Name of E-Book

Language

Discipline

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HyRead E-Book

Chinese and English

Arts, Literature, Education, Religion; Social Science

(I) Reading on Campus: E-books can be read directly in the range of school IP address.
(II) Log in with personal login ID and password: Patrons must log in on campus first and create their own login ID and password by clicking “Create a Free Account,” and then they can use it off-campus.

Resources in the fields of arts, education, history, literature, religion and social science.

E-Book Collection on EBSCOhost

English

Arts; Humanities

(I) Reading on Campus: E-books can be read directly in the range of school IP address.
(II) Log in with personal login ID and password: Patrons must log in on campus first and create their own login ID and password by clicking “Create a Free Account,” and then they can use it off-campus.

OCLC Netlibrary e-books have been adopted by near ten thousand libraries in the world. It has provided over 100,000 e-books for 450 publishers, and the number is rapidly increasing by 2000 e-books per month. Netlibrary mainly contains English books in various disciplines, such as arts, literature, education, business and economy, technology and engineering, medicine and healthcare, literature, sociology and so on. Up to December, 2005, TNUA has purchased 42,000 of them.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

English

Arts, Literature, Education, Religion; Social Science

(I) Reading on Campus: E-books can be read directly in the range of school IP address.
(II) Please log in your login ID (student number/ID number) and password (last four digits of your phone number). You can use it off-campus after being validated.

Encyclopedias, handbooks and manuals in various disciplines like arts, education, history, literature, religion and sociology published by Gale Publisher are on the website of TNUA. Up to January, 2006, TNUA has purchased 25 reference resources of them.

SuperStar Digital Library

Chinese

Ethnology, Philosophy, Religion, Arts, Customs; Archeology

(I) First-time users must download and set up reader and register.
(II) Please log in your login ID (student number/ID number) and password (last four digits of your phone number). You can use it off-campus after being validated.
Important Information: Reader and register will be renewed on July 10, 2008. You may download the full text after the setup is completed.
Before the setup of a new version, please eliminate the old SuperStar Reader. Meanwhile, please delete the file of SSREADER in C:\Program Files.

Over 220,000 Chinese e-books, which were published in mainland China, can be read, downloaded and printed out by many people at the same time. The contents include economics, laws and sociology, literature and philosophy, history and geography, bio-medical technology/science, engineering and so on. Up to August, 2005, TNUA has purchased 11,200 of them, which are mainly in the fields of ethnology, philosophy, religion, arts, customs and archeology.

Social Theory

English

Social Theory; Sociology

(I) Reading on Campus: E-books can be read directly in the range of school IP address.
(II) Please log in your login ID (student number/ID number) and password (last four digits of your phone number). You can use it off-campus after being validated.

The works, including unpublished manuscripts, of over 160 sociologists from the 18th Century up to now are collected. The works, both the original versions and translated ones, can be searched in the database, and they are suitable for researchers in the departments of sociology, politics, economics, history, psychology, anthropology, religion, linguistics and literature. 223 titles of e-books on social theory and sociology are in the database, which are mainly in the fields of cultural studies, economics, education, government, history, linguistics, literature, natural science, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, sociology and theology.

National Institute for Compilation and Translation (NICT) Dictionary Website

Chinese

Choreology, Education, Terminology for Information and Communications, Topography, Library and Information Science, Environmental Science, Terminology for Mechanics, Encyclopedia on Vertebrates; Health Physics

(I) Reading on Campus: E-books can be read directly in the range of school IP address.

Multiple search functions, including the full text search by titles and illustrations, browsing with Chinese stroke, English alphabet and Chinese phonetic symbols, are provided for the convenience of patrons when they browse and search on-line.

MyiLibrary
Purchase List of MyiLibrary

English

Fields in Science, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine, Literature, History; Philosophy

(I) Reading on Campus: E-books can be read directly in the range of school IP address.
(II) Please log in your login ID (student number/ID number) and password (last four digits of your phone number). You can use it off-campus after being validated.

MyiLibrary is a world-famous English database, which covers the fields of science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, literature, history and philosophy and contains over 170,000 e-book publications of over 400 publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis and McGraw-Hill. The Library has purchased some e-books in arts and humanities, which are designated by the teachers in Library Advisory Commission in TNUA. Up to April 2009, TNUA has purchased over 600 kinds of e-books with Tainan National University of the Arts and National Taiwan University of Art. The teachers and students in TNUA can directly read the full text through the Internet platform.