e-Books at Oxford University
The Libraries provide access to thousands of online books across many subjects. See below for a selection of e-book packages in your subject.
Licensed collections at Oxford
NetLibrary (OCLC) Currently we have over 2100 purchased e-books across all subjects ('Our Collection') plus more than 3000 free e-books.
Access to each e-book is normally limited to two simultaneous users.
Humanities
ACLS Humanities E-Books - 1,700 scholarly monographs, mostly history of Britain, Europe, America, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
Cambridge Companions Online – Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion and Culture.
Cambridge Histories Online - 250+ titles published since 1960 by CUP.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - printed books from 1473-1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - 150,000 books published during the 18th Century.
Making of the Modern World - 61,000 titles published from 1450 to 1850.
Oxford Scholarship Online -1,000 OUP titles in Classics, Economics and Finance, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion
Past Masters - Humanities Full Text Works - complete works of individual authors.
Taylor & Francis Online eBooks Library - 290 of the world's leading books mainly in the Humanities.
Shakespeare Collection - Arden editions and more.
Social Science
Books24x7 - 5,000 e-books in Business and Management, including ExecSummaries & ExecBlueprints. To access, please register (while on the University network) for an individual account.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) - research in international affairs.
Handbooks in Economics Series – inc. Agricultural, Defense, Development, Econometrics, Economic Forecasting, Education, Finance, Environment, Health, Income Distribution, Industrial Organization, International, Labor, Macroeconomics, Mathematical, Monetary, Natural Resource and Energy, Population and Family, Public, Regional and Urban Economics.
Handbook of Statistics - a series of self-contained reference books.
MyiLibrary eBooks (Law) - from Wolters Kluwer Law and Business and Cambridge University Press
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online - the definitive reference source with over 1,850 articles by 1,500 leading economists.
Science & Medicine
Advances in Parasitology - book series from Elsevier.
Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry– book series from Elsevier.
Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Knovel)
IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology – the “Gold Book” from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Knovel Critical Tables – interactive tables for chemistry, materials, physics.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science - book series from Springer.
Lecture Notes in Mathematics - book series from Springer.
Methods in Enzymology – book series from Elsevier.
Oxford Medical Handbooks - 15 titles from the series: Anaesthesia, Cardiology, Clinical Medicine, Dialysis, Emergency Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Medical Sciences, Nephrology & Hypertension, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Oncology, Practical Drug Therapy, Psychiatry, Public Health Practice, Rheumatology.
Oxford Textbook of Medicine - 5th edition.
Ovid e-books - Oxford Textbook of Public Health, Fields Virology.
Reference
Blackwell Reference Online - 300 volumes in humanities and social sciences.
Credo Reference - 100s of titles from the world's leading reference publishers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - biochemistry, biology, ecology & evolution, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, plant science, virology
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World
Grove Art Online - reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s.
Grove Music Online - reference resource for all aspects of music.
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Oxford Classical Dictionary - guide to all aspects of the ancient world.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB).
Oxford Reference Online - OUP Quick Reference collection, including English and bilingual dictionaries, English grammar & thesaurus, and subject dictionaries.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
SAGE Reference Online – Encyclopedias in Social Science Research Methods & Geographic Information Science (GIS).
Whitaker's Almanack - annual reference “bible” for current affairs.
How to find e-books in the library catalogue
Oxford’s e-books can be found by searching in the main catalogue SOLO. Most are catalogued individually just like printed books. In addition many packages are listed on SOLO and Oxlip+, e.g. NetLibrary.
These have their own interface which allow advanced search and browsing that may be helpful in your research, especially with subject collections.
Remote access
Start at SOLO and click on Oxford Single Sign On to Log In as a University member.
Access to e-books on personal e-readers
License agreements for Oxford's e-book collections do not at present permit the downloading of e-books onto mobile e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader. The Apple iPad, however, may be used by University members to access all of Oxford's e-resources including e-books, using the Oxford Single Sign On.
Kindle owners may purchase academic e-books individually through Amazon. Those with more flexible devices, such as Sony Readers, can make use of a range of free e-book resources such as Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.
iPad users will also find these resources valuable if working off-line. See a list of links to free out-of-copyright e-books below.
Borrow an e-Reader!
The Radcliffe Science Library is trialling the loan of e-readers. Oxford students and staff can borrow a Kindle or a Sony.
Free online books
Bartleby.com Literary classics, the King James Bible, Shakespeare, fiction and nonfiction.
Google Books Millions of books digitised by Google.
Internet Archive Giant digital library of 1.8 million texts.
Internet Classics Archive “441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors. Mainly Greco-Roman (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.”
The Online Books Page Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web including a few special exhibit listings including A Celebration of Women Writers and Prize Winning Books Online. Updated regularly.
Perseus Digital Library Project Includes: Primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome; Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser; Primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature.
Prize-Winning Books Online “Read online the complete text of books that have won major literary prizes, like the Newbery Award, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.”
Project Gutenberg “Download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone or other device. Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free ebooks.”
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