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ENGnetBASE (793 titles as of 1/29/08)
Now featuring our bestselling handbooks and references, ENGnetBASE continues to provide all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.
Google Books
Book Search works just like web search. Depending on copyright status and publisher permissions, you may be able to view a preview or the full text. Reference pages for books include links to book reviews, web references, maps and more. Currently, Google is connecting readers with books in two ways: the Partner Program and the Library Project (Stanford is a participant).
NANOnetBASE (53 titles as as 1/29/08)
One of the world’s premier online collection of nanoscience and nanotechnology references. Bringing together leading experts from the most prestigious and cutting-edge academic, industrial, and government institutions, it offers researchers, students, and professionals the most authoritative and convenient source available for both introductory and specialized information.
Thieme Electronic Book Library — Atlas & Textbook Series
This collection provides a resource for learning, review, and research in medicine and the life sciences. It systematically covers every course in the medical school curriculum and includes basic science volumes of interdisciplinary interest. Packed with illustrations, titles have been used for more than 40 years by medical students and professionals alike, with over 20 million copies sold worldwide. The innovative electronic version retains the outstanding educational utility of the print books, but incorporates powerful search functions to allow easy pinpointing of topics.
Reference eBook Collections
Oxford Reference Online — Premium
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
List of all GLVR Resources Licensed by Stanford (as of 1/30/08):
- Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary, 36th ed., 4v, 2006
- American Men & Women of Science, 23rd ed., 8v, 2007
- Children’s Literature Review, Vol. 124, 2007
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 26v, 2008 New! — see description below
- Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., 22v, 2007
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., 6v, 2006
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed., 8v, 2003
- Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, 2v, 2006
- Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 3v, 2005
- Encyclopedia of India, 4v, 2006
- Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, 2v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America, 3v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed., 10v, 2006
- Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America, 2v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., 15v, 2005
- Environmental Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., 2v, 2003
- Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion, 6v, 2005
- Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities, 4v, 2006
- Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 17v, 2003
- How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing, Vol. 1–7, 1994–2002
- International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, 2nd ed., 4v, 2003
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 6v, 2005
- World Education Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 3v, 2002
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, 3v, 2006
The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography contains biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. It presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature.
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