Purchasing E-books for LUMS Library

Books 24x7 (IT Pro):

In partnership with industry's foremost publishers, industry vendors, analyst firms and business thought leaders; Books24x7 offers on-demand, instant access to the complete text of thousands of best-in-class online books, book summaries, audio books, research reports and best practices. Topical collections represent trusted sources in business, technology, engineering, finance and more.

Books Ovid:
Provides access to a large collection of books in the sciences including behavioral & social science, sports medicine, and nutrition.

Cambridge Companions Online :

Cambridge Companions Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment. The Companions are available as a Complete Collection; Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics; the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture; and the Companions in Music.

Cambridge University Press (CUP) University Publishing Online (UPO) :

Over 900 titles from publishers Acumen, Anthem, Boydell & Brewer, Cambridge UP, Edinburgh UP, Foundation Books, Liverpool UP, Mathematical Association of America, Royal Economic Society and U. of Adelaide Press. DRM free and unlimited user access for most.

CRCnetBASE:
CRCnetBASE is made up of over 6000 online books that span over 40 disciplines. In addition to e-books, Science, technology and medical e-books published under the imprint CRC Press.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): "Significant" English and foreign-language books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera printed in UK, and "important works" from the Americas, 1701-1800.

Ebrary:
Ebrary is an online digital library of full texts of over 70,000 scholarly e-books. It is available at many academic libraries and provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly.

Ebsco eBook Collection:

This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. There are more than 125,000 eBooks in this package, including titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, and Harvard University Press.

Hein Online Legal Classics Library:

Works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, including Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo and Edward Coke. In addition to many "classics", this collection includes rare items that are found in only a handful of libraries around the world. The collection focuses on constitutional law, political science, and other classic topics.

Knovel:
Technical reference collection for science and engineering with interactive tables and graphs.

Literature Online:
A collection of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 228 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

OverDrive:
More than 1,000,000 titles from 2,000 publishers, large and small - eBooks, audio books, from Hundreds of trade publishers and university presses. Patrons can find and Download book on any modern device in seconds. They also help in building custom selection lists, set automated purchasing schedules, and keep you up to date with the latest releases.

3M Cloud Library
3M has simplified e-book lending for libraries! Let the 3M Cloud Library app help you drive traffic to your library, build awareness of e-books, and connect to your community.

Oxford Scholarship Online:

Academic monographs covering the humanities, social-sciences, sciences, medicine and law.

Palgrave Connect:
Over 7500 e-books - both old and new titles - published by Palgrave Macmillan in eleven subject areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business, organized by year of publication and by discipline, available in PDF and EPUB formats. EPUB format allows users to download the title(s) of interest to most hand-held reading devices.

Project Muse :
E-Book and e-journal content for the humanities and social sciences from university presses and scholarly societies.

PsycBooks:
Books and chapters from the American Psychological Association (APA).

ScienceDirect:
ScienceDirect provides detailed and exhaustive coverage of books and journals in the physical, biological and social sciences. Subscriptions are indicated by a bright green square box.

Springer Protocols: Electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.

STAT!Ref:
STAT!Ref is an electronic medical library with a collection of books on a wide variety of health specialties including psychotherapy, psychiatry and physiology. It includes the most recent edition of the DSM-IV-TR, and the Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations.

Thieme Electronic Book Library: Features a series of exquisitely illustrated atlases and review books, in areas such as anatomy, physiology, and others.

University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO)

Online research library containing full-text access to scholarly publishing with 28 subject modules from 50 countries.

Wiley Online Library:

Combine quality content with the convenience, accessibility and enhanced functionality of electronic access. Now featuring over 14,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions and landmark book series. Discover premier titles from the most celebrated scientists, award-winning authors and renowned researchers in the life, health and physical sciences, social sciences and humanities.