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  • Books24x7.com
    Books on many information technology topics, including networking, programming, languages, desktop applications, and the web.

  • BookSurge - Cornell has partnered with BookSurge, a subsidiary of Amazon.com to make approximately 6,000 rare and non-copyrighted books available for purchase as paperback editions. These include titles from the Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection, and other Cornell holdings, including the American Civil War; 19th and 20th century texts in home economics, agriculture, animal science, food science and rural sociology; historical western travel narratives of Southeast Asia; and important historical works in science and mathematics.
  • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

  • eCommons@Cornell - The eCommons Digital Repository is powered by DSpace and is open to anyone affiliated with Cornell University as a place to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute materials in digital formats that may be useful for educational, scholarly, research or historical purposes.

  • Google Book Search Library - Cornell University Library has partnered with Google Inc. to digitize approximately 500,000 materials from its collections and make them available online using Google Book Search Library. Cornell is the 27th institution to join the Google Book Search Library project.

  • Knovel
    Knovel features online versions of reference materials in the fields of engineering and applied sciences, conference proceedings, and other works covering subject areas such as chemistry and chemical engineering, plastics and rubbers, semiconductors, advanced materials, and safety, health and hygiene. Includes productivity tools, such as interactive tables, equation plotter, graph digitizer, and ability to export to Excel spreadsheets.
  • Microsoft Live Book Search - Cornell University Library has entered into a partnership with Microsoft to digitize approximately 100,000 books and to put the volumes online using the Microsoft Live Book Search service. The initiative focuses on works already in the public domain and will allow students, researchers, and scholars around the world online access to books from Cornell's outstanding collections.

  • National Academy Press Books - includes publications issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
  • Net Library
    Books on many topics, including computer science.

  • Safari Books Online
    Books published by O'Reilly for programmers and IT professionals. Covers the last three years only. We also get in these books in print.