Lesson 24. International Books Databases
International databases include various digital libraries providing online reading of books or downloading chapters for non-profit use. We offer overview of scholarly and educational electronic resources.
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection (Elsevier) contains collection of digital books in «Chemistry» and «Physics and Astronomy», as well as Freedom Books Collection including around 5,000 books in 24 categories of natural science, technical and health disciplines. The collection includes current-year books and repository for previous four years. Books list. ACCESS: 1. from UrFU corporate network; 2. remote access through EZproxy system. User guide to get access on the site of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR).
SpringerLink (Springer Nature) offers full-text eBook collection covering the period from 201, including monographs, reference works and conference proceedings. ACCESS: 1. from UrFU corporate network; 2. remote access through EZproxy system; 3. personal remote account for the period of pandemic. To receive it, please, email to kotchieva@100k20.ru indicating the following: first name, last name, full name of organization; your email (with organization domain). In 24 hours you will receive user guide how to use remote access to the resource.
Electronic Library System Библиокомплектатор /IPRbooks contains 28 books in English available up to February 10, 2021. ACCESS: 1. from UrFU corporate network; 2. remote access by personal account (registration in UrFU network); 3. seamless authentication in UrFU personal account.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) a full-text collection of eBooks of Oxford Russia Fund (ORF) in various languages (more than 4,5 thousand items). According to a license agreement use of downloading robots is strictly prohibited. Saving and printing should not exceed 10% of the book pages. ACCESS from UrFU corporate network.
2. Bibliographic descriptions of books and sometimes full texts can be found in different subscribed resources:
EBSCOhost. ACCESS: 1. from UrFU corporate network; 2. remote access through EZproxy system; 3. personal remote account for the period of pandemic. To receive it, please, email to asakalou@ebsco.com indicating your first and last names, full title of organization and your position.
SciFinder (Chemical Abstract Service) contains Chemical Abstracts Plus collection that reflects bibliographic entries of conference proceedings and books in chemistry from 1907. ACCESS: 1. from UrFU corporate network; 2. remote access through EZproxy system or by personal account in the database on the Internet.
ZentralblattMATH-ZMATH (Springer Nature) contains about 4 mln bibliographic entries currently drawn from more than 180,000 books in mathematics, statistics, information science, engineering, physics, natural sciences, etc. ACCESS: 1. from UrFU corporate network; 2. remote access through EZproxy system; 3. personal remote account for the period of pandemic. To receive it, please, email to kotchieva@100k20.ru indicating your first and last names, full title of organization, and your email (with organization domain). In 24 hours you will receive user guide how to use remote access to the resource.
SPIE Digital Library (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Inc.) is the world’s largest collection of optics & photonics applied research. ACCESS from UrFU corporate network.
- Open Textbook Library, UR : https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
- The Orange Grove Digital Repository University Press of Florida, URL: https://www.floridashines.org/orange-grove.
- ALT Open Access Repository, URL: http://repository.alt.ac.uk.
- American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative, URL: https://aimath.org/textbooks.
- BookBoon, URL: https://bookboon.com.
- iBerry, URL: http://iberry.com.
- iLumina, URL: http://dl.uncw.edu
- Internet Archive, URL: https://archive.org/index.php.
- Learning Exchange, URL: https://lx.iriss.org.uk.
- Merlot II, URL: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm.
- National Science Digital Library, URL: https://nsdl.oercommons.org.
- North Carolina Learning Object Repository, URL: https://www.nclor.org/nclorprod/home.do.
- OER Commons, URL: https://www.oercommons.org.
- Open CourseWare Initiative, URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm.
- OpenStax CNX, URL: https://cnx.org.
- Resource Repository, URL: http://www.resourcerepository.org.
- USF Scholar Commons Open Access Textbooks, URL: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/tloa.
- Open Doar – Open Access, URL: http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar.
- Open Access Texts, URL: https://openaccesstexts.com.
4. Information about books can be found in the catalogs of international libraries. For example, WorldCat (covering libraries from more than 170 countries) shows that a particular item is owned by a particular library with its address.