By the end of 2016, more than 30,000 electronic books from the publisher Walter de Gruyter will be available to the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in full text. The publisher also includes, for example, Birkhäuser, Mouton, Oldenbourg, Saur, Böhlau, Harvard University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press and Princeton Press.
The electronic books are offered in a wide range of subject areas: Architecture, biology, chemistry, geosciences, computer science, cultural studies, linguistics, materials science, mathematics, physics, law, social sciences, technology, economics - and of course history and philosophy.
The state license was made possible by a consortium of all Saxon university and college libraries.
All electronic books are listed in the finc catalog(http://katalog.hszg.de) of our university library(http://hsb.hszg.de). The full text is freely accessible from computers within the university campus. Access from outside is open through authentication (student login/staff login) via the VPN service(http://hrz.hszg.de/netzzugang/vpn.html).
The electronic books are delivered chapter by chapter in PDF format. The files can be downloaded, printed and saved for personal use.
In addition, the ePUB format is offered with the option of downloading the entire book. Further details can be found on the de Gruyter website for eBook readers(http://www.degruyter.com/page/902).
Please note that occasionally no page numbers are displayed due to the ePUB format, so that correct citation is not guaranteed. In this case, please download the relevant chapter as a PDF and take the page numbers from there.
Good luck with your research!
If you have any questions, please contact the university library.