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Ebook Search

The Library now offers access to a number of Electronic Book titles. These are available from six main electronic book suppliers:

For further information on access to these titles (including printing and saving limitations, click on the corresponding link above).

Other Electronic Book Collections available via the Web include:

Locating Electronic Books
  • Electronic book titles are included in the catalogue like any other book - instead of a call number they usually have a hyperlink, enabling you to connect to them. You can search by keyword, author or title like a print book.
  • The different suppliers have slightly different ways of helping you navigate through your selected title. When you do a catalogue search, it can be useful to tell which supplier the title comes from and follow the instructions for how it works.
  • The catalogue record tells you where the ebook you select is from
    e.g. As in the example - the catalogue record shows the record to be an EBL (Ebook Library) title.


  • James Bennett E-Titles will mention: James Bennett Etitle: as the URL link or as "Alt Title" at the bottom of the record. (see below)

EBook Access for  Visually Impaired Staff & Students
Information below relates to specifically to  EBL Titles - for assistance with other EBook platforms and publishers please contact the your local Library disability officer

Text enlargement

  • The students are able enlarge the text/page in the EBL online reader by:
  •  Switching the reader to PDF Mode in the tool bar at the top, then click the "Hide Sidebar" tab
  •  Use the Zoom dropdown menu in the top left to fit page to screen size and maximize reading space

Download

  • The Download option is now switched on for EBL books that VU owns.
  • If an EBL book is required and the Library does not own it, it will be purchased.
  • The request to purchase should come through the Library disability officer at the campus.  
  • The books can be downloaded and used on a local pc for 2 days, enabling the student to run it through their own software that can read aloud, or enlarge the script.
  • Before a book is downloaded for the first time, the client needs to install Adobe Digital Editions: http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/#download

Extended availability

  • While we are unable to adjust the download period for an individual patron, if the 2 day download option is insufficient, we can ask EBL to ask the publisher for unencrypted ebook files for disabled patrons. This has to be done on a title by title basis, but is a means of getting the books for the students for a longer period.
 

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