Ebooks
An electronic book (also e-book, ebook, digital book) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalnt of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital.
Listed below are e-books databases available in Swinburne Sarawak Library:
Books 24X7
Ebooks covering information technology, business and finance topics.
Includes books about networks, operating systems, programming languages,
and telecommunications, plus accounting information, finance, business and management as well as marketing.
Books24x7 consists of three collections namely : ITPro, BusinessPro & FinancePro.
Cambridge Books Online
Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme, covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences.
CRC Netbase - SCI-TECHnetBASE is the ultimate product for online research. It has over 4000 e-books across the sciences and fully searchable. It brings together the works of the world’s leading authors and editors as well as online repository of scientific and technical publications in such areas like civil engineering, electrical, chemistry, food & nutrition, business & management, physics, computer science ets.
Ebrary provides a unique set of online database collections that combine more than 40,000 authoritative books and other documents from over 150 leading academic, trade and professional publishers. It covers academic disciplines including Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Engineering & Technology, Humanities,Life & Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Science, Language Literature & Linguistics and etc. There are more than 350 leading publishers contribute to Ebrary's growing selection of e-books, reports, journals and other authoritative content including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Springer and Taylor & Francis.
ICE Virtual Library
The most comprehensive online civil engineering resource in the world. Here you can explore our archives back to 1836, browse ICE Publishing's internationally renowned to more than 1,000 ebooks to find the information you need.
IG Publishing is a spin-off company from iGroup Asia, the leading library information service provider in Asia. It is a unique platform offers easy-to-navigate user friendly interface supported by comprehensive sear and translations to a few major languages. They are working with the world’s leading commercial publishers and university presses, delivering quality content covering all major discipline.
Knovel
Over 500 eBooks covering a range of subjects in science, technology and engineering. Knovel is a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. Knovel’s three key elements – validated content, optimized search, and data analysis tools – enable engineers to not only easily find relevant data, but also analyze, document and incorporate it into their everyday work.
McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering delivers comprehensive authoritative information that accelerates research and innovation, and features content from a broad range of must-have McGraw-Hill engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more. AccessEngineering offers the widest and deepest repository of fully searchable engineering content available online - from the authors and industry-leading titles engineers have trusted and depended on for years.
Morgan & Claypool Publishers is an innovative company formed by experienced publishing professionals to serve the global research and development communities in science and technology.