Electronic Books

Popular level astronomy books as well as scholarly ones can be found at U of T's licensed e-book library.

U of T has licensed thousands of electronic books in the fields of business, computer, popular interest, reference and undergraduate texts. The vendors and terms of use for these vary.

Electronic books have several features that paper books do not have; e.g. the capacity to look up word definitions on the fly; search for terms in the text or across whole collections; make, save and share personal annotations.

Electronic Reference Books

• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• Encyclopedia of chemical physics and physical chemistry
• AccessScience (This database is the online equivalent of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.)
• Numerical Recipes: Books On-Line
• How to find and use electronic reference sources at UTL.