E-books, video tutorials and interactive "learning paths" for computer sciences (mainly in English, but also some German titles)
(formerly: Safari Books Online)
Access options
Login for members of the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg via IT account (instructions).
(No VPN or EZProxy necessary.)
No access for guests, not even on PCs within the library.
Subjects
- Business Informatics
- Multimedia
- Mechatronics
- Computer Sciences
Licensed contents
E-books by various publishers, e.g.:
- Addison-Wesley Professional
- Adobe Press
- Apress
- Cisco Press
- für Dummies
- IBM Redbooks
- Microsoft Press / Microsoft Press Deutschland
- O'Reilly Media
- O'Reilly Verlag
- Packt Publishing
- Pearson
- Routledge
- Wiley
Interactive Learning
Videos: Learning Paths, Case Studies
NOT licensed: Live Online Training
Good to know
- The database offers no download option as PDF. You have the possibility to copy sections / single chapters of an e-book.
- Download of complete e-books for offline use is possible with the O'Reilly app (available for iOS and Android, but not for Kindle: Amazon prevents the installation on its E-reader devices).
- By default, only contents in English language are available.
- For access to multilingual content, activate the checkboxes of the respective languages in "Settings / Edit your account preferences" and save by clicking on "Update account preferences"
- Create playlists: You can compile e-books, chapters and video units into individual playlists.Playlists can also be shared across the university or with all O'Reilly users worldwide.
- Highlight text and add notes: Mark some text with the mouse and choose one of the options "Copy", "Highlight" or "Note".