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Books
E-Books
Lib4RI currently licensed and purchased some 420,000 e-books. (Almost) all of them are included in Lib4RI's E-Book Catalogue. You can search the catalogue for «Title», «Author» or «Keyword», the latter also allowing you to perform a combined search for title and author. A click on the corresponding 
button opens Lib4RI's Link Resolver guiding you to the e-book. Lib4RI's E-Book Catalogue is updated regularly to reflect changes and to inform you on temporary access problems.
Alternative search options for e-books include the NEBIS catalogue and its «check online access» tab (only ca 45% coverage) as well as the search via the individual publishers.
Lib4RI's E-Book Catalogue is the default setting for searching books via Lib4RI's Searchbox.
Publishers:
ACS | ACSESS | AIP | Artech House | ASCE | ASM | ASME | CABI | Cambridge University Press | CRC Press | EBSCO | Edward Elgar | Elsevier | Hanser | IEEE | IOP | IWA | JSTOR | McGraw-Hill | Morgan & Claypool | NRC | OECD | OUP | Proquest EBook Central | Routledge | RSC | Safari | SIAM | SPIE | Springer | Taylor & Francis | Trans Tech Publications | Wageningen Academic Publishers | Wiley | World Scientific
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Conference proceedings from technical divisions' symposia of the American Chemical Society (ACS) from 1974 onwards.
Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS)
Browse ACSESS' Digital Library for books and multimedia products published by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America.
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
AIP Conference Proceedings report findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Access to the complete proceedings collection from the American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Access to the complete e-book collection from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) between 1993 and 2012.
American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
Access to all e-books between 1993-2017
Artech House
Access to 50 titles from Artech House.
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Users at Eawag, Empa, PSI, and WSL have access to all e-books in the Science & Engineering Collection from 1920 onward.
- Browse by subject area:
Astronomy | Chemistry | Computer Science | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Engineering | General Science | Life Sciences | Mathematics | Physics | Statistics and Probability
Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI)
Access to the CABI e-books Archive 2000-2007 and 2011-2013. Many books from CABI published in print are not available as e-books.
- Browse by subject area:
Agriculture | Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Environmental Sciences | Human Health and Nutrition | Leisure and Tourism | Plant Sciences
CRC Press
All CRC e-books from 1998-2019 are available via the Taylor & Francis homepage. More than 15000 titles from the CRC SCITECHnetBASE are included in this package.
- Access to the single netbases is available via collections.
EBSCO
The aggregator EBSCO offers access to e-books from many different publishers.
Edward Elgar
More than 400 e-books published between 1997-2016:
- Search and browse e-books at Elgaronline
- Browse by subject area
Climate Change | Environmental Economics | Environmental Geography | Environmental Law | Environmental Management | Environmental Politics | Environmental Sociology.
Access to individual e-books is indicated by a full green circle.
Hanser
The Hanser eLibrary offers technical information for engineers and technicians. It covers the fields of metal and plastic processing, electric and electronic engineering, computer science, economy and management. Available are all titles published since 2011.
IEEE
Access to the proceedings from over 1,400 IEEE and IET annual conferences
IOP
The Institute of Physics provides access to its two e-book collections: IOP Expanding Physics and IOP Concise Physics with more than 180 titles.
IWA Publishing
Water Intelligence Online provides access to reference books and research reports covering water, wastewater and related environmental topics published by the International Water Association (IWA).
JSTOR
Besides JSTOR's well known collection of scientific journals, JSTOR offers also 30,000 e-books from renowned scholarly publishers. Lib4RI offers more than 9,000 JSTOR e-books from the subject areas Business & Economics, Political Science, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Sustainability and Transportation. The advanced search option on the JSTOR platform allows for the restriction of the search to e-books.
McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering delivers interactively multidisciplinary information and full text of about 800 e-books.
Morgan & Claypool
Organised by series, Morgan & Claypool's synthesis and colloquium lectures offer valuable entry points into topics from bio science, computer science and informatics, engineering, mathematics and statistics, and many more….
National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
The complete set of e-books published by the NRC (National Research Council of Canada) between 1993-2010.
OECD
OECD iLibrary: More than 7,000 e-books of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A broad range of topics are covered including Agriculture and Food, Energy, and Urban, Rural and Regional Development.
Oxford University Press (OUP)
There are currently more than 3,200 titles available from OUP, they come from the subject areas biology, physics, mathematics and further areas.
Proquest EBook Central (previously MyiLibrary)
Proquest EBook Central offers access to selected e-books from various publishers. Per request, printing and downloading (PDF) is restricted to 20% of a title.
Routledge
Access to more than 2,600 Routledge titles is available via the Taylor & Francis platform. Please access the «Environment & Sustainability Collection» 2014 & 2015 with its 21 Routledge Handbooks by this link.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
The entire collection of chemical science e-books published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Safari
Safari Books Online offers more than 34,000 e-books (mainly) in computer science and information technology from various publishers.
Usage restrictions:
- No download of e-books available.
- Printing limited to 1 page at a time.
SIAM
Access to all e-books published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) since 1971.
SPIE
All proceedings published by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) from are available. The SPIE E-books are available from 1989 to 2013.
Springer
Access to ca 57,500 German and English e-books published by Springer.
In addition to online access to Springer e-books, members of Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL can take advantage of the Springer MyCopy programme. Springer offers printed softcover editions of English e-books that are licensed by Lib4RI and are included in this print-on-demand programme. These MyCopy titles are for personal use only and have black and white book content. The price for each book is CHF 24.95 and includes shipping & handling, excluding local VAT/Sales tax. Further information about MyCopy from Springer.
Taylor & Francis
Access to more than 25,000 titles covering areas such as construction, energy, engineering, environment & sustainibility, geography and planning published between 2008 and 2019.
- Search & browse e-books at Taylor & Francis
Trans Tech Publications (TTP)
Users at Eawag, Empa, PSI, and WSL have access to the Material Science Foundations e-books from TTP, comprising 62 e-books from 1998-2016.
Wageningen Academic Publishers
E-books from Wageningen Academic Publishers in the field of life sciences (around 300 titles).
Wiley Online Books
The Wiley Online Library offers several thousand e-books and reference works in the fields of science and technology. All titles marked with an open lock symbol are licensed.
World Scientific Books
World Scientific offers a couple of thousand e-books in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and material science, environmental science, life science, computer science, engineering, medicine and healthcare, business and economics, social science and Asian studies.
Print Books
The NEBIS Catalogue
Our collections of books and other media are listed in the NEBIS recherche catalogue. NEBIS is a network of some 140 Swiss libraries with a total collection of about 10.5 million titles. You have access to all these books free-of-charge. Most documents may be ordered online and are delivered to your home library (see Borrow Books).
New Books 2019
At Lib4RI: Eawag-Empa (Dübendorf)
At Lib4RI: PSI (Villigen)
At Lib4RI: WSL (Birmensdorf)
How to search for new aquisitions in specific months and years
Go to NEBIS Recherche and enter the following code:
for Lib4RI: Eawag-Empa: e17YYYYMM*
for Lib4RI: PSI: e08YYYYMM*
for Lib4RI: WSL: e10YYYYMM*
where YYYY is substituted with the year and MM with the month (e.g. 04 for April).
For example, a search with the code e10201008* shows you a list of new aquisitions in August 2010 at the library Lib4RI: WSL.
Other Catalogues
- E-Books Directory
E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.
- Directory of Open Access Books
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) aggregates metadata for more than 1,000 academic, open access e-books from 35 publishers; each book record has a link to the full text of the monograph on the publisher's website or repository. All books listed in DOAB are subjected to independent and external peer review prior to publication.
- Google Books
Readers can preview up to 20% of the pages of most out-of-print books for free. They can also view and download the out-of-copyright books.
- KVK – Karslruhe Virtual Catalog
Meta search interface for more than 500 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogues worldwide. Good for searching the holdings of European libraries.
- Open Library
Open Library is a catalog with well over 20 million edition records online and access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books and links to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon.
- swissbib
Swissbib is the metacatalogue of more than 800 Swiss libraries. It provides a simple, fast and comprehensive gateway to scientifc information.
- WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. It includes the holdings for thousands of academic, public, special and national libraries worldwide.
