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Some e-books have tools that will let you take notes, bookmark pages, and highlight materials while you read online. Both ebrary and Netlibrary provide some of these tools. To learn more about how to use these great tools, see ebrary Help or NetLibrary Help.
Finding Online Books
Online books are also referred to as ebooks, e-books, or electronic books and may be found in multiple places:
Online and print books can be found in the online catalog. The online catalog is set-up so you can perform searches in the general search screen or you can use the Advanced Search. You can limit your searches so you are only looking at EBOOKS (online books), but the default search will find all formats unless you specify the category of EBOOKS. To learn how to limit your search to e-books, click here.
Large General Collections of Online Books:
Most e-books found through the catalog will be from the following resources.- ebrary is the largest collection of online books that the library subscribes to, with over 25,000 books in this collection. Textbooks, many types of non-fiction books, as well as fiction books can be found in ebrary. To learn more about using ebrary, click here. Also, don't forget to use ebrary's help site to learn how to use the fun features such as bookmarking and highlighting.
- Electronic Reference Resources: This is a collection of online reference books (mostly encyclopedias). These resources cover many different subject areas, including business, education, health and medicine, social sciences, and more. To cross-search a group of online reference resources, you can use the following:
- Gale Virtual Reference Library can be used to search through multiple encyclopedias from many different subject areas at the same time. It is particularly useful for searches on topics related to education, history, or medicine.
- Sage eReference Encyclopedias: Multiple encyclopedias covering many different subject areas such as social sciences, business, health, and education can be searched through this online collection.
- Facts on File: To specifically look at books rather than articles in this large general database, select Reference Shelf after you have performed your search.
- Stat!Ref: This database searches the contents of many health and medical reference books.
Online Reference Book Collections
If you are interested in searching the contents of online Encyclopedias and other types of reference books, the following resources are available.
If you have any questions about citations or other questions regarding using the library for research, contact a librarian for help.
Last update: August 25, 2011