# Books

TU Delft Repository has (as of 2024), over 3,000 books in its collection. The earliest books are digitised versions from the 1900s, but the vast majority are born-digital books from 2000 onwards.

Some of the books are PDF versions of books published with commercial publishers, but while others come from TU Delft's own publishing house, TU Delft Open.

### Access to Individual Files

Nearly all books are available for download via the world wide web.

<https://repository.tudelft.nl/search?search_term=&object_type=book>

### Access to Metadata

The metadata is CC0, and a published version of the books is available here

<https://data.4tu.nl/datasets/cf6821b8-3f98-4aad-abc1-77d7c94b2178>

This dataset uses the following metadata categories:

> title author contributor publication year abstract subject topic language publisher isbn issn patent patent status bibliographic note access restriction embargo date faculty department research group programme project coordinates

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There is currently no bulk download


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