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E-book ? An e-book or electronic book is an electronic version of a printed book. E-books generally follow the same layout as printed books in terms of chapters, page numbers and illustrations. They differ in that they can include features such as electronic bookmarking, online dictionaries and search facilities.

ebrary - Academic Complete Searchable Full Text, Multi-discipline E-Books collection in PDF format Subject areas Business & Economics Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences Career & General Education Humanities Science, Medicine & Allied Health Social & Behavioral Sciences

More than 25,000 titles Contribution from more than 200 leading publishers Growing collection, added about 500 titles each month Most publication date > 2000 Unlimited user license (via fixed IP in Campus) Powerful Research Tools – InfoTools Instant access to definitions, maps, biographical, translations, etc. Personal Bookshelf allows quickly and easily access all books you have bookmarked, notated, or highlighted. Copy/paste and printing with automatic citations Advantages of ebrary

The ebrary’s Interface

Search and View  Simple Search 简易检索  Advanced Search 进阶检索  Browse 浏览  Search Result 检索结果  Refining a Search 修正检索  InfoTools Search

Searching Techniques  Exactly word eg. globalization, globalisation  Quotation mark eg. “market research”  Boolean Search eg. AND, OR, NOT  Proximity Search eg. market WITHIN-3 research  Field Search eg. text, subject, title, author, publisher

Simple Search 简易检索 fast food

Simple Search 简易检索

“fast food”

Advanced Search 进阶检索

“fast food” marketing research

Advanced Search 进阶检索 “fast food” market WITHIN-10 research globalization

Browse 浏览

The Search Results Page 检索结果  Can further narrow your search directly from the Search Results Page. Sort by score, title, contributor or date

Refining a Search 修正检索 Narrow search results by contributor, publisher or subject

Refining a Search 修正检索

Full Text E-Books 电子全文

ebrary Reader Toolbar

Define – retrieve dictionary definitions for selected term

Explain – retrieve encyclopedia entries for selected term

Locate – retrieve maps related to selected term

Translate – link to translations in multiple languages

Who retrieve addresses, biographies, and bibliographies for the selected term

Search Document search and retrieve information within the current document for selected term

Search All Documents search and retrieve information within all documents in the collection for selected term

Search Web search and retrieve information from the Web for selected term

个人功能特色 Personal Bookshelf

Create Your Personal Bookshelf Make bookmarks, page notes and highlight text in any available book. Quickly and easily access all books you have bookmarked, notated, or highlighted.

Create Your Personal Bookshelf

Add title to bookshelf

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Highlighting - highlight text in yellow, pink or blue

Annotating - take notes along side a page

Copy/Paste and Printing with Automatic Citations - Copy/Paste text into Word, or any text application - Print out text with a maximum of 40 pages for one section

Personal Bookshelf - Save and Manage

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