Following is a list of selected electronic book resources that have material related to the Life Sciences. Many individual titles can be found in the Stanford library catalog, SearchWorks, where you can limit your search to online resources by clicking on the Online link in the Access menu.
AccessScience
The online McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. A collection of articles, bibliographies, study guides, dictionaries, etc.
Cambridge Books Online
Covers subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences. Stanford subscription covers July-Dec 2009, 2010, and 2011 e-books.
ebrary
Multidisciplinary collection of e-books. Search by keyword or title to find relevant resources.
Google Books
Search the full text of books scanned as part of the Google Book Search project. Features include the ability to link cited works.
Knovel
Handbooks in science and engineering covering a variety of subjects including: Biochemistry; Biology & Biotechnology; and Environment & Environmental Engineering.
MyiLibrary
Multidisciplinary resource. Includes books from the following publishers: Cambridge University Press; Elsevier Science & Technology; Greenwood Publishing Group; Humana Press; Oxford University Press; Springer; and Taylor & Francis.
National Academies Press e-books
Freely available e-books. Subjects include:
- Agriculture
- Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Biology and Life Sciences
- Environment and Environmental Studies
- Food and Nutrition
- Health and Medicine
- Policy for Science and Technology
SCI-TECHnetBASE
Multidisciplinary collection of e-books. Search by keyword or title to find relevant resources.
Science Direct
Multidisciplinary resource for books and journals published by Elsevier. Search by keyword or title to find relevant resources. Subscribed titles have a green icon next to the title. Subjects include:
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Environmental Science
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Neuroscience
Springerlink
Multidisciplinary resource for books and journals published by Springer. Search by keyword or title or browse subject collections to find relevant resources.
Wiley Interscience
Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Not all titles are available. Look for the open lock indicator.
World Scientific
Titles are available from Environmental Science, Life Sciences, Medicine and Healthcare. Only selected titles are subscribed. There is no indicator.