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E-Book Collections in Science & Engineering
A listing of our e-book collections that include sci-tech content. Unlike the catalog, most allow for full-text searching of books. Some e-book sources allow searching of chemical and material property data - Knovel (engineering data sets), ChemNetBase (chemical property databases), and the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

IET Digital Library From the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)¸ the IET Digital Library is a collection of over 500 e-books that covers topics in the areas of Circuits¸ Devices and Systems; Control Engineering; Electrical Technology; Electromagnetic Waves; History of Technology; Manufacturing; Management of Technology; Power and Energy; Professional Applications of Computing; Radar¸ Sonar¸ Navigation and Avionics; Renewable Energy; and Telecommunications.
Knovel Provides leading science and engineering books¸ conferences¸ and databases embedded with productivity tools in one online service. The Knovel product provides the ability to interact with the data¸ deep searchability¸ valuable subject collections through aggregation¸ and continuing expanding content. Approximately 500 books are included in the collection at the end of 2003.
O'Reilly Ebooks O'Reilly Ebooks (formerly Safari Ebooks Online) provides electronic books and videos in computer science, information technology, business and related fields from O'Reilly and other IT and business publishers. NOTE: First time users (authorized UC users) need to register for an account at O'Reilly with their UC email address to access the site.
Taylor & Francis Ebooks Full-text of thousands of e-books and technical handbooks in engineering, technology, science, bioscience, medicine and business published by Taylor & Francis and its imprints: CRC Press, Routledge, Apple Academic Press. The CRCNetBase e-book collections are included in this database.

IOPScience E-Books Selected books published by Institute of Physics (IOP) on a variety of physics-related topics. Subscribed books are from the collections "IOP Concise Physics" and "IOP Expanding Physics." Some recent books are not subscribed to at this time.
Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) Full-text of current and historical conference proceedings from Optica, the optics and photonics society formerly known as OSA (Optical Society of America). Topics include light and laser science, sensing, imaging, and optical fibers.
SpringerLink E-books As of January 2016, over 58,000 online books and conferences are available covering Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, and Physical Sciences.
Wiley Online Library - E-Books Includes all Wiley e-books from 2012-present, excluding 'textbook' items and some reference works and encyclopedias. Topics span all areas of science, engineering, and technology.