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The Academic Complete Collection is a growing collection of e-books spanning all subject areas. For access to EBook Central on mobile devices, download the BlueFire reader for iOS and Android. Users will need to create a free Adobe ID and log into to BlueFire before downloading any e-book content. For laptops, use Adobe Digital Editions.
This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects. Offering more than 170,000 e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses
Provides access to full-text peer-reviewed journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings, and published standards in the areas of electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. It also provides access to the IEEE Standards Dictionary Online.