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Online Books

Subscribed collections

(must be a current student or staff of the University of Newcastle to access - see Public Access Collections for free ebooks)

ASM Handbooks Online - Metals and materials engineering reference series.

Annual Reviews - critical reviews of primary research literature in physical, biomedical and social sciences disciplines.

Australian Dictionary of Biography - over 10,000 biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.

Books24x7 - online IT and business book collection

Books@Ovid

CRCNetBASE - collection of handbooks and other reference works published by CRC Press.

Europa World Year Book

Knovel - Access engineering reference books, databases and conference proceedings.

Literature Online - collection of over 250,000 works of English and American literature.

McGraw Hill Digital Engineering Library - content from 150+ McGraw-Hill publications covering 12 major areas and more than 200 topics in the field of engineering.

netLibrary - online collection of ebooks and reference materials.

Oxford Reference Books Online

Oxford Scholarship Online

SpringerLink Reference Works - access 36 reference titles published in computational and mathematics science and earth and environmental science.

Thieme ElectronicBook Library - textbooks and atlases in anatomy, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, and other medicine and life sciences topics.

Who's Who in Australia Online

Wiley Interscience - Online Books. Access books in the following subjects; chemistry, engineering, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials science.

Public Access Collections

Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet

Australasian Theses

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

Complete Works of Shakespeare

eScholarship editions - browse the public access titles of this multidisciplinary ebook collection managed by the University of California Digital Library.

EServer - e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University.

Humanities Text Initiative  - providing access to public full text books (produced by University of Michigan).

The Online Books Page - over 30,000 freely available online books.

Online Library of Literature  - full text of classic works of English literature.

Oxford Text Archive - The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora.

The Perseus Digital Library

Project Gutenberg

Shakespeare First Folio - These texts are the earliest appearances in print of some of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The spelling, puncuation, and other early modern printing conventions have not been normalized.