Discovering E-books > 3: OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC)

3A: EBC Overview

OhioLINK Electronic Book Center, or EBC, is a resource which gives you access to thousands of electronic books. When you go to the main EBC screen, it will look like the image below. Notice some important details pointed out.

3B: EBC's Collections

Collection	Description
Scholarly & Reference Collection	Search the full-text of thousands of e-books from publishers such as Springer/Birkhauser, Oxford University Press, ABC-CLIO, Gale, and Sage. Includes books in many subject areas. Reference books and a large number of science e-books are included in this collection. Unlimited users
American & English Literature Collection	Includes several digitized collections in poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as Bibliography of American Literature, Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats Collection, and The Bible in English Unlimited users
Oxford Reference Online	Includes quotations, bilingual dictionaries, timelines, subject reference items, and more.
Safari Books Online	Includes computer science books on topics such as languages, programming, software, design, networks, and more from publishers such as OReilly, Adobe, Prentice Hall, Pearson, Addison-Wesley, Cisco, Sams, and more. Limited to 100 total concurrent users
NetLibrary	Contains thousands of e-books in many subject areas, many on business topics. E-books in this collection are limited to one user at a time
Humanities E-Book	A collection of nearly 2,000 full-text titles in the humanities.

3C: Using the EBC Scholarly & Reference Collection

When you go to the EBC's Scholarly & Reference Collection's Advanced Search, it will look like the image below. Notice important features are pointed out.

• Search the full text of all books
• Search the full text of a specific book
• See where search terms appear within a specific book

• the basic search boxes default to searching to see if ALL words are in a book
• Use the * for a wildcard for multiple letters. Examples:
• Canad* searches for Canada, Canadian, etc.
• ja*son searches for Jackson, Jameson, Jacobson, etc.
• Note: If your search using * finds too many possible variations, you may get an error message about the term limit being reached

• Use ? for a wildcard for ONE letter. Examples
• wom?m searches for women or woman
• jam?son searches for jameson or jamison

• Use quotation marks for phrases. Examples
• "sodium chloride"
• ""Isaac Newton"

• You can also do a keyword or command line search.  You may also choose to browse books.
• Need more assistance? See a librarian or view Electronic Book Center Help and Tips

3D: Viewing an EBC Book

Once you have clicked on a title, you will then be able to begin reading a book. You can see where your search terms appear in order to go to the sections that are probably most relevant. You may also search within the text of the specific book. The screen you'll get when you click on a book title in your search results will look something like this:

 

Note you can move between occurrences of your search term within the text of the book. The term will have arrows around it allowing you to navigate to the next or previous occurrence:

3E: Printing

Printing may differ depending on the book publisher. You can use the chapter's PDF Full Text view to view and print.

3F: Searching other EBC Collections

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