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  • 7/29/2012

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The UB has 40,000 e-books

The TUM's University Library has bought or licensed more than 40,000 scientific e-book titles. No matter if you are connected to the TUM network by the campus-wide net-access or logged in from outside the network by eAccess – all the e-literature is available for free and at any time.

Laptop on pack of books
40,000 e-books are available at TUM's University Library. (photo: Robert Kneschke - Fotalia.com)

 

Advantages over printed books

No matter if you are using a desktop PC, a laptop or an e-book reader – e-books can be read on all of these devices. E-books have many advantages: Text-searches for keywords, personal notes, highlighted text-passages, the integration of own files or the possibility to export data. Discover the wide range of e-book packages and individual titles in the online catalog (OPAC).

A small sample of the available online literature:

  • The Knovel Library with e-books on Aerospace & Radar Technology, Electronics & Semiconductors, Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering and also Nanotechnology
  • German-language scientific Springer e-books on medicine, natural sciences, engineering and computer science, economics and social sciences
  • Almost the entire range of e-books published by Elsevier
  • Safari Books Online with more than 12,000 English and 500 German e-books on IT, digital media, technology and jobs / careers
  • SIAM e-books on applied mathematics and computer sciences
  • The Thieme E-Book Library on biology, chemistry, medicine and psychology

 

More information about the general use of e-books can be found on the University Library's website www.ub.tum.de/en/ebooks.

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