E-Books

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Notes on Remote Access
Finding E-Books across E-Book Collections

Collection	Subject Coverage	Info/Guides	Available Titles
AccessEngineering	engineering	info, tutorial	available titles
airitiBooks	multi-disciplines	info, search guide	available titles
American Film Scripts Online	films	info, tutorial	available titles
Apabi eBook	multi-disciplines	info, notes on access, search guide	law books, yearbooks, standards, others
Books24x7	information technology, business, finance, public administration	info, notes for first-time users, search guide	available titles
CRCnetBASE (some subject collections are for trial only)	multi-disciplines	info
ebrary	multi-disciplines	info, search guide, guide on downloading ebooks, tutorial	available titles
EBSCOhost eBook Collection	multi-disciplines	info, search guide, tutorials	available titles
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Law Module	law	info	available titles
Emerald eBook Series	business, management, economics, social sciences	info, search guide, RefWorks help	available titles
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies	business, management	info, search guide, RefWorks help	available titles
FORENSICnetBASE (see CRCnetBASE)
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online	human rights, law	info	available titles
IEEE Conference Proceedings and Standards (in IEEE Xplore)	engineering	info, search guide, tutorial	available titles
IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library (in IEEE Xplore)	engineering and technologies	info, search guide, tutorial	available titles
International Law E-Books Online	international law	info	available titles
Making of Modern Law, The: Legal Treatises 1800-1926	law	info	available titles
McGraw-Hill Education eBook Collection	business and management	info, search guide	available titles
MyiLibrary	multi-disciplines	info, search guide tutorial	available titles
NetLibrary (see EBSCOhost eBook Collection)
Oxford Scholarship Online	multi-disciplines	info, search guide, tutorial	available titles
Palgrave Connect	multi-disciplines	info, search guide	available titles
PsycBOOKS	psychology	info, search guide, RefWorks help	available titles
RSC eBook Collection	chemistry	info, RefWorks help	available titles
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Book Series	chemistry	info	available book series: Specialist Periodical Reports: Spectroscopic Properties of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds Organometallic Chemistry
Safari Books Online	IT, computer science and engineering	info, search guide	available titles
ScienceDirect Books	multi-disciplines, mainly sciences and engineering	info, search guide, RefWorks help	available titles
SpringerLink Book Series	sciences and engineering	info, RefWorks help	available book series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology Advances in Polymer Science Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, The Lecture Notes in Computer Science Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Lecture Notes in Mathematics Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science Topics in Organometallic Chemistry
SpringerLink eBooks	multi-disciplines, mainly sciences, mathematics and engineering	info, search guide, RefWorks help	available titles
Wiley Online Library Books	multi-disciplines, mainly sciences, technology and engineering	info, search guide, RefWorks help	available titles
World eBook Library	multi-disciplines	info, guide on reading Kindle ebooks on PC
超星數字圖書館 SuperStar Digital Library	multi-disciplines	info, PC setting for viewing ebooks, SSreader guide
讀秀學術搜索 Duxiu.com	multi-disciplines	info, search guide

Remote Access to e-Books:

All e-books in the ebook collections listed above can be accessed remotely via ISPs (Internet Service Providers) by following the instructions on remote access.

Notes on Access to Apabi eBook:

Please use Internet Explorer to access Apabi eBook.
DO NOT check out ebook or request ebook at public workstations as ebooks checked out and requested will be locked up with the workstation being used.

Notes for First-time Users of Books24x7:

You will be prompted for authentication before you can see the login page of Books24x7. A personal Books24x7 account is required to access the ebook collection.
To register for an account:
1. Click on the hyperlink Books24x7 in the above table. Enter your CityU ID Number and your Library PIN to authenticate yourself.
2. At the Books24x7 login page, click on Register.
3. Fill out and submit the registration form. You must register with your CityU email address. Books24x7 will then email the initial password to you.
At the Books24x7 login page, registered users can log in the ebook collection by entering your CityU email address as the username and your personal Books24x7 password.