E-books

The arabidopsis book  is a compilation of over 100 invited chapters, each reviewing in detail an important and interesting aspect of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, with reference to what is known in other plants and in other kingdoms. This book is available only via the Internet free of charge by The American Society of Plant Biologists.

Ben-Yehuda Project - Publishes electronic versions of public domain Hebrew literature.

Biodiversity heritage library - Open-access digitized publications drawn from the historical biodiversity literature. This is a joint project of ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions.

Breeding forest trees and forests in Israel (in Hebrew), by Dr. Gabriel Schiller

Breeding and handling of ornamental trees (in Hebrew), written by I. Hel-Or and I. Galun

Catalog of citrus varieties in Israel (in Hebrew), by Yossi Yaniv 

Central Planning - Israel (TMA 22 - in Hebrew) - Forests and afforestation

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

E-books directory - is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.

Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (18th century) - A herbal contains illustrations and descriptions of plants, their medicinal preparations, and the ailments for which they are used.

Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel - by David Tidhar

Frontiers e-books

Global Biodiversity Outlook - A periodic report providing a summary of the status of biological diversity and an analysis of the steps being taken by the global community to ensure that biodiversity is conserved and used sustainably, and that benefits arising from the use of genetic resources are shared equitably.

Hydrological data and other publications of the Water Authority.

The long-term permanent plot experiments in Israel : I. The Bet Dagan experiment 1960-1993; II. The Gilat experiment 1961-1994, established and carried out by the ARO, Institue of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Bet Dagan, Israel. Data compilation and evaluation by B. Bar-Yosef and U. Kafkafi. 

The National Academies Press  offers many titles in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while others are available for purchase.

The Online Books Page  is maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.

The Pepper menorah/Chen Shifriss (in Hebrew) 

Population genetics and genomics of forest trees : From gene function to evolutionary dynamics and conservation - Abstracts of a joint conference of IUFRO Working Groups (population, ecological and conservation genetics & genomics) and COST Action E28, which took place in Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain on 1-6 October 2006

Project Gutenberg - Free electronic books.

Statistical Atlas of Israeli Agriculture 2013 - Ed. by Yoav Kislev and Shaul Zaban

USDA Publications - Agriculture Handbook, Technical Bulletin, etc. For the Yearbook of Agriculture, please click here.

Virtual books - Project of the British Library.

What does the honeybee see? And how do we know? by Adrian Horridge, 2009 

On plants, animals and people : Grazing management in Israel (in Hebrew), by Noam Seligman, ed. by Avi Perevolotsky

E-journals

Academic journals - an independent publishing house committed to publishing and delivering superior, peer-reviewed scientific research.

Bentham Open Access Journals - Indexed in Google and Google scholar

BioMed Central - BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Gamla-Et - Blog edited by Prof. Moshe Bar Joseph.

HighWire Press  is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles.

Historical Jewish Press

Israel Plant Breeders' Rights Gazette 

JSTOR Hebrew journals via the National library (free registration)

PLOS - Open Access journal

KKL - Journals on forestry, ecology and open areas

Svivon (in Hebrew) - E-journal dealing with Environmental issues