Access to electronic resources by subscription is enabled for addresses within the Politecnico. All the University’s institutional users (lecturers, researchers, technical-administrative staff, PhD students, research assistants, students) can also access the service freely and free of charge from outside by subscribing to the DigProxy service.
To register, you must fill in the appropriate APPLICATION FORM.
For issues concerning the use of electronic resources, please contact bibli.risorse_elettroniche@polito.it.
Ebook Central
Description: Offers the possibility to browse titles from various publishers covering the last 5 years. The collection is constantly updated, replacing old titles with new ones.
Contents: Collections: a total of 35,000 e-books.
- Computers and IT
- Engineering and Technology
- The Arts e-book collection
Download: 60 pages can be downloaded, subject to registration by clicking on “Sign-In”.
ELSEVIER e-books
Description: Package of 401 e-books from the publisher Elsevier in the areas of engineering, especially electronics, mechanics and chemistry, energy, mathematics, materials science and physics and astronomy.
Access: Documents for which the full text is available are marked by the green box with horizontal lines.
Download: full text of each individual title.
ELSEVIER Major Reference Works
Description: Science encyclopaedias from the publisher Elsevier
Contents: go to title list.
Access: Documents for which the full text is available are marked with a green box with horizontal lines.
Download: downloading and printing are allowed for personal, non-commercial use.
WILEY Encyclopaedias
Description: 7 encyclopaedias from the publisher Wiley
- Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
- Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Encyclopedia Of Polymer Science and Technology
- Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
- Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
- Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry
Download: full text of each individual title.
ICE e-books
Description: Package of about 1500 e-books from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in the area of civil engineering.
Download: full text of each individual title.
Il Mulino - Darwinebooks
Description: Digital archive of Mulino books. It provides about 1000 research texts by Italian authors, published in print between 2000 and the current year, organised in disciplinary collections (humanities and social sciences).
Access: Allowed: reading and downloading of the full text of the texts in the collection
Download: full text of each individual title.
KNOVEL e-books
Description: Interdisciplinary e-book package.
Contents: over 8600 e-books, continuously updated
Access: Documents for which the full text is available are those not marked with a padlock.
Download: full text of each individual title.
LECTURE NOTES
Description: 6 series of Lecture Notes from the publisher Springer:
- Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (subscription ceased in 2007)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
- Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences
- Lecture Notes in Mathematics
- Lecture Notes in Physics
Access: documents for which the full text is not available are padlocked. Accessibility from 1997 to date
Download: full text of each individual title.
REFEREX Engineering
Description: E-book package from the publisher Elsevier.
Contents: Collections: Materials and Mechanical - Electronics and Electrical - Chemical, Petrochemical and Processes.
Download: full text of each individual title.
SPRINGER e-books
Description: A package of 13,373 e-books from the publisher Springer-Kluwer of titles published between 2005 and 2010. The titles cover different subject areas in science and the humanities.
Contents: Includes the Computer Science collection. The collection is constantly being updated.
Access: Documents for which the full text is not available are marked with a padlock.
Download: Full text of each individual title.
Taylor and Francis e-books
Description: Package of 99 e-books from the publisher Taylor and Francis on the “Built environment” section;
Package of 120 e-books from the publisher Taylor and Francis on “Architecture and Design”: title analysis
Access: Allowed: read and download the full text of the texts in the section.
Torrossa. EIO - Editoria Italiana Online
Description: Italian academic publications in the humanities and social sciences; digital publications from over 90 prestigious academic publishers (e.g. Franco Angeli and Zanichelli)
Contents: 572 e-books, continuously updated
Download: downloadable documents in .PDF format for 14 days.
WILEY e-books
Description: E-book package from the publisher Wiley in the area of electrical, mechanical, energy, chemical and mathematical engineering.
Contents: go to title list.
Access: Documents for which the full text is available are marked with an open padlock.
Download: full text of each individual title.