E-books in NUS Library

Lim-Yeo Pin Pin, Editor

The NUS Library has subscribed to a number of books through the Web. These books have been digitised and are now accessible anytime from your personal computer on your desktop. The publisher can easily update the information in the book on their Web site which can then be accessed immediately without any delays and additional costs due to printing and distribution.

To access E-books subscribed by the NUS Library, go to Digital Library and select E-books or search in LINC.

Currently we have access to:

Computer science

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997-
  At the publisher’s Web site you can view the full text of 120 books in this series published from 1997 to 1999 in Portable Document format (PDF).
• Electronic Workshops in Computing
  which leads to the proceedings from 12 workshops. Registration is required for first time users. Please obtain the abstracts booklet for the corresponding title from Science Library Main Shelves for the password required for registration.

Law

• International Bank Lending and Security
• International Business and Environment Regulation
• International Contracts and Arbitration
• The Rise of Crossborder and Representative Banking
• Taxation of International Transactions
  Published by the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria and available as HTML files. Registration is required for first time users.

Medicine

• Harrison’s principles of internal medicine. 14th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, Health Professions Division, 1998.
• Harrison’s principles of internal medicine: PreTest self-assessment and review. 14th ed. Washington, DC: Brinner/Mazel, 1998.

There are also many electronic texts available on the Web for free. Some links are provided at http://bweb.nus.edu.sg/ecoll/eb/ebweb.html.

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