SPH Library Resources for the Electronic Environment Pt. 4 Access to Online Books

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SPH Library Resources for the Electronic
Environment- Pt. 4Access to Online Books

• Summer Institute-- July 18, 2002
• Updated 7/31/2003
• Helena VonVille

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Topics

• Pt 1 Basic database information
• Pt 2Locating FT of journal articles
• Pt 3 Creating links to e-articles
• Pt 4 Access to Online books
• Pt 5 Creating Bibliographies

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Online Books

• Thousands of e-books available
• Best collections from
• NetLibrary
• National Academy Press
• Rule of Thumb E-books are ugly to read online
• But at least we have them

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Ways to locate online booksWeb page for Online
Books

• The Library has a special Web page to help you
  locate e-books
• Has both databases
• and some book
• individual titles

http//www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/library/booksdatabases.
htm
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Ways to locate online booksWeb page for Online
Books
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Ways to locate online booksNetLibrary

• Has more than 17,000 titles from highly reputable
  publishers Cold Spring Harbor, Kluwer, Wiley,
  MIT Press, Taylor and Francis, and more!
• Use the database page for remote access
• To link students to NetLibrary, use

http//www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu2048/login?urlhttp//
www.netlibrary.com
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Ways to locate online booksNetLibrary

• Be sure your students set up an account
• Books can be accessed by a title search

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Ways to locate online booksNetLibrary

• Want to link students
• to a specific title?
• Right click on the title
• to pull up properties
• URL is misleading dont use piclist

http//www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu2048/login?urlhttp//
www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id82759
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Ways to locate online booksNetLibrary

• Books can be viewed
• online or checked out
• An account is required
• to check out a book
• but not to view online

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Ways to locate online booksNational Academies
Press

• 2,500 free books, completely accessible to
  anyone online
• Not necessary to send students through proxy

• http//www.nap.edu

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Ways to locate online booksOnline Catalog

• Search the online catalog

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Ways to locate online booksOnline catalog

• To view the book, click here

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Ways to locate online booksOnline catalog

• Caveats
• Not all NetLibrary e-books are listed in the
  online catalog
• NetLibrary books are not sent through proxy so
  remote access is more difficult
• NAP books are not all listed in the online catalog

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Ways to locate online booksOnline catalog

• If the book is in NetLibrary and you are on the
  Houston campus, you can view the book
• For remote
• access, use
• the Library
• DB page to
• access NetLibrary

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Conclusion

• Dont wear yourself out over the online stuff
• The Library will help however we can
• Helena VonVille
• x9131
• Or by e-mail

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Thank you!

• Questions? Comments?