Find E-Book
Here you will find the e-books licensed by the University of Basel as well as freely-accessible e-books (all e-books are also listed in our search portal swisscovery Basel). Please note: Access to licensed products is only possible in the network of the University of Basel or via VPN (see: Access authorisation).
For a list of all e-books click on the red button or enter your search terms in the search field.
Overview by subject area
In some cases, overview lists of the most important e-books for each subject area are available on the individual subject area pages
E-book portals
For the following publishers we have complete or very extensive access to their publications. All titles are also listed individually in our search portal swisscovery Basel. As a rule, no special logins are required; however, access via the University of Basel network is required.
All subject areas
- Cambridge University Press
- De Gruyter
- Ebook Central (aggregator across various publishers); Guide to Ebook Central (in German)
- Elsevier: ScienceDirect
- Gale eBooks
- O’Reilly Learning (for members of the university only, login with SWITCH edu-ID required)
- Oxford University Press (not all collections)
- Pearson (textbooks)
- SpringerLink
- Wiley (excluding textbooks, reference works, book series and laboratory protocols)
- Taylor&Francis (all subject=science, no DRM, from 2018: not continued from 2023, one-off purchases only)
Portals for individual subject areas
- Medicine: Thieme eRef Lehrbücher
- Medicine: Clinical Key Student Elsevier (either log in with your own account for Clinical Key or select "Anmeldung über Ihre Institution" -> Universität Basel)