e-Books List

e-book License Conditions: The Library licenses e-books for use by current staff and students of AUT. Under the terms of our license agreements data may only be used for the purposes of University teaching, research and study. Copyright information included by the e-book owners may not be obscured or removed. No data may be copied for sale or used for any commercial purposes, nor may it be copied or reproduced for the benefit of any third party external to AUT.

indicates a database with significant New Zealand content.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online - now called Oxford Art Online.

Published by: Macmillan
Description: The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: Full text
Platform: Macmillan

Grove Music Online - now called Oxford Music Online.

Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). Grove Music Online is regularly updated to ensure it remains the most up-to-date music reference work on the internet.
Coverage: from Spring 2001+
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: Images, Sounds, and Fulltext only

International Who's Who - now called World Who's Who

Published by: Europa Publications
Description: The World Who's Who brings together our most gifted, famous and influential contemporaries from around the globe. The print version of this internationally respected work is now in its sixty-eighth edition. The online version builds on the quality of the book by providing a full range of sophisticated search and browse functions, and regular updates of content.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text
Platform: Europa Publications

ASM Handbooks Online

Published by: ASM International
Description: Online version of all current handbooks published by ASM International plus two ASM Desk Editions. ASM International is the society for materials engineers and scientists, a worldwide network dedicated to advancing industry, technology and applications of metals and materials.
Concurrent Users: unlimited
Content: full text

CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE

Published by: CRC Press
Description:

Full-text online handbooks and textbooks on all aspects of civil engineering. This is a subset of ENGnetBASE.
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: fulltext

Early New Zealand Books Online

Published by: The University of Auckland
Description: The Early New Zealand Books Project has been developed by staff at The University of Auckland Library. It aims to provide the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
The collection currently comprises 20 books (23 volumes) including the majority of those published in the first half of the 19th century.
Illustrations and maps in the books have also been digitised, with a higher resolution version available by clicking on the image in the text.
Content: full text

Economics and Finance - Oxford Scholarship Online

Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: For the first time many of the important scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the humanities and social sciences are available online in Oxford Scholarship Online. The Economics and Finance collection includes an extensive list of publications in Economics ranging from some of the classic thinkers to a number of modern masters – twentieth century winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics and, especially in our Clarendon series, many of those whose thinking is currently driving the subject forward. Our authors are spread across the world and come from America, Europe and Asia. The list is strong in Development Economics and Public Economics and in books on the boundary between Economics and Philosophy, especially where notions of welfare and equality are concerned. It has a distinct policy orientation. Econometrics has recently become a strength, a new departure has been the establishment of a striking list of books in Finance and we are entering the field of Behavioral Economics.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text
Platform: OUP

Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Social Sciences and Fine Arts

Published by: Thompson Gale
Description: The Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. AUT has access to the Social Sciences and Fine Arts modules. Social Science takes a look into manufacturers and merchants, artisans and skilled workers, international business, banking, taxation and lotteries. Topics include current events, social reform, business/economics/finance and political science. Fine Arts reviews music, painting, theatre and architecture, building and carpentry, vocal and instrumental music, paintings, prints drawings, coins and metals, collectibles and private art collections
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE

Published by: CRC Press
Description:

Full-text online handbooks and textbooks on all aspects of ElectricalEngineering. This is a subset of ENGnetBASE.
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: fulltext

Encyclopædia Britannica

Published by: Encyclopædia Britannica
Description: Encyclopædia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Through the service, you can find more than 118,000 articles, updated and revised by Encyclopædia Britannica editors and contributors; over 14,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 215,000 entries - including definitions, pronunciation guides, and word histories - from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: Full text
Platform: Encyclopædia Britannica

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published by: Nature
Description: The most comprehensive reference on astronomy and astrophysics ever published. Includes 2,500 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and continually updated articles and is fully searchable.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: Full text
Platform: Nature

Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce

Published by: Idea Group
Description: The Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce provides the most inclusive and up-to-date coverage of the e-technologies field. This two-volume encyclopedia includes quality contributions highlighting current concepts, trends, challenges, applications, and dot.com experiences in the field of e-commerce, e-government, and mobile commerce. With over 200 contributions from more than 300 experts and researchers worldwide, and extensive reference sections which list 4,400 additional research works, this encyclopedia stands as the most comprehensive, research-based encyclopedia in the ever-evolving field of e-commerce, e-government and mobile commerce.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: Full text

ENGnetBASE

Published by: CRC Press
Description:

Full-text handbooks and reference titles from CRC Press in all fields of engineering. Provides essential formulas, updated codes, and developments in emerging fields such as nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, and photonics. Combines CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE, ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE, MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE, and TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: fulltext
Platform: CRCnetBASE

Europa World

Published by: Europa Publications
Description: Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Coverage: Updated regularly
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text
Platform: Europa Publications

Food developer's e-source

Published by: American Association of Cereal Chemists.
Description: 20 titles from Food developer's e-source with valuable information related to food products. This new resource helps provide a common understanding of the major ingredients used in food processing, their properties, and applications.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Handbook of Research in Mobile Business: Technical, Methodological, and Social Perspectives

Published by: Idea Group
Description: The Handbook of Research in Mobile Business: Technical, Methodological, and Social Perspectives is the premier reference source for the latest research and scientific findings in the constantly expanding field of mobile business. This two-volume collection of 63 comprehensive chapters brings together the practical experiences and knowledge of researchers and academics, making it the single most significant contribution on understanding the usage and application of mobile technologies and networks in global business. The Handbook of Research in Mobile Business: Technical, Methodological, and Social Perspectives provides ground-breaking strategic input into the future of mobile technologies, bringing together the best in thoughts and practices of this fascinating, global technology.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: Full text

Handbook of Research on ePortfolios

Published by: Idea Group
Description: The Handbook of Research on ePortfolios is the single source for comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios, addressing all of the major issues, from concept to technology to implementation. It is the first reference publication to provide a complete investigation on a variety of ePortfolio uses through case studies and supporting technologies, and also explains the conceptual thinking behind current uses and potential uses not yet implemented. Over 100 international experts with countless years of experience lend this handbook the credibility that assures its readers of its extensive, recent, and reliable content. The Handbook of Research on ePortfolios is the first handbook to investigate commercial and academic ePortfolio systems - home-grown, off the shelf, and open source - and to supply proof-of-concept evidence of successful systems.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: Full text

Harrison's Online

Published by: McGraw-Hill
Description: Harrison's Online is a medical resource which offers timely and reliable information, efficient searching and navigational tools, and other convenient features to support your research objectives. Loaded with clinical guidelines for evidence-based treatment strategies, Harrison's Online also helps you stay current on essential topics and emerging fields, such as genetics, cancer, fertility, neurobiology of disease, and alternative medicine.
Coverage: updated daily
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Published by: Springer-Verlag
Description: The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching - quickly, informally, and at a high level.
Coverage: 1997+, updated daily.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text

Lippincott Nursing Book Collection (OVID)

Published by: Lippincott
Description: A collection of 12 premium Nursing Book titles. The Lippincott Nursing Book Collection, available via Books@Ovid, is an unmatched resource for a wide range of nursing research needs. Fully searchable and always the most recently published edition.
Coverage: most recent edition of each book
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text
Platform: Books@OVID

Maori Gardening

Published by: Department of Conservation
Description: An overview of Maori gardening including crops, sites and techniques derived from reports of early European visitors and the archaeological record.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Meat Industry Microbiological Methods (password required, click here)

Published by: AgResearch/Meat Industry Standards Council
Description: This manual has been produced as a resource for laboratories undertaking testing for the New Zealand meat industry.
Coverage: 4th Edition only (current edition)
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

MechanicalEngineeringnetBASE

Published by: CRC Press
Description:

Full-text online handbooks and textbooks on all aspects of MechanicalEngineering. This is a subset of ENGnetBASE.
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: fulltext

netLibrary

Published by: netLibrary
Description: netLibrary provides AUT users with access to the full text of over 1800 electronic books across a wide range of subjects. Full search facilities are provided and books may be browsed or "checked out" for exclusive use. Publishers represented in the AUT netLibrary collection include Lawrence Erlbaum, John Wiley and Sons, Blackwell Publishing, MIT Press, OUP, McGraw-Hill, Taylor and Francis and many more.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text of subscribed books
Platform: netLibrary

New Zealand Business Who's Who (password required, click here)

Published by: New Zealand Financial Press Ltd
Description: New Zealand's largest, most respected business-to-business directory online. Over 100,000 key business contacts from 22,000 businesses are included. Full contact details, including email addresses, websites and company executives are at your fingertips.
Access: via password
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text

Oxford Art Online

Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth. Subscription includes: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Concurrent Users: 5
Content: Full text

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries, OED Online offers unparalleled access to the 'greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced’ (Newsweek).
Content: Full text

Oxford Music Online

Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Subscription includes: The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, the Encyclopedia is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present.
Coverage: from 1900+
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: Images, Sounds, and Fulltext only

Oxford Reference Online

Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text

Political Science - Oxford Scholarship Online

PsycBOOKS

Published by: American Psychological Association
Description: PsycBooks is a full-text database of books and chapters from the American Psychological Association (APA). PsycBooks features over 600 books: more than 500 APA books with copyright dates from 1950 - 2003, including 100 out-of-print books; 75 archival resources in psychology; and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Coverage: varies by title, updated weekly
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Published by: Routledge
Description: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online expands this acclaimed encyclopedia well beyond print reference boundaries. The full content of the classic 10-volume set remains at its core, but REP Online is also a living, growing resource designed to grow along with the discipline itself. Taking full advantage of the flexibility of the Web format, each year the REP editorial team brings a diverse range of new material, including newly commissioned entries by leading scholars, making REP Online the essential philosophy reference for faculty and students in a wide range of disciplines.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text
Platform: Routledge

Safari Tech Books Online

Published by: ProQuest Information and Learning
Description: 108 titles from the Safari Tech Books Online collection - information technology books from the industry's two leading publishers. The Safari Tech Books Online information retrieval service is the ideal ready-reference resource, with simultaneous searching of all titles for quick and reliable answers.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password), 2 concurrent users
Content: full text
Platform: Safari

Springer Architecture, Design and Arts e-books

Published by: Springer
Description: Springer publishes more than 50 e-book titles per year in the field of Architecture, Design and Arts. The portfolio comprises professional books with in-depth knowledge, reference books, and textbooks for students, as well as inspirational books for practitioners and students. AUT currently has access to 4 books in this collection from 2008.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Springer Behavioral Science e-books

Published by: Springer
Description: With over 50 new titles annually and comprising a wide range of key areas, this collection provides the latest and best content for scholars, practitioners, and graduate students. The collection contains monographs on specialized topics, practical professional books, invaluable reference works, and key textbooks. The Behavioral Sciences e-book collection is a comprehensive solution for the diverse needs of today’s health and mental health library audience. AUT currently has access to over 119 books in this collection.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Springer Business and Economics e-books

Published by: Springer
Description: Springer publishes about 300 new books each year in the field of Economics and Business & Management. The portfolio comprises science monographs, handbooks, book series and textbooks in all subject areas, as well as a renowned program of professional management publications targeted especially at practitioners, managers and consultants. Moreover, Springer’s portfolio in Operations Research is considered a market leader in this niche area. AUT currently has access to more than 823 books in this collection.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Springer Computer Science e-books

Published by: Springer
Description: Springer publishes a wide array of high quality titles in Computer and Information Science, including authoritative encyclopaedias offering easy-access to important applications, concepts, and technology and the premier Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, which published nearly 500 volumes in 2005, representing more than 260,000 pages. Springer’s excellent portfolio covers areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, Programming and Software Engineering, Security and Cryptology, Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues. AUT currently has access to more than 2643 books in this collection.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law e-books

Published by: Springer
Description: Over 150 books are published annually in Springer’s humanities, social sciences and law program making it a well-known and established scientific source. Springer is a leading publisher in the areas of Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology, Educational Research and Higher Education. AUT currently has access to more than 928 books in this collection.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

Springer Professional and Applied Computing e-books

Published by: Springer
Description: With the Professional Computing and Web Design eBook Collection, Springer provides works that enable programmers and developers to excel at every step of their academic and professional careers. Over 150 new titles are planned for 2007 and there is an active set of recent backlist titles on a variety of technologies. This collection features distinctive technology roadmaps that guide readers through the beginning, professional, and expert series. The roadmaps offer the shortest distance between ignorance and mastery on a subject. AUT currently has access to 71 books in this collection from 2008.
Access: On-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text

TelecommunicationsnetBASE

Published by: CRC Press
Description:

Full-text online handbooks and textbooks on all aspects of Telecommunications. This is a subset of ENGnetBASE.
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: fulltext

Thieme ElectronicBook Library

Published by: Thieme Publishing Group
Description: Thieme ElectronicBook Library provides AUT users with access to the full text of 40 electronic books in medical sciences. Search facilities are provided.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text
Platform: Thieme

World of Learning

Published by: Europa Publications
Description: A site that offers an unprecedented level of information on global institutions of higher education and learning, and to the people who work within them.
Access: on-campus and off-campus (with AUT internet password)
Content: full text
Platform: Europa Publications