The K.U.Leuven University Library has opened access to five new trials for E-books. While surfing on the KULeuvenNet you will have access to five major E-books platforms during the next coming weeks (until December, 19th) .
- PsycBooks
PsycBOOKS contains full text in Portable Document Format (PDF) of scholarly book titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA). In 2006, the database offering includes about 900 titles, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002. The books are offered via OvidSP. - NetLibrary
This platform offers access to more than 170,000 E-books. For Medicine you will find a nice selection of more than 500 Doody’s Core Titles , a significant collection of reference books. - MyiLibrary via Missing Link
On this platform of E-books you will not need no password: just click on the link “miliBib-Portal starten” on the frontpage. In the category Medicine you can choose books out of 2,500 titles. - Gale Virtual Reference Library
To access this website with more than 1,500 electronic reference books you will need to login with the following passwords. A collection of almost 200 medical books and encyclopaedia is also offered. After login, click on Access this database. - Dawsonera
On this platform Dawson offers a selection of 50 titles (out of a collection of 75,000 e-books). You need to login with one of the following passwords.
We gladly receive any feedback on these trials. After the trial period the University Library will evaluate the different platforms based on the quality of the content, the price of the product, the usability of the platform, usage statistics (in the trial period) and, of course, your feedback. Please let us know what you think of the different E-books providers by leaving a comment in this weblog or by sending an e-mail to mgas@bib.kuleuven.be.
Thanks a lot. 
