E-books

Ebrary - with >77.000 titles

Ebrary is the SLU Libraries main supplier of e-books, with more than 77.000 titles. The books are mainly for on screen reading, you may print 60 pages from a book. (Choose InfoTools — Print to print.) You may set up a personal book shelf, highlight text in books, etc. In the Ebrary Unity Reader there is a text-to-speech option.
Ebrary offers a free app for iPhone or Android that makes it easy for you to read e-books wherever you are.
To use Ebrary through the app, do the following:

• Go to Ebrary through SLU's network.
• Create an account in Ebrary. You may also use your Facebook account.
• Install the app, called Ebrary, via App Store on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch or through Google Play on an Android phone. Log in with your Ebrary or Facebook account.

If you do not want to read the books in the Ebrary interface or through the app, it is possible to download from Ebrary to your computer or tablet or e-reader.

CAB eBooks - chapters from over 200 edited books as printable PDF files

CAB eBooks (2005–) contains over 200 edited books within the SLU's topics. The individual chapter contributions are separately searchable, and can be printed without limitations.

Some other suppliers

Apart from Ebrary the SLU Libraries have some hundred selected titles from the publishers Springer, Wiley and Knovel. Go to Primo - Databases, and choose Type: E-book to find a list of all the suppliers. The books below all come in PDF-format.

Google Books

Google Books is primarily a search service and not a collection of e-books, but the books are mostly available in an electronic format. Google Book Search contains more than 20 million books (March 2012). Sometimes you can view the book as a whole, while in other cases you may view only a few pages. You search for the books with Google syntax, and you get a search hit if the search words are on the same page in a book. Search example: "pinus sylvestris" OR "scots pine" production OR yields sweden