Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Limiting searches to electronic books

1. On the catalogue

Go to the Advanced Search.
Enter your search
Change the Location box to .Electronic Resources
Change the Type box to Books
Run search.

NB: If you use the Quick Limit (Electronic Resources) on the Quick Search page, you will get all the electronic journals as well. This may not be a problem if you have a specific search.

2. On Multisearch

Enter the search in the search box and run it.
Use the clouds on the left:
a) under Show Only - select Full Text Online
b) under Refine my Results - select Books
Each time you select a 'cloud' you will see the range of results diminish.
You will end up with the electronic books on this subject.

3. On the Databases webpage

From Library homepage, select the Databases page.
Scroll down to Browse Databases by Subject
Select Electronic Books Service (in the alphabetical listing)
Read through the options and select the appropriate database of ebooks.

4. Additional Information

Only clients able to access the databases can also access the ebooks from the public PCs.

Only current MU staff and students can read them via remote access.

Refer other clients to the Guest Login PCs.

Note that most electronic books have limitations as to how much of the book can be downloaded in one file.

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