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Search Fast , Do Smart. Academic Complete. Southern College Library. E-book ?. An e-book or electronic book is an electronic version of a printed book. E-books generally follow the same layout as printed books in terms of chapters, page numbers and illustrations.
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Search Fast , Do Smart Academic Complete Southern College Library
E-book ? • An e-book or electronic book is an electronic version of a printed book. • E-books generally follow the same layout as printed books in terms of chapters, page numbers and illustrations. • They differ in that they can include features such as electronic bookmarking, online dictionaries and search facilities.
ebrary - Academic CompleteSearchable Full Text, Multi-disciplineE-Books collection in PDF format Subject areas • • Business & Economics • • Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences • • Career & General Education • • Humanities • • Science, Medicine & Allied Health • • Social & Behavioral Sciences
Advantages of ebrary • More than 25,000 titles • Contribution from more than 200 leading publishers • Growing collection, added about 500 titles each month • Most publication date > 2000 • Unlimited user license (via fixed IP in Campus) • Powerful Research Tools – InfoTools • Instant access to definitions, maps, biographical, translations, etc. • Personal Bookshelf allows quickly and easily access all books you have bookmarked, notated, or highlighted. • Copy/paste and printing with automatic citations
The ebrary’s Interface http://site.ebrary.com/lib/sclib/
Search and View • Simple Search 简易检索 • Advanced Search 进阶检索 • Browse 浏览 • Search Result 检索结果 • Refining a Search 修正检索 • InfoTools Search
Searching Techniques • Exactly word eg. globalization, globalisation • Quotation mark eg. “market research” • Boolean Search eg.AND, OR, NOT • Proximity Search eg. market WITHIN-3 research • Field Search eg. text, subject, title, author, publisher
Simple Search 简易检索 fast food
Simple Search 简易检索 “fast food”
Advanced Search 进阶检索 “fast food” marketing research
Advanced Search 进阶检索 “fast food” market WITHIN-10 research globalization
Can further narrow your search directly from the Search Results Page. The Search Results Page 检索结果 Sort by score, title, contributor or date
Refining a Search 修正检索 Narrow search results by contributor, publisher or subject
Whoretrieve addresses, biographies, and bibliographies for the selected term
Search Documentsearch and retrieve information within the current document for selected term
Search All Documentssearch and retrieve information within all documentsin the collection for selected term
Search Web search and retrieve information from the Web for selected term
Create Your Personal Bookshelf • Make bookmarks, page notes and highlight text in any available book. • Quickly and easily access all books you have bookmarked, notated, or highlighted.
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Copy/Paste and Printing with Automatic Citations- Copy/Paste text into Word, email or any text application- Print out text with a maximum of 40 pages for one section