E-books
Primo is the SLU Library's search tool, a one-stop solution for discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, such as e-books, books, journals, scientific articles, dissertations etc.
If you want to search for e-books directly from our largest e-book suppliers you find them on this page.
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 only 40 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.
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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.
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Some other suppliers
Apart from Ebrary the SLU Libraries have some hundred selected titles from the publishers Springer, Wiley and Knovel. In Samsök you find a list of all the suppliers. The books below all come in PDF-format.
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Google Book Search
Google Book Search 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 7 million books from more than 20.000 publishers. 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
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