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Ebooks in SEL Collection Areas
Listed below are ebook resources and individual titles available via the OSU Libraries and also some collections of free ebooks. You may also search the OSU Library Catalog for ebooks - change your search from Search Full Catalog to E-books from the drop down menu.
Online Collections:
- NEW!! Knovel (reference books, mainly engineering and chemistry)
- OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC)
- Safari Tech Books Online - Computer Science
- ebrary
- netLibrary - General
Free Online Collections:
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General:
- Google Books - search books online. Some books full text online, others link to check for print availability
- 2020ok (directory of free ebooks)
- The Online Books Page - browse/search by subject, author, or title
- Project Gutenberg - over 20,000 ebooks freely available
- Gallica (National Library of France) - includes several science topics (site in French, text language varies)
- National Academies Press - Over 3,000 free books available. Search/browse by topic
- World Public Library - Over 75,000 free books available in the Public Access Section.
- Wikibooks - Thousands of books that anyone can edit
- Free-eBooks.net s - Thousands of free ebooks available
- BookYards.com - over 13,000 books on a variety of topics
- Manybooks.net - Over 16,000 ebooks available in a variety of formats, including for portable devices
Subject Specific:
- Online Mathematics Textbooks (Georgia Tech list)
- Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs
- University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection
- Göttingen DigitalisierungsZentrum GDZ - includes math and history of science
- American Mathematical Society Books Online
- Digital Mathematics Library
- Electronic Library of Mathematics (EMIS) - includes several science topics
- Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures (Project Euclid)
- Digital Library of Science Includes math, physics, and philosophy ebooks
- Textbooks in Mathematics (listed by topic)
- Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education (contains a link to a selection of Russian math books)
- LIB.org.by (list of math books, site from Belarus)
Individual Titles (Not in Above Collections):
Chemistry:
Computer Science:
- Component-oriented programming
- Creative 3-D display and interaction interfaces: a trans-disciplinary approach
- Distributed data management for grid computing
- Fundamentals of digital logic and microcomputer design
- Information security: principles and practice
- MPLS-enabled applications: emerging developments and new technologie
- Relational database index design and the optimizers: DB2, Oracle, SQL server et al.
- Understanding information transmission
Engineering:
- Building fire performance analysis
- Earthquake risk reduction
- Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences
- Waste treatment and disposal
- Water-quality engineering in natural systems
Mathematics & Statistics:
- The A to Z of mathematics: a basic guide
- Advanced calculus with applications in statistics
- Applied Bayesian modelling
- Applied numerical methods using MATLAB
- Applied optimal designs
- Categorical data analysis
- Combinatorics
- Convexity and optimization in R [superscript n]
- Estimation in surveys with nonresponse
- A first course in stochastic models
- Fractal geometry: mathematical foundations and applications
- Fundamentals of matrix computations
- A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750
- Introduction to stochastic search and optimization
- Mathematical journeys
- Modern algebra with applications
- Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations
- Order statistics
- Partial differential equations and the finite element method
- The probabilistic method
- Random graphs for statistical pattern recognition
- Statistics of extremes: theory and applications
Physics:
Last updated: 19 September 2008
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