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Health Sciences, Biology, Kinesiology, Nursing

Primal Pictures provides a dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy from head to toe. It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, and biomechanics. It covers a detailed anatomy study guide and includes detailed notes and figures of the skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, nervous, digestive, reproductive and endocrine system.

Includes online handbooks, drug guides, nursing care plans, diagnostic tests, clinical procedures and more.

This is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian Research Institutes, government agencies and university centres working in the area of health and medical research.

An interdisciplinary online collection in cognitive and brain sciences includes 7 MIT Press e-journals, over 450 online books, the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences and other reference sources. Covers areas of cognitive science such as psychology, linguistics, computational intelligence, philosophy, and neuroscience. Browse books by Title, Author or Topic in MITCogNet Library

Some of the subjects include: Law, medicine, technology, social science, education, language and literature and more. Install eBrary Unity reader to use value-added features available in this interface (from My settings). Firefox 3 users alternate download & install procedure

MyiLibrary content collection is unique and diverse, covering topics from Psychiatric Medicine to 16th Century American History.

In addition to Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion, Oxford Scholarship Online now access to new Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Psychology.

Complete list of APA Psycbooks in YUL Catalogue

The platform now contains over 40,000 books from commercial publishers, including material from Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and the Gibson CRKN and Public Policy collection. In addition, there are 200,000 books from the Internet Archives.

Springer e-books include e-Book series, monographs, reference works and textbooks. Coverage 2005-present. 13 subject collections which includes science, technology and medicine.

Chemistry

Subject coverage includes Chemistry & chemical engineering, food science, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics & toiletries, biochemistry, biology & biotechnology and toxicology. Includes Knovel Critical Tables (tables covering heat capacity and thermal conductivity, reaction thermodynamics and equilibrium constants, density and compressibility, vaporization and vapor pressure, thermal expansion,transport and flow, and electrical properties data), and Knovel Solvents (database collection of health, safety, and physical property information for over 1100 different solvents).

YUL subscribes to e-books from RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) that were published in 2007.

Engineering

Some title include: Materials Selection and Applications in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering In Time: The Systematics of Engineering History and Its Contemporary Context, Engineering and Technology Management Tools and Applications, and Career Success in Engineering: A Guide for Students and New Professionals. Also see Books24x7 It Pro

An ebook collection with 150 titles from O’Reilly and other publishers. Topics covered include: Ajax, Java,Javascript, Perl, C/C++, C#, DB2, SQL, HTML, XHTML, XML, UML, PHP Unix, Linux, Python, SAS, Windows Vista, and Rails. Microsoft applications and systems covered include: Access, ASP, Frontpage, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visual Basic, Photoshop.

Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in Engineering and Computer science. Subject collection: Biomedical Engineering, Computer & Information Science, Digital Circuits & Systems, Electromagnetics & Antennas Collection, General Engineering, Technology, Mathematics, and Signal Processing & Communications.

Consists of SPIE press monographs, tutorial texts and field guides on optics and photonics research. Subject collection:Astronomy and Astronomical Optics, Biomedical Optics and Medical Imaging, Communication and Information Technologies, Defense and Industrial Sensing, Electronic Imaging and Processing, Micro- and Nano- Technologies, Optics and Electro-Optics.

Mathematics

This Springer publication series reports on new developments in all areas of mathematics and their applications – quickly, informally and at a high level. Types of materials published include research monographs, lectures on a new field or presentations of a new angle in a classical field and summer schools and intensive courses on topics of current research.

Computer Science & IT

Physics

Subject Collection: Physics and Astronomy, Physics, Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy, Condensed Matter, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Elementary Particles and Nuclei, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Optical and Electronic Materials and Complexity

Multidisciplinary

The platform now contains over 40,000 books from commercial publishers, including material from Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and the Gibson CRKN and Public Policy collection. In addition, there are 200,000 books from the Internet Archives, which include material digitized by a number of schools as well as a collection of Ontario government documents identified by the Ontario Digitization Initiative.

Subject coverage includes science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts.

Complete list of EBL online books available at York.

MyiLibrary works with all its publishers to facilitate the dissemination of research information in an online environment. The MyiLibrary content collection is unique and diverse, covering topics from Psychiatric Medicine to 16th Century American History

Free E-Books

National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy

The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

Reference Handbooks & Encyclopedias

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