The eBooks collection of the University of Groningen

The University of Groningen (as of October 2009), has access to the full text of more than 290.000 electronic books. These eBooks are, mainly, in the realm of reference books, mandatory textbooks, scientific text editions and souce material, and packages of subject oriented material. The eBooks can be found alphabetically (by title) and by subject in the menu of the library homepage by selecting ... .

The most important eBooks databases:

• AccessMedicine
  Electronic versions of clinical medicine textbooks & reference works of McGraw-Hill
• AccessScience
  Science portal based on McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
• American National Biography
  Biographies of persons from all eras of American history and culture
• Brill e-books Classical Studies
  Brill's eBooks in the field of the Classical era
• Cambridge Companions Online
  The 'companions' of Cambridge University Press as eBooks
• Cambridge Histories Online
  Electronic versions of the history handbooks of Cambridge University Press
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  Electronic versions of all books published in English from 1475-1700 in facsimile
• ebrary History & Political Science
  8000+ eBooks from several publishers
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
  Everything printed in Great Britain in the 18th Century
• Elsevier eBooks
  Electronic versions of books by Elsevier and its subsidiaries
• Elsevier Major Reference Works
  Electronic versions van reference works of Elsevier and daughters
• Evans: Early American Imprints Series I
  Electronic versions of publications about every aspect of life in America 1639-1800
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  eBook versions of reference works in various fields
• Gerritsen Collection
  C.V. Gerritsen’s & Aletta Jacobs's digitized collection on women's history and the women's movement
• De Gruyter ReferenceGlobal
  Electronic versions of linguistic and other handbooks from De Gruyter
• Handbooks in Economics
  Electronic versions of handbooks in many subfields of Economics
• Humanities E-book
  Electronic versions of high-quality books in the humanities, 1820-2007
• MIT CogNet
  The Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online
• NetLibrary eBooks
  Electronic versions of books used in RUG courses
• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
  Economics reference resource (2nd ed., eds. Durlauf & Blume)
• Oxford Art Online
  The Grove Dictionary of Art plus supporting resources
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  Biographical dictionary of the British Isles (incl. Ireland)
• Oxford Handbooks Online 
  The Oxford UP handbooks in full text (philosophy, theology, business, politicology)
• Oxford Music Online
  New Grove Dictionaries of Music and Musicians, of Opera & of Jazz
• Oxford Scholarship Online
  All eBooks of Oxford University Press
• PsycBOOKS
  Electronic versions of psychology books published by the American Psychological Association, 1806-2008 (as of june 2009, more than 1700)
• PsychiatryOnline
  Electronic versions of handbooks and referencebooks for psychiatry & clinical psychology
• Sage eReference
  Portal over dozens of online encyclopedias by SAGE
• Sage Handbooks
  eBook versions of dozens of SAGE handbooks
• Springer eBooks Behavioral Science
  Electronic versions of books in the behavioural sciences
• Thieme eBook Library
  Medical atlases and textbooks in eBook format
• Wiley/Blackwell eBooks
  Electronic versions of psychology books by Blackwell and Wiley