eBooks

Free access to de Gruyter Biomedical Science and Engineering collection

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At De Gruyter, we are building the foundations for the bio-specialist with our authoritative Biomedical Science and Engineering collection!

Featuring a cluster of 25 eBooks and 10 Journals integrating research and developments from the areas of biology, engineering, computer science, physics, and medicine, all compiled by top-level experts in their respective disciplines, this collection is a must-own for anyone studying, researching, or practicing in the field.

In order to claim your Free 30-Day Access to 8 of our most popular titles and journals, just enter the Access Token BIOMED2014 into your personal user account. But hurry, this offer is only valid until June 30th, 2014!

New content: Facet Publishing eBooks

Facet-Publishing-logoConsortium Luxembourg is happy to announce that we are now offering access to a selection of Facet Publishing eBooks.
Facet Publishing, the commercial publishing and bookselling arm of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, is the leading publisher of books for library and information professionals worldwide.

As a start, we purchased 41 eBooks all dealing with aspects of librarianship, library management, electronic libraries, archives, etc.
Download the complete titlelist (pdf) here.

The eBooks can be accessed via the Ebsco eBook collection platform. You may search and read the books online, but also download and borrow the books for a limited time (maximum 7 days) and transfer them to a portable device.

Attention: if you want to download an eBook, it is necessary to create a free My EBSCOhost account and download Adobe Digital Editions (incl creating an Adobe-ID). If you want to search books or read them online, no additional software or login is required.
Need help?
Ebsco eBooks Guide in English
Ebsco eBooks Guide d’Utilisation en français

All titles can be found in our eBook search on findit.lu. Our Ebsco eBook collection can also be found by selecting the letter “E” via the “Find databases” tab.


Click here to access our Facet Publishing eBooks directly.

If you need any support, please send an e-mail to help@findit.lu

Free access Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

In August, de Gruyter offers free and unlimited online access to publications from Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag  and Akademie Verlag. Hurry up – free access is only available until August 31, 2013!
All titles available from Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag can be found here.

With its history of more than 150 years, the Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag is amongst the long established companies in the publishing industry. It offers a variety of books and journals, cross-media and electronic products as well as services for science, practitioners and learning.

The Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag supports researchers and scientific organisations, interested academics in employment and further education as well as students and lecturers of all institutions of higher education in their professional life and in all learning situations. The range of products and services covers business/economics and social sciences, humanities including history, philosophy and linguistics, and natural sciences and engineering as well as information technology.

New content: MIT Press eBooks Library—Computing & Engineering Collection

Shortly before Christmas, Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of “The MIT Press eBooks Library – Computing and Engineering Collection”. This special collection features over 500 eBooks within the fields of computer science and engineering technologies, with approximately 40 new titles to be introduced each year. The collection features numerous titles that have won the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE). Each eBook meets The MIT Press rigorous review processes and the collection covers a wide range of technology disciplines including:

  • Bioengineering
  • Communication, networking, and broadcasting
  • Components, circuits, devices, and systems
  • Computing and processing
  • Engineered materials, dielectrics, and plasmas
  • Engineering profession
  • Fields, waves, and electromagnetics
  • Geoscience
  • Power, energy, and industry applications
  • Robotics and control systems
  • Signal processing
  • Transportation

An advanced search engine will allow you to find and download specific chapters within eBooks that will be discoverable on the IEEE Xplore platform.

You can browse and search the eBooks by choosing “MIT Press” in the vendor section in our eBook search. Jump to eBook search.

For a full list of the eBooks available in this collection, click here.

Alternatively, you can select the “MIT Press eBooks Library-Computing & Engineering Collection” entry via the “Find Databases” tab under the letter “M” for accessing the platform.

New content: ebooks of European Mathematical Society

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of ebooks of the European Mathematical Society to findit.lu.

This ebook collection of the European Mathematical society includes more than 100 works, all published between 2004 and the present. You will find, among others, Zurich Lectures in Advanced Mathematics, EMS Textbooks or IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. All books can be downloaded as pdf.

For a full list of the ebooks available in this collection, click here.

These ebooks can be found in our ebook search as well. Alternatively, you can select the “EMS eBooks – European Mathematical Society” entry via the “Find Databases” tab under the letterE.

Trial: Ebsco e-books

After launching our new e-book search on findit.lu, we keep on increasing the number of e-books.

We are pleased to announce a trial of the EBSCOhost – eBook Collection. The Academic Subscription Collection is providing around 55 000 titles during the trial.

This package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles that represent a broad range of academic subject matter, including art, business, education, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, religion, technology & engineering, and much more.

You can browse e-books by topic, search for individual titles or download them to portable devices.

During the trial the books won’t be available within the e-book search, but you can access the EBSCOhost – eBook Collection on findit.lu under the letter “E” on the “Find Database” tab.

Alternatively, you can directly start discovering here.

Need help? Download Ebsco’s User Guide  here.

New feature: e-book search

After a successful trial of a new e-book search during the last weeks, Consortium Luxembourg is today releasing a new e-book search, giving visibility to the 80.000 e-books on findit.lu.

We are still working on further integration of e-books into findit.lu, alongside databases and e-journals. That’s why the current release is “beta”.

ebook-search findit.luSimply click on the “ebooks”-tab which you will find at the top of findit.lu and check it out!

For a long time you only could search for e-books by using the “e-books” QuickSet on our main page. It could take some time to get back results and it was impossible to get an overview of all e-books available. This update gives you a new way to search for more than 80.000 current scientific and scholarly e-books by title, author, ISBN or publisher. Provided that the cover of the book is available, it will also be displayed in your search results.
The number of e-books will increase dramatically as we will be adding older, public domain books, including novels, which have been digitised by libraries around the world.

Please find a detailed tutorial for using the e-book search here.

If you have any questions or would like to provide us with feedback, please feel free to post your comments on this blog. We look forward to hearing from you!

Springer e-Books

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Springer e-books to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.

Access is provided to all English and German language Springer e-books from 2005 to 2010 inclusive.  The books cover a variety of subjects including:

  • Behavioral Science;
  • Biomedical and Life Science;
  • Business and Economics;
  • Chemistry and Materials Science;
  • Computer Science;
  • Earth and Environmental Science;
  • Engineering;
  • Humanities, Social Science and Law,
  • Mathematics and Statistics;
  • Medicine;
  • Physics and Astronomy; and
  • Professional and Applied Computing.

Topics covered in the German collection include:

  • Medizin;
  • Technik & Informatik;
  • Natur- und Basiswissenschaften incl. Mathematik;
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaften; und
  • Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

The e-books are accessible in one of two ways:

1.  If the print edition of the book is in bibnet.lu catalogue, then access to the electronic version is automatically provided from book’s details screen.

2.  Connect directly to SpringerLink e-books using the link that can be found under “S” in the “Find Database” section of the portal or by clicking here.