eBooks
Online eBook Collections
Books 24x7 (UBC cancelled this eBook collection in July 2016)
Books24x7 is a collection of online computer science books dealing with all aspects of information technology.
Most titles cannot be downloaded or printed.
Available at the Vancouver Public Library. (Requires VPL card).
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (UBC Library information page)
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.
Selective coverage from 1975 forward
ProQuest Ebook Central (UBC Library information page)
Alternate Titles: eBrary, EBL, eBook Library.
O'Reilly for Higher Education formerly Safari Technical Books (UBC Library information page)
O’Reilly for Higher Education includes tech and business content from more than 250 publishers, along with videos, case studies, learning paths and self-assessments.
Only current Students, Staff & Faculty have access.
NEW ACCESS METHOD => You will now be asked for your CWL. This will set up a new account on your first visit.
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional association devoted to fostering interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences. UBC Library information page.
SpringerLink (UBC Library information page)
A multidisciplinary database of full text publications published by Springer. Formats include ejournals, reference works, monographic series, lecture notes, and ebooks, available on the SpringerLink platform.
Conference Proceedings
AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
How to access articles: Locate conference and year. Locate and click on article title. Click on title in pop-up window to download PDF.
IJCAI (International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence)
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
CSCSI-SCEIO (Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, now CAIAC, the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association). These proceedings were digitized by the ICICS/CS Reading Room for CAIAC in 2017.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
USENIX (The Advanced Computing Systems Association)
Search the ICICS/CS Reading Room Catalogue for print copies of conference proceedings, along with full-text links where available.
Other eBook Titles
Other individual titles may be made available online by the author or as open textbooks:
Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents. 2nd ed.
Here are some eBook collections that are free to download:
Microsoft eBook collection 2016
O'Reilly's free Data EBook Archive
Includes titles such as Going Pro in Data Science, Mapping Big Data and Data Visualization