E-books
E-books: Reading into the future
The NU Libraries have numerous e-books available for our users. To search and access our ebooks on the web, use our online catalog, NuCat!
Among our largest collections are:
- New!Cambridge Histories Online, the full 247 volumes of the Cambridge Histories series
- Early English Books Online, virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
- netLibrary
popular electronic books including self-help manuals, computer handbooks, history and biography, consumer healthcare, and more. - Safari Tech Books Online with thousands of computer and engineering handbooks and manuals from Microsoft Press, O'Reilly, Que, Sams, and more.
For those interested in the arts, we offer
Other reference ebooks include:
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences from Wiley Interscience
- Knovel Library
- International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Science encyclopedias from scholarly publisher Elsevier in Genetics, Materials Science and Technology, and Ocean Sciences.
- Synthesis, a collection of "lectures" on topics in engineering and computer science. Each lecture is a self-contained electronic book that gives more analysis and depth than typical journal articles
Finally, two popular classics:
