Full-text
electronic books and reference materials are now available from
links in Voyager,
the online catalog. There
are over 11,300 ebooks that can be read online. These are academic,
literary and reference books published about a variety of topics
that are now available to read completely from your computer.
To find a
list of all of these ebooks try performing a keyword search for
"electronic books" (remember to include quotation marks
to search any phrase in Voyager). You can then make
the list resort by title (or author, or date of publishing) by
using the "SORT BY:" drop down menu at the top of the
title results list.
You may find
ebooks on a specific topic by using a keyword search with your
topical search word(s), and adding a QUICK LIMIT of "E-Books"
to retrieve all records with links to electronic resources as
in the Simple Search example below:
Find
This:
"environmental
policy" |
Find
Results In:
Keyword
Search |
Quick
Limit:
E-Books
|
|
Similarly, you
may EXCLUDE electronic books from your search results by selecting
a QUICK LIMIT of the location LAC Library or PCC Library.
Another method
of finding an ebook on a specific topic is to try a keyword search
of a topical term along with the term +"electronic books"
in quotation marks and with the plus sign (to make sure the term
following the + is included in the results):
+nursing
+"electronic books"
+anthropology +"electronic books"
+teach?" +"electronic books"
+stocks +invest? +"electronic books"
(note
the use of the truncation sign "?" to pull up all
endings on a word such as: invest? = invest, investment, investments,
investing, etc.)
To get to
the book you will need to display a record from your resulting
list of titles in order to link to the full-text book online:
- To display
a record, click on an underlined field of an electronic book
from the title list to bring up the detailed display of a record.
- From the
displayed record, click on the underlined phrase next to the
heading "LINK TO RESOURCE:"
- From on-campus
you will not need to logon to the system to read a book. Select
"View this eBook." Next select the chapter or pages
you want to look at from the table of contents, index or any
part of the book listed on the far left of the screen, or search
for a topic using the search box. You can then continue to navigate
through the pages with forward and backward arrows on the upper
right of the screen.
- If you
wait longer than 15 minutes to turn a page, you will be logged
out. You will then need to start over from the link in the Voyager
Online Catalog record to begin reading again. Only one student
can read a title at any one time from our library's ebook holdings.
Viewing from Home
If the link
in Voyager takes you to the NetLibrary web page
you may use a generic id and password listed in the page of passwords
for online databases to be used from home. This password list
will be given to you at a Library orientation or at the Reference
Desk. You should set up your browser to accept cookies.
If the link
in Voyager takes you to the ABC-Clio web page you
will be asked for a username and password. The username and password
are also found on the Library's "Passwords to Online Resources"
handout that you will receive in a Library orientation or may
ask for at the Reference Desk. You should set up your browser
to accept cookies.
Please
ask a librarian for additional help:
- LAC
Library Reference Desk (562) 938-4232
- PCC
Library Reference Desk (562) 938-3028
Please view
the online tutorial on Electronic
Books for examples and more information.
