LibGuides: Chemistry: Books & E-Books

Electronic & Printed Books in Chemistry

CUNY+ Library Catalog
CUNY + is the online catalog for the holdings of all CUNY libraries. Search an individual library catalog or search the holdings of all CUNY libraries.

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E-BOOK COLLECTIONS
E Books A to Z
Electronic Books at City College. While most of our e-books appear in the CUNY+ Library Catalog, some may only appear here or in the other e-book collections that follow.
ChemEd DL
Online textbooks which cover a variety of topics including general and physical chemistry. Some of these ebookscan be edited and customized.
Chemistry Books from the Internet Archive
This site from the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) lists many chemistry books, primarily older books, available for downloading.

Directory of Open Access Books
The Directory of Open Access Books is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. This Open Access resource is provided as a courtesy from the library, we cannot guarantee full text access.
Ebook Central
The collection that was once known as Ebrary is now known as Ebook Central. This new platform still contains the full collection of more than 150,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, scientific, technical, medical, and professional publishers.
To migrate your personal bookshelf from Ebrary, click on “Bookshelf” in the upper right and follow the instructions.
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection offers a robust collection of 175,000 titles covering a broad range of disciplines.
EBSCO ebook Collection (NetLibrary)
As of July 2011 this is approximately 1000 ebooks in a broad variety of academic disciplines. Formerly this was known as NetLibrary.

Some features of this resource are limited to one CUNY user at a time.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Several hundred online versions of print reference books divided into subject categories. You will find some books relating to chemistry here.
IntechOpen
More than 100 free chemistry e-books, written by chemists.
Lumen Learning
Dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Here there are free textbooks.
Mason OER Metafinder
You can search here for freely available text books and other educational materials.
MERLOT
Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Online Books Page
From the University of Pennsylvania, more than 35,000 freely-accessible e-books, including 21st Century imprints from sources such as the U. of Pittsburgh Press.

OpenStax
At this time has a textbook.is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester general chemistry course.
Open Textbook Library
Several free chemistry textbooks available to download.

Oxford Reference
Reference books covering all areas of knowledge. Click the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY icon. This resource is limited to five simultaneous CCNY users.
National Academies Press
Over 3,700 books are available for free online from the National Academies Press, which publishes reports by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. You will find more than 40 chemistry books.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books, has over 20,000 free books available for online viewing or downloading.
Wiley Online Library
This website contains both journals and books. To look only for books, first do your seach, then under PUBLICATION TYPE, click Books.

Magnetic Resonance Online Texts
Free ebooks and theses, and course materials on NMR and related topics.

Index to Some Library of Congress Classification Numbers Relevant to Chemistry
If you are not looking for a specific book buy just want to browse our collection of printed chemistry books by their general subject, you can do so because books on the same subject are generally shelved together. This guide tells you either the specific call number (shelf number) or call number range where books on the many subdisciplines of chemistry are shelved in the Science/Engineering Library. While most of these books are in our circulating collection, some are shelved in the Reference Collection.

INDIVIDUAL E-BOOKS
Basics of MRI
An electronic text book on magnetic resonance imaging.
Basics of NMR
A text book on nuclear magnetic resonance for chemists.
Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic
An online textbook that reorganized the topics into a less traditional order.
BookShelf: Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects
Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects Siegel, George J.; Agranoff, Bernard W.; Albers, R. Wayne; Fisher, Stephen K.; Uhler, Michael D., editors Philadelphia: Lippincott,Williams & Wilkins ; c1999
BookShelf: Biochemistry
Biochemistry, Fifth Edition by Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co. ; c2002 You can view for free, sections of this popular textbook, by entering a search term.
CaltechAUTHORS
Free ebooks by well-known Caltech chemists such as Harry B. Gray and John D. Roberts.
chem1 virtual textbook
This e-book has chapters on fundamentals and advanced topics in electrochemistry.
Chemical Information Sources Wikibook
An updated version of the book: "Chemical Information Sources" by Dr. Gary Wiggins published in 1991.
Chromatography Book Series
Thirteen e-books on all aspects of chromatography, including column, liquid, gas, capillary, thin-layer, and preparative. You first need to subscribe to this website before you can view/download these books.
Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction
This 1962 book has been digitized and mounted on the web as a free site.
Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty
This book is a collection of practical advice and experiences from seasoned biomedical investigators and includes chapters on laboratory leadership, getting funded, project management, and teaching and course design.
Medical Biochemistry Page
An encyclopedic textbook of biochemistry.
Organic Chemistry
From Wikibooks; Open books for an open world, this ongoing and developing project has contributions from many authors on many aspects of organic chemistry.
Organic Syntheses
This series started in 1921 and continuing to the present provides contains detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds.
Organometallic HyperTextBook
An introduction to this field and a guide to many specific reactions.
Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry
This 1993 book by Alan J. Rocke is now freely available. You can also find other freely available chemistry books on this site by pointing your browser to: http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/titles_public.html. Click the "Search" button then on the next screen in the box titled "Search in books for:" type chemistry. On the next screen, select "public access books" from the pull-down menu.
Virtual Textbook Organic Chemistry
This electronic textbook has materials that may be used in a formal course of organic chemistry.

Reference Librarian: Science/Engineering Library

Philip Barnett

Contact:

Science/Engineering Library
Room J-29, Marskak Science Building
City College of New York
Convent Ave. & 138 St.
New York, NY 10031
212-650-8243
Email me at: pbsci@ccny.cuny.edu

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