Electronic Books

The ESO Libraries buy ebook packages, but also buy single ebooks on request, if they are available on the platform that they can use for ebook purchases.

Please note that electronic books and standards must be used in accordance with copyright law in general and the terms and conditions of the individual publisher's license agreement in particular. Content is made available for ESO staff and must not be circulated outside the organization. Further electronic publications are accessible from the ESO Libraries Catalog.

This page contains :

eBooks (book series and collections only)
Encyclopedias
individual ebooks licenced on request (for downloading the ebooks Adobe Digital Editions is required)

eBooks

Title	E-access	Comments
AAS-IOP Astronomy collection	2017 -
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics	vol. 1 (1964) -	Register to get customized email alerts, create favorite lists, save complex searches
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	vol. 1 (1973) -	Register to get customized email alerts, create favorite lists, save complex searches
ASP Conference Series	1988 -
Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL)	2005 -	Access included in the Physics & Astronomy Springer eBook collection.
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSP)	2005 -	Access included in the Physics & Astronomy Springer eBook collection.
Cambridge Books Online	2012 - 2015	List of all licensed ebooks
EAS Publications Series	vol. 2 (2002) - vol. 1 not available electronically
ESO Astrophysics Symposia	2000 - 2009	Access included in the Physics & Astronomy Springer eBook collection. Series has been discontinued.
IAU publication archive	1922 -	Entire IAU publication archive digitized by IAU in cooperation with Cambrige University Press. Some gaps occur since not all volumes were available for digitization.
IAU Symposium and Colloquium Proceedings Series	2004 - First colloquium: C195 First symposium: S222	Starting with S222 and C195. The IAU provides lists of past IAU Symposia and Colloquia.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library		Access to almost 3 million full-text documents from journals and conference proceedings published by IEEE and its partner organizations.
Optics InfoBase collection		Includes journals like Applied Optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part A, Optics Express, ...
Proceedings of Science	1998 -	Open access conference proceedings, refereed.
SPIE Digital Library SPIE papers by ESO authors from selected conferences: Austin, TX, USA, June 2018 Edinburgh, UK, June/July 2016 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2014 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2012 San Diego, CA, USA, June 2010 Marseille, France, June 2008	1990 -	The SPIE Digital Library provides access to conference proceedings, journals, and ebooks.
Springer eBooks (Physics & Astronomy) (2000 - ) Springer eBooks (Humanities, Social Sciences & Law) (2005 - 2015) Springer Series in Astrostatistics (2012 - )	2000 -	Access to Physics & Astronomy and Humanities, Social Sciences & Law eBooks collections. Note: Popular Astronomy can be found in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Law collection (i.e. the Patrick Moore series, access ends in 2015).