Finding E-books
Full-text electronic books (e-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. They 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 e-books, 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 sort 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 e-books 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:
Similarly, you may exclude e-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 E-Books 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:
- Liberal Arts Campus Library Reference Desk (562) 938-4232
- Pacific Coast Campus Library Reference Desk (562) 938-3028
