Universitätsbibliothek Siegen: eBooks

All available eBooks of the University Library can be found in the library catalogue. You can restrict your search to eBooks in the "Advanced search" with choosing "eBook" as "Kind of material".

The transfer to the catalogue is carried out with a certain time delay. Because of this the specific search for eBooks within the following portals may be worthwile:

Within the university network

beck online - Books

Via the database beck online more than 900 jurisprudential books of the publisher Beck are accessible in fulltext; these are especially legal texts, commentaries, handbooks and jurisprudential standard works. The range is enlarged continuosly; a chronological sorted titlelist is available within the library catalogue.

de Gruyter

Law
Access to more than 200 jurisprudential text books and monographies of the publisher Walter de Gruyter.
Handbooks of linguistics and communication science
Access to the electronic fulltexts of all items of the series. The series is one of the most important for the study of general linguistics and linguistics as applied to specific languages; an overview over the current state of research within central issues of linguistics is given.

Also these titles are accessible:
Henri J. M. Claessen:
The early state. Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2011.
Mark M. Meerschaert:
Stochastic Models for Fractional Calculus. Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2011
Martin Pütz:
Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter, 2008.
Erwin Riedel:
Anorganische Chemie. - 8. Aufl. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011.
Erwin Riedel:
Übungsbuch allgemeine und anorganische Chemie. - 2. Aufl. - Berlin, de Gruyter 2011.
Jochen Splett:
Deutsches Wortfamilienwörterbuch
Analysis of the structure of word families of the german present-day language, at the same time foundation of a prospective structure of german vocabulary. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter, 2009 (contains.: Pt. 1 – 18).

Elsevier (ScienceDirect)

eBook collection - Mathematics
English language eBook package of the publisher Elsevier to mathematics with 877 eBooks published between 1949 and 2006 and 27 titles published 2007 and 2008. A titlelist is available.
Bhattacharya, Pallab:
Comprehensive semiconductor science and technology. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2011.
Sayigh, Ali:
Comprehensive renewable energy. -
Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2012.

Erich Schmidt Verlag – Compliance digital

Via the Compliance digital portal access to more than 150 eBooks of the publisher Erich Schmidt concerning compliance management is possible; a titlelist is available.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Online-Platform of the publisher Gale with a large range of electronic handbooks and reference books. At present you have access to the following encyclopedias:

Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, ed. by Fredwa Multi-Douglas. - Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007
International dictionary of psychoanalysis, Alain de Mijolla, ed. in chief. - Detroit [u.a.]: Thomson Gale, 2005
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, ed. by Barry Keith Brant. - Detroit: Schirmer Reference, 2007

MyiLibrary

MyiLibrary is a platform for eBooks, where eBooks of different publishers are provided.

A list of the accessible eBooks is available via the library catalogue.

Olms Online

Internet-portal fo the publisher Georg Olms which provides two eBooks:

Catalogues of german book fairs 1594-1860
Reprints of the publisher Georg Olms (16th to 20th century); the main focus are Philosophy and German language and literature studies

RSC eBook Collection 1968-2009

The eBook Collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry is a large collection (898 Titels). The eBooks are digitalised in pdf-Format, are completely searchable and contains mainly important and fundamentally chemical literature of the publication years 1968-2009. A titlelist is available.

Sage

Badie, Bertrand:
International encyclopedia of political science
Los Angeles [u.a.]: Sage, 2011
Dowding, Keith M.:
Encyclopedia of power
Los Angeles [u.a.]: Sage, 2011
Fardon, Richard:
The Sage handbook of social anthropology
Los Angeles [u.a.]: Sage, 2012
Southerton, Dale:
Encyclopedia of consumer culture
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2011

Springer eBooks (SpringerLink)

Text and reference books published by Springer, Teubner, Vieweg, Gabler, Physica and the "Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften"

german-language packages

english packages

Also available:

Ari Ben-Menahm:
Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Berlin [u. a.]: Springer, 2009
Klaus Grupen:
Handbook of Particle Detection and Imaging
Heidelberg: Springer, 2012
Miodrag Lovric:
International encyclopedia of statistical science.
Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2011
Bruce G. Batchelor
Machine Vision Handbook
London: Springer, 2012
Henk C. A. Tilborg
Encyclopedia of cryptography and security
Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2011

Wiley Online Library

In th Wiley Online Library more than 320 eBooks of the publisher John Wiley & Sons are accessible. We recommend the access via the alphabetic list of titles. The main focus of the collection are titles from engineering; additonally sociology, politics, psycholgy, economics, law and literature sciences are represented.

wiso eBooks

Within the database wiso more than 1000 german-language eBooks of the subjects economics and social sciences are accessible; the publishers Deutscher Fachverlag, Gabal Verlag, Rainer Hampp Verlag and Rudolf Haufe Verlag are covered; mainly reference books of the subjects business and economics as well as law and sociology are contained. The range is enlarged continuosly. A titlellist can be retrieved via the library catalogue.

World Bank e-Library

The „World Bank e-Library“ contains more than 2.300 eBooks of the World Bank. The publications deal mainly with the socio-economic development in less developed countries and regions and cover research results to development politics, economic politics, foreign trade, health, education, development aid and poverty. A titlelist of the archival part of the material is available.