This blog post will look at subscriptions and title-by-title ebook purchases for Physical Sciences in 2020-21.
Subscriptions
In May, we took out a 12-month subscription to ScienceDirect All Access & Freedom Collection ebooks hosted on the ScienceDirect platform. This vast and constantly updating collection comprises around 40,000 textbooks, monographs and major reference works across a wide range of STEMM and social science subjects:
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Engineering; Physics and Astronomy; Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Mathematics; Medicine and Dentistry; Materials Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Chemistry; Neuroscience; Psychology, Business, Management and Accounting; and Social Sciences.
At the end of the subscription, we will be able to select a number of the most popular ebook titles to keep in perpetuity following consultation with faculty, departmental and college librarians.
All ebooks in the ScienceDirect All Access & Freedom Collection are available with unlimited, DRM-free access. All titles can be found in iDiscover or by searching on the ScienceDirect platform.
At the end of July, we subscribed for one year to the Institute of Physics (IOP) Concise and Expanding Physics series (releases 4-6) and their 2020 ebook collection.
Our subscription gives us access to an additional 335 IOP titles, building on our existing (perpetual) access to the Concise and Expanding Physics series (releases 1-3) and AAS-IOP Astronomy (releases 1-2).
“[The IOP] ebook collections offer high-quality research across the physical sciences. They have been created to meet the needs of students, early-career researchers and established leaders in the respective fields.”
- The Concise Physics series is produced in collaboration with Morgan & Claypool and consists of short texts that are described as the “first book” on a given topic – either as a first introduction to a subject, or as the first work published at the forefront of a fast-moving area.
- The Expanding Physics series includes authoritative works by leading researchers in physics and related subject areas.
IOP ebooks are available with unlimited, DRM-free access. All available titles can be found in iDiscover.
In July, we also renewed our subscription to the Springer Mathematics & Statistics eBooks Collections (2018-2021) for another year. The 2018-21 collections include textbooks and monographs and cover a range of key topics (algebra, analysis, geometry, probability and statistics), as well as newer areas of research (mathematical biology, computational science and engineering, and quantative finance).
Key mathematical topics in the 2021 collection include:
- Computational topology
- Geometry of information
- Mathematics of machine learning
- Partial differential equations
- Functional analysis
Key statistics topics in the 2021 collection include:
- Analytics and big data
- Statistical applications to epidemiology and public health
- Environmental science
- Spatial data analysis
All titles in the Springer Mathematics & Statistics eBooks Collections are available with unlimited, DRM-free access. All titles can be found in iDiscover.
Title-by-title purchases
Please see below for a small sample of individual ebook titles purchased by Physical Sciences in 2020-21. All of these titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.
Chemistry
- Handbook of Photochemistry (3rd edition)
- Klein’s Organic Chemistry, 3rd edition
- Natural Product Biosynthesis: Chemical Logic and Enzymatic Machinery
- Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (2nd Edition)
- Solvents and Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry (4th edition)
- Spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry (7th edition)
Earth Sciences
Geography
- Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration
- Diet for a Large Planet : Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology
- Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities
- Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea
- Plants, People, and Places : The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Canada and Beyond
- Silent spring
Materials Science
- Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny
- The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (4th edition)
- Titanium (2nd edition)
Mathematics
- Basic concepts of string theory
- Elementary differential geometry (2nd ed.)
- Galois Theory: Lectures Delivered at the University of Notre Dame by Emil Artin
- Introduction to smooth manifolds
- Physical hydrodynamics (2nd edition)
- Stellar Structure and Evolution
Physics
- Glassy materials and disordered solids: an introduction to their statistical mechanics
- Introduction to Mathematica® for Physicists
- Laser physics
- Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics (2nd edition)
- The Acoustic Bubble
- The Essence of Dielectric Waveguides
Polar Studies
- Arctic Cinemas: Essays on Polar Spaces and the Popular Imagination
- Arctic Plants of Svalbard : What We Learn From the Green in the Treeless White World
- Geologic structures of the Arctic Basin
- Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities
- Northern Voices: Inuit Writings in English
- Physics and Chemistry of the Arctic Atmosphere
- Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region: Norden Beyond Borders
- Sea Ice in the Arctic: Past, Present and Future
- Whale Snow : Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska
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