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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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An electronic book or e-book is a book publication made available in

digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-

panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

Sometimes defined as “an electronic version of a printed book”.

We can read e-books in desktop computers, laptops, tablets and

smartphones.

Users can buy e-books through online.

With e-books, electronic bookmarks make referencing easier , and e-

book readers may allow the user to annotate pages.

Mainly e-books includes fiction and non-fiction books, technical

materials, and also programming books.

The main reasons that people are buying e-books online are lower

prices, increased comfort and a larger selection of titles.

Advantages of e-books

In the space that a comparably sized print book takes up, an e-reader can

contain thousands of e-books, limited only by its memory capacity.

An e-book may readable in low light or even total darkness.

Many e-readers have a built in light source, can enlarge or change fonts,

use text-to-speech software to read the text aloud for visually impaired,

elderly or dyslexic people or just for convenience.

Also e-readers allow readers to look upwards or find more information

about the topic immediately using an online dictionary.

Disadvantages

• There may be lack of privacy for the user’s e-book reading activities.

• E-books files may be corrupted, deleted or otherwise lost.

• The owner of an e-book’s digital files may have access to the digital text

withdrawn due to digital rights management provisions, the provider’s

business failing, or other issues.

Famous science e-books with their authors

‘The selfish gene’ by Richard Dawkins published in 1976.

‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan in 1980.

‘Death by black hole: And other cosmic quandaries’ by Neil deGrasse

Tyson in 2006.

‘The god delusion’ by Richard Dawkins in 2006.

‘The grand design’ by Stephen Hawking in 2010.

‘Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers’ by Mary Roach in 2003.

o A journal is a periodical dealing especially with matters of current

interest.

o Journals that are available in an electronic format are known as E-

journals.

o E-journals are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be

accessed via electronic transmission.

o They are the electronic version of the traditional journals with additional

features.

• They form an important part of the scholars research material.

• E-journals can be bought either singularly or through a

database.

• A database will contain a package of e-resources such as e-

books and e-journals.

Features of E-journals

Access issues.

Web presentation.

Search ability.

Likeability to, from, within and between articles.

Interactivity and customization.

SOME ONLINE JOURNALS IN DIFFERENT SUBJECTS

In chemistry, Medicinal chemistry.

Chemotherapy: open access.

Insights in analytical Electrochemistry.

Trends in green chemistry.

Industrial chemistry.

In physics, Insights in medical physics.

Fluid mechanics: open access.

Journal of lasers, optics and photonics.

Journal of physical chemistry and biophysics.

In biochemistry,

Electronic journal of biology.

Bioenergetics: open access.

Journal of microbial and biochemical technology.

Journal of plant biochemistry and physiology.