{"id":3546,"date":"2020-04-27T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:36:36","slug":"spotlight-on-world-scientific-ebook-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/spotlight-on-world-scientific-ebook-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on World Scientific eBook Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/all-subject-banner-world-scientific.png\" alt=\"selection of book jackets\" class=\"wp-image-4033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/all-subject-banner-world-scientific.png 625w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/all-subject-banner-world-scientific-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Scientific Publishing<\/strong>&nbsp;(WSP) is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals with headquarters in Singapore. WSP publishes about 500 books annually as well as more than 150 journals in various fields. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/page\/holdings\/newcastle-university\"><strong>World Scientific eBooks<\/strong> <\/a>are electronic versions of World Scientific print titles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The titles span across a wide variety of subjects, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Asian studies<\/li><li>Business &amp; Management <\/li><li>Chemistry <\/li><li>Computer Science <\/li><li>Economics &amp; Finance<\/li><li>Engineering <\/li><li>Life sciences<\/li><li>Mathematics  <\/li><li>Physics &amp; Astronomy<\/li><li>Social Sciences<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once connected, you can search for titles within a specific subject:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/subject-search-world-scientific-blog-1024x414.png\" alt=\"Screen shot of subject search\n\" class=\"wp-image-3553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/subject-search-world-scientific-blog-1024x414.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/subject-search-world-scientific-blog-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/subject-search-world-scientific-blog-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/subject-search-world-scientific-blog.png 1554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or for titles on a specific topic :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/topic-search-world-scientific-blog-1024x222.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3555\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?attachment_id=3555\" class=\"wp-image-3555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/topic-search-world-scientific-blog-1024x222.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/topic-search-world-scientific-blog-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/topic-search-world-scientific-blog-768x167.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/02\/topic-search-world-scientific-blog.png 1588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re searching for titles directly through the World Scientific platform, look out for the <strong>\u201cFull Access\u201d<\/strong> symbol to make sure we have access to the full text content:<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"239\" height=\"41\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-full-access-icon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4037\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also search for individual titles on <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/primo-explore\/search?vid=NEWUI&amp;mode=simple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Library Search<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-title-search-in-library-search.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-title-search-in-library-search.png 776w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-title-search-in-library-search-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-title-search-in-library-search-768x281.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A user guide is available on the Library Subject Support guides and you can download from the link below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/World-Scientific-User-manual-April-2020.pdf\">World Scientific User manual April 2020<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/World-Scientific-User-manual-April-2020.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-books-banner-1.png\" alt=\"selection of book jackets\" class=\"wp-image-4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-books-banner-1.png 679w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/04\/world-scientific-books-banner-1-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Scientific Publishing&nbsp;(WSP) is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals with headquarters in Singapore. WSP publishes about 500 books annually as well as more than 150 journals in various fields. World Scientific eBooks are electronic versions of World Scientific print titles.&nbsp; The titles span across a wide variety of subjects, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/spotlight-on-world-scientific-ebook-collections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spotlight on World Scientific eBook Collections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[46,2,47,49,50,51,53,54,56,57,65,66,70,71,34],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage","tag-biology","tag-business","tag-chemeng","tag-chemistry","tag-civil","tag-computing","tag-earth","tag-eee","tag-environeng","tag-environsci","tag-maths","tag-mecheng","tag-physics","tag-reneweng","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}