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PHYSICS 131K: Frontiers of 21st Century Physics: Finding Books & E-Books

Research guide for Dr. Brady, Dr. Gao, and Dr. Tietsworth's Duke Kunshan course, spring 2016

Featured eBooks

Finding and using ebooks

As you search the library catalog for books, you will find lots of ebooks (see below). Click on the  button to access the book online. 

For help using ebooks, refer  to the library's getting started guide to reading, downloading, and using ebooks.

More in depth information about print limits, transferring to mobile devices, online reading and special features is available on this comprehensive eBook guide.

E-Books on Specific Topics

You can use the following links to find e-books available to you on the following topics:

Reading a call number

PR Find the PRs.
6063 The numbers following the letters are read as a whole number. Ex. 6063 comes after 6055. 
.C335 For the next part of the call number, go to the letter(s) and then treat the number(s) as a decimal. Ex. .C335 comes after .C3
Z42 Read the next line's numbers as a whole number. Z42 comes before Z46
2006 The final number, if included, is the year of publication.This book was published in 2006.

Print Books in the Duke Kunshan Library