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ebook platforms

Our ebooks include titles from the following publishers and collections (note that these links are to external websites and open in a new tab/window), but please note that access is selective: not all books from all collections are available to the University.

Cambridge Alumni: discover and access selected online resources including ebooks.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W

NB For AccessMedicine, please see Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine

ACLS Humanities ebooks
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Over 5,400 ebooks in the humanities and related social sciences. Titles have been recommended by the American Council of Learned Societies.
African Writers Series
For over 40 years, Heinemann's African Writers Series published the key texts of modern African literature. It has a unique importance in the history of postcolonial writing. This online edition includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.
apabi Digital Library
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Multi-disciplinary; all works in Chinese language
Archaeopress
Access to all titles on the Archaeopress Archaeology tab as well as more recent issues of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies.
ASM Handbooks Online
The industry's best known and most comprehensive source of information on ferrous and non-ferrous metals and materials technology

Ben Jonson Online
Online version of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson.
Bloomsbury Collections
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Archive collections: Ancient History Archive 1983-2012, Ancient Philosophy Archive 1984-2012, Classical Literature Archive 1994-2012. Latest research collections: Anthropology 2014 - 2019, C.H. Beck - Hart - Nomos (Law) 2014 - 2017, Film & Media Studies 2014 - 2019, Hart Publishing (Law) 2014 - 2020, History 2015 & 2016, Literary Studies 2015, Philosophy 2015, Politics & International Relations 2019, and Theology 2015 - 2017.
Bloomsbury Professional Online
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Practitioner ebooks in law, tax and accounting.
Brepols Online
Selective titles. All available titles are individually listed in iDiscover.
Brill.com
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2014 - 2020: Asian Studies, Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East & Early Christianity, Classical Studies, Companions in Classical Studies Online I, History: Early Modern & Modern, History: Late Antiquity and Medieval, International Law, Language and Linguistics, Literature & Cultural Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Theology & Philosophy, Social Sciences.

CAIRN French Studies Collection
We currently have access to one ebook title on this French language platform.
Cambridge Archive Editions Online
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Access only to volumes 1-4 of Vietnam under French rule.
Cambridge Core
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Access to all CUP and publishing partner monographs, as well as Cambridge Elements. 7 subject collections of textbooks are available: British & Irish History; Classical Studies; Engineering; Language & Linguistics; Physics & Astronomy; Politics, Social Theory, History of Ideas; and Psychology.
Cambridge Law Reports
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International Law Reports 1919-2015. Via CUP. Covers all significant cases of public international law from 1919-2015.
Chicago manual of style
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Recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices, 17th and 16th editions available
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Online version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Mirrors print edition + additional features such as data searching.
CREDO Reference
A selection of handbooks (e.g. Blackwell Handbooks), companions and other reference works in Arts and Humanities subjects.

Dawsonera
Multi-disciplinary. Raven login needed on campus.
De Gruyter Online
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Selected titles in Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology & Medicine. All languages.
Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet
Multi-disciplinary (check the box marked 'Only documents with full text in DiVA' to access material)
Digitalia
Access to 25,000+ e-books and 3,600+ e-journals in Spanish from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access ebooks published by a wide range of OA publishers. All subjects, all languages.
Duke University Press
Permanent access to titles published from 2016 - 2018 in all subject collections (AMES, Anthropology, Education, English, History, Music, South Asian Studies and SPS). We also currently have access to the entire Duke backlist.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Chadwyck-Healy platform until mid Jan 2020
Contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473–1700. NB NO RECORDS IN IDISCOVER.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - ProQuest platform
Contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473–1700. NB NO RECORDS IN IDISCOVER.
Ebook Central
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Multi-disciplinary. Raven login needed on campus for printing, copying & downloading. Ebook Central incorporates all content previously hosted on Ebrary and MyiLibrary.
EBSCOHost eBook Collection
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Multi-disciplinary
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online, a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world's largest library on microfilm of the printed book available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm.
Elsevier elibrary
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7 key medical etextbooks. Updated regularly with new editions.
English Historical Documents Online (EHD)
Over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914.

Fabula / Colloques en ligne
Fabula / Colloques en ligne hosts the online proceedings of academic literary conferences, symposia, study days and round tables, focusing especially on issues of literary theory and epistemology.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Small selection of dictionaries and encyclopaedias in History, History of Science, Religion and Psychology.
GeoScienceWorld
Earth Sciences 2015-16 ebook collections

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (AccessMedicine)
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Access to Harrison's Principles of internal medicine

ICE Virtual Library
Civil engineering, construction
IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
Subscription covers access to journals, transactions, conferences and published standards as well as selective access to ebooks. For details see My Settings > What can I access?
Instant Anatomy
Diagrams, revision questions, lectures, podcasts, audio, oral examination preparation, interactive multiple choice questions on human anatomy.
InteLex Past Masters
A growing collection of the works of past masters including: Augustine (works (4th release), Austen (letters), Boyle (correspondence and works), Bronte (Letters), Bruno (Werke - German and Italian), Chekhov (Complete works - Russian), Coleridge (collected letters), Dickens (letters (i-xii)), Eliot (notebooks and library), Hardy (collected letters), Hegel (OUP translations), Hume (complete works and correspondence), Luther (works), Montaigne (complete works), Nietzsche (werke), Pope (correspondence), Sidgwick: Complete Works, Select Correspondence, Swift (correspondence), Tennyson (letters), Wittgenstein (collected works) and Wordsworth (collected letters).
IOP Science (ebooks)
IOP Expanding Physics (releases 1, 2 & 3) and IOP Concise Physics (releases 1, 2 & 3)

JSTOR
Multidisciplinary. Access to individually purchased (currently around 160 titles and growing) and open access ebooks only.

Karger
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Access to front and backlist ebook titles published by Karger, a scientific and medical publisher.
Kotobarabia database
Access to ebooks within the Arab Leaders, Historians and Philosophers Collection. Approximately 5,000 titles, mainly in Arabic, on Arab culture, religion, philosophy and political thought.

Literature Online (LION)
Literature Online (Lion) includes a collection of over 349,000 works of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary reference and critical resources. Literature Online's primary texts include English poetry from 600 to the present, American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present, The Faber Poetry Library, English drama from 1280 to 1915, and English prose from 1500 to 1900, among others. Secondary sources include the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature from 1920 onward, with links to articles in JSTOR, LIFT, a literary journal index with full text of selected articles, the King James Bible, Webster's Dictionary, links to selected Web resources, and biographical information.

Manchester Film Studies
A growing collection of books and one journal "Film Studies", published by Manchester University Press, covering all aspects of film studies. From volumes on a wide range of British, French, Spanish and Latin American filmmakers to debates and issues that are informing current practice in film and screen studies.
Manchester Medieval Sources Online
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A growing collection of books from Manchester University Press's Manchester Medieval Sources series
Manchester Shakespeare
A growing collection (49 titles by end 2019) of books published by Manchester University Press covering a wealth of historical, social and cultural critiques of Shakespeare's works, plus the works of his contemporaries.

Nomos eLibrary
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Currently access is restricted to a single title on this mostly German-language platform: Leitbilder for the Future of the European Union.

OAPEN
A multidisciplinary Open Access library of 2600+ titles from European publishers freely available as PDF files, including titles in several languages. Includes 90 titles from UK publishers under the OAPEN-UK JISC ebooks project.
Open SUNY Textbooks
An open access multidisciplinary textbook library from the State University of New York.
Ovid
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3 medical etextbooks
Oxford Bibliographies
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
60,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2012.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Archaeology, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Law 2015 -2019, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology.
Oxford History of Western Music
Online version of the five-volume Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
Oxford Legal Research Library
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Access to Financial & Banking Law (50 titles) and Private International Law (21 titles) collections only.
Oxford Medicine Online
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Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialities, Oxford Handbook of Opthalmology, Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry as well as further medical titles.
Oxford Reference Online
2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias
We have access to the following Encyclopedias:
Anthropology (freely available), Business and Management (freely available), Economics and Finance (freely available), Global Public Health (freely available), Linguistics, Natural Hazard Science (freely available), Neuroscience (freely available), Oxford Classical Dictionary, Physics (freely available), Planetary Science (freely available), Politics, Religion
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law
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OSAIL includes all of Oxford's leading general texts such as Oppenheim's International Law and Rosalyn Higgins' Problems and Process. It also includes all of the titles in the Oxford Commentaries on International Law such as the commentaries on UN Charter edited by Bruno Simma, on the Statute of the ICJ edited by Andreas Zimmermann, and on the Torture Convention by Manfred Nowak. In addition it includes all titles from the Oxford International Law Library series and other selected authoritative works by authors such as James Crawford, Christine Gray, William Schabas, and Dinah Shelton.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Subscription includes: Latin poetry; Plato; Renaissance; Shakespeare; Early 17th century; Restoration; 18th century; 19th Century Drama; Romantics.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Access to the following collections: Management Studies and Business, Classics, Economics, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Religion, and Sociology, as well as Law content from Stanford University and Chicago University up to present. Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology up to early 2009. Additionally, we have purchased some individual titles in other collections.
Oxford Very Short Introductions
Continuously updated platform of ebooks offering introductions to all subjects that bridge reference content and higher academic work.

Peter Lang ebooks
Access to ebook versions of Peter Lang print titles purchased by the UL with a publication date of 2010 - early 2018. Includes titles in English, German and French.
Philosophy in the Islamic World Online: 8th - 10th Centuries
A comprehensive and unprecedented reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam in its formative period: from its beginnings in the eighth century up to the tenth century AD.
Project MUSE
Humanities & Social Sciences. Access to individually purchased ebooks only (some 400 titles and growing).

Routledge Handbooks Online
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Full 2014 collection + further selected titles from 2015 onwards in Anthropology, Archaeology & Classics, Built Environment, Business & Economics, Communication Journalism Media & Culture, Development Studies, Education, Environment & Sustainability, Geography, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Security Studies, and Sociology.
Royal Society of Chemistry ebooks
Chemistry, Materials Science

SAGE Knowledge
SAGE ebooks in Social Sciences. Access is restricted to purchased titles.
SAGE Research Methods Online
A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. A "methods map" facilitates finding content on methods. SAGE Research Methods contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and "Little Blue Book” series. Includes a collection of case studies of real social research.
Salem Press Online
Literature (English, MML) and History
ScienceDirect
Access to Handbooks of Economics Series and a few selected monographs
Screen Studies Online
Free trial access to two British Film Institute ebook collections on Screen Studies Online. Access is available to BFI Film Classics and BFI Film Studies. The trial ends on 13th March 2020.
Sustainable Development Goals Online
Trial access until 20th December 2019. Please send feedback to Lynne Meehan in the Engineering Library, email lm746@cam.ac.uk
SIAM
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Mathematics ebooks from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Springer Biomedical & Life Sciences ebooks collection
Access to Springer ebooks published in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 in the biomedical and life sciences.
Springer Link
Biomedicine, Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physics
Stahl Online
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Cambridge portfolio of neuropsychopharmacology books by Dr Stahl

Taylor and Francis eBooks
ebook platform from Taylor & Francis hosting Routledge and CRC Press titles. Access is restricted to titles that have been purchased individually, on request.
Torrossa
Italian language titles in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. To activate full-text access, users must click on the lightbulb icon and submit a request.

University Press Scholarship Online
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Online access to 24 university presses. With the exception of Oxford University Press (see separate entry for Oxford Scholarship Online), full-text access is restricted to individual titles that have been purchased on request.