Elsevier Book Series & Handbooks Full-text availabilty

In 2013 the UJ Library subscribed for the Faculty of Science the following Elsevier E-book Series .

The titles are available on Science Direct databases.
Full-text starts from 2009 onward
Each chapter is in a PDF format

Science Direct Book Series Online, 2009 + 

Subject coverage: Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology; Immunology & Microbiology; Chemistry; Physics & Astronomy; Life Sciences; Agricultural & Biological Sciences; Earth Sciences; Engineering; Pharmacology & Toxicology; Psychology

Some individual titles includes:

Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology

• Advances in Cancer Research
• Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Methods in Cell Biology
• Methods in Enzymology
• Methods in Microbiology
• The Enzymes

Physics

• Advances In Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
• Composite Materials Series
• Contemporary Concepts of Condensed Matter Science
• Semiconductors and Semimetals
• Solid State Physics
• Thin Films
• Thin Films and Nanostructures

Geology

• Advances in Geophysics
• Developments in Economic Geology 
• Developments in Geotectonics
• Developments in Petrology
• Developments in Precambrian Geology
• Developments in Sedimentology

Chemistry

• Advances in Catalysis
• Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry
• Advances in Inorganic Chemistry
• Advances in Organometallic Chemistry
• Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy
• Frontiers of Nanoscience

UJ SpringerLink Series Titles full-text

As from 2013 the UJ Library subscribes to the following SpringerLink Series titles.

The full-text starts from 2005 onwards

Chemistry & Material Science:

Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology Advances in Polymer Science Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science Structure & Bonding Topics in Current Chemistry Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry Topics in Organometallic Chemistry  Computer Science: Communications in Computer andInformation Science IFIP Advances in Information andCommunication technology  Lecture Notes in Business InformationProcessing Lecture Notes in Computer Science Lecture Notes of the Institute ofComputer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Engineering: Lecture Notes in Control andInformation Sciences Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Studies in Computational Intelligence Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Earth & Environmental Science: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences (2012+)  Title change:  Formerly published as "Lecture Notes inEarth Sciences" The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry Mathematics & Statistics: Lecture Notes in Mathematics Physics & Astronomy: Springer Series in Optical Sciences Springer Tracts in Modern Physics Understanding Complex Systems For more information contact Pavlinka Kovatcheva: Faculty Librarian Sciences pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za

UJ SpringerLink Full-text E-books Collections

The following SpringerLink E-book collections were purchased for the UJ Faculty of Science users during 2013 & 2014. 

Download options:
You can download the whole book in PDF or the individual chapters

• Biomedical & Life Sciences 2014

• Chemistry & Material Science 2013
• Chemistry & Material Science 2014

• Mathematics & Statistics 2013
• Mathematics & Statistics 2014

• Physics & Astronomy 2013
• Physics & Astronomy 2014

If you have any queries, please contact me:
Pavlinka Kovatcheva, Faculty Librarian Science
pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za 

IoP: Institute of Physics Online Full-Text Books

The following Online Books from the IoP: Institute of Physics are available full-text to the University of Johannesburg users. 

Download options: You can download either the full book or individual chapters in a PDF format

E-reader compatibility – books and chapters published in HTML, PDF and EPUB formats

A

• AdS/CFT Correspondence in Condensed Matter. Antonio Sergio Teixeira Pires, June 2014
• Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®. Leonid P Yaroslavsky, July 2014
• Advanced Solid State Theory. Thomas Pruschke, July 2014
• Advances in Thermodynamics of the van der Waals Fluid. David C Johnston, September 2014

D-G

• Defining and Measuring Nature: The make of all things. Jeffrey H Williams, March 2014
• Guide Through the Nanocarbon Jungle: Buckyballs, nanotubes,graphene and beyond. David Tománek, February 2014

I

• Introduction to the Mathematical Physics of Nonlinear Waves. Minoru Fujimoto, March 2014

M

• Modelling Physics with Microsoft Excel®. Bernard V Liengme, October 2014
• Molecular Photophysics and Spectroscopy. David L Andrews, September 2014. Joel Yuen-Zhou, Jacob J Krich, Ivan Kassal, Allan S Johnson and Alán Aspuru-Guzik, September 2014
• Motions of Celestial Bodies: Computer simulations. Eugene Butikov, October 2014

P-Q

• Principles and Applications of Fourier Optics. Robert K Tyson, August 2014
• Quantum Chemistry: A concise introduction for students ofphysics, chemistry, biochemistry and materials science. Ajit J Thakkar, June 2014
• Quantum Information in Gravitational Fields. Marco Lanzagorta, June 2014

R-S

• Renewables: A review of sustainable energy supply options. David Elliott, September 2013
• Semiconductors: Bonds and bands. David K Ferry, September 2013
• A Short Course on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. A K Chaudhuri, September 2014

U

• Ultrafast Spectroscopy: Quantum information and wavepackets. Joel Yuen-Zhou, Jacob J Krich, Ivan Kassal, Allan S Johnson and Alán Aspuru-Guzik, September 2014

Read more about the IOP EBook Collections

Pavlinka Kovatcheva, Faculty Librarian Science

Physics Individual Online Books

The following Physics books are available online through various platforms. They can be found as well through the UJ Library Catalogue:

BCS : 50 years. Edited by Leon N. Cooper, Dmitri Feldman. 2011. World Scientific (MyiLibrary)

Field theories of Condensed Matter Physics / by Eduardo Fradkin. CUP, 2^nd ed. 2013 (Cambridge Online Books) 

Introduction to the Physics of Waves / Tim Freegarde. CUP, 2013. (EbscoHost e-books)

Methods in helio and asteroseismology / Frank P. Pijpers. 2006 (MyiLibrary)

Physical mathematics / Kevin Cahill. CUP. 2013 (Ebrary)

 

Physics of solar energy. C. Julian Chen. Wiley. 2011 (EbscoHost & Ebrary access)

 

Theoretical nuclear and subnuclear physics. Editors: K. Alex Müller, Tom W. Kool. World Scientific. 2010 (MyiLibrary)

 

Understanding quantum phase transitions. Edited by Lincoln D. Carr. CRC Press. 2011. (MyiLibrary)

 

Quantum field theory in Condensed Matter Physics. Alexei M. Tsvelik. CUP. 2^nd ed. 2007 (Ebrary)

If you have any queries about access or download, please let me know.

Pavlinka Kovatcheva

Faculty Librarian: Science

pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za