, social & cultural studies released 2000-2009; social sciences released 2010.
  • Past Masters
    Fully searchable scholarly editions of works by major philosophers and literary authors.
  • People's Medical Publishing House E-Book Collection
    A searchable collection of 60 medical books published by PMPH in the United States.
  • PHARMACEUTICALnetBASE
    Online collection of over 100 full-text handbooks and monographs on pharmaceutical science and related areas.
  • PHYSICSnetBASE
    Online collection of books on physics published by Taylor & Francis.
  • PlantSCIENCEnetBASE
    Online collection of over 70 full-text handbooks and monographs on agriculture and agronomy, botany, crop science, entomology, evolution and natural history, microbiology, and soil science.
  • POLYMERSnetBASE
    A full-text product providing online access to the Polymer Materials Encyclopedia; Polymers, a property database, as well as a collection of books on polymer science published by Taylor & Francis.
  • ProjectManagementnetBASE
    A searchable online collection of monographs and reference works from Taylor & Francis.
  • PsycBOOKS
    A full-text collection of more than 1500 books, including out-of-print titles, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
  • PsychiatryOnline
    A searchable online collection of journals, textbooks and handbooks from the American Psychiatric Association. Handbooks include the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) and associated works.
  • PublicADMINISTRATIONnetBASE
    Online collection of over 70 full-text monographs on public administration, facility management, security, project management and related topics.
  • Referex
    Over 1,100 searchable engineering texts on the Engineering Village platform.
  • Romantic Era Redefined
    A searchable collection of British and North American primary texts from the period 1800-1830.
  • Routledge Politics and International Relations Online
    A searchable online collection of more than 20 reference works on politics and international relations, published by Taylor & Francis.
  • RSC Ebook Collection
    A searchable collection of over 800 books published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
    A searchable full-text collection based on Joseph Sabin's bibliography, comprising works about the Americas published from 1500 to the early 1900s. On completion it will contain around 29,000 works, or 6.2 million pages.
  • Safari Tech Books Online
    Texts and handbooks on information technology.
  • SAGE Reference Online
    A collection of searchable online encyclopedias and handbooks in the social sciences from SAGE Publications.
  • ScienceDirect
    Contains the full text of 2500 journals and 6000 books primarily from the Sciences, Technology, Medicine and Engineering, although there are also some titles from Social Sciences and Business & Economics.
  • SIAM Reference Collection
    A searchable online collection of over 300 books published by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
  • Social Theory
    An extensive collection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Included are seminal works by theorists such as Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.
  • South and Southeast Asian Literature
    Fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their diasporas.
  • SPIE Digital Library - Ebooks
    A searchable online collection of books published by the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 1989 to date.
  • SpringerLink
    SpringerLink gives full-text access to 2,000 journals and over 16,000 books (most published by Springer-Verlag) primarily in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
  • STAT!Ref
    A searchable online healthcare reference collection that integrates core texts with evidence-based resources. The Library's licence covers about 20 texts for physicians and nurses.
  • Synthesis (Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science)
    An online collection of searchable compact e-books or 'lectures' published by Morgan & Claypool.
  • TEXTILEnetBASE
    An online collection of monographs and handbooks from Taylor & Francis, covering a broad range of materials and applications, from conventional textiles to smart fabrics and wearable electronics.
  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
    Greek texts from Homer to the 6th century A.D.
  • Torrossa : Casalini Full Text Platform
    A searchable online collection of journal articles and literary and scholarly books in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Torrossa incorporates material previously available through Editoria Italiana Online (EIO) and BIZ, Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli.
  • TRIBOLOGYnetBASE/LUBRICATIONnetBASE
    Online collection of over 20 full-text handbooks and monographs on tribology and lubrication.
  • Twentieth Century Advice Literature
    A searchable collection of handbooks, manuals, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets and how-to books illustrating both how twentieth century Americans behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.
  • Victorian Women Writers Project
    A searchable collection of works by British women writers from the late Victorian period. Genres include poetry, novels, verse drama, children's books, political pamphlets, and religious tracts.
  • WATERnetBASE
    An online collection of monographs and handbooks from Taylor & Francis on water science and engineering.
  • Women Writers Online
    Early literary texts in English by women writers.
  • Woodhead Publishing Online
    A searchable collection of books on materials science and enginnering, textile technology, and food science from Woodhead Publishing. The Library has licensed over 500 titles on this platform.
  • Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
    Collection of over 2,800 American works of fiction from the nineteenth century.

 

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