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Biology Resources: Books

Accessing biology ebooks

These databases are good for locating biology ebooks. You may access any of them through UPRM General Library's list of databases and electronic resources: A-Z Databases.

SpringerNature eBooks – Life Sciences Taylor & Francis eBooks
SpringerNature eBooks - Biomedical Taylor & Francis Open Access Ebooks
SpringerNature eBooks - Environmental Science CABI Books
SpringerNature eBooks - Chemistry ScienceDirect eBooks
ACSESS Digital Library ACS Publications (Frontfile 1996 - present)

 

Encyclopedia

If you need a biology encyclopedia, we have an excellent one in our A-Z Databases list titled Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

 

Multidisciplinary databases

The following are some multidisciplinary databases that you could also use to locate biology ebooks.

ProQuest One Academic JSTOR
Dimensions Open Book Publishers (OBP)
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Open Research Library (ORL)

 

How to search for ebooks (Workshop in English)

This is a recording of a workshop offered by librarian Prof. Grisell Rodríguez on how to search for ebooks on a variety of topics. This workshop is in English.