Library E-book Collection
The Library may not license every e-book from a publisher. If you come across something we don't have online, check Discover to see whether it is available through other providers, or request it via inter-library loans.
Start your search for e-books at the publishers' sites. You should be able to access the e-book as long as it's one which the Library has purchased. At many websites, there will be an icon to denote this, such as 
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. The searches will include available e-books that are not yet cataloged in Library Catalogue.
In the following e-book collection lists, you can click the icon 
to download the user guides of specific e-book databases.
- BKS Digital Library (Mirror Site) This link opens in a new window
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BKS contains a collection over 6.000 books in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Architecture, Mathematics Physics and Chemistry, Environmental Science, Biological Sciences, Business Administration, Computer Science and Software Engineering. The contents can only be accessed by IE browser. To read the e-book in BKS, you need to download the PDF reader in the bottom of the BKS's homepage.
- Cengage eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Cengage is the world's leading innovative educational publisher, providing professional services to many universities and libraries. Its products and services are designed for clients to achieve academic excellence, career development and provide authoritative information anytime, anywhere.
- Chao Xing eBooks This link opens in a new window
NOTE: To download the eBook, please download the Chaoxing Reader in the bottom of the homepage.
Chao Xing e-book database is the world's largest Chinese online library with 180,000 e-book resources. The book covers a wide range of subject areas and provides a wealth of valuable reference materials for the teaching and work of universities and research institutions. - De Gruyter eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Headquartered in Berlin, De Gruyter Publisher is a comprehensive academic press that its publications cover all subjects.
This database contains many kinds of electronic books, covering prominent publishers such as De Gruyter Publisher, Princeton University , Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University Press etc. - Emerald eBook Series Database This link opens in a new window
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Emerald Publishing is one of the world's leading digital first publishers, commissioning, curating and showcasing research that can make a real difference. The eBooks cover many subjects including Accounting, Finance & Economics, Business, Management & Strategy, Health & Social Care, HR, Learning & Organization Studies, Library & Information Management, Public Policy & Environmental Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management.
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IGI Global publishes reference books, encyclopedias, teaching cases and e-books focusing on the areas of business and management information science and technology, computer science and information technology, engineering science and technology, environmental science and technology, media and communication science and technology.
- Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Scholarship Online is a powerful digital library developed by Oxford University press, which specializes in the best academic books of Oxford University Press. Currently, OSO titles for XJTLU covers subjects of Biology, Economics and Finance, Linguistics, Literature, Business and Management, Mathematics, Physics, Public Health. All the academic books it contains are written by world-class scholars, including Nobel Prize winners, and approved by 12 members of the academic council of the University of Oxford.
- SpringerLink E-Books This link opens in a new window
The Library currently has trial access to Springer Link e-books for 2023 and 2024. You are allowed to access and download full text of the e-books during 01 March - 02 June, 2024.
Springer publishing house was founded in 1842 in Berlin, Germany, which is the world’s second largest STM publishing company. This is a multidisciplinary e-book platform. The Library has purchased all their e-books in 21 subjects from 2005 to 2022, including computer science, energy, engineering etc. Lecture notes of Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematics and Statistics from 1997 to 2004 can also be accessed. - Wiley Online Books This link opens in a new window
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Wiley is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world's leading societies. Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
- World Scientific eBooks This link opens in a new window
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World Scientific Publishing has established itself as one of the leading academic and professional publishers in the world, and the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. World Scientific has published more than 12,000 titles. Many of its books are recommended texts adopted by renowned institutions such as Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Princeton University.
- Elsevier E-books This link opens in a new window
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Elsevier is a global information analytics business specializing in science and health. Library has purchased 7,600 kinds of e-books of Elsevier. These books are of great use in business and science.
Featured collection: Methods in Enzymology is a set of classic reference books which has been one of the most respected publications in the field of biochemistry with a history of more than 50 years. More than 500 volumes have been published by 2011. It contains abundant information highly relevant to the fields of life science, including microbiology, biochemistry, cancer research and genetics. - European Mathematical Society eBooks This link opens in a new window
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The EMS Publishing House is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the publication of high-quality peer-reviewed journals and high-quality books, on all academic levels and in all fields of pure and applied mathematics.
- Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Books This link opens in a new window
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ICE Virtual Library is the online content platform for ICE Publishing. Patrons can benefit from its enhanced platform functionality with integrated search, user-friendly design, full text features, and a powerful search engine. The ICE Virtual Library hosts all of ICE Publishing's e-content, including over 1500 eBooks in 13 subject-specific collections, representing the most comprehensive eBook collection in the world.
- Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the world's top professional in the field of engineering academic society. The IET Digital Library is a global repository of science, engineering and technology focused content produced by IET.
- IOP eBooks This link opens in a new window
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IOP eBooks is the latest e-book project launched by Institute of Physics Publishing, which aims to build a collection of high-quality physics books through innovative digital publishing methods. It includes IOP Expending Physics and IOP Concise Physics. The library has ordered ebooks published from 2014 to 2022, which covers a wide range of subjects, including semiconductor research, atomic and molecular physics, theoretical physics, electronic structure, materials science, network science, renewable energy, meteorological physics, engineering, mathematics and optical physics.
- McGraw-Hill eBook Library (Business Package) This link opens in a new window
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McGraw-Hill eBook Library provides a useful tool for libraries to expand their collections without adding physical shelf space. Users can access content through the library’s collection, wherever and whenever they want it.
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is an authoritative international academic institution, and also is a major chemical information dissemination agency and publisher.RSC organizes hundreds of chemical meetings a year. The association was founded in 1841 by approximately 48,500 chemical researchers, teachers, industrialists and professional academic bodies. RSC has published more than 1,000 books, the equivalent of more than 25,000 chapters, spanning more than 40 years of history. Each year there have been new books updated and supplemented.
- Taylor & Francis eBooks (Architecture & Urban Planning Titles) This link opens in a new window
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Taylor & Francis eBook is developed by Taylor & Francis Group. It is a single destination platform for academic, science, technology, engineering and medicine e-Book content. Llibrary has subscribed many kinds of the eBooks, which mainly cover two subjects: architectural design and urban planning.
- Elgar Online This link opens in a new window
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Edward Elgar is a professional international academic publisher and its annual publications are about 400 kinds. Elgar Online is the eBook platform of Edward Elgar. Currently Library has purchased more than 6,000 kinds of eBooks in the fields of business, finance and economics.
- EBSCO eClassics (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
EBSCO eClassics provides 25 full text digital eBooks for casual and extensive reading. They are all from famous author all over the world, such as Dickens, London, Wells and Melville. It includes: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Invisible Man, Common Sense, Paradise Lost, Daisy Miller, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Tale of Two Cities, The Red Badge of Courage, Heart of Darkness, Up from Slavery, On Liberty, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Jungle, Anthem, The Republic, Great Expectations, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Pride and Prejudice, The Call of the Wild, Leaves of Grass, Moby Dick, The Last of the Mohicans, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights.
