The Oxford DNB was first published in 2004 in print (60 vols.). Since 2005 regular updates have extended the Dictionary’s coverage, now including biographies of more than 60,000 men and women who died in or before the year 2016—plus 536 ‘Theme’ articles for reference and research.
The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. It is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University, UK, and published by Oxford University Press.
Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.
The multidisciplinary collection of ebooks on the Proquest Ebook Central platform includes several hundred titles purchased by University Libraries in recent years.
The ebooks can be read online, downloaded by chapter or in full, in pdf format.
ProQuest with Early European Books has embarked on a European-wide project which will trace the history of printing in Europe from its origins (circa 1450s) to 1700. The contents are drawn from major repositories including the Danish Royal Library, the National Central Library in Florence, the National Library of France, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Wellcome Library in London.
The Sistema Bibliotecario has subscribed in perpetuity to approximately 450 titles.
The available ebooks are DRM free and accessible to an unlimited and simultaneous number of users. The formats available are PDF and ePub. On the platform there are also many freely accessible titles (Open/Free access).
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of high-quality academic content across Cambridge Core, including leading journals, research monographs, reference works and textbooks.
The Sistema Bibliotecario has subscribed in perpetuity to approximately 450 titles.
Access is single site, DRM free, for an unlimited and simultaneous number of users.
Routledge Handbooks Online is the platform that allows you to access online the Routledge manuals (Handbooks, Companions and Worlds) and CRC Press. The University has subscribed the access from 2018 to all the titles of the Science collection currently published.
EBSCO eBooks are online versions of print books that your library has either purchased with a perpetual license or via an annual subscription, and, since November 2021, a group of 4,000 Open Access ebook created in collaboration with university presses and scholarly OA publishers such as University of Michigan Press, Taylor & Francis and Temple University Press. This highly curated collection provides libraries and end users with choice and access to a large selection of discoverable, DRM-Free content.
eBooks that are owned will be available to the library in perpetuity.
