Many essential reference books are available to UCSB faculty and students through our online subscriptions. Electronic books offer many advantages over their paper counterparts--they are up to date, users can search the full text of the book, more than one person can use the book at a time, and they are available to users outside of the library (to computers on campus or to off-campus users through our proxy server).
In the sciences and engineering area, one of the most impressive electronic resources is the CRCnetBASE collection. Anyone who has taken a college
chemistry class has probably used the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics to find information about chemical properties. The Chemical Rubber Company (CRC) first published this reference book as a free promotional item to encourage the purchase of their rubber laboratory aprons. The work soon became a “must-have” for chemists and other
scientists. In fact, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling attributed his knowledge about chemical substances “in part to the fact that I possessed the Rubber Handbook.”
Eventually, CRC sold its manufacturing interests and concentrated exclusively on
publishing.
ENGnetBASE: has 185 titles with handbooks for all areas of
engineering. For example, the MEMS Handbook focuses on microelectromechanical systems.
CHEMnetBASE: features the Handbook of Chemistry and
Physics, plus other key chemical references that allow users to search for data included in the handbooks.
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ENVIROnetBASE: includes 101 titles on environmental science.
MATHnetBASE: has 35 titles for mathematics.
NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE: includes 14 titles in different
areas of neuroscience.
FOODnetBASE: offers 40 titles on food production and food safety.
ITknowledgeBASE: essential
reference books for information technology, plus over 10,000 articles.
FORENSICnetBASE: includes 60 titles on forensic science and criminal investigation.
STATSnetBASE: provides 27 titles on statistical methods for a
variety of fields.
InfoSECURITYnetBASE: includes 34 titles on computer and
information security.
In addition to the collections listed above, we also have access to ATSDR (toxicological profiles), a collection of CRC Journals, and FCN (Food Chemical News). CRC will add POLYMERSnetBASE to the collection in the near future.
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