Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online

The University of California has launched the eScholarship Editions collection, which represents about a third of the University of California Press books in print with an additional 300 out-of-print titles. Most of the books are available only from computers on the UC campus, but about four hundred of them are available to all readers and can be reached at http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/ .

You may browse or you can search. Browsing is available by subject, author, or title. Publicly-available books are marked with a PUBLIC icon; you also have the option of listing only publicly-available books (look for the links at the top of the page.) For searching, I recommend the advanced search. It allows you to search either the book text or the book description, with a checkbox to limit search results to publicly-available books.

I decided I wanted to browse through "Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies". The book's page contains an image of the cover, a suggested citation for the electronic version, and a link to buy the book (if the book's out of print, there's some suggestions for where it can be found.) The content is underneath the suggested citation and is divided by chapter. Chapters are contained on single pages with available footnotes on separate pages. Nav arrows at the top of the page allow you to scroll between chapters.

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