About the publisher

Morgan & Claypool publish award-winning e-books via SYNTHESIS, their innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. SYNTHESIS combines authoritative content with advanced digital delivery to create a product that is substantially more useful and usable to a broad range of professionals, researchers, and students than more traditional print or digital publications.

The basic component of the library is 50- to 100-page "Lectures"; self-contained electronic books that synthesize an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the respective field. Morgan & Claypool Publishers believes that they offer unique value to the reader by providing more analysis and depth than the typical research journal article. They are also more dynamic and convenient than traditional print or digital handbooks, contributed volumes, and monographs.

The library and its lectures are organized by series. Each series is managed by a prominent consulting editor. The series editor guides lecture topic and author selection as well as peer review. New series and lectures will be added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed. This will make the collection dynamic in a way that has not been achieved with traditional reference or educational products.

The SYNTHESIS platform provides the user with access to content in PDF with live links to references and sophisticated search and personalization functions.

Burgundy offer to eIFL countries and how to subscribe

Morgan & Claypool broad ebook collection is available to eIFL countries via Burgundy Collections for a period of 3 years (2009-2011).  Through this agreement, the SYNTHESIS Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science, an award winning collection of 100 ebooks written by leading engineers and scientists, is offered at great discounts. Subject areas of include computational electromagnetic & antennas, signal processing, digital circuits & general electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering.

If you are a librarian from an institution in one the eIFL countries and would either like to know whether your institution has access to these products or how to gain access to them, please get in touch with your country coordinator.

If you are a country coordinator, the agreement between eIFL and Burgundy can be found at the MEMBERS ONLY area of our website, under "Publishers" section. Please look under the heading of "Burgundy Information Services". If you want access to be activated, please contact Paul Calow at paul[at]burgundyservices.com to send you the license.

Support and promotional resources for librarians

Promotional material

SYNTHESIS has been awarded Best Reference Work 2008 by American Society of Engineering Education's Engineering Library Division. A press release as well as a review of the digital library by the Charleston Advisor are attached at the bottom of this page.

A SYNTHESIS poster is also attached. 

Information for academic librarians

Details on access and record formats, linking and references, publication schedule and other useful information are available here.