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 General e-Book Questions

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General e-Book Questions

What are e-Books?

E-Books are also called electronic books, digital books, or online books. They are electronic versions of printed books that can be viewed online via the Internet. You can search e-Books for quick research and reference or read them at your leisure. CBU students, faculty, and staff have access to over 40,000 e-Books.

Advantages:
  • e-Books can be accessed 24 hours, 7 days a week
  • e-Books can be accessed from Plough Library, or from home/off-campus with your CBU e-mail username and password
  • the contents of e-Books are fully text-searchable

What e-Books are available from Plough Library?

See the Electronic Books page for a list of eBook collections available to CBU students, faculty, and staff, as well as links to free, online e-Book sites.

How do I search for e-Books?

There are TWO ways to search for e-Books:

1. Search an e-Book collection directly:
  1. Go to the library homepage at http://www.cbu.edu/library.
  2. Under "Find Books", click on "Electronic Books".
  3. From the Electronic Books page, select an eBook collection (NetLibrary, for example) from the list.
  4. Follow the directions for searching in the specific collection.
Note: If you are off-campus and trying to access one of the subscription e-Book databases, the login screen for CBU's proxy server (EZproxy) will come up. Type in your email username and password to gain access to these databases.
 2. Search the online catalog:
  1. Go to BucCat, the library catalog, at http://zeus.cbu.edu.
  2. To limit your search to e-Books, select eBooks from the Quick Limits menu.
  3. Enter a Title or Keyword in the Search for: box and click the Search button (or hit the Enter key on your keyboard).
See How do I access e-Books through the library catalog? for more information.

How do I access e-Books through the library catalog?

While searching BUCCAT, the library's online catalog, you may notice titles with the text "electronic resource" beside them in brackets [ ] and a Library Location of "CBU Online Resource". These titles are e-Books accessible through netLibrary or another eBook collection.
   ON-CAMPUS:
1. When you find an e-Book title in the catalog that you want to view, simply click on the title:



2. The Brief Record for the title will appear. Scroll down to where it says Linked Resources, and click on the link to the e-Book.

   OFF-CAMPUS:
From off-campus, you can search for e-Books in the catalog, but you won't be able to click directly through to view them unless you have first logged-in through EZproxy. If you are a CBU student or CBU faculty/staff, you can log in through EZproxy, using your CBU email username and password, at http://ezproxy.cbu.edu:9000/login?url=http://zeus.cbu.edu.
Logging in from this page will direct you to the library's catalog, and you will be able to click directly through to any electronic resources you find in the online catalog. In order to view the entire e-Book, you will have to create a free account if you don't already have one.

How do I cite e-Books when I use them in a paper?

See Citing an Electronic Book for MLA, APA, and Turabian guidelines on citing eBook sources.
netLibrary

What is a netLibrary account?

Accounts are optional - you can still search and browse netLibrary without an account. However, once you have an account, you can:
  • "check out" an e-Book for 4 hours and view it at your leisure
  • access e-Books from outside the library without having to log in through EZproxy
  • save your own bookmarks and notes

How do I create a netLibrary account?

On-campus
  1. On the main netLibrary page, click on the link in the top right corner of the page that says "Create a Free Account".
  2. Fill out the form as directed, selecting a username and password of your choice. Be sure to write it down for future reference.
 Off-campus
  1. Go to the library homepage at http://www.cbu.edu/library.
  2. Under "Find Books", click on "Electronic Books".
  3. Click on netLibrary and log in through CBU's proxy server (EZproxy) with your email username and password.
  4. Follow steps 1 & 2 at left.

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