E-book Collections
Full list of eBooks in Science and Engineering.
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Cambridge eBooksThis collection includes most science and engineering titles from 2014 to present.
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Elsevier (ScienceDirect) eBooks 2013-presentThis collection covers science, technology, and health sciences disciplines (excluding specialty medical titles). After searching, limit to Book Chapters.
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IEEE-Wiley E-Books 1974-2010(Use Wiley Online Library for 2011-present IEEE-Wiley books.)
IEEE Xplore E-books provides Web access to more than over 1,000 E-books from the fields of electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. Individual chapters can be downloaded as a PDF. -
O'Reilly for Higher Education (OHE)Programming and information technology e-books, many up-to-date titles.
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IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowIEEE Xplore provides web access to more than five-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Does not include Draft Standards.
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SPIE eBooks 1989-presentThe SPIE Digital Library and eBooks is an extensive resource for over 160 e-books on optics and photonics.
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Springer E-books 2005-presentNearly every Springer e-book (~120,000 titles) published in English and German from 2005 to present, across many disciplines.
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Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer ScienceContains many 50- to 100-page "Lectures", or self-contained e-books that synthesize a research or development topic, authored by an expert. Now a part of the Springer Link collection.
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Taylor & Francis E-books This link opens in a new windowE-books from Routledge, Psychology Press, and Focal Press, mostly in the humanities, social sciences, and behavioral sciences. UCLA subscribes to only a small number of the available titles. Also includes the scientific, technical, and medical reference books formerly contained in CRCnetBASE. UCLA subscribes to only a small number of titles beyond the former CRC collection.
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Wiley E-books 2011-presentIncludes 2011-present IEEE-Wiley books.
Reference Sources
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AccessScience This link opens in a new window
Full access to thousands of articles, dictionary terms, illustrations and graphics, bibliographies containing literature citations, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. Updated daily. Also includes biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
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AIP Physics Desk ReferenceA concise compilation of the most frequently used physics data and formulae with their derivations, including information on atmospheric physics, electricity and magnetism, elementary particle physics, fluid dynamics, geophysics, nonlinear physics, particle accelerators, polymer physics, and quantum theory.
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CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Second EditionOnline compendium of mathematical definitions, formulas, figures, tabulations, and references.
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and PhysicsA ready-reference book of chemical and physical data.
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Dictionary of Pure and Applied PhysicsProvides clear, precise definitions of scientific terms.
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Digital Library of Mathematical FunctionsDigital handbook of mathematical functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables. Managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and AstrophysicsConsists of more than 3,000 entries, of which 630 are primary articles discussing important theoretical and observational results of astronomical research, including entries as varied as "climate," "galaxies," "Jupiter," and "telescope engineering." The work is especially strong in its coverage of topics related to the sun and solar physics.
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Smithsonian Physical Tables, Ninth Revised EditionThis reference source comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
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Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical PhysicsA comprehensive reference source that unifies the fields of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, assembling the principal ideas, techniques and results of the field from atomic spectroscopy to applications in comets.
Library Catalogs
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UC Library Search This link opens in a new window
UC Library Search is the unified discovery and borrowing system for all 10 UC Campuses. Select the UCLA Library Catalog scope to search holdings of materials owned by the UCLA Library and other UCLA collections, whether online or in print. Does not contain full-text articles or article citations. Select the Articles, books and more scope to search for materials in all 10 UC campuses. More information in this guide.
