E-book Collections

About ScienceDirect Ebooks

For a broad and diverse range of scientific disciplines, ScienceDirect offers full-text book and journal resources, including those published under the renowned Academic Press and Pergamon imprints. In one convenient access point, thousands of monographs and series books are fully integrated with journals, handbooks and reference works.

Use Restrictions

This collection can be accessed by an unlimited number of users simultaneously. Remote access is limited to USF students, faculty and staff. Non USF users can access the collection using a computer at the USF Library.

E-Books in the Classroom

Instructors can now request the USF Libraries to acquire e-Books for classroom support if they are available electronically.

Viewing, Downloading and Priting

Book chapters are in PDF and may be read in the browser using Adobe reader plugin. Chapters may also be printed.

Search results are displayed at the book chapter level. From the search results page, you can view the PDF. The  PDF may load in your browser window or it may open PDF reader software such as Adobe, depending on the software and browser plug-ins you may have installed. You can choose to download or print the PDF once it has opened.

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