ebooks

Do you have a favorite information technology book that the Library doesn’t currently own? How about a hot tech topic that the Library collection should develop?

After recently weeding some older editions we now have several dozen open slots in our rotating Safari E-book Collection. We welcome your help to fully utilize our allotted number of titles.

1.Go to the Hagerty Library website:http://www.library.drexel.edu.

2.Click on:Articles & more

3. Type 'Nanomaterials': Click on 'Search Library'. You will see citations from books, magazines, journal articles, etc.

You'll be happy to learn that eBrary e-books are now downloadable!

Current Drexel students, faculty and staff have access to over 32,000 scholarly books from the vendor eBrary, including titles from a wide variety of disciplines. Reading these books previously required an active internet connection, but all that has changed. Now, e-books can be downloaded and used offline by creating a PDF of a single chapter, or installing the free Adobe Digital Editions to download an entire book.  That means you can take them on the plane, overseas, anywhere! 

Netlibrary, OCLC's longstanding electronic book content platform, has been aqcuired by Ebsco Publishing.  This could bode well for an infrastructure overhaul for Netlibrary, which could hopefully end in an easier access model for Netlibrary books.  we'll see!  It could certainly also mean that adding future Netlibrary content could become more expensive.  S

Our Books24x7 ebook collection just got twice as nice!  At no extra cost to Drexel Libraries, Books24x7 has offered us full access to their Finance Pro collection!  These Financial ebooks come in addition to our existing subscription to Books24x7's popular IT Pro collection.

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So, I'll start by noting that I have seen no evidence yet of the Quickview option within ebrary, but here's the press release: