Digital ReadingHow to use E-book resources in NCCU library

Training grant offered by Taiwan Academic E-book and Database Consortium(TAEBC)

NCCU Library, Reference Services Section

2012/10/25 14:00-16:00

Outline• About E-books

• Advantages• Common E-book readers• Types of E-book formats

• E-books in NCCU library• How many E-books are available in NCCU library?• E-book platforms by subjects

• E-book searching in NCCU library website• Ways for E-book searching• Introduction to E-book platforms

• Let’s try! E-book searching contest

Topic 1

Introduction to E-books

Advantages of E-books• A lot of e-books can be carried at one time.• Personalized your setting by using functions such as Bookmark and

Note. You can also change the layout, showing summary and abstract according to personal reading habits.

• Multimedia ： Digital content in e-books can be connected to multimedia.

• Hyperlink ： Hyperlink function enables readers to link the content to web resources for further information search such as dictionaries, encyclopedias or journal articles.

• Easy access through the Internet without going to the library in person.

Ex. Limitation on reference books• You can search for the whole book or certain sections for specific

information.• No more worries about due date or damage payment anymore.• …

Common E-book readers • Besides computers, more and more electronic

devices can be used as readers for e-books.1. Notebooks ： Including mini notebooks and tablet

computers, whose sizes are smaller than regular notebooks and easy to carry.

2. PDAs ： Light and small, easy to carry. With Wi-Fi function included, you can download e-books with ease. However, its screen may be too small for many people, and battery capacity is also limited.

3. Smart phones: E-books can be downloaded to your smart phones through Internet connection.

4. Readers especially for E-books ： The electronic devices made especially for E-books. Advantages including big screens, resolution similar to the effect of paper-printed books, which can effectively reduce reading fatigue.

Common commercial E-book readers

Readers especially made for E-books Tablet computers Smart phones

Amazon Kindle(The most common E-book reader in the US)

$69

Sony Reader(Android 2.2)$149

iPad/iPad 2 Built-in explorer. Downloading e-readers

from App Store or Android Market

Types of E-book formatsH

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L • ABC-CLIO/ Greenwood

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

• MyiLibrary• Emerald eBook• Gale Virtual

Reference Library • Oxford Scholarship

Online

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F • Cambridge Book Online

• Columbia University Press

• CRCnetBASE• eBrary• Emerald eBook • Gale Virtual

Reference Library • MyiLibrary• EBSCO eBook

Collection• Oxford Scholarship

Online• Palgrave connect

eBooks

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• China Digital Library (Apabi reader)

• AiritiBooks E-books/ePub (Adobe Flash Player)

• 中國基本古籍庫 (ClientSetup.exe)

• McGraw-Hill E-book Collection (Smart Reader)

• L&B Digital Library(Smart Reader)

Topic 2

E-books in NCCU Library

How many books are available in NCCU library?• Currently available (Until 2012.09)

• Amount of E-books: 617,573• 65 kinds of databases and platforms for E-books

E-book platforms by subjects-1General (Humanity and social

science) Chinese/English history and art

1. airitiBooks E-books (Chinese E-books)

2. HyRead E-books 3. L&B Digital Library4. McGraw-Hill Education (Chinese E-

books) 5. China Digital Library( 北大方正電子

書 ) 6. ABC-CLIO & Greenwood ebooks

collection 7. Cambridge Books online8. Columbia University Press eBooks 9. ebrary 10.McGraw-Hill E-Book Collection (L&B) 11.MyiLibrary 12.NetLibrary13.Oxford Scholarship Online 14.Palgrave connect eBooks15.ScienceDirect eBook 16.SpringerLink eBook Collection 17.Taylor & Francis

1. 中國基本古籍庫 ： More than ten thousand anthologies ranging from Chin Dynasty to date.

2. 古今圖書集成： The complete classics collection of ancient China with punctuation

3. 台灣文獻叢刊續編：4. 四部叢刊電子版 5. 文淵閣四庫全書電子版6. Full-text image system for Books of

Japanese Ruled Period7. Dream of the Red Chamber

Database8. 漢籍電子文獻：二十五史、十三經、小說

戲曲、大藏經、臺灣文獻叢刊、文心雕龍等中文古籍

9. 雕龍漢籍電子圖書館：《歷代會要》、《歷代詩話》、《歷代賦彙》三套漢學古籍。

10.Early American Imprint 11.Eighteenth Century Collection

Online (Gale) 12.Literature Collections (Chadwyck-

Healey)

E-book platforms by subjects-2

Others1. CRCnetBase(medical science/neuroscience)2. Informa Healthcare E-books(medical science/neurology)3. Emerald eBook Series(business management, social science)4. Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale Encyclopedia, manuals)5. SAGE eReference (Engyclopedia)6. InfoSci E-books (Information Technology /Social Technologies)7. IOS Press Books Online(E-books published by IOS Press, covering Assistive Technology Research, Concurrent Systems Engineering, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Global E-Governance Series, Housing and Urban Policy Studies, Innovation and the Public Sector, NATO series)8. Karger (Biomedicine)9. Ovid Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Medical Collection (Medicine and nursing)10.SIAM Reference Collection (Mathematics、 Statistics)11.Social Theory 12.WestLaw Japan： Includes laws and regulations, cases, legal commentaries, and articles.13.Eighteenth Century Collection Online (Gale)

Topic 3

E-book searching in NCCU library website

Ways for E-book searching• Library Catalog

• Searching for all types of data in NCCU library, including paper-printed books and E-books.

• Searching interface is more familiar to readers.• All the purchased E-books of NCCU library can be found in this library

catalog.

• E-book Databases• There are 65 kinds of E-book databases in NCCU library.

Access the databases by clicking “Databases” on library frontpage. Then you can click on “E-books” to view all E-book related databases.

• Click “Details” to see database details about users manuals, book collections and restrictions.

• Link to E-book platforms to view all the E-book collection, but you can only access full texts purchased by NCCU library.

• Other ways to look for E-books

Link to official website of the database (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0718-8)

Off-campus link-- (http://0-www.springerlink.com.jenda.lib.nccu.edu.tw/openurl.asp?genre=book&isbn=978-1-4614-0717-1)

Name of this E-book platform

What are the advantages of searching by library catalog?

• With certain subject in mind→Choose [Title Keywords]+Types of materials [E-books]

• With or without a certain subject in mind→ Choose [Keywords]+Types of materials [E-books]

You can search the e-book in our library from the E-books Gateway.

Notice: you can click on “Info” to see the more information about the database, like user guides or other conditions.

(2) You can search the e-book database or vendor from the Database Gateway.

Other ways to look for E-books• Taiwan Academic E-Books Consortium(TAEBC)

• Metasearch of more than 10 e-books databases purchased by TAEBC. Time saving and effective.

• Searching results will be directly linked to each E-book system. To read full texts of the E-books, campus IP is required.

• Steps: NCCU library website→Databases→Type “TAEBC” into search column.

Introduction to E-book platforms_Users’ manuals

• Chinese E-books• airitiBooks• L&B Digital Library

• English E-books • Ebrary• MyiLibrary• SpringerLink ebook

airitiBooks 

Points Database description

Language Chinese(Traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese)

Publisher 時報、聯經、華泰、書林、前程、千華、桂冠等近 600家出版品近 60,000冊

Topics Literature, languages, medicine, business, education, business, psychology and science

Amount 254 books purchased in 2011

Format ePUB

How to read 1. Read online： Open directly with browsers.

2. Read off-line： Apply a personal account with NCCU IPDownload “iRead eBook” softwareOpen E-book webpage and click “read off-line” Open “iRead eBook” and click “Download”

Print Print function varies according to the business agreement that airitiBooks made with each publisher.

Others 1. For trial E-books, you can read 10% of trial books. For online reading and trial reading, full-text is available.

2. You can borrow a maximum of ten books for five days. The books will be automatically cleared after due date.

3. Click “Full-text” but doesn’t work: Try shutting down “Block pop-up screen” function.

First, apply a personal account within NCCU IP.

Within 254 books purchased by our league, only 20 books can be read offline.

To read off-line, download reading software first

1. Open “Market” in Android2. Search for “iRead eBook”3. Download iRead eBook

•Full-text： Suitable for PCs (Adobe flash Player required)

•Full-text： Suitable for PCs and all kinds of readers

L&B Digital LibraryPoints Database description

Language Chinese(Traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese), other languages

Publishers 1. Chinese： Including over 200 publishers over the world such as McGraw-Hill, LexisNexis and other publishers in Taiwan and Mainland China.

2. Other languages： E-books published by McGraw-Hill including architecture, electrical engineering, business administration, financial investment, medical science, social & natural science.

Amount 128 books in Chinese, 861 books in other languages

Format Plane text

Reader 1. Read online： Open with flash (Ios system doesn’t support flash).

2. Read off-line by using Smart Reader , a reading instrument created by L&B.可

Print One page at a time. You can copy 250 words at most.

Others 1. “My library” personal bookshelf: A personal library service which fulfills individual reading needs such as categorization and offline reading.

2. After downloading, you can read the E-books offline by double-clicking them. Each book has a 30-day loan period. After the due date, readers need to download the E-books again.

By clicking “Download”, a reader and a personal bookshelf (My library) will be installed to user’s computer.

ebraryPoints Database description

Language English

Publisher More than 175 world renown publishers

Topics All subject domains included

Amount 2185 books purchased by the league聯盟採購可用 2,185冊

Format PDF format

How to read 1. Read online： Either by browser Quick view or by ebrary reader2. Read offline by downloading ADE or PDF format.

Print A maximum of 40 pages at a time.

Feature Info Tool: Speech function, link to multimedia and reference tools

Read offline by applying a personal account. Authorization regulations may varies from books to books.

1. Entire document： Download free Adobe Digital Editions software to read Adobe Digital Editions files. For each account, ten books can be downloaded for a loan period of 14 days. However, this software doesn’t support Linux and Kindle system.

2. 40-page PDF files： A maximum of 40pages can be downloaded at a time, and the downloaded file can be used permanently. These image-PDF files can be opened with PDF readers. Suitable for kindle system.

Click on the book to read online.

Define: Mark the target words or phrases and link to Merriam-Webster Dictionary for definitions.Explain：Mark the target words or phrases and link to Britannica EncyclopediaLocate：Mark the target words or phrases and link to MapQuest- US Cities, National Geographic, and Yahoo US Cities

Enter InfoTools for advanced personalized functions.

Click “Download” to read offline

1. This PDF file can be used permanently.2. Suitable for Amazon Kindle3. Functions such as “search”, “select texts”,

“underline”, “note” are not available.

1. A loan period for 14 days.2. Files can be exported to other devices such as

computers, iPnone and iPad. 3. You can search for the text, bookmark items and

insert note with this format.

MyiLibrary Points Database description

Language English

Publisher E-books published by several renowned publishers.

Topics Subjects include chemistry, industry, agriculture, medicine, literature, history and philosophy.

Amount 7,067 books

Format PDF

Reader Adobe

Download/Print You can download or print 10 pages for two or three copies at a time. Wait for at least one minute when you want to print more than one copy. However, according to authorization policy, you can only download or print 80 pages at most at a time. Books will be locked on violation of this policy.

Others The E-books purchased by TAEBC an be used permanently.

SpringerLink eBook Collection    

Points Database description

Language English

Publisher Springer Press

Subjects Computer science, biomedical sciences, mathematics and statistics(journals, books, series, protocols and reference works)

Amount Permanent access to books published in1997-2005 and 2008-2010

Format PDF

Reader Adobe Reader

Download/Print Read offline by downloading PDF files one chapter at a time.

Others No limitation on number of users.

Save the record to personal account.

Download the chapter file to your own reader.

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